Rimah Jabr

Rimah Jabr is a theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and Ph.D. candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at York University. She holds a master’s degree in theatre-making from RITCS in Brussels.

She has written and directed several plays produced in Belgium, Canada, and Palestine, including Broken Shapes (2022), Raya (2018), High Heels & Stuffed Zucchini (2015), and Two Ladybugs (2013). Her play The Apartment appeared in Sabir Revue (Issue 7, in French), and This Is Not What I Want to Tell You will be featured in a Dutch-language anthology of Palestinian plays, scheduled for release in October 2025.

Known for her collaborations with visual artists, she creates performances that blur boundaries between disciplines. Her doctoral research is a performance-ethnography project with Palestinian designers from Hebron, exploring how confinement shapes the creative process in set design.

Expanding into film, she has directed two shorts: De-Clutter (2024) and You’ve Seen It on TV (2025/26). For more, visit www.rimahjabr.com