Fadi Murad
Palestinian theatre-maker and performance artist from Jerusalem, working across text, video and sound.
Come Back Home won the Meadows Award and played Summerhall at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Discover Come Back HomeCome Back Home
A solo performance about ongoing grief and how the past continues to inhabit the present. Through text, video and sound, Fadi Murad questions how loss shapes ambition, identity and the idea of return.
What the critics said in Edinburgh
“Playful, eerie and surprising, Come Back Home is a séance for the memories – both personal and collective – that feel the most impossible to hold.”
“Come Back Home is structured with the free-ranging imagination of a poet, an impressionistic collage that resists straightforward interpretation.”
“Come Back Home is a must-see at this year’s fringe for me, for the importance it carries in the world today and for its brilliant writing, staging and performance.”
“Dream-like meditation”
“…a touching and quietly powerful work, and Murad is adept at drawing you in, posing questions, offering tantalising morsels.”
Selected work
- 2023 to nowCome Back HomeSolo performance. Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2026.
- 2025A Call from AfarPremiered at Al-Hakawati Theatre under the Sawa Sawa residency.
- 2024Guernica, GazaPerformer with Ashtar Theatre, Ramallah, in the role of Yamen.
- School of Visual TheatreHolding WaterSolo on the moment a child understands his mother has died.
The stage as a place of questions
Born in Jerusalem in 1999, Fadi Murad studied psychology in Madrid before turning to art, graduating from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem in 2023. His work blends text, movement, sound and visual composition, and draws on loss, identity and cultural memory.
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