Description

She He Me is the first Arab transgender play. It follows the true stories of three Arab characters who challenge gender norms. Randa is an Algerian transwoman who is expelled under the threat of death from her homeland because of her LGBT activism there. Omar is a Jordanian gay man, who rather than body dysphoria, suffers social dysphoria when it comes to the strict codes of masculinity imposed and expected of him by both the heterosexual and gay community around him. Rok is a Lebanese transman. His main challenge is convincing his very conservative religious mother that her daughter is actually a boy. Through humour and horror, the three characters come up against the state, society, the family, but also themselves. She He Me was staged at Kosmos Theatre in Vienna in March 2019. It also had a staged reading at the New York Public Library in 2017, the Münchner Kammerspiele in December 2016, as well as at the Arcola Global Queer Plays and the Lark hotINK international play reading series. 

*We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Union, Actors’ Equity Association, through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their consideration in permitting the artists to appear in this program