| ISPA Distinguished Artist Award Recipient - Amir Nizar Zuabi |
ISPA Award Recipient Amir Nizar ZuabiArtistic Director, The Walk Productions2026 Distinguished Artist Award Recipient Amir Nizar Zuabi is an award-winning playwright and director. He was the founding Artistic Director of ShiberHur Theater Company in Palestine, an Associate Director of the Young Vic Theatre, a member of the United Theaters Europe for artistic achievement, and an alumni of The Sundance Institute Theatre Program. As Artistic Director of The Walk Productions he led The Herds (UN Live's Top 10 Culture for Impact 2025) and Little Amal (Time Out New York's No. 1 Art Event of 2022 and winner of the the RSGS Livingstone Medal for outstanding service of a humanitarian nature.) In 2026 he will create The Walk Productions' new work - And still no mercy - a contemporary dance-theatre piece born out grief, vulnerability and mercy in times of global upheaval. His writing and directing credits include I am Yusuf and This is my Brother, In the Penal Colony, Oh My Sweet Land The Beloved (ShiberHur/Young Vic); Three Days of Grief, West of Us The Sea, Mid Spring Musical, Dry Mud, Against A Hard Surface (ShiberHur); Last Ward, Who Killed You Asmahan, The Huta and Grey Rock (Remote Theater Project, La Mama NYC). Amir Nizar's directing credits include: Samson and Delilah (Flanders Opera, Antwerp); Jidarriya by Mahmoud Darwish (Edinburgh International Festival, Bouffes du Nord and world tour); Forget Herostratus, Le Mallade Imaginer, War or More, Sneeze, Deep Sorrow, Fall Tale, When The World Was Green, Lanterns Of The King Of Galilee, Taha and The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company).
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