CWB USA and Theatre for Climate Justice Tour 2025: Egypt

CWB USA and Theatre for Climate Justice | October 2025
In partnership with PSTIC

This October, I will return to Cairo with Clowns Without Borders USA to tour The Garbage Monster, our Theatre for Climate Justice performance. In collaboration with PSTIC, we will bring this show to displaced communities throughout the city, sharing laughter, play, and hope while opening conversations about climate change and resilience.

Our team will tour The Garbage Monster to displaced communities around Cairo, including Sudanese, South Sudanese, Syrian, and Palestinian families. Today, Egypt hosts more than 480,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers from 62 countries, with the largest populations coming from Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, and Eritrea. This tour builds on CWB’s continued work in Egypt, with previous tours in 2022 and 2024, creating joy, connection, and moments of relief for children and families living through displacement.

This will be my seventh tour with Clowns Without Borders USA. I believe so deeply in their mission because I have seen firsthand how laughter and play can break down barriers, nurture resilience, and create moments of connection and healing even in the most difficult circumstances. I am honored to return as both U.S. Performing Artist and Tour Coordinator, alongside Ahmed Moussa, Tour Manager, as we continue to explore how clowning, laughter, and applied theatre can inspire resilience and spark meaningful dialogue across cultures.

PSTIC (Psycho-Social Services and Training Institute in Cairo) provides community-based mental health, psychosocial support, and protection services for refugees and vulnerable migrants. Working alongside them allows us to bring theatre, laughter, and play into communities already supported by PSTIC’s essential programs.

The Theatre for Climate Justice initiative began in Cairo in 2023, when we created and toured The Garbage Monster to displaced communities across the city. In 2024, the project expanded to Zimbabwe with El Niño, a new play co-created with local artists. Each project empowers communities most affected by climate change to share their stories through theatre, amplifying voices too often left out of global climate discussions.

Click here to learn more about the 2024 project and watch the full length documentary!

Photos by Zach Doleac