Fouad Dakwar

Fouad Dakwar is a multimedia artist whose subversive comedy channels his Palestinian-American immigrant upbringing– all with a punk-rock twist. His semi-autobiographical musical, Fouad of Nazareth, has been featured on the Playbill Songwriter Series, which aptly described him as “a darkly comic pop-punk composer on the rise.” The piece was first developed in Berklee NYC’s Writing and Production for Musical Theater Master’s program, premiered to two sold-out concert fundraisers for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at Joe’s Pub, was a semi-finalist for the 2025 Relentless Musical Award, and received a residency in the 2025 Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed. Fouad of Nazareth’s upcoming concept album was produced by Noor Theatre and recorded at the Power Station at Berklee NYC with support from Pop Culture Collaborative’s “Becoming America” grant. The album will launch with a one-night only concert performance at Ars Nova. Fouad is a 2024–25 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, 2025 Yes And… Laughter Lab Fellow, Joe’s Pub Council member, 2026 Kleban Prize librettist finalist, and 2023 Jonathan Larson Grant finalist (suffice it to say, he’s pretty damn grateful he made the cut this time around). Born in Nazareth, the laughter he evokes is Biblical