Faculty

Aikaterini Arfara, Assistant Professor of Theater, Performance Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aa7716@nyu.edu
Education: BA Athens University; MA Athens University; PhD Paris I – Panthéon/Sorbonne University

Research Interests: public works; socially engaged art; installation; post-documentary theaters

Aysan Celik, Associate Arts Professor of Theater Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: akc256@nyu.edu
Education: BA, University of California, Los Angeles; Professional Certificate, American Repertory Theater Inst...

Research Interests: Shakespeare, devised work, documentary theater, comedy, classical texts, dance-theater, cross-gender...

Chinasa Ezugha, Assistant Arts Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: chinasa.ezugha@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fine Art Aberystwyth University; MA Goldsmiths University of London

Research Interests: Voice, Identity and Culture, Glossolalia

Faustin Linyekula, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Theater, Artist in Residence Affiliation: Visiting
Email: faustin.l@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Dance and theater making/ Poetry/ Arts, culture and politics in Africa and its diasporas

Abhishek Majumdar, Program Head, Theater; Associate Arts Professor of Theater Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abhishek.majumdar@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Delhi University, MBA NIT Trichy, 2 Year Theater Program ( MFA equivalent) London International ...

Research Interests: Political philosophy, dramaturgy, performance making , experimental film, opera, playwriting, direct...

Carol Martin, Professor of Drama Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: cm7@nyu.edu
Education: PhD NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests: Theatre about real events, memorial, memory, ghosts, staging spectators, house museums

Merritt Moore, Distinguished Artist in Residence, Adjunct Professor of Practice Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: merritt.moore@nyu.edu
Education: BA Harvard College, PhD University of Oxford

Research Interests: Robots, Quantum Physics, Dance

Joanna Settle, Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs and Social Impact; Arts Professor of Theater Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: js10084@nyu.edu

Laila Soliman, Visiting Associate Arts Professor of Theater, Artist in Residence Affiliation: Visiting
Email: ls6196@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University in Cairo, MA Dasarts

Research Interests: Socio-Political Theater; Post-Dramatic; Documentary Theater; Multi-disciplinary Contemporary Theater...

Wole Soyinka, Arts Professor of Theater Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ws2402@nyu.edu
Education: BA English Literature, Leeds University; Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Cambridge

Research Interests: Comparative Theatre Formation Across Cultures

Özlem Özhabeş, Visiting Lecturer Affiliation: Visiting
Email: zz10021@nyu.edu
Education: BA Istanbul University; MA Middlesex University

Research Interests: Theatre, acting, directing, voice work, translation