Wajdi Mouawad Director

Biography

Wajdi Mouawad spent his childhood in Lebanon, his adolescence in France, his young adult years in Quebec, and now lives in France. A 1991 graduate of Canada's National School of Dramatic Art, he has adapted and directed contemporary and classic plays as well as his own. He was artistic director of the Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal from 2000 to 2004 and of the Théâtre français du Centre national des arts in Ottawa from 2007 to 2012. With his creative companies Abé Carré Cé Carré in Quebec and Au Carré de l'Hypoténuse in France, he was an Associate Artist at the Avignon Festival in 2009, where he created the quartet Le Sang des Promesses with Littoral, Incendies, Forêts and Ciels. After reappropriating all of Sophocles' tragedies, including his solo Inflammation du verbe vivre, he worked on the Domestique creation cycle with Sœurs et Mère in the tradition of Seuls, which he still performs on tour.

In 2016, he directed L'Enlèvement au sérail for the Opéra national de Lyon. Appointed director of La Colline - théâtre national in 2016 and renewed until 2027, he presents his creations there: Tous des oiseaux in 2017, Notre innocence in 2018, Fauves and Mort prématurée d'un chanteur populaire dans la force de l'âge in 2019, a new version of Littoral and Racine carrée du verbe être in 2022 and, most recently, Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons, which will premiere at Printemps des comédiens in June 2024 and at La Colline - théâtre national in spring 2025, before the premiere of Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes in 2026.

As a writer, his second novel, Anima, published in 2012, has won several awards. He will soon direct Iphigénie en Tauride at the Opéra Comique. In 2024, at the invitation of the Collège de France, Wajdi Mouawad will hold the annual L'invention de l'Europe par les langues et les cultures chair, created in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Œdipe, 2021

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