Georgina Van Welie

Georgina Van Welie is a theatre producer, writer, and dramaturge who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company after Cambridge University. Co-founder of Sabab Theatre from 2002-2013, she produced bilingual Arabic/English theatre productions in collaboration with prestigious performing arts organizations including the Kennedy Center, BAM New York, Arts Emerson, Royal Shakespeare Company, Riverside Studios, Gate Theatre, Shubbak Festival, Dar al Athar Al Islamiyyah Kuwait, Al Ain Festival, Sharjah Biennale, Cairo International Theatre Festival, and Le Tournesol Theatre Beirut. She is setting up a new company, “Ajnebiun” whose bilingual Arabic/English adaptation in development of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida presented at Columbia University’s Reid Hall earlier this year and will tour to the Hague and London in the Autumn.