| Fellowship Participant – Reham Alsamerai |
Fellowship Participants Reham AlsameraiHead of Creative Production Reham Alsamerai earned an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths College in 2014 and has worked in various capacities within the field of arts and culture. These have included creative producer, festival director, festival producer, curator, and production manager. In 2015, she was awarded the post of Entrepreneur in Residence at Goldsmiths College, during which she launched a one-off London edition of Kuwait-based Green Caravan Film Festival, which she had co-founded in 2009. Also in 2015, she curated the Contemporary Gulf Cuisine event for Nour Festival in London. In March 2016 she co-directed the sixth and final edition of the Green Caravan Film Festival, this time as a tour of three Gulf countries- Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. She worked as Production Manager on internationally acclaimed writer/director Sulayman Al- Bassam's theatre production In the Eruptive Mode- Voices from the Hijacked Spring. In 2016, she was appointed Festival Director of The Nest, a month-long festival for public art and design in Bahrain. In 2017, she produced the first edition of Kuwait Film Festival, a project initiated and funded by Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters. Since 2017, Reham has served as Head of Creative Production at Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre (JACC) in Kuwait. This is a department that she established and led, and through which JACC’s major in-house productions are created, produced and run. It is through this department’s work that Kuwait and the region have enjoyed major musical and theatrical productions such as The 80s Show, Memoirs of a Sailor, Black and White, and Al Atlal, to name a few. >>View Reham's member profile (member sign-in required) Thank you to ISPA’s Advocacy Partners and Fellowship Challenge Campaign donors for their generous support of the Global Fellowship Program. Learn how you can support ISPA |
