Suhaila Meera

Suhaila Meera

Assistant Professor of Theatre

Fir Acres Theatre 102

Suhaila Meera (she/her) is a director, dramaturg, and scholar whose research traces the planetary stakes of mass displacement through figurations of the child refugee. Her current book project, Playing Children: Displacement and the Performance of Childhood , offers a transregional study of theatrical and cinematic representations of children navigating national borders in and beyond South Asia and the Middle East. Her writing has appeared in Performance Research , Studies in South Asian Film & Media , Women’s Studies , Theatre Journal and Theatre Topics. She recently adapted and directed Bhisham Sahni’s Pali at Stanford University and was the dramaturg for Yilong Liu’s PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute at the New Conservatory Theatre Center.

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A Puppet? A Wolf? Boxing? It’s ‘Wolf Play’!

Wolf Play, which opens March 8 on Lewis & Clark’s Main Stage, is directed by Suhaila Meera, assistant professor of theatre. With the help of a puppet, boxing moves, and wolf pack metaphors, the play explores issues of family, parenting, community, survival, and love.

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Q&A with Suhaila Meera, Assistant Professor of Theatre

Suhaila Meera is an Assistant Professor of Theatre. In addition to her work as a director and dramaturg, Meera has researched statelessness and the performance of childhood, which examines theatrical and cinematic portraits of young people navigating borders in South Asia and the Middle East.