After unrelenting steadfastness from the Palestinian people, the tide has shifted. Around the world and across generations, people of conscience understand how leaders in countries like the US enable Israel’s genocide and illegal occupation. They demand an end to economic, political, and cultural complicity.

There is no going back. As theater workers, one of our responsibilities is to manifest this narrative shift across culture—and specifically in our art—which has the power to fortify our will, clarify our thinking, and sharpen our efforts to bring about lasting change in the name of liberation. Art is the great connector, which can galvanize truth against propaganda, and bring out the best in our humanity.

As The Freedom Theatre of Jenin has taught us, one essential component of Cultural Resistance is fighting the normalization which reduces Palestinian stories to the shadows: censored, underfunded, forgotten. As the country which most powerfully funds and enables Israel’s genocide and apartheid, the American theater has a unique and urgent responsibility to produce stories by Palestinian writers and about Palestinian liberation without compromise or negotiation.

Theater Workers for a Ceasefire is proud to uplift published, unproduced, and in-development works by Palestinian and Arab writers, as well as those in solidarity with them. These are plays and musicals that don’t just aim to reflect the world as it is, but bridge a gap to the world we must create together.

We encourage theater workers to seek out these works and writers, and support them at their various stages so they can be shared with your communities.

This list is just a beginning. Send us more suggestions, and always feel free to contact us if we can amplify or support a production in some way.