FRAGMENTS THEATRE
RAWAND ARQAWI , FOUNDER, PRODUCER
Rawand Arqawi is a talented producer and cultural manager from Jenin. She worked as a production coordinator for nearly four years with the Freedom Theatre, working under theatre artist Juliano Mer-Khamis. During her time with the Freedom Theatre, she coordinated dozens of performances, workshops, international tours, exchanges, as well as managed communications, international volunteers, fundraising, and logistics. Beyond her work with the Freedom Theatre, she contributed to various local artistic projects and groups, including with Bukhra Akhla, and as a production assistant for Al Jazeera Children. In 2013, she initiated and produced a large scale performance of “Peter Pan” at Cinema Jenin, coordinating a group of local and foreign artists. She is passionate about using arts as a tool of resistance.
Batoul Taleb was the first female student of the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin
Refugee Camp. Her past productions include Animal Farm, Fragments of Palestine,
Alice in Wonderland, and Waiting for Godot. She has toured to Europe and to the US
with her theatre work and has taken part in theatre workshops all around the
world. She sees theatre as a powerful tool to engage and unite the community. She
recently co-directed and starred in the documentary, Art/Violence, which recently
showed at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2013, she co-produced and
performed an Arabic adaptation of “Peter Pan” at Cinema Jenin and recently wrote
and directed the project “Chaos in the City” with Fragments Theatre.
Batoul Taleb - Artistic Advisor
