Sunday, February 15, 2026
12:00 p.m. ET – 1:30 p.m. ET
Free with RSVP
Ahead of the National Tour premiere, in this special event, Dr. Sarah Fahmy and Nabra Nelson, the Co-Founders of HERitage emBODYment, will perform excerpts from their show and discuss how museum collections around the US–from New York to San Francisco–inspired the show. Participants will learn about the acquisition and legacies of Egyptian and Nubian artifacts in US Museums. Following the performance presentation, the audience will be invited to reflect on how museums impact their own cultures and influence their personal experiences of heritage in the US.
About HERitage emBODYment:
HERitage emBODYment is a culturally-informed, community-engaged artist ensemble centering Egypt and Nubia. A National Theatre Project Awardee, their national tour of Sekhmet Unraveled opens May 2025, and will tour Egyptian and Nubian galleries of museums across the US.
Admission is free with RSVP. A light lunch will be served.
Appropriate for all ages.
Bios:
Nabra Nelson is a theater creator from Egypt, Nubia, and California. She is the Artistic Director of Golden Thread Productions, leads the Nubian Foundation for Preserving a Cultural Heritage, is a founding company member of Dunya Productions, and is the co-host of the Kunafa & Shay Theater Podcast (produced by HowlRound Theatre Commons). Her plays have been produced and developed in Los Angeles, Seattle, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Minneapolis. Her scholarship has been published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, and the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal.
Sarah Fahmy, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Florida State University. She is a decolonial scholartist, whose work intersects performance studies, Arab and North African identity, cultural heritage, and eco-feminism. Sarah is a co-founder and immediate past chair of the Middle Eastern Theatre Focus Group at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, where she’s leading the development of the “MENA Performance and Scholarship Digital Handbook.” She has devised multi-disciplinary site-specific pieces and facilitated performance and playback residencies around the world. Her most recent project, The Butterfly Affect—an interdisciplinary immersive puppetry experience—was featured at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Sarah’s publications appear in a range of peer reviewed theatre and social science journals and books ranging from Theatre Topics, RiDE to PloS One. Her forthcoming book explores decolonial play, feminist artivism, and performance ethnography in Egypt.