A child in Lebanon, a teenager in Paris, and a young adult in Quebec, Wajdi Mouawad now lives in France. A 1991 graduate of the National School of Dramatic Arts of Canada, he adapts and directs contemporary and classical plays, as well as his own works. He served as artistic director of the Théâtre de Quat’Sous in Montreal in 2000, then of the French Theater at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in 2007, and was an associate artist at the 63rd Avignon Festival, where he premiered *Le Sang des Promesses* with *Littoral* , *Incendies* , *Forêts* , and *Ciels *. He then reinterpreted Sophocles’ tragedies, including his solo piece Inflammation du verbe vivre , and went on to create the Domestique cycle with Seuls —which he performed on tour—as well as Sœurs and Mère . As artistic director of La Colline – National Theater since 2016, he has presented his productions *Tous des oiseaux *, *Notre innocence *, *Fauves* , *Mort prématurée d’un chanteur populaire dans la force de l’âge *, *Littoral* , and *Racine carrée du verbe être *. Published in 2012, his second novel, *Anima*, has received numerous awards.
After staging Mozart’s *The Abduction from the Seraglio* and then Enescu’s *Oedipus* in 2021, he will soon turn his attention to Debussy’s *Pelléas et Mélisande* at the Paris Opera and Gluck’s *Iphigénie en Tauride* at the Opéra-Comique, as well as two of his early plays , *Journée de noces chez le s Cromagnons* and *Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes*, at La Colline.