Fouad Dakwar

Fouad Dakwar is a Palestinian musical theater writer whom Playbill aptly describes as “a darkly comic pop-punk composer on the rise.” His semi-autobiographical musical, ‘Fouad of Nazareth,’ was developed in Berklee NYC’s Writing and Production for Musical Theater Master’s program and premiered at Joe’s Pub to two sold-out concert fundraisers followed by a 29-hour reading presentation in Noor Theatre’s Highlight Reading Series.

Fouad has been a featured artist on the Playbill Songwriter Series and was a 2023 Jonathan Larson Grant finalist, 2023 Ars Nova CAMP finalist, 2024 Yes And… Laughter Lab finalist, 2023 and 2024 National Music Theater Conference semi-finalist, and 2024 Live & In Color semi-finalist. (Suffice it to say, he’s pretty damn grateful he made it past the finalist round this time!)

Fouad is also a proud member of the Joe’s Pub Council and has been an invited speaker at the Public Theater, NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing program, and the Game Devs of Color Expo.

In addition to his writing career, Fouad has supported the next generation of artists as Assistant Director for the New York Youth Symphony’s Musical Theater Songwriting program, a volunteer composer for the 52nd Street Project, and a Post-Graduate Fellow at Berklee NYC where he now works full time as the resident Admissions and Enrollment Officer.

You can find Fouad on Instagram and TikTok (@notfouad) where his satirical content has garnered over 5 million likes.