Jalal Khoury
Jalal Khoury was a playwright, theatre director, comedian and artistic editor.
Career
First Lebanese playwright to be translated and performed internationally, his works are translated into German, English, Armenian, Iranian and French. His play "Al Rafiq Segean" ran for two consecutive seasons at the Volkstheater Rostock. Known for being the political theatre promoter in the 1960s Lebanon, Khoury is also an ethnoscenologist. He has participated in several colloquiums in Paris and Mexico about Ethnoscenology, a new discipline that he represents in Lebanon. Khoury is also the author of several papers on theatre and arts, in French and Arabic, published in Lebanon and abroad, as well as an amount of scenic adaptations and theory critical writings in French and Arabic, featured in several periodicals and catalogues.Death
Jalal Khoury died in his home on December 2, 2017 because of a sudden heart attack.Biographical entries
- Artistic French editor in the 1960s.
- Starts his theatre career in 1962 at the francophone college theater in the frame of the École supérieure des lettres.
- Starts his directing career in 1964 with Bertolt Brecht "The Visions of Simone Machard".
- Teaches theatre at the Lebanese University from 1968 until 1975.
- Founder and president of the Lebanese center of the International Theatre Institute from 1969 until 1984.
- President of the International Theatre Institute Permanent Committee of the Third-World from 1973 until 1977.
- Teaches theatre and script writing at the Saint Joseph University from 1988 until 2012.
- Chairman of the Theatre Department of the Saint Joseph University from 1988 until 1999.
- Taught Scenic-arts for the Masters Students of the Saint Joseph University until 2017