Staging the Stans was a festival of staged readings of plays by Central Asian and Eurasian playwrights curated in collaboration with Kazakh playwright Olzhas Zhanaydarov and Russian playwright Evgeny Kazachkov.

The “Stans” refer to the nation-states (and former Soviet Republics) of Central Asia and certain Muslim-majority autonomous republics within the Russian Federation. For purposes of this festival, the included Stans are: Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Tartarstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Plays:
Uzbek
The Store
The Izmailovo Studio

Partner Event:
Meet the Curators, Olzhas Zhanaydarov and Evgeny Kazachkov

Essay:
"A Note on Staging the Stans," by Jamil Khoury