Suzi Elnaggar is an Egyptian American performance scholar, freelance dramaturg, and theatre maker. She was a 2021 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow and works as both a developmental and production dramaturg. Her work has been published in Asian Theatre Journal, Arab Stages, and Theatre Times. Her interests include recontextualizing Greek tragedy, myths, and folklore, postcolonial theatre contexts, decoloniality in performance, theatre of social change, the intersection of trauma and performance, transnational and migrant stories, and work that centers around SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) experiences. Suzi’s scholarship and practice center community, collaboration, and context.

Suzi Elnaggar is an Egyptian American performance scholar, freelance dramaturg, and theatre maker. She was a 2021 Kennedy Center Dramaturgy Intensive Fellow and works as a developmental and community-focused dramaturg. Her work has been published in Asian Theatre Journal, Arab Stages, Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy, and Theatre Times. Her interests include exploring postcolonial theatre contexts, decoloniality in performance, the intersection of trauma and performance, transnational and migrant stories, recontextualizing Greek tragedy, myths, and folklore, and exploring work that centers around SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) experiences. Suzi’s scholarship and practice center community, collaboration, and context.

As a dramaturg, she is experienced in both production and developmental work. She is the artistic director of Backstitch Story Project, and the founder and creative director of the Digital Development Project. She has read scripts for PlayPenn, Playwright’s Center, Rattlestick’s Van Lier New Voices Fellowship, SHE-LA, and Sparkfest, among many others. Selected dramaturgy credits (Production & Developmental Workshops): Digital Development Project's Play Share Evolution "Cowgirl Katarungan"; Avalanche Theatre’s Next Draft "The Sex Talk I Never Had" and "Grape Leaves", Silk Road’s "Shahadat"; Backstitch Story Arts' "Off-White: The Arab House Party Play"; Clamour Theatre’s "Lived Experience"; TACTICS Ottawa’s "ANANSI V. GOD(S)"; Jubilee Theatre Waco’s "Fairview" (Texas Premiere); Wild Imaginings’ "Jesus and Valium" (World Premiere), "The Way He Looks at You", "Cardboard Castles Hung on Walls" (World Premiere); Northwestern University Theatre’s "The Great Sea Serpent" (Workshop Premiere).

SWANA/MENA (South West Asain/Middle Eastern and North African) experiences; Contemporary Plays; Adaptations; New Works Dramaturgy; Theatre and Trauma; Decoloniality and Post-Colonial Contexts; Mythology and Retelling; Oral Storytelling and Nontraditional Narratives; Ancient Greek Theatre (including translating); Ancient Roman Theatre (including translation)

some Arabic (Egyptian); intermediate Latin; intermediate Ancient Greek; some Spanish

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