We Live in Cairo

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour are brothers and collaborators of Lebanese descent. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the MacDowell Colony, and most recently, collaborated with playwright Ismail Khalidi and Noor Theatre on a developmental production of Dead Are My People. Their new musical about the first chemotherapy trials in the 1950s and 60s was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Daniel and Patrick were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. They were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour are brothers and collaborators of Lebanese descent. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the MacDowell Colony, and most recently, collaborated with playwright Ismail Khalidi and Noor Theatre on a developmental production of Dead Are My People. Their new musical about the first chemotherapy trials in the 1950s and 60s was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Daniel and Patrick were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. They were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo.

A.R.T.: The Half-God of Rainfall; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Lortel Award), Signature Theatre; Macbeth In Stride; We Live in Cairo. Co-Artistic Director, Philadelphia Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: Help, The Shed; Capsule, Under the Radar Festival/The Public Theater; Blue Ridge, The Great Leap, Atlantic Theater Company; Is God Is (2018 Obie Award), Soho Rep; Master, The Foundry; Underground Railroad Game(2017 Obie Award), Ars Nova. International: Hamburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne), and Soho Theatre (London). MFA, Brown University.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Artistic/Founding Director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT). With YSDT, King has created over 30 original works which have been performed in ten countries across four continents. Awards/Commissions: Hubbard Street 2, National Choreography Competition; Palest’In & OUT Festival in Paris, France (Prix des Jeunes Créateurs Palestiniens pour la Diversité des Expressions Artistiques award); Palestinian Museum (Palestine). In 2018 King was awarded La Fabrique Chaillot residency at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris, France). She regularly lectures on her work at institutions including TanzKongress (Hanover, Germany), University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia), and Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies (New York, New York), and co-authored a chapter on dance in the Arab World with Sandra Noeth for the 2nd edition of Contemporary Choreography (Routledge, January 2018). She is 2019/20 resident fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Education/Training: BFA, Choreography, Ailey/Fordham. Graduated cum laude under the tutelage of Kazuko Hirabayashi.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Broadway: Once On This Island, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, If/Then, Annie, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal (Tony Award), Grinch, Spelling Bee, Assassins (Tony Award), A Christmas Carol, Guys & Dolls (1992), Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie. Off-Broadway/Regional: Renascence, Freaky Friday, First Daughter Suite, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kid Victory, Little Miss Sunshine, Dogfight, Queen of the Mist, Glorious Ones, Bernarda Alba, A New Brain, Hello Again, In Trousers.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo, The Light Princess (Music Director), Witness Uganda (Music Intern). Broadway: Waitress (Piano/Conductor sub), War Paint (Key 1 sub). Off-Broadway: An Octoroon, Skin of Our Teeth, Theatre for a New Audience; Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Ars Nova; 1001 Nights, Atlantic; FUTURITY, Ars Nova/Soho Rep. Regional: Loch Ness, Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, Adirondack Theatre Festival. TV: The Wiz! Live. Adaptations: Frozen Jr., Descendants, Disney. Education: BA, Harvard University.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. New York: Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Atlantic, Ars Nova, WP Theatre, Red Bull. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, OSF, The Wilma, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Trinity Rep, Pittsburgh Public. Opera: BLO, Goodspeed Opera, The Philadelphia Opera. Awards: Lortel Nominations; Balsamo Grant for Immigrant Artists; Irish Design Award; Irish Times Theatre Award; Onstage Critics Award. Teaching: NYU Abu Dhabi, Duke, University of Rochester, NYU, Brown University/Trinity Rep Graduate Directing, Trinity College Dublin. Education: MFA, NYU. @missTgrimes, tillygrimes.com

