Source: Nowy Teatr
Wajdi Mouawad spent his childhood in Lebanon and France, from where he moved to Quebec. He currently lives in France. In 1991, he graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada. He is the author of adaptations and stagings of contemporary and classical plays, as well as his own texts. From 2000 to 2004, he was the artistic director of the Quat’Sous theatre in Montreal, and then from 2007 to 2012, the artistic director of the Centre National des Arts in Ottawa.
In 2009, he was an associate artist at the Festival d’Avignon, where he directed the tetralogy Le Sang des Promesses. His most famous works include Inflammation du verbe vivre, a solo installation based on themes from Sophocles’ tragedies, and the Domestique cycle, which refers to his earlier production Seuls. He also directs opera (including in Paris and Lyon).
Director of the La Colline theatre in Paris since 2016, where he directed, among others, Tous des oiseaux (2017), Notre innocence (2018), Fauves and Mort prématurée d’un chanteur populaire dans la force de l’âge (2019) and a new version of Littoral (2022). In 2025, his new play Le Serment d’Europe (Europa’s Pledge) premiered at the Epidaurus Festival in Athens. He is also the author of novels, the most acclaimed being the repeatedly reprinted and award-winning Anima.
In 2024, Mouawad took up the chair at the Collège de France, created in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and dedicated to the languages and cultures of Europe.
