Rabih Mroué was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1967 and currently lives in Berlin. Actor, director, visual artist and playwright, he has written and directed several plays, including Who's afraid of representation (2005), How Nancy wished that everything was an April fool's joke (2007), Photo-Romance (2009), 33 rpm and a few seconds (2012), So little time (2016), Borborygmus (2019), Sunny Sunday (2020) and Hartaqāt (2023) in collaboration with Lina Majdalanie. His work, at the crossroads of theatre, performance and the visual arts, blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, using videos, photographs and historical documents to challenge the hegemony of the archive. He is also a contributing editor to The Drama Review (New York) and co-founder of the Beirut Art Center (BAC). Rabih Mroué was also a member of the International Research Centre: Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie Universitat in Berlin in 2013-2014. Then, from 2015 to 2019, he was a director at the Münchner Kammerspiele in Germany. His work has been presented in many countries, including the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.