New Threads Reading Series
New Threads is Golden Thread’s annual staged reading series that engages its audience in the process of playmaking and allows writers of Middle Eastern and non-Middle Eastern descent an authentic and supportive space to develop work about the Middle East. Since its launch in 2011, many New Threads plays and playwrights have continued on to receive mainstage productions.
Artists engaged with 35 presentations
51 writers (playwrights and translators)
30 directors
17 stage managers
227 actors
Our goals for this program are:
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Support the playwright in the development of the script towards production
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Build a working relationship with a new playwright or director and introduce them to our community
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Share a rarely told narrative, particularly one with current resonance
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Better understand the casting and production needs of a play
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Build support for a particular artist or play among our patrons
The readings are accompanied by talkbacks with the artists and experts that comment on the themes of the play. We invite you to join the creative process of a new play and discover brilliant gems never before seen in the Bay Area. We invite you to laugh, cry, and think alongside these beautiful stories from and about the Middle East. Each play is teeming with unexpected humor, surprising characters, and important questions about the world we live in today.
The staged readings are free and open to the public.
New Threads 2021
Arab Play Cycle (or A Triptych of Plays)
We’re All Here
I Want To Tell You About Beirut
New Threads 2018
Drowning in Cairo
June 5, 2018
Fog
June 12, 2018
Field, Awakening
June 19, 2018
Migraaaants
June 26, 2018
New Threads 2017
We Swim, We Talk, We Go To War
July 16 and 21, 2017
As Soon As Impossible
August 1, 2017
When Farah Cries
August 8, 2017
At The Periphery
August 15, 2017
New Threads 2016
The One, Percy Ent
July 12, 2016
The Victims, or What Do You Want Me To Do About It?
July 19, 2016
Those Ills We Have
July 26, 2016
Scenes From 68* Years
August 1, 2016
New Threads 2015
Oh My Sweet Land
November 4, 2015
Autobiography Of A Terrorist
November 11, 2015
Stuff
November 18, 2015
I Call My Brothers
December 2, 2015
The King Is The King
December 9, 2015
New Threads 2014
A Selection of Short Plays from Reorient 2015
September 29, 2014
The Luxor Express
October 6, 2014
Sabra Falling
October 20, 2014
Baghdad Wedding
October 27, 2014
New Threads 2013
Holy Land
April 9, 2013
The Admission
April 24, 2013
The Most Dangerous Highway In The World
May 6, 2013
Shot In Baghdad
May 14, 2013
New Threads 2012
A Moment Of Silence
May 16, 2012
Another Man’s Son
July 18, 2012
The Hour Of Feeling
October 1, 2012
The Mummy And The Revolution
November 17, 2012
New Threads 2011
444 Days
March 29, 2011
The Owl Girl
April 26, 2011
The Cry Of The Reed
May 23, 2011
Urge For Going
June 28, 2011