Maya Zbib (Liban)

Maya Zbib is a theatre director, performer, writer, co-founder and co-artistic director of the Zoukak Theatre Company (2006) and Zoukak Studio (2008) in Beirut.

Her process-based work always starts from a personal desire or obsession and ends up with a more global political concern. She is interested in intimacy and hybrid forms of performativity and spatial relations. She uses play and theatricality to expose systemic violence and various forms of segregation.

Over the past 15 years, she has created over 20 shows with Zoukak Theatre Company, co-conceiving, co-writing, directing and sometimes co-directing works with her partner Omar Abi Azar. Her shows, including The Music Box, Silk Thread and He Who Saw Everything, have been presented at international festivals and venues around the world (Williams College, MUCEM, New York Public Library, Queen Mary University, ITFOK Festival, Southbank Center, Santiago a Mil, Théâtre des 13 Vents...).