Hadeel Ramadan is a Palestinian-American writer, actor, and performer whose work is shaped by lineage, memory, and the surreal. Her family names — Ramadan and Erakat — tie her to two long-standing Palestinian lineages: one grounded in indigenous roots and survival through displacement, the other known for its role in intellectual, cultural, and political life. These ancestral threads inform her art, transforming history into living narrative.

She began performing with Youth Speaks, where she led workshops and coached youth in spoken word, building an early practice of merging voice, politics, and art. After completing a two-year Meisner program, she expanded her work into stage and screen performance, tackling material from Spoon River Anthology to contemporary monologues while developing her own writing for film and television.

Her pilot BLUNT, a hyper-surrealist dark comedy set in San Francisco, blends Palestinian heritage with Bay Area counterculture to explore female rage, magical realism, and survival in a collapsing city. The project has been recognized across the festival circuit, placing as a finalist at Imagine This Women’s Film Festival, a semifinalist at Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and Cordillera International Film Festival, and a quarterfinalist with Outstanding Screenplays, among others.

Her work merges the inherited weight of displacement with the humor and sharp observation of the Bay Area, crafting stories that carry both the memory of her ancestors and the urgency of the present.