Stage veterans John Getz, Shirley Knight, and Joey Slotnick will co-star in the new suspense film Elevator. Stig Svendsen is directing the project, which has a screenplay by Marc Rosenberg.

The movie focuses on nine strangers who find themselves trapped high above Manhattan with someone who has a bomb. The cast also features Devin Ratray, Waleed Zuaiter...More »

Zuaiter to Appear in 'Elevator'

"Elevator," a feature-length suspense film now in production in Los Angeles, California, features an ensemble cast that includes Waleed Zuaiter, a Palestinian actor and Broadway veteran known for playing Middle Eastern and Muslim characters. Despite another such role in "Elevator," Zuaiter sees this movie as a break from stereotype...More »

Casting Standouts: 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'
by Jenelle Riley
December 9, 2009

Another thrill was getting to cast actors they've enjoyed seeing before, such as Waleed Zuaiter, who plays an Iraqi soldier. "He continually amazes us," Sandrich says of Zuaiter. "A lot of this was watching people we have loved in the past perfectly fill the shoes of the character." ...More »

Back Stage Critic's Picks: The Men Who Stare at Goats
Reviewed by Jamie Painter Young
November 6, 2009

McGregor is terrific as the straight man opposite Clooney, and their chemistry really works. The rest of the cast is equally strong. Bridges, as Django, is hilarious, as is Kevin Spacey as Lyn's snotty rival, Larry Hooper. Stephen Root, in a small but memorable role as seeming nut job Gus Lacey, is also great. Waleed Zuaiter is notable as an Iraqi kidnap victim who comes to the aid of Lyn and Bob... ...More »

Waleed Zuaiter: Actor and producer
December 2009

On and off Broadway, Palestinian-American actor Waleed Zuaiter's performances have consistently met with critical acclaim. Most notably, Zuaiter has starred in David Greig's The American Pilot at the Manhattan Theatre Club and played opposite Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline...More »

Taking Shape
by Liza Foreman
November 18, 2009

How many actors can say they shared the stage with Meryl Streep, dined with George Clooney and landed a role in Sex and the City 2?

Waleed Zuaiter can. The 38-year-old Palestinian-American has risen through the ranks of the New York theater...More »

Seduced and Abandoned by Promises of Freedom
by Charles Isherwood
February 7, 2008

“It is strange to think of becoming Swedish,” says the man named Adnan, whose intense brown eyes and olive skin seem about as far from the stereotype of the Scandinavian as you could get.

Adnan has no choice. “America doesn’t want me,” he says. A Sunni who has worked for years as a translator for the Americans in Iraq......More »

Betrayed
by Dan Bacalzo
February 7, 2008

Filled with drama and urgency, George Packer's Betrayed -- currently making its world premiere at The Culture Project -- is that rare theater experience that commands absolute attention while watching it, and which continues to haunt the viewer long after the play ends. Knowing that it dramatizes the struggles of hundreds of real-life individuals whose peril has not yet abated only makes it more powerful...More »