Samar Haddad King
Palestine
Director, Choreographer, and Composer
Performing Arts, Music, Cultural Management
Samar Haddad King is the artistic and founding director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT). She graduated from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program under the tutelage of Kazuko Hirabayashi. Her works have been performed in 19 countries on four continents, with commissions throughout the US and abroad including Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Hubbard Street 2 (Chicago), Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival (Ramallah), The Walk/St. Ann’s Warehouse (New York), Good Chance Theatre (Marseille), and others. Her awards and fellowships include the Prix des Jeunes Créateurs Palestiniens pour la Diversité des Expressions Artistiques (Palest’In & Out Festival, Paris), La Fabrique Chaillot Residency (Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris), The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, and Toulmin Creator (CBA/National Sawdust, NYC). Theater and musical theater credits include Dead Are My People (Noor Theatre, NYC) and We Live in Cairo (American Repertory Theater, Boston). She is a 2023 Creative Capital Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact awardee for her new multidisciplinary project Radio Act.

Samar Haddad King
Palestine
Director, Choreographer, and Composer
Performing Arts, Music, Cultural Management
Samar Haddad King is the artistic and founding director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT). She graduated from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program under the tutelage of Kazuko Hirabayashi. Her works have been performed in 19 countries on four continents, with commissions throughout the US and abroad including Hong Kong Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Hubbard Street 2 (Chicago), Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival (Ramallah), The Walk/St. Ann’s Warehouse (New York), Good Chance Theatre (Marseille), and others. Her awards and fellowships include the Prix des Jeunes Créateurs Palestiniens pour la Diversité des Expressions Artistiques (Palest’In & Out Festival, Paris), La Fabrique Chaillot Residency (Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris), The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, and Toulmin Creator (CBA/National Sawdust, NYC). Theater and musical theater credits include Dead Are My People (Noor Theatre, NYC) and We Live in Cairo (American Repertory Theater, Boston). She is a 2023 Creative Capital Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact awardee for her new multidisciplinary project Radio Act.

Juror

RedZone
2018

Featured Artist

Spring Festival Tazzamun
Tazamon
2016

Grantee

Production Awards
Round 01
2015
Unstable Aesthetics