90 minutes, 1f / 1m
A biting dark comedy about loss, grief, and the petty wars we wage in family to belong. Yusef, a recovering addict and Dina, his controlling big sister, return on the 4th of July to their childhood home in the suburbs to bury their deadbeat father. Can they figure out a) how to do his Islamic funeral before the body goes cold, b) who their estranged father really was, and c) what family really means without killing each other? Inshallah.
World Premiere, Golden Thread & SFBATCO, June-July 2026
Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant, 2025
Finalist, Princess Grace Award 2025
National Capital New Play Festival, 2024. Directed by Lila Rachel Becker. Dramaturgy by Naysan Mojgani
Finalist: Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2023
45th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2022. Directed by Susannah Martin. Dramaturgy by Laura Brueckner
National New Play Network and Venturous Theatre Fund 2021.
An early draft of the story first appeared as a feature film in the digital experience titled Brilliant Mind at Marin Theatre Company in June 2021. Directed by Kate Bergstrom.
75-90 min, 1f OR 1f / 1m
1982, Manhattan. Trapped in the absurd circus of the office of US Passport & Immigration, a desperate father pleads his case—a passport for his little girl—revealing in the process the price he paid for the American Dream. Thirty years later, his daughter Layla embarks on a journey halfway across the world in hopes of reclaiming the lost pieces of her culture, her father, and herself.
Winner of Best Original Script (SFBATCC)
Recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Award
Recipient of NOOR Highlight Series 2011, Residency at New York Theatre Workshop
Williamston Theatre. April-May 2025. Director: Tony Caselli
Amphibian Stage, April 2023. Director, Hamid Dehghani. Performed by Ahmad Kamal and Savannah Elyyach.
World Premiere, Alter Theatre 2013. Directed by Sara Razavi, Dramaturgy by Jayne Wenger. Performed by Denmo Ibrahim.
Staged Reading Williamston Theatre
Development: Under St. Marks (NYC, Frigid Festival)
Development: Playwrights’ Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota Fringe),
Alter Theatre Lab Writers Residency
75 min, 1F OR 4 Actors
A baker, a mystic and a falcon walk into an office one stormy night…
Rabia Haddad is on a mission to discover a lost history. But as she builds her map, the archive begins to talk back, blurring the lines between testimony, memory and myth. Could it be that the one story she needs most is her own? A play about inheritance, letting go, and the desire to belong to something larger than yourself. A Country Made of Salt invites us to reflect on the stories we keep—and what stories keep us.
New Threads Staged Reading: Golden Thread & Crowded Fire, April 2026
Winner of Legacy Playwright Award | Advance Gender Equity in the Arts 2025
Harvard University’s diaspora Buddhism Conference 2025, Staged Reading
University of Michigan’s Center for Arab Studies, Staged Reading
TCG’s 2024 Conference, Staging Testimony, Excerpt.
The International Theatre Festival at Ohio Northern University in 2023 under the direction of Anna Bashow with dramaturgy by Joan Robbins. Staged Reading
Developed with The Civilians R&D Theatre Lab 2021-2022