The Theater Initiative is an interdisciplinary group of faculty, students, and artists who promote courses in directing, acting, playwriting, theater history, and the performing arts. We work to facilitate theater research and theatrical projects locally, regionally, and internationally. One of our principal goals is to place theatrical performance and study at the center of intellectual life at AUB and in the Middle East. We envision theater studies and theater practice as disciplines that complement literature, arts, architecture, social sciences, hard sciences, business, medicine, and other disciplines