The Unbelievers (2016)
Produced by
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Playwright: Hannah Rittner
Director: Marina McClure
Venue
The Theatre Centre – BMO Incubator
Run
August 5th, 2016 – August 14th, 2016
Synopsis
Northern Iraq: August of 2015. It is one year since ISIS massacred the Yazidi people in Sinjar and began sex-trafficking Yazidi women. The Unbelievers follows Sanaa, a Yazidi woman and Orli, a conflict journalist, after their capture by ISIS. Two women are alone on opposite sides of a crisis; together they must find a way to endure. (summerworks.ca)
Cast
| Sarah Baskin | Orli |
| Shadi Shahkhalili | Sanaa |
| Daleela Hisham Ahmed | Ensemble |
| Saba Akhtar | Ensemble |
| Khaliya Hosein | Ensemble |
| Mona Kay | Ensemble |
| Nika Zahedi Neysiani | Ensemble |
| Yasaman Nouri | Ensemble |
| Rafia Afrin Salam | Ensemble |
| Daria Sarrafian | Ensemble |
| Rasha ElSayed | Ensemble |
| Candi Zell | Ensemble |
Creative Team
| Hannah Rittner | Playwright |
| Marina McClure | Director |
| Anahita Dehbonehie | Scenographer |
| Laura Levin | Assistant Director |
Production
| Zoë Ruth Fairless | Stage Manager |
| Zack Lovetime | Assistant Stage Manager |
| Desiree Chan | Make-up Artist |
| Alanna McConnell | Set Builder |
| Zack Lovetime | Writers Assistant |
| Gülay Kilicaslan | Kurmanji Translation |
| Rozin Hanjool | Kurmanji Translation |
| Ahmed Khudida | Kurmanji Translation |
| Amal Ghazal | Research |
| Rozin Hanjool | Research |
| Rita Leistner | Research |
| Shadi Shahkhalili | Research |
| Johnny Walsh | Research |
| Hannah Rittner | Creative Director |
| Joanne Williams | Associate Producer |
| Rachel Stephenson Sheff | Development Director |
| Ashley Peoples | Development & Advocacy Associate |
| Sarah Baskin | Company Member |
| Sue Edworthy | Publicist |
| Sedina Fiati | Outreach |
| Sedina Fiati | Communications |
| Elaine Poon | Promotional Photographer |
| Bronwen Sharp | Production Photographer |
| Andrew Pigott | Video Producer |
