Samah Sabawi
Palestinian playwright
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| 2025 | Samah Sabawi's work 'Cactus Pear For My Beloved' (2024) was longlisted for the Stella Prize |
| 2024 | Penguin published 'A Cactus Pear For My Beloved', a book about her family's life in Palestine and her parents' migration to Australia. |
| July 2021 | Play 'Them' was remounted with a premiere at the Arts Centre Melbourne, followed by tours through Shepparton, Bendigo, and Sydney. |
| 2020 | Samah Sabawi was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Drama for her work 'Them' (2019) |
| 2019 | Sabawi's play 'Them' was scheduled to premiere at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne. |
| 2019 | Wrote the play 'Them', which was included in the VCE Drama curriculum and received a Green Room Award. |
| 2018 | Melbourne Theatre Company premiered a reading of Sabawi's play 'Them', a tragicomedy about love, honour, and sacrifice inspired by the psychology of civil conflict. |
| 2016 | Novum Publishing released 'I Remember My Name', an anthology of poetry by Samah Sabawi, Ramzy Baroud, and Jehan Bseiso, which won the Middle East Monitor's Palestine Book Award in the same year. |
| 2016 | Currency Press published the script of 'Tales of a City by the Sea', which was listed on the VCE play list for Drama students and won the Best Publication for VCE at the Drama Victoria Awards. |
| 2014 | Wrote 'Tales of a City by the Sea', which would go on to be staged over 100 times in theaters and schools worldwide. |
| November 2014 | Sabawi's play 'Tales of a City by the Sea' premiered at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne, Australia and Al Rowwad Theatre, Palestine. The play received highly positive reviews from multiple publications and was fully attended at each viewing. |
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