Pronouns
she/her/hers
Positions
Performer
Director
Producer
Educator
Playwright
Farah Lawal Harris (she/her/hers) is a first-generation Nigerian theatre artist-plural, poet, mother, Artistic Director of Young Playwrights’ Theater, and Producing Playwright with The Welders. Farah believes deeply in the power of black womxn and their stories and aims to make people feel less alone through her art, which is her activism. She is a 2020 Kilroys List playwright and co-founded DC-based theatre companies, The Saartjie Project and Wild Women Theatre. Her writing has been produced at Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Rep Stage, Theater Alliance, and festivals along the East Coast. Learn more at farahlawalharris.com.