Grantee
Exceptional Grants for Supporting Artists & Writers
2020
Consolation of failures
“Consolation of failures” short stories
The protagonists in this collection of short stories find consolation from their disappointments in the world and its concerns and problems by withdrawing into reading and writing. As a consequence of their immersion into a parallel universe, the borders between their parallel universes and reality blur. magic and beauty.
The protagonists in this collection of short stories find consolation from their disappointments in the world and its concerns and problems by withdrawing into reading and writing. As a consequence of their immersion into a parallel universe, the borders between their parallel universes and reality blur. magic and beauty.
Grantee
Production Awards
2018
Injection / The Game
An experimental / reality theater performance that addresses the themes of love, giving, self-sacrifice, betrayal and loss. Karam, husband and lawyer (48), Abeer, wife and doctor (38) and Bahaa, young actor and lover (27) become entangled in a game, devised by the husband after he becomes maimed and sexually impotent as the result of injuries sustained by the detonation of a mortar bomb that also killed his son. The game places the wife/doctor and lover/actor on trial but the disclosures and unearthed evidence soon expose a conspiracy by the wife and her lover against the shattered husband, a victim of successive losses.
Grantee
Production Awards
Round 01
2015
Last Summer Day’s Midnight Dream
The project tells the true stories of the dreams of a group of Syrian friends
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