SELECTED WORKS

MUSICAL THEATRE

AREA D

[Full-Length Musical | Book, Music & Lyrics by Lour Yasin]

A bilingual Arabic-English Arab pop musical about a Palestinian band from Jerusalem competing at Eurovision. Desperate to bring international attention to her detained brother's case, Lara assembles a band and sets her sights on the world's biggest song competition. But as the spotlight grows brighter, the band must confront the cost of being seen.

Acknowledgments (selected):

  • Princess Grace Award (2026)

  • MacDowell Fellowship (2026)

Development & Presentations (selected):

  • HERE Arts Center (NY, 2026)

  • Ars Nova — ANT Fest (NY, 2025)

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The Flintstons

[Full-Length Musical | Book, Music & Lyrics by Lour Yasin]

Before the Intifada of rocks, there was rock and roll.

Inspired by a true story, The Flintstons follows four Armenian-Palestinian teenage boys in 1960s Jerusalem on a mission to become Palestine's answer to the Fab Four, as a rapidly changing country threatens their rock and roll dreams.

Development & Presentations:

  • Noor Theatre — SWANA Salon at Joe's Pub (NY, 2026; excerpt)

  • MacDowell — Writing Residency (NH, 2026)

The Happy Sunshine Facility

[Full-Length Folk-EDM Musical | Book, Music & Lyrics by Lour Yasin]

Welcome to The Happy Sunshine Facility, an exclusive retreat for proper young ladies of New York's upper crust, where good manners are mandatory, happiness is nonnegotiable, and the camp rules make absolutely no sense. Between a talking teddy bear, increasingly deranged activities, and enough mommy and daddy issues to keep a therapist employed for generations, these young women are about to discover that the road to self-improvement is paved with deeply questionable intentions.

PLAYS

Qalqilya Zoo: Home of the World's Only Vegetarian Lion

[Full-Length Play | By Lour Yasin]

During the Second Intifada, a Palestinian veterinarian struggles to keep the West Bank's only zoo alive after a mysterious cloud of red tear gas brings its taxidermied animals back to life. With a hungry lion, a cast of increasingly unruly animals, and a town under curfew, the zoo becomes the site of an extraordinary struggle for survival.

Development:

  • MacDowell — Writing Residency (NH, 2026)

  • Private Development Readings (2026)

Sunny Street

[Full-Length Play | By Lour Yasin]

When Maggie returns to her hometown to take a job on Sunny Street, a low-budget knockoff of Sesame Street, she's not looking for purpose. She's looking for health insurance. Specifically, the kind that will pay for her insulin. But when the show's puppets begin talking to her, and a U.S. senator decides to make the beloved children's program the centerpiece of his reelection campaign, Maggie finds herself trapped between a cast of increasingly opinionated puppets, a political machine determined to exploit them, and the inconvenient reality that standing up for her values might cost her the medication keeping her alive.

TELEVISION

The Free

[Historical Adventure Series | Developed with Shatha Yas]

In sixteenth-century Morocco, Sayyida al-Hurra is a governor by day and a pirate queen by necessity. Determined to take revenge on the Spanish empire that drove her family from their homeland, she assembles a fleet of corsairs and turns the Mediterranean into her personal battlefield. Between raiding Spanish ships, outmaneuvering rival rulers, and negotiating with some of history's most notorious pirates, she discovers that ruling a city might be considerably harder than robbing an empire.

THAW

[Science-Fiction Dark Comedy Series | Created by Lour Yasin]

At a cryogenic sleep facility, a low-level employee with a spectacularly unremarkable job is tasked with waking one of the previous century's most hated dictators. What should have been a routine procedure becomes a bureaucratic nightmare when a man the world thought it had buried opens his eyes in a future that would rather forget he ever existed.

Development:

  • BIPOC Sci-Fi Screenwriting Lab — Justice for My Sister (2026)

Bad Habits

[Television Series | Created by Lour Yasin]

Two nuns fall in love. Unfortunately, they've already committed themselves to someone else. God.

As their forbidden romance blossoms behind convent walls, the two women must navigate faith, desire, and the increasingly inconvenient vows they once swore to uphold.

LIMITED TELEVISION SERIES

Arabica

[Historical Drama Limited Series | Created by Lour Yasin]

In the golden age of Arab cinema and music, everyone wants to be a star, and half the stars are accused of being spies. Against a backdrop of revolution, espionage, and political intrigue, Arabica follows the singers, actors, and filmmakers who captivated an entire region while navigating a world where fame could make you untouchable one day and a national security threat the next. From the recording studios of Cairo to the corridors of political power, the line between celebrity and conspiracy has never been thinner.

FEATURE FILM

The Boiler Room

[Feature Screenplay | Written by Lour Yasin]

Beneath the surface of life in Palestine, an underground music scene is making a lot of noise. The Boiler Room dives into a generation of Palestinian DJs, musicians, and partygoers carving out spaces of freedom, rebellion, and belonging through electronic music, where the dance floor becomes a place to escape reality, confront it, and turn the volume all the way up.

SOLO PERFORMANCE

Maladaptive: Live!

[Full-Length Solo Musical Performance | Written & Performed by Lour Yasin]

A genre-bending solo performance combining original music, storytelling, and theatricality, Maladaptive: Live! brings together an eclectic mix of musical influences in an intimate, unpredictable theatrical experience.

Development & Presentations:

  • Joe's Pub at The Public Theater (NY, 2026)