Sarah Fahmy

https://sarahfahmyscholartistry.com/

Sarah Fahmy, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Florida State University. She is a performance studies scholartist and applied theatre facilitator, whose work centers SWANA performance, society, and ecology. She has devised multi-disciplinary site-specific pieces and facilitated performance and playback residencies around the world. Her most recent creative work, The Butterfly Affect—an interdisciplinary immersive puppetry experience—was featured at the UN CSW convening.

Utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods, Sarah’s publications appear in a range of peer reviewed journals such as Theatre Topics, RiDE, PloS One, and books like the Applied Theatre (Routledge series). She has presented at several conferences including ATHE, ASTR, PSi, and ISB. Sarah is actively involved in the field; she serves on the leadership boards of groups at ATHE and ASTR, the editorial board of Environmental Communication, and frequently peer-reviews for Research in Drama Education, and Modern Drama. She is a founding member and immediate past chair of the MET group at ATHE, and currently serves on the MENATMA Educators Circle board, as a co-convener of the SWANA working group at ASTR.

Sarah has a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder; where she led university-wide restructuring and served as an executive member of numerous campus strategic planning committees, as the President of the Graduate and Professional Student Government, the Center for Teaching and Learning Theatre Lead Instructor, and the co-artistic producer of the New Play Festival. She created the first university library database, around the world, dedicated to MENA Playwrights—work that she is evolving through co-leading the creation of ATHE’s SWANA Theatre and Performance Scholarship Digital Handbook.