Zainab is a Pakistani - Australian Poet and Creative Producer. Her practice sits at the intersection of social justice and live performance. After graduating from Brown University, USA, she has toured across the world as a performance poet working with incarcerated women, trauma victims and refugees.
From 2017-2023 Zainab worked at Performing Lines WA and Belvoir St Theatre as a Producer spearheading ambitious works of scale with artists across dance and theatre. Her work has focused on facilitating intercultural collaborations and developing inclusive frameworks for creating new work and pathways for culturally diverse artists, as well as enabling systemic change within small to medium and mainstage institutions. In October 2023, Zainab joined Creative Australia as Director, International.
Zainab has served on the board of the Blue Room Theatre board and Theatre Network Australia board. She is also a founder of Pakistan Poetry Slam, co-founder of HME-WRK, a diverse arts collective, a Humanitarian Observer with the Australian Red Cross Immigration Detention Program and a 2020 Churchill Fellow.
Project
To investigate models for creating collaborative, inclusive and intercultural performing arts ecosystems
Zainab Syed
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