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Rouba Palmer
Rouba Palmer completed her MFA in Directing at Florida State University. She has a wealth of dramatic experience and has been directing, writing, producing and acting for the theatre since 1991. With a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma in Education majoring in Drama, Rouba has been teaching Middle and High School Drama since 1997 and is currently teaching University students and directing one to two shows a year.
Rouba is a Lebanese-born Australian who is now an American resident living in the USA. She has also lived in France, England and Greece.
Outside her work as a Theatre educator, Rouba has written and directed numerous plays, run acting workshops for all ages, been invited to schools and camps to curate performances and adjudicated Regional Shakespeare Competitions.
Rouba is also a fully qualified and experienced Theatresports® and Improv Coach and is currently teaching University students at East Texas Baptist University. She has also taught at Oxford Falls School of Creative Arts and the Hillsong Creative Arts College in Sydney, Australia and at Florida State University, Florida, USA.
Rouba wrote the first edition of ‘The Jewellery Box’, a play about human trafficking in 2010, which she later directed in 2011. The production raised $10,000 for the A21 Campaign, a charity that focuses on combating human trafficking by rescuing girls caught in sex slavery and convicting their traffickers. Click this link to see what Christine Caine, the founder of the A21 Campaign has to say about The Jewellery Box.
Rouba also worked with senior undergrads at FSU on another devised piece about human trafficking called ‘The Human Circus’, which premiered in the Lab Theatre at Florida State University in December 2019.
Rouba has recently graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Directing. In April 2023 she directed The Secret in the Wings for her thesis show and in December 2022, she directed Ionesco’s The Lesson at the Laboratory Theatre, FSU, Tallahassee.
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