NOELLE GHOUSSANI
THEATRE / LIVE PERFORMANCE (selected)
NEW YORK CITY
Acquittal by Shahid Nadeem
Dreamscapes
Fatima and her Pigeon
Shapelight
American Dreams Arabian Nights By Leila Buck
A Doll’s House: REMIX by Heather Raffo
Phoenicia Flowers
The Wall: A Story of the Land
Ruth and the Great Gust of Wind
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
The Flea Theatre
Target Margin Theatre
BRIC lab
EPIC Theatre @ Queens College
Noor Theatre @ NYTW
La Mama, Brooklyn Lyceum
Teatro IATI, Culture Project
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Director / Playwright
Director / Playwright
A Syrian in Detroit by Keith Joseph Adkins
Sabra Falling By Ismail Khalidi
I am Yusuf and This is My Brother By Amir Zuabi
9 visions of Gaza, a short play
Roots to Flower, Flower to Roots by vibe theatre
Happylessness
The Forrestor’s Song by Susan Soon He Stanton
Fear and Caves and Husbands and Hair (devised)
Noor Theatre, 48 hour forum
Noor Theatre, Highlight Series
Columbia University
Columbia University / Lark Theatre
Vibe Theatre @ HERE arts
The Movement Theatre Company
Tiny Rhino @ Brooklyn Lyceum
Tiny Rhino
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NATIONAL TOURS
There is a Field by Jen Marlowe
Mariposa and the Saint by Julia Steele Allen & Mariposa
Girls? Girls! Girls. by Marjuan Canady
Land Day Tour: 23 universities
100 performances in over 10 states
Festivals in D.C, NYC and N.O
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Director / Dramaturg
INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL
A Skate Play
Food and Fadwa by Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader
Hour of Feeling by Mona Mansour
6 views: on Women of Power and Interest
HKEELEE by Leila Buck
White by James Ijames
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
SkateQilya, Palestine / Golconda Skatepark Brooklyn, NY
Arab Voices Festival @ Dar il Nimer
Beirut, Lebanon (staged readings)
Venice Biennale, Italy
​Mosaic Theatre. D.C.
Gulfshore Playhouse, Florida
Bolshoi Drama Theatre, Russia
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Creator / Performer
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ASSISTING
The Jungle by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
Food and Fadwa by Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader
Imagining Heschel by Colin Greer
Curran Theatre (resident director)
New York Theatre Workshop
Culture Project
Dir. Stephen Daldry
Justin Martin
Dir. Shana Gold
Dir. Larry Moss
FELLOWSHIPS AND LABS
— Mediterranean Director’s Lab (Online, 2020. Beirut, 2019)
— Target Margin Theatre Institute Fellow (NYC, 2018)
— New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Directing Fellow (NYC, 2015-2016)
— Teatralnoye Prostranstvo Andreya Moguchego (TPAM) festival. (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2013)
— Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow (NYC, 2013)
— Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab (NYC, 2013)
— EmergeNYC : The Hemispheric Institute’s Emerging Performers Program for artist-activists (NYC, 2011)
TEACHING
— Creighton University: Artist in Residence: Theatre for Social Justice, Devising Original Theatre, Installation Performance
(2020)
— Theatre Development Fund: Facilitator and Founder of Young Playwrights Group: high school ensemble. In-school theatre
teaching artist (2009-present)
— Urban Art Beat: storytelling and music production at Rikers Island (2017-2019)
— viBe theatre: theatre director / facilitator for young women (2010-2013)
— New York Theatre Workshop: Mind the Gap teaching artist, in-school theatre teaching artist (2012-2016)
​— Jenin Freedom Theatre: dance instructor / choreographer (2010-2016)
— The Leadership Program, Hospital Audiences, Urban Arts Partnership, DreamYard Drama Project: Dance / theatre teaching
artist (2007-2012)
PRODUCING
— Board member. Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre: Fundraising. Production support. Event planning. (2012-present)
— Producer. Theatre Development Fund’s ‘Young Playwrights Group’ Bi-Annual showcase (2011-present)
— Producer. Break the wall: Plays about Palestine. Columbia University (2018)
— Associate Producer HIGHLIGHT reading series, Noor Theatre (2014-2015)
— Producer and Curator. Westbrook Community Garden Arts Party. (NYC, 2013-2015)
WORKSHOPS
— Community and College Fellowship. ‘Arts for Justice’ residency for women impacted by the criminal justice system
(2022 & 2020)
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— Transformation. shapelight residency. Young Leadership School of Brooklyn. 2021.
— Water Rituals & Earth Rituals. shapelight’s virtual workshop series (Online, 2021)
— Liberation and Ritual: Inspirations from Yoko Ono’s ‘Grapefruit’ . Target Margin Theater and New York Public Library.
(Online, July ,2020)
— Arts and Advocacy for women impacted by the criminal justice system, Community and College Fellowship.
(Online, June,2020)
​— Activating Community Space. Theatre Development Fund’s “Create NY” programming. (NYC, February, 2020)
— Devising Theatre with High School Students. NYC Public School Teacher Training (NYC, 2018-2020)
— Race Recounted. Creative Alliance. Storytelling residency (Baltimore, 2016)
— Artists in communities. Open Engagement Conference. Queens Museum. (Queens, 2014)
— Unlocking Your Creative Potential. UNESCO Young Leaders conference. (Paris, 2013)
LANGUAGES
— French: fluent in reading, writing and speaking
​— German: competent in reading, writing and speaking
— Spanish: basic skills in reading, writing and speaking
— Arabic Levantine dialect: intermediate level speaking (basic skills in reading and writing)
EDUCATION
— MA in Arts Politics: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
— BA in Performances Studies and French, minor in African Studies: Northwestern University