Kathryn Haddad

Kathryn Haddad (she/her) is a writer, teacher, speaker, and community organizer whose work explores contemporary Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA) experiences. She has worked extensively with Pangea World Theater and she cofounded Mizna where she served as artistic/executive director for 12 years. Currently, she is artistic/executive director of New Arab American Theater Works. Her awards include a Bush Leadership Fellowship, Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Fellowships, and MN State Arts Board awards. She won the 2018 MN Book Awards Kay Sexton award, a 2022 McKnight Culture Bearer Fellowship, and was a 2022 50 over 50 honoree. Her last full production, Zafira and the Resistance was at the Guthrie’s Dowling Studio in 2019. Her play Zafira the Olive Oil Warrior appears in the 2018 anthology, Contemporary Plays by Women of Color, edited by Roberta Uno.