Hanna Eady

Hanna Eady
Born	Buqu'ya, Upper Galilee, Israel
Nationality	Palestinian-American
Education	University of Haifa, University of Wisconsin, University of Washington
Occupation(s)	Actor, Playwright

Hanna Eady is a Palestinian-American actor and playwright best known for co-writing Suhmata, a play about the destruction of the Palestinian Arab village of Suhmata, near Acre in northern Israel.^{[ citation needed ]}

Eady was born in 1956 in the village of Buqu'ya in the Upper Galilee region of Israel, and took an interest in theater from an early age. He earned a B.A. in social work from the University of Haifa, and then worked as the artistic director of a theater. He then moved to the United States to study theater, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Fine Arts in drama and directing from the University of Washington in Seattle.^{[ citation needed ]}

Eady then opened the New Image Theater Company, where he wrote and produced plays, including Seeing Double (1991) and Abraham's Land (1992). The play Suhmata, which he co-wrote with Edward Mast, depicts the 1948 destruction of a Palestinian village of that name during the 1948 Palestine war. The play debuted in Seattle in 1996.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

• Hanna Eady: childhood memoir and profile at Cune Press
• Profile of Hanna Eady at the Institute for Middle East Understanding Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Suhmata Review at Americans for Middle East Understanding