On March 26, 2021, Golden Thread Productions’ NO SUMMARY series presented a conversation with John Eisner, Jamil Khoury, and Torange Yeghiazarian, founders of Middle East America: A National New Plays Initiative (MEA), to discuss the program’s lasting impact and the future of Middle Eastern American theatre. Launched in 2008 by The Lark, Silk Road Rising, and Golden Thread, MEA supported the development and production of new works such as Night Over Erzinga by Adrianna Sevahn Nichols, and We Swim We Talk We Got to War by Mona Mansour. Golden Thread’s Nora El Samahy facilitated.
