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Rabih Mroué
Playwright, Director, Actor
Born in 1967 and lives and works in Beirut. Mroué is an actor, director, playwright, visual artist, and a contributing editor for The Drama Review (TDR) and the quarterly Kalamon. He is also a co-founder and a board member of the Beirut Art Center (BAC), Beirut.
He creates work that deals dynamically with contemporary inquiries into the boundaries of fact and fiction, frequently employing video and multimedia.
He presented "Biokhraphia" (2002) at the 2004 Tokyo International Arts Festival and "How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool's Joke" (2007) at the 2007 Tokyo International Arts Festival, as well as "Looking for a Missing Employee" at SPAC in 2008. "Photo-Romance" (2009), created with Lina Saneh, was presented at F/T09 (Autumn).
He is a 2013-2014 Interweaving Performance Cultures fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. He won the Spalding Gray Award in 2010 and a Prince Claus Funds Award in 2011.