Bay Area theatre + this summer = STACKED. ❤️ Grateful to see Arab Spring included among these beautiful productions.
Also: go see @odcikin Evren’s As You Like It @marinshakes TRUST ME
There comes a point in the process, where if you’re lucky, you have to hand over your script to a director. After years of hearing the rhythms in your own head, building the world, writing and rewriting every line, silence, and beat until it sings, another artist arrives and begins seeing things you could never see by yourself.
I cannot express how excited I am to be collaborating with Nailah Unole didanas’ea Harper-Malveaux on Arab Spring. PINCH ME.
Rehearsals begin next week, but we’ve been in production meetings for months. And I already feel her fierce intelligence, curiosity, and love for this play. Thank the dear Ganesh for directors. They shape not only what a play becomes, but how a room feels while building it.
Y’ALL. This is gonna be 🔥 but also 🕺💃🏽 and definitely 🦄 but ALSO 💔 in the best possible way.
June 19 – July 12 @ Potrero Stage
Produced by Golden Thread Productions + SFBATCO
@still_nai_rise@sfbatco@goldenthreadplays
Happy Mother’s Day to my Queen Bee @zzmobarak ❤️❤️❤️ I think we took this in Tulum during a monsoon 😂.
So much of who I am as an artist, dreamer, writer, and storyteller, began with you. Thank you for the love, the sacrifice, the strength and of course the stubbornness, for the ways you kept going even when life asked too much of you. I love you, mom. So grateful we have each other in this life. ❤️👯🦄💘🌹🌹🌹
Cutie patooties❤️ tix now on sale —>
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Arab Spring is co-produced by Golden Thread Productions and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO).
June 19 – July 12
Potrero Stage
Opening Night: June 22
Preview performances start at $20, and tickets for the full run range from $30–$80.
Buy early and save! For a limited time, you can save on early tickets:
Use code EARLYBIRDY for 15% off General Admission tickets through May 22.
Thrilled to finally share that my play ARAB SPRING will receive its world premiere with @sfbatco and @goldenthreadplays this June.
This play has lived with me for several years, through workshops, readings, rewrites, and countless conversations. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who helped bring it to this moment.
Save the date❤️
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ARAB SPRING tickets are now on sale!
This biting dark comedy by award-winning playwright Denmo Ibrahim Denmo Ibrahim follows two siblings who learn what family means as they plan an Islamic funeral for their estranged father. But can they do it without killing each other? Inshallah.
The world premiere is a first-time partnership between co-producers Golden Thread and SFBATCO.
June 19 – July 12, 2026 at Potrero Stage
Tickets are $20-$80.
BUY EARLY AND SAVE! Through May 22, use code EARLYBIRDY for 15% off.
Meet Denmo Ibrahim. The playwright of Arab Spring.
Denmo Ibrahim (she/her) is an American playwright, actor, and theatre maker of Egyptian descent. She is the recipient of the Legacy Playwright Award from Advance Gender Equity in the Arts and was shortlisted for the 2025 Princess Grace Award. Her plays include Arab Spring (Finalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Rainin Fellowship), BABA (Winner: Theatre Bay Area “Best Original Script”; SFBATCC “Best New Play” & “Best Solo Show”), The Weight of an Orange (The Playwrights’ Revolution, Capital Stage) and Naguib Mahfuz Was Stabbed in the Neck and Almost Died (Finalist: Sundance Theatre Lab). Her children’s book Zaynab’s Night of Destiny, an audio immersive experience for young audiences, toured throughout Kentucky public schools and was supported by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts.
Denmo’s creative work has been produced and developed by Audible, Round House Theatre, Williamston Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Noor Theatre, The Civilians R&D Series, Amphibian Stage, Alter Theatre, Shotgun Players, Golden Thread, and Crowded Fire.
As an educator, she has led workshops in storytelling and ensemble devised theatre at Harvard University, University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, and LOYAC in Kuwait. She currently serves as Chair of the MENA Theatre Makers Alliance (MENATMA), a national coalition advancing visibility and equity for SWANA artists. Denmo holds an MFA from Naropa University and a BFA from Boston University. denmoibrahim.com
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Arab Spring is co-produced by Golden Thread Productions and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO).
Use code EARLYBIRDY for 15% off General Admission tickets through May 22.
June 19 – July 12
Potrero Stage
Thank you @oneill_center for selectin A COUNTRY MADE OF SALT as a finalist!💘Thrilled to see more love and excitement come together for this gorgeous story ;-) @goldenthreadplays@crowdedfire
Friends! If you’re in SF, please join me this weekend for a reading of new work in progress, A COUNTRY MADE OF SALT. Stoked to play with an incredible team of creatives and be back in the rehearsal room once again. Deets below:👇🏽
Golden Thread Productions and Crowded Fire,
in partnership with Art2Action, present
A COUNTRY MADE OF SALT: STAGED READING
by Denmo Ibrahim
Directed by Nabra Nelson
A baker, a mystic, and a falcon walk into an office one stormy night… Rabia Haddad is on a mission to discover a lost history. But as she builds her map, the archive begins to talk back, blurring the lines between testimony, memory and myth. Could it be that the one story she needs most is her own? A play about inheritance, letting go, and the desire to belong to something larger than yourself, A Country Made of Salt invites us to reflect on the stories we keep — and what stories keep us.
Performing as part of A Festival of Palestinian Art:
Friday, April 10, 2026 at 8pm
Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 8pm
Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 3pm
at Potrero Stage (1695 18th Street, San Francisco)
Info/tix: /productions/a-festival-of-palestinian-art/
Two weekends. Three events. Uplifting Palestinian Voices in Film, Theater, and Comedy.
@goldenthreadplays@crowdedfire and @art2action partner on this festival at the @potrerostage April 9-19.
Tickets (and festival passes!) available at the link in bio.
Dear SWANA Artists,
As current Chair of @menatheatermakers let me be one of the first to invite you to apply to this new national grant initiative for art organizations.
This has been in the making for years by so many pioneers in the industry who have been advocating for representation and support for our communities which ultimately led to the creation of MENATMA.
Please share WIDELY ❤️✨🙏🥳 Your work matters at every stage and here’s a chance to be supported with a significant financial gift to keep building your dream project.
Do sign up on the site to stay looped in. We’ll have an info session for the application (which I think we made very accessible 🥳) We’d love to have as many folks from our MENA communities apply as are eligible to apply.
LET’S GO!