A.R.T.: Moby-Dick, We Live in Cairo, Endlings, Burn All Night, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, O.P.C. Broadway: Fat Ham, Hadestown (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Awards), Flying Over Sunset (Drama Desk Award, Tony Nomination), The Great Comet(Tony, Drama Desk, OCC awards), Bernhardt/Hamlet. Numerous shows Off-Broadway, regionally, and around the world. Upcoming musicals: Water For Elephants, Alliance; Buena Vista Social Club, Atlantic; Lempicka; Goddess; How to Dance in Ohio. bradleykingld.com

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo, The Black Clown. Broadway: Head Over Heels, The Band’s Visit (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Amélie, Sunday in the Park With George, Allegiance, Gigi, Fun Home, On the Town, First Date, Follies (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), Million Dollar Quartet. Regional: Marie, Dancing Still, 5th Avenue; Soft Power, Center Theatre Group; Candide, LA Opera; The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Chess, Little Dancer, Kennedy Center. International:  Zorro, Moscow, Atlanta; Hinterm Horizont, Berlin. Opera: Silent Night, Washington National Opera; Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Portland Opera. Audio Consultant for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Education: Yale University.

A.R.T.: 1776, We Live In Cairo. Off-Broadway: Twilight, Los Angeles: 1992 (Drama Desk nomination), Signature; The Visitor (Lortel nomination), Public Theater; Einstein’s Dreams (Drama Desk nomination), 59E59/Prospect Theater Co.; The Great Leap, Atlantic. Regional: Bhangin’ It, La Jolla Playhouse; Here There Are Blueberries, La Jolla Playhouse/Tectonic Theater Project; Bollywood Kitchen, Geffen Playhouse; Frankenstein, Dallas Theater Center; Girls, Yale Rep; The Temple Bombing, Alliance Theatre. Streaming: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical; Seaview (Drama League nomination); Circle Jerk (Drama League nomination), Fake Friends; Rockin’ Road To Dublin, National Tour. Education/Training: MFA: NYU.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour are brothers and collaborators of Lebanese descent. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the MacDowell Colony, and most recently, collaborated with playwright Ismail Khalidi and Noor Theatre on a developmental production of Dead Are My People. Their new musical about the first chemotherapy trials in the 1950s and 60s was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Daniel and Patrick were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. They were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo, The Light Princess (Music Director), Witness Uganda (Music Intern). Broadway: Waitress (Piano/Conductor sub), War Paint (Key 1 sub). Off-Broadway: An Octoroon, Skin of Our Teeth, Theatre for a New Audience; Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Ars Nova; 1001 Nights, Atlantic; FUTURITY, Ars Nova/Soho Rep. Regional: Loch Ness, Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, Adirondack Theatre Festival. TV: The Wiz! Live. Adaptations: Frozen Jr., Descendants, Disney. Education: BA, Harvard University.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour are brothers and collaborators of Lebanese descent. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the MacDowell Colony, and most recently, collaborated with playwright Ismail Khalidi and Noor Theatre on a developmental production of Dead Are My People. Their new musical about the first chemotherapy trials in the 1950s and 60s was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Daniel and Patrick were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. They were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Broadway: Once On This Island, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, If/Then, Annie, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal (Tony Award), Grinch, Spelling Bee, Assassins (Tony Award), A Christmas Carol, Guys & Dolls (1992), Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie. Off-Broadway/Regional: Renascence, Freaky Friday, First Daughter Suite, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kid Victory, Little Miss Sunshine, Dogfight, Queen of the Mist, Glorious Ones, Bernarda Alba, A New Brain, Hello Again, In Trousers.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo; Jagged Little Pill; The White Card; Trans Scripts, Part 1: The Women; Witness Uganda; O.P.C.; The Glass Menagerie; Once; Ajax; The Blue Flower; Johnny Baseball; Best of Both Worlds. Casting director for Roundabout Theatre Company. Broadway: Caroline, or Change; Trouble in Mind; Moulin Rouge; Jagged Little Pill; Kiss Me Kate; The Play That Goes Wrong; Beautiful: the Carole King Musical; Sunday in the Park with George; Amélie; Violet; Winslow Boy; The Glass Menagerie; Mystery of Edwin Drood; Harvey; Don’t Dress for Dinner; Once; Road to Mecca; On A Clear Day…; Anything Goes; Brief Encounter; Scottsboro Boys; Sondheim On Sondheim; Hedda Gabler.

