Ziad Adwan, Ph.D.

Ziad studied for an MA in Text and Performance Studies at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and King’s college in London, and then took a PhD in Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway; his thesis was on "Mistakes, and Making Mistakes in Cultural Representations ". He taught Performance Theory, System of Rehearsals and Mask techniques at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus/ Syria.

Ziad has acted in several plays and movies and directed theatre. He was the artistic director of Invisible Stories, a series of street theatre events that take place in different places in Damascus. Currently Ziad lives in Germany and directs theatre. He runs several workshops with regugees and young artists. He is currently affiliated with the Global Theatre Histories Research Project at LMU Munich.

Ziad is a partner at Tanween Theatre and Dance Company.

Here you will find two publications by Ziad:

Adwan, Ziad: “The Local Otherness: Theatre Houses in the United Arab Emirates.” Arab Stages Journal 2, no. 2 (2016). http://arabstages.org/2016/04/the-local-otherness-theatre-houses-in-the-united-arab-emirates/.

______: “The Opera House in Damascus and the ‘State of Exception’ in Syria.” New Theatre Quarterly 32:3 (August 2016): 231-243. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-theatre-quarterly/article/opera-house-in-damascus-and-the-state-of-exception-in-syria/1F51F0391460293C75FE3394918FAD88

The description of his project can be downloaded below.