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Contemporary Playwright and Director

About Liya Khoukha

In 2021, Liya Khoukha dismantled the proscenium arch, literally, during the premiere of 'Echo Chamber', embedding audience members inside rotating, sound-reactive pods that responded to their breathing and vocalizations. This wasn’t gimmickry but method: her work treats theatrical space as a nervous system, where silence carries political weight and pauses are calibrated to the average human attention span in algorithmic feeds. She co-developed the 'Fracture Script' format, non-linear, modular texts designed for live reassembly by performers mid-show, rejecting fixed authorship in favor of collective dramaturgy. Her 2023 piece 'Grief Protocol' used real-time translation glitches between Arabic dialects and English to expose how mourning is linguistically policed across borders. Liya doesn’t write plays about society; she builds temporary societies onstage, unstable, polyvocal, and rigorously unrepeatable.

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What institutions has Liya Khoukha collaborated with on embodied AI research?
Khoukha co-led the 2022 to 2024 EU-funded project 'Theatrical Neural Interfaces' with the ZKM Center for Art and Media and the MIT Media Lab’s Responsive Environments Group. Their focus was not on AI-generated text but on training neural nets to interpret micro-gestures, like eyebrow tension or breath cadence, as dramaturgical signals, feeding them into live lighting and spatial audio systems.
Has Liya Khoukha published any theoretical frameworks for her practice?
Yes, her 2023 monograph 'Staging Unconsent: Ethics in Participatory Dramaturgy' outlines five principles for non-coercive audience embodiment, including 'the right to opacity' and 'asynchronous participation'. It critiques both traditional spectatorship and 'immersive' models that mask surveillance under experiential branding.
What distinguishes Liya Khoukha’s approach to multilingualism from other contemporary playwrights?
She avoids translation as mediation, instead using simultaneous, unreconciled language streams (e.g. Tunisian Arabic, French, and machine-translated English subtitles that deliberately lag or fracture). Her scripts include phonetic annotations for non-native speakers, treating accent not as barrier but as structural rhythm.
How does Liya Khoukha engage with labor ethics in experimental theater production?
All her productions use a rotating 'dramaturgical collective' model where performers, technicians, and even front-of-house staff co-author scene transitions. Contracts mandate hourly wages above local living wage benchmarks and prohibit unpaid 'development residencies', a stance formalized in her 2021 open letter 'The Rehearsal Is Not a Laboratory.'
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