A.R.T.: Stage Manager: We Live in Cairo; Barber Shop Chronicles; The Black Clown; HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True; Burn All Night; Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education; 1984; O.P.C.; The Shape She Makes; The Donkey Show. Assistant Stage Manager: Othello; ExtraOrdinary; Jagged Little Pill; Bedlam’s Sense & Sensibility; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith; RoosevElvis; Kansas City Choir Boy; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; The Heart of Robin Hood; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; The Lily’s Revenge; Once. Production Associate: Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower; Cabaret. Education/​Training: Boston University College of Fine Arts (Summa cum laude).

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo, The Light Princess (Music Director), Witness Uganda (Music Intern). Broadway: Waitress (Piano/Conductor sub), War Paint (Key 1 sub). Off-Broadway: An Octoroon, Skin of Our Teeth, Theatre for a New Audience; Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future, Ars Nova; 1001 Nights, Atlantic; FUTURITY, Ars Nova/Soho Rep. Regional: Loch Ness, Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, Adirondack Theatre Festival. TV: The Wiz! Live. Adaptations: Frozen Jr., Descendants, Disney. Education: BA, Harvard University.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Tours with Danilo Perez’s band The Global Messengers; Simon Shaheen; Amir Elsaffar’s Rivers of Sound. Performances: Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Theater, Wigmore Hall, Koerner Hall, NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center, the Royal Opera of Oman, The Royal Albert Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. Original music: “Lifta” (single); “Bright Colors on a Dark Canvas”; Suite for cello, Arabic ensemble and orchestra. Education/​Training: The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (Palestine); BM, MM, Berklee College of Music. Palestinian.

A.R.T.: SIX, We Live in Cairo, ExtraOrdinary, The Black Clown, Jagged Little Pill (Bass alternate). Theater: Ogunquit Playhouse, North Shore Music Theater, Lyric Stage Company, Emerson College. Orchestra Performance: Plymouth Philharmonic (principal Bass), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, Odyssey Opera, Cape Symphony, Indian Hill Symphony Orchestra. Education: MM, Classical Performance, New England Conservatory; BS, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Performances with: New Philharmonia Orchestra; National Arab Orchestra; World Youth Orchestra; TURKSOY International Youth Chamber Orchestra; Dogus Symphony Orchestra; UNIVOZ Vocal Ensemble. Additional performances: Boston Symphony Hall, Roulette Intermedium (NY), Fenway Park, Orpheum Theatre, MFA, MIT Kresge Auditorium. Collaborated/played with: Mark O’Connor, Tigran Hamasyan, Aynur Dogan, Pablo Ziegler, Amir ElSaffar, Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Kenny Werner. Education/​Training: Berklee College of Music; Mersin University State Conservatory (Turkey); Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” (Berlin, Germany). Born in Istanbul, Turkey.

