SF Playhouse & Z Space presents: “Home?” World Premiere (July 26-Aug. 16)
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In Israel, she’s Palestinian. In the Arab world, she’s Israeli. In America, she’s an “Other.”
‘Home?’ is an autobiographical one-person show about a young woman’s journey to find a sense of belonging. On the way she asks: Why would you need to complete military service just to wait tables? Can you pass as an Israeli if you delete your Arab accent? And can you simply move to America and leave the whole Middle East behind? Through a panoply of vivid characters – from her five-year-old self, to an Egyptian casting director , to her own dying mother – playwright/actor Hend Ayoub shares a deeply personal, true story about a search for the place that many of us take for granted.
SF Playhouse and Z Space presents
in association with Voices Festival Productions
HOME?
A Palestinian Woman’s Pursuit of Life, Liberty, & Happiness
July 26 – August 16, 2025
Z Space, 470 Florida St., SF
Tickets starts at $34.75$46(fees included) – including side orchestra tickets!Exclusive – Save $11.25 with secret code FUNCHEAP
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“Home? transcends politics to connect on a deeply human level. [It] is Ayoub’s most vulnerable and personal work yet — a story she has lived, shaped and now tells with humor and courage. – SF/Arts
“Effortlessly shifting from English to Hebrew to Arabic and back again, Ayoub offers herself as a living example of how letting the global air in helps us all to breathe more healthfully” – The Washington Post
About the Playwright
HEND AYOUB is thrilled to have the world premiere of her solo show Home? at San Francisco Playhouse. The piece was initially developed with the legendary Wynn Handman at the Wynn Handman Studio in NYC, and was further developed through workshops with the invaluable guidance of director Carey Perloff. Workshops were supported by San Francisco Playhouse (Bill English, producer), Z Space (Shafer Mazow, producer), and Golden Thread Productions (Sahar Assaf, producer), as well as Voices Festival Productions in Washington, D.C. (Ari Roth, producer), and Noor Theatre in New York. (Sivan Battat and Kate Moore Heaney, Producers)
Hend is a New York-based actor and writer. Theatre credits include: Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, and its earlier run at Los Angeles’s Mark Taper Forum; Off-Broadway: 9 Kinds of Silence (PlayCo), First Down (Noor); Regional: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arena Stage), Kiss (Yale Rep), American Fast (InterAct Theater), and Veils (Portland Stage; Barrington Stage).
Television credits include Homeland, Orange Is the New Black, The Looming Tower, Madam Secretary, Royal Pains, Feed the Beast, The Accidental Wolf, Comedy Central’s The Watch List, and recurring roles on Transparent and Damages.
Film credits include the Emmy Award-winning Death of a President, the multi-award-winning Private, and the new film If You See Something. HendAyoub.com
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