Rabih Mroué

Rabih Mroué (*1967) is a theatre director, actor, visual artist and playwright. He was born in Beirut and now lives in Berlin. In his work, Mroué uses videos, photographs and historical documents and blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.

Together with Lina Majdalanie, he works in a directing duo at the intersection of theatre, performance and installation. They were guests at the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) in 2019 with Borborygmus. Their joint production Four Walls and a Roof was invited to the Impulse Festival in 2025.

Mroué is a contributing editor at The Drama Review /TDR (New York) and co-founder and board member of the Beirut Art Centre (BAC). From 2013 to 2014, he was a fellow at the International Research Centre: Interweaving Performance Cultures/ FU/Berlin. Later, from 2015 to 2019, he worked as a theatre director at the Munich Kammerspiele.

His works, including Hartakāt (2023), Sunny Sunday (2020) and So Little Time (2016), have been shown internationally, for example at the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), the MoMA (New York) and the Centre Pompidou (Paris).