A.R.T. We Live in Cairo. Film​/Video Game scores: Queering (SXSW Film Festival); Kingdom Rush Vengeance; Alexis Viera, Netflix. Collaborated/​played with: Bobby Sanabria (including multiple pieces premiered at Lincoln Center), Alejandro Sanz, Carlos Vives, Jorge Drexler, Ruben Rada, John Patitucci, Terence Blanchard, Omar Hakim. With U-Lab (founder): CUBA: Music Revolution (Madrid International Film Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival), multiple albums, digital series, and documentaries. Co-Founder: techo.org, socialab.com. Awards/​Honors: “Top 20 under 40” Hispanics in the US, PODER Magazine; Wayne Shorter Award; Jazz Education Award. Education: Universidad de Montevideo; Berklee College of Music.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Co-founded Palestinian youth band Bil3ax, addressing social and political problems in Palestine and the Middle East. Founder: dB Realms Production Studio (audio engineering services and oud/music technology lessons). Co-founder: Center for Arabic Culture children’s orchestra, responsible for the oud section of the orchestra. Education/​Training: BM, Music Production and Engineering, Berklee College of Music (studied oud with Simon Shaheen); Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Palestine (with Waseem Odeh). Palestinian.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Regularly performs with: Andreas Arnold, Festejation, Brooklyn Nomads, Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica. Featured Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic. International: Solo World Percussion Concert Artist, International Percussion Festival (Seoul, South Korea). US Tour: The Knights chamber orchestra (ft. Avi Avital, Kinan Azmeh). Additional collaborations/​performances: New York Gypsy All-Stars, Farah Siraj, Antonio Lizana, Jorge Glem, Al Margen Flamenco, Fleur Seule Latin Big Bang, Terraza 7 Big Band, Zāna, Quentin Angus, NY Andalus Ensemble, Megumi Saruhashi, Barbara Martinez, Adam Maalouf, Johanna Castañeda. Teaching: University of Michigan, Columbia University, Bowling Green State University. Education: BM, The Juilliard School.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Regional: Charm, According to Coyote, Mixed Blood Theatre; Laramie Project, Children’s Theater of Minnesota; I and You, Phoenix Theater; Five Tries, Cutting Ball Theatre; Next to Normal, Brown University; The Good Person of Szechwan, Eurydice, Twelfth Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Brown/Trinity Rep. New Work Development: The Playwrights Center, The Lark, Mixed Blood, Hudson Stage Company, Riverside Theater, Ivoryton Playhouse. Assistant Director: Guthrie Theater, Public Theater, Trinity Rep, Mixed Blood, Park Square, Cutting Ball. Education/​Training: BA, Dartmouth College; MFA, Brown University/​Trinity Rep.

A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo. Member/​Associate Artistic Director: Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (France, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Palestine, South Korea, Tunisia, US). Performances with: INSPIRIT, a dance company; JoAnna Mendl Shaw/Equus Projects; Kristina Isabelle; MBDance; The Movement Party; Nia Love/​Blacksmith’s Daughter; Urban Bush Women; Anne Zuerner. Original work: New York City, USA, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Mexico, South Korea. Education: Walnut Hill School for the Arts; BFA, Dance, Ailey/​Fordham.

A.R.T.: Life of Pi; 1776; WILD: A Musical Becoming; Jack and the Beanstalk; Gloria: A Life; Moby-Dick; We Live in Cairo; Endlings; Othello; ExtraOrdinary; The Black Clown; Jagged Little Pill; WARHOLCAPOTE; Burn All Night; The Night of the Iguana; Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women; Fingersmith; In the Body of the World; Waitress; O.P.C. Broadway: Mary Stuart. Regional: Vanity Fair, Central Square Theater; New Electric Ballroom, Gloucester Stage Company; Arms and the Man, Guthrie Theatre; The Foreigner, Cabaret, To Kill a Mockingbird, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. As Head of Voice and Speech at A.R.T., Erika also teaches in the Theater, Dance & Media concentration at Harvard as well as coaching public speaking skills across the university. Education: MA, Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; MFA, Acting, Brandeis University.

(he/him) A.R.T.: We Live in Cairo, Endlings, O.P.C. Recent credits: Claudia Rankine’s HELP (dir. Taibi Magar), The Shed; We Hear You: A Climate Archive (National Theatre of Sweden/Georgetown University/Swedish Embassy DC); Miranda Rose Hall’s A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (currently touring Europe with original direction by Katie Mitchell); The Uncle Geoff Magic Show, Target Margin Theatre Labs. Publications: works for Howlround, Routledge’s Contemporary Theatre Review, and Six by Eight Press. Editor & Associate Dramaturg, A.R.T.; Dramaturg, LubDub Theatre Co; Affiliated Faculty, Emerson College.