We are pleased to announce the 2026/27 cohort of the Necessary Angel Theatre Company Artistic Residency Program: Rimah Jabr and Kabrena Robinson. 

Rimah Jabr

Rimah Jabr is a theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and Ph.D. candidate in Theatre and
Performance Studies at York University. She holds a master’s degree in theatre-making from RITCS in Brussels. She has written and directed several plays produced in Belgium, Canada, and Palestine, including This is Not What I Want to Tell You (2022/25), Ghurba (2025), Broken Shapes (2022), Raya (2018), High Heels & Stuffed Zucchini (2015), and Two Ladybugs (2013). Her play The Apartment appeared in Sabir Revue (Issue 7, in French), and This Is Not What I Want to Tell You is featured in a Dutch-language anthology of Palestinian plays, scheduled for release in October 2025[AA1] . Known for her collaborations with visual artists, she creates performances that blur boundaries between disciplines. Her doctoral research is a performance-ethnography project with Palestinian designers from Hebron, exploring how confinement shapes the creative process in set design. Expanding into film, she has directed two shorts: De-Clutter (2024) and You’ve Seen It on TV (2025/26).
For more, visit www.rimahjabr.com.

Kabrena Robinson

Kabrena Robinson is a queer Afro-Jamaican multidisciplinary storyteller of Accompong Maroon lineage. She works as a multimedia storyteller, cultural writer, and educator, with a practice spanning theatre, dub poetry, creative writing, and children’s literature. Her work draws deeply from Afro-Caribbean spirituality, ancestral memory, and decolonial storytelling practices. In addition to her theatrical work, she has worked as a journalist and cultural writer for numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail and TVO, where she has contributed writing on race, identity, and culture. Recent performance credits include Sankofa Trilogy (The Theatre Centre), Ramla and the Desert (Tarragon Greenhouse Festival), Sankofa Trilogy (SummerWorks Festival), LuLu (Toronto Fringe Festival).