Amir Nizar Zuabi to succeed Good Chance founders

Palestinian theatre-maker and playwright AMIR NIZAR ZUABI will become Artistic Director of Good Chance, a theatre company that started six years ago as the first ‘Theatre of Hope’ in the Calais Jungle camp where it worked with artists from refugee backgrounds.

Founding Artistic Director of ShiberHur Theater Company and Young Vic Associate Director from 2009 to 2017, he first collaborated with Good Chance in 2019 as Artistic Director of The Walk.

Amir Nizar Zuabi succeeds Good Chance founders, playwrights JOE MURPHY and JOE ROBERTSON, who will step back from the day-to-day running of the charity in July but continue writing for the company and working on specific projects with them