Haia is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist and educator. Currently a PhD candidate in the department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego, Haia’s dissertation research focus is on the performative potential of Jewish biblical texts when paired with the range of embodied ritual practices and communal traditions that have been enacted by Jewish communities across history during the holidays on which those texts are traditionally read. Haia has been involved in theatre on and off stage for many years, working as a performer, playwright, fight/intimacy director, dramaturg.

New play development, adaptation, queerness and gender, ancient Greece, Shakespeare, Early Modern/Tudor Era, Jewish history/practice/culture, Jewish arts, ancient Egypt, Regency Era, Revolutionary/Napoleonic France, Chekhov, sketch comedy

English, Hebrew, Aramaic; some French, Yiddish, ASL

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