The Green Line
Makram Ayache Playwright
Makram Ayache Director
Hiba Sleiman Translator
Anahita Dehbonehie Set Designer
Anahita Dehbonehie Costume Designer
Jareth Li Co-Lighting Designer
Kit Norman Co-Lighting Designer
Chris Pereira Co-Sound Designer
Heidi Chan Co-Sound Designer
Anita Nittoly Fight Director / Intimacy Director
Honey Hoseiny Assistant Set Designer
Rebecca Vandevelde Production Manager
Anthony Allan Technical Director
Aidan Morishita Miki Producer
Two love stories twist together in two Beiruts riven by time and conflict. In 1978, two women share spit on the ends of cigarettes and yearn for tenderness under the tumult of war. In 2018, a foreigner and a local flirt over vodka sodas as their contradictions collect like condensation on the sides of their glasses.
Poetic realism braids past and present into the green line of vegetation that bisected the concrete of Lebanon’s capital during the civil war. The Green Line, named a finalist for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award and the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards, unearths queer history that has always been there, whether our ancestors wanted it to be inherited or erased.
at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Makram Ayache Playwright
Makram Ayache Director
Hiba Sleiman Translator
Anahita Dehbonehie Set Designer
Anahita Dehbonehie Costume Designer
Jareth Li Co-Lighting Designer
Kit Norman Co-Lighting Designer
Chris Pereira Co-Sound Designer
Heidi Chan Co-Sound Designer
Anita Nittoly Fight Director / Intimacy Director
Honey Hoseiny Assistant Set Designer
Waseem Alzer Performer
Oshen Aoun. Performer
Basma Baydoun. Performer
Zaynna Khalife. Performer
Oshen Aoun. Performer
Basma Baydoun. Performer
Zaynna Khalife. Performer
Laura Baxter Stage Manager
Honey Hoseiny Head Construction
Honey Hoseiny Lead Scenic Painter
Morvarid (Pearl) Alinejad Scenic Paint Assistant
Aidan Hammond Production Manager
Chris Holtkamp Associate Producer
Christopher Elizabeth Surtitle Designer
Dina Saleem Surtitle Operator
Matthew Romantini Production Assistant
El Patey Head Technician
Darren Shaen Head Technician
Kit Norman Head Technician
Susanna Feng Scenic Painter
Matt Armour Scenic Painter
Antel Kollenberg Crew
Zoe Daca Crew
Brawk Hessel Crew
Stephanie Taylor Crew
Nate Gurarie Crew
Diamond Srey Crew
Mike Dowdall Crew
Lindsay McDonald Crew
June Lytle Crew
Steph Raposo Crew
Julie M. Li Crew
Rian Tran Crew
River Cecil Oliveira Crew
Frank Incer Crew
Honey Hoseiny Head Construction
Honey Hoseiny Lead Scenic Painter
Morvarid (Pearl) Alinejad Scenic Paint Assistant
Aidan Hammond Production Manager
Chris Holtkamp Associate Producer
Christopher Elizabeth Surtitle Designer
Dina Saleem Surtitle Operator
Matthew Romantini Production Assistant
El Patey Head Technician
Darren Shaen Head Technician
Kit Norman Head Technician
Susanna Feng Scenic Painter
Matt Armour Scenic Painter
Antel Kollenberg Crew
Zoe Daca Crew
Brawk Hessel Crew
Stephanie Taylor Crew
Nate Gurarie Crew
Diamond Srey Crew
Mike Dowdall Crew
Lindsay McDonald Crew
June Lytle Crew
Steph Raposo Crew
Julie M. Li Crew
Rian Tran Crew
River Cecil Oliveira Crew
Frank Incer Crew
Rebecca Vandevelde Production Manager
Anthony Allan Technical Director
Aidan Morishita Miki Producer
