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Fadi Murad

Work

Solo performances Fadi writes and performs, the companies he works with, and audiovisual pieces made for gallery spaces.

Come Back Home

Come Back Home key art: against a sunlit concrete wall, Fadi Murad holds a black umbrella over a second, drenched Fadi Murad.
When
Since 2023
Form
Solo performance with text, video and sound
Made by
Created by Fadi Murad. Music by Said Murad, sound by Kareem Al Sawalmeh.
Played at
  • School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem, 2023
  • Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine, Edinburgh, 2025
  • Théâtre L’Aire Libre, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, 2025
  • Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2026

An autobiographical solo performance that deals with the politics of being an Arab born in Jerusalem. Through the mediums of sound and original text, Fadi explores the connection between his daily paranoia of his own death while moving between East and West Jerusalem, the death of his mother at an early age, and the upcoming death of his father.

Influenced by the content that surrounds him – including hip hop music and comedy skits by Key & Peele – he creates lyrical pieces for stage and comedic skits that reflect his own journey.

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A Call from Afar

When
2025
Form
Performance with movement, sound and text
Played at
  • Al-Hakawati Theatre, Jerusalem, 2025, premiered under the Sawa Sawa residency

A celebration or a funeral? A dream or a nightmare? A man walks through shifting realities, guided by voices—some kind, some cruel, some indifferent. A door appears, opening and closing like fate itself. A TV flickers, showing fragments of what was lost or what could have been. Masks come on and off, revealing fears, desires, and ghosts of the past.

A call reaches out from afar—personal, political, and unseen. Who is calling? And who is listening? Through movement, sound, and text, "A Call from Afar" invites you into an absurd, tender, and painful journey—between staying and leaving, between memory and future, between longing and acceptance.

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Holding Water: a double exposure of Fadi Murad’s face merged with a woman’s face.

Holding Water

A solo performance art piece that deals with the moment I understood as a child that my mother had passed away. A piece that focuses on abstract movement and the repetition of a lyrical text blending with autobiographical storytelling.

Form
Solo performance art
Played at
  • School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem

With other companies

  • Performer, as Yamen

    Guernica, Gaza: Visions from the Center of the Earth

    Ashtar Theatre, Ramallah, 2024. Written by Naomi Wallace and Ismail Khalidi, directed by Emile Saba.

    “Compassionately played by Murad”

    Marina Johnson, Arab Stages (opens in a new tab)

  • Sound design

    Feathers

    Shaden Dance Company.

  • Sound-based music videos

    Two music videos with Mishkal

    Artist residency at the Goethe Institute, Ramallah, April 2025.

Audiovisual Works

Two audiovisual works, "Conditional Growth" and "Clueless," delving into prose and sound, exploring personal experiences, life in Jerusalem, uncertainties about the future, and Palestine's volatile reality. They reflect a fragmented world immersed in their own dimensions. Designed to be exhibited in a gallery space, the piece blurs the boundaries between documentation and abstraction, inviting audiences into a sensory landscape that echoes themes of belonging, memory, and shifting realities. Through multilayered storytelling and sensory contradictions, the work evokes both intimacy and alienation, mirroring the tensions of existence in a constantly changing environment.

Conditional Growth
Clueless