Amir Nizar Zuabi is an award-winning playwright and director. He was the founding Artistic Director of ShiberHur Theater Company in Palestine, 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. His is the recipient of the ISPA Distinguished Artist Award 2026.  

As Artistic Director of The Walk Productions, he leads The Herds - the journey of life-sized animal puppets on a 20,000km migration across continents and Little Amal - the journeys of the 3.5 meter puppet of a 10-year old refugee girl. Collectively these projects have reached 2 million people in 26 countries across five continents.  

In 2025 he directed Together for Palestine at Wembley OVO Arena, raising £1.5 million for Gaza. In 2026 he created Return of the Buffalo, reuniting him with St. Ann’s Warehouse and KBH Arts in New York City. In 2027 he will premiere And still no mercy - a contemporary dance-theatre piece born out grief, vulnerability and mercy in times of global upheaval, with original composition by Brian Eno and choreography by Gregory Maqoma.  

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 (The Palestinian National Theatre) and Grey Rock (Remote Theater Project, La Mama NYC).

Hs 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).