Abdullah Alkafri is an award-winning playwright and theatre director. He has also collaborated with arts organisations including LIFT (UK), the Royal Court Theatre (UK), IEVP (Norway) and Lark (USA). He also works as a trainer, strategic planner and designer for arts intervention initiatives among many organisations in Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen and elsewhere. He is a member of the Artistic Committee of Sundance Institute’s MENA Theater Lab and the board of the 10th Summit on Arts and Culture. Since 2014 Abdullah has served as an Executive Director of Ettijahat. He also teaches MA Theatre at l’Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, where he was awarded a PhD in performing arts in 2022.
