Experience

Theatre

• Entertainment
• 700 & Above Employee

• Theatre Director and Playwright

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Recent Projects The Jungle (Resident Director, The Curran Theatre, San Francisco), A Skate Play (Writer / Director. Freedom Theatre / SkateQilya, Palestine), Dreamscapes (Performer / Co-Creator. LPAC Rough Draft Festival) Acquittal (Director, Pan Asian Rep), Fatima and Her Pigeon (Playwright. The Flea Theatre), 6 views: on women of power and interest (Creator / Performer, Venice Biennale), Mariposa and the Saint by Julia Steele Allen (Dir. National Tour), There is a Field by Jen Marlowe (Dir. National Tour.) HKEELEE by Leila Buck, (Dir. Mosaic Theatre). A Doll’s House: REMIX edited by Heather Raffo. (Dir. Epic Theatre). Phoenicia Flowers (Director / Playwright. Noor Theatre)FellowshipsNoelle has been a fellow at Target Margin Theatre, was the recipient of the Laundromat Project Create Change Fellowship, was a New York Theatre Workshop 2050 directing fellow, a Hemispheric Institute fellow for artist activists and a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. In July of 2019, she attended the first annual Mediterranean Director’s Lab in Beirut, Lebanon in partnership with the American University of Beirut. Show less

• Facilitator / Educator

  • Sep 2007 - Present

  WORKSHOPSRace Recounted. Creative Alliance. Storytelling residency leader (Baltimore, 2016)Open Engagement Conference. Queens Museum. Workshop leader. “Artists in communities”. (Queens, 2014)UNESCO Young Leaders conference. Workshop leader “unlocking your creative potential”. (Paris, 2013)TEACHINGTheatre Development Fund: Facilitator for Young Playwrights Group: high school playwriting ensemble. (2011-present)Urban Art Beat: storytelling and music production at Rikers Island (2017-2019)viBe theatre: theatre director / facilitator for young women (2010-2013)New York Theatre Workshop: Mind the Gap teaching artist, in-school theatre teaching artist (2012-2016)The Leadership Program, Urban Arts Partnership, DreamYard Drama Project: Dance / theatre teaching artist (2007-2012)Jenin Freedom Theatre: dance instructor / choreographer (2010-2016) Show less



Community Engagement

• Producer

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  PRODUCING Board member. Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre: Fundraising. Production support. Event planning. (2012-present) Guest Artistic Producer. 48 Hour Forum. Noor Theatre (2019) Producer. Break the wall: Plays about Palestine. Columbia University (2018) Associate Producer HIGHLIGHT reading series, Noor Theatre (2014-2015) Westbrook Community Garden Arts Party. Producer and Curator. (NYC, 2013-2015) PRODUCING Board member. Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre: Fundraising. Production support. Event planning. (2012-present) Guest Artistic Producer. 48 Hour Forum. Noor Theatre (2019) Producer. Break the wall: Plays about Palestine. Columbia University (2018) Associate Producer HIGHLIGHT reading series, Noor Theatre (2014-2015) Westbrook Community Garden Arts Party. Producer and Curator. (NYC, 2013-2015)