NYC 2022 Team

Amir Nizar Zuabi is an award-winning playwright and director. He was the founding Artistic Director of ShiberHur Theater Company, an Associate Director of the Young Vic Theatre, a member of the United Theaters Europe for artistic achievement, and an alumni of The Sundance Institute Theatre Program.

Following his work on The Walk, in January 2022 he took up the role of Artistic Director of The Walk Productions Limited.

His writing and directing credits include I am Yusuf and This is my Brother, In the Penal Colony, Oh My Sweet Land The Beloved (ShiberHur/Young Vic); Three Days of Grief, West of Us The Sea, Mid Spring Musical, Dry Mud, Against A Hard Surface (ShiberHur); Last Ward, Who Killed You Asmahan, The Huta and Grey Rock (Remote Theater Project, La Mama NYC).

Directing credits include: Samson and Delilah (Flanders Opera, Antwerp); Jidarriya by Mahmoud Darwish (Edinburgh International Festival, Bouffes du Nord and world tour); Forget Herostratus, Le Mallade Imaginer, War or More, Sneeze, Deep Sorrow, Fall Tale, When The World Was Green, Lanterns Of The King Of Galilee, Taha and The Comedy of Errors (Royal Shakespeare Company).

David Lan is a writer and theatre producer. He was Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court 1994/1996 and Artistic Director of the Young Vic from 2000 to 2018, during which time many shows he produced played in the West End and in New York winning many major awards. He was Consulting Artistic Director at the Pearlman Performing Arts Center in NY 2014/2016 and is currently Theatre Associate at BAM where he produced Medea in early 2020. His books include Guns and Rain: guerrillas and spirit mediums in Zimbabwe and a memoir As if by Chance: Journeys, Theatres, Lives.

Tracey Seaward‘s producer credits include  Danny Boyle’s Millions, Fernando Meirelles’ Academy winning The Constant Gardener; David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises; Steven Spielberg’s War Horse; Michael Grandage’s Genius; eight movies with Stephen Frears including BAFTA and Academy nominated Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen for which she won a BAFTA for Best British Film and a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination, Tamara Drewe, Philomena for which she received a further Golden Globe, BAFTA & Academy Award Best Film nomination, the Golden Globe nominated Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, and Victoria & Abdul.

Tracey also produced  the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games, directed by Danny Boyle and The Pope directed by Fernando Meirelles starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce which was nominated for 4 Golden Globes, 4 BAFTAs, 3 Academy Awards.

Tracey is Executive Producer on Pistol a six hour limited series directed by Danny Boyle for FX to be released in May 2022.

Sarah Loader was the General Manager for The Walk 2021 and became Executive Producer for the company in early 2022.  Before walking with Amal, Sarah was a commercial theatre producer and General Manager working on productions as The Convert by Danai Gurira and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Young Vic), Company (West End), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK Tour), Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End) and Sunny Afternoon (UK Tour), Teddy (The Vaults / UK Tour), Toast (UK Tour, 59E59 New York, Park Theatre).

She is proud to have started her early career under the mentorship of Neil McPherson at the Finborough Theatre and went on to learn from Mark Rubinstein, Bill Kenwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Despina Tsatsas. Between 2009 and 2016, she was creative associate to Simon McBurney.

Karen Brooks Hopkins is the President Emerita of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she worked for thirty-six years, serving sixteen as its president. As president, Hopkins supervised the institution’s 230 full-time employees and its multiple theaters and cinemas, ranging from the 2,100 seat BAM Howard Gilman Opera House to the flexible 250-seat Fishman Space.

Yazmany Arboleda (b. 1981) is a Colombian American artist based in New York City. An architect by training, Yazmany activates communities with large scale art projects that seek to build heart-felt connections that lead to meaningful relationships. He believes that art is a verb not a noun. Over the past two decades he has created public art projects with communities in India, Japan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Afghanistan, Spain, Colombia and the United States. He has collaborated with Carnegie Hall, the Yale School of Management, and the United Nations. He is a co-founder of limeSHIFT, the Future Historical Society, Remember 2019, and the Artist As Citizen Conference. He is the first artist in residence for New York City’s Civic Engagement Commission as well as the Community Arts Network. In 2022 Yazmany was appointed as the inaugural “People’s Artist” for NYC.

Melissa Kievman is a director, creative producer and artEquity cohort and board member and a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group fellowship for directors.

She has served as Associate Artistic Director of New Dramatists, an urban writer’s colony devoted to the support and development of new plays and playwrights and as associate to producer Anne Hamburger at En Garde Arts, a site-specific theater company that commissioned and presented large-scale multi-media works for spaces of architectural, historical or political significance in NYC.

Kyra Armstrong (she/her) is an NYC-based producer, arts administrator and activist originally from Boston, MA. In addition to Assistant Producing Little Amal Walks New York, Kyra is Assistant to the Producer for Death of a Salesman on Broadway and a third-year Theatre Management and Producing MFA candidate at Columbia University. Past work includes: Broadway for All (2022 Tony Honors Recipient), Broadway Advocacy Coalition, TDF, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Wicked on Broadway.

Dani Turner (she/her) is a producer, dramaturg, and arts educator working both in New York and Baltimore. In a variety of administrative and artistic capacities, she has worked with Baltimore Center Stage, Submersive Productions, New York Stage and Film, Lesser America, Encores! Off-Center, Classic Stage Company, A BroaderWay Foundation, The Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit, and The DiscOasis NYC. She is a former Jews United for Justice community organizing fellow and the co-founder of Paper Kraine Productions. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Producing and Theatre Management at Columbia University.

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