media + press
kunafa & shay
Sivan on Art, Activism, and Connecting to the Past on Kunafa and Shay, a podcast produced for HowlRound Theatre Commons, a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide. Kunafa and Shay discusses and analyzes contemporary and historical Middle Eastern and North Africa, or MENA, theatre from across the region
+972 Magazine
In this exclusive conversation for +972 Magazine, Sivan and Yoni discuss the album, their collaboration, and their shared and diverging experiences of a mixed Mizrahi-Ashkenazi-American identity.
WBBM Newsradio
Play at Goodman shows before, after experiences of immigrant family.
yale news
Five Things to Know About… Sivan Battat
With “With You Were Here,” which opens the 2023-24 season at Yale Rep, director Sivan Battat returns to the city where she fell in love with theater.
YALE REP
Playwright Sanaz Toossi and director Sivan Battat share their thoughts and inspirations for the play WISH YOU WERE HERE.
queer arab podcast
This week’s episode focuses on Sivan’s recent work organizing ancestral storytelling workshops and what it means to connect to our (biological or otherwise) ancestors as queer people. Sivan also discusses her process of finding community across intersecting identities.
arts council of greater new haven
At ECA, A Theater Alum Brings Peace Of Mind
Goodman Theatre
"There's no plastic covers on the sofa." In this special interview, Layalina's playwright, Martin Yousif Zebari and director, Sivan Battat explore the hilarious and heartwarming moments within this "expansive, intergenerational [and] intercontinental play" about a family that's finding its way back to each other.
SWANA & QUEER IN THE GLOBAL STORY
Join playwright Martin Yousif Zebari and director Sivan Battat for an online conversation moderated by co–executive artistic director of Silk Road Rising Jamil Khoury about the intersections of SWANA and queer identities. Panelists will include Adam Ashraf Al-Sayigh, Evren Odcikin, and Sara Razavi.