Publications

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis includes 49 inspiring plays by writers from around the world. The plays were commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action 2019, a global distributed theatre festival that coincided with the 25th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 25) held in Madrid, Spain under the presidency of the Chilean government.

From 2011 to 2019, Martin Kušej directed the Munich Residenztheater – eight politically dramatic years from the hopes of the Arab Spring to the crisis of liberal democracies. Kušej and his ensemble always saw their work as an artistic examination of this present and opened up traditional theater to new forms.

A hundred years after unification, the most populous African nation has oscillated from being great to being fickle, from colony to independence and dependency, from peace to war to ungraceful insecurity, from military dictatorship to civilian oppression and profligacy and much more of the many contradictions of a complex national polity.

Onions Make Us Cry is an absolutely fascinating, unusual play. The playwright, Zainabu Jallo dares to create a fresh style with poetic dialogues and a brilliant use of metaphors!

Onions Make Us Cry is an absolutely fascinating, unusual play. The playwright, Zainabu Jallo dares to create a fresh style with poetic dialogues and a brilliant use of metaphors!

Readings & Productions

About

Zainabu Jallo is a scholar, playwright. Her academic and creative works have been conveyed through Fellowships at the Sundance Theater Institute, The Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, Residenz Theater Munich, Chateau Lavigny, and House of Writers in Switzerland.

She is the author of award-winning plays Onions Make Us Cry, Holy Night, and My Sultan is a Rockstar and a Doctoral Researcher at the Graduate School of Humanities, University of Bern, Switzerland. Her scholarly interests include diaspora studies, iconic criticism, and material culture.

Fellowships
Member, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University
Member, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin
Fellow, Sundance Theatre Institute, Utah
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, England
Fellow Castle Lavigny, House writers, Switzerland
Member, UNESCO Coalition of Artists for the General History of Africa

Contact

Feel free to email agent[at]zainabujallo.com, feedback about Zainabu’s work or request a reading, commission, workshop or anything else.

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