A dramatic arts company promoting conversation in a disconnected age.
Original theater, film, and storytelling — Austin, TX
About The Zahir →Coming this summer
News
- Zahir Artistic Director wins Austin Theatre Critics Award for Outstanding Original Script for Holi Shamoli's 2025 production of Apprehension.
- Zahir Nights presents a free staged reading of The American Revolution by Kirk Wood Bromley at the French Legation. Learn more.
Our work
The Zahir creates original theater, film, and storytelling projects that bring people together for meaningful conversation. At a time defined by noise, loneliness, and misinformation, our work invites audiences to pause, reflect, and speak with one another.
We make theater and media that challenges, provokes, and opens space for conversation — new stories told through theater, film, and other dramatic arts, with an emphasis on connection in an increasingly disconnected world. Learn more.
About The Zahir
In Jorge Luis Borges's short story of the same name, the Zahir is an object that consumes the mind. The more one contemplates it, the smaller one's world becomes, until the universe has contracted to the size of a small coin. The Zahir is fascinating, dazzling, and a curse.
We chose the name because each of us confronts a modern Zahir: screens, feeds, and devices that capture attention but diminish connection. Through theater and storytelling, we strive to break the curse through work that brings people back into the world, toward each other, toward conversation. Read more.
