El Attar hails from Egypt and is a theatre director, dramaturge and cultural operator. He is the founder and head of Orient Productions, a production company based in Cairo and involved in various cultural, artistic and entertainment projects. El Attar is also founder and artistic director of The Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF), one of Egypt’s leading festivals, of Studio Emad Eddin (SEE) Foundation, a unique organization that procures working and rehearsal space for independent Egyptian stage artists, of DX-Media, a digital platform and of the company Temple Independent.

His work has been presented in theatres and festivals all around the world: Lebanon, Sweden, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, UK, Singapore, Russia, Scotland and the USA.

His work  F**K Darwin or How I Have Learned to Love Socialism won him the award as best actor in the 22nd  edition of the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre. In 2013 he received an award from the Synergos foundation as a Pioneer of Egypt. In 2015 with The Last Supper, a work he wrote and directed, he participated in the 69th Festival d’Avignon and in the 44th Festival d’Automne in Paris before going on a world tour.  In 2018 he again participated in the Festival d’Avignon with Mama, a work about the figure of mothers and women in Egypt, a patriarchal society. The same year in France he was awarded Chevalier des arts et des lettres for his contribution to Theatre art.

@ FIT

Lingua Madre_Before the Revolution – Remix
adaptation by Alan Alpenfelt and Zeno Gabaglio
2021 Edition
01.10 – 10.10

Before the Revolution
2017 Edition
28.09 – 08.10