Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel (she/they) is an oral hxstorian, arts journalist and dramaturg with roots in and around Chicago. As a self-proclaimed "brown and proud, queer, fat femme", she aims to make and take space for other POCs and folks on the margins. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in Performance as Public Practice at The University of Texas at Austin. Visit her portfolio at yasminzacaria.com

Review: ‘The Nourish Project’ does just that

Whose touch brings you happiness? What a loaded question during a global health crisis wherein we’re encouraged to stay put and keep our hands to ourselves. But posed in earnest...

Housing is a Human Right in new radio play ‘A Tale of Two Citizens’

“Everything you are about to see is completely legal.” This disclaimer foreshadowed the egregious inequity to come in the premiere of an original radio play that streamed this past weekend....

Poignancy and Protection: Black (Artists) Lives Matter in ‘Amendment’

It starts slow. We’re enveloped in nature sounds, of which I initially didn’t realize came from my car’s radio rather than my ajar window. The outside hum is familiar,...

Review: In its virtual version, the Fusebox Festival bodes well for the future of online theatre and art

“Are we live?” “I don’t know.” And with that, kicked off the first virtual performance of Fusebox Festival 2020. It’s a common question in our collective arts pivot to the online...

At UT New Theatre, ‘A Fistful of Trespassing’ is a Shipwrecked Comedy En Route to Answers

Without the freedom to yee-haw, what kind of country would we be? "A Fistful of Trespassing," a new play written by Minghao Tu, is a shipwrecked comedy en route to...

‘Alabaster’ Navigates the Hard and Soft Aches of Love and Grief

“What do you ache for?” That provocative question lives in the eleventh hour of Shrewd Productions’ “Alabaster” by Audrey Cephaly under the direction of Rudy Ramirez. The title gives much...