SYRIAN SOAP Will Make Hollywood Fringe Debut at The Broadwater
The solo show, written and performed by Farhan, is directed by Natasha Mercado and won a Hollywood Fringe Scholarship
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This June, award-winning standup and clown Edib Farhan makes their Hollywood Fringe Festival debut with Syrian Soap, a 60-minute absurd ancestral intervention inspired by Syrian soap operas and set in an intergalactic bathhouse. Performances will run June 13-20.
Eat, pray, bathe with Edib's bumptious, mustachioed ancestor and find out if you are your ancestor's wildest dreams–or worst nightmare. He has notes! Receive channeled advice, poetry, and a surprise visit from a traditional Syrian bathroom slipper (which may or may not be a metaphor for life under fascism). Beneath the silliness and suds, Syrian Soap is a love letter to revolution and exile—an invitation to unlock joy and self-expression in a world on fire. And a reminder: your healing goes back 7 generations—but so do your f*ck-ups!
Winner of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship funded by Hollywood Pantages Theatre and County Supervisor Lindsey P Horvath, Syrian Soap was selected by the National Queer Theater for the Criminal Queerness Festival, and highlighted in the LA Times. The show is directed and co-devised by Natasha Mercado.Creative consulting by: Zahra Noorbakhsh, Claire Woolner, Mike Rose, and Andel Sudik.
About Edib Farhan:
Edib Farhan is a Syrian standup, clown, and conflict mediator. Edib has studied with the Idiot Workshop, Natasha Mercado, Claire Woolner, Groundlings, Upright Citizen's Brigade, and iO Theater. Their co-created sketch and standup show won “Best of San Francisco Fringe Festival” in 2024 and they were selected by the National Queer Theater for the 2026 Criminal Queerness Festival.
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