Samer Al-Saber

Samer Al-Saber is a critical scholar, historian, director, and playwright. He is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Williams College. He comes to Williams after serving for over a decade at the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University, the School of Theater at Florida State University, and the Theater Department at Davidson College. He received the Walter J Gores Award at Stanford and the Undergraduate Teaching Award at Florida State University, the most prestigious teaching awards at these institutions. His scholarly work appeared in Theatre Research International, Performance Paradigm, Critical Survey, Theatre Survey, and various edited volumes, such as Palgrave’s Performing For Survival, Edinburgh Press’ Being Palestinian, and Routledge's Troubling Traditions. He is co-editor of the anthology Stories Under Occupation and Other Plays from Palestine (Seagull Press/University of Chicago Press, 2018) and editor of To The Good People of Gaza (Bloomsbury Press, 2022). He co-edited the collection Arab, Performance, and Politics (Routledge, 2024). His play, El-Manshiyyeh, was produced by Jerusalem’s El-Hakawati and will be presented at the PAL/ARTS festival in London in the fall of 2026. His award-winning monograph A Movement’s Promise: The Making of Contemporary Palestinian Theater (Stanford University Press) tells the story of Palestinian theater in the 1970s and 1980s.