Omar Fetmouche

Following a career as a university professor, he was  Director of the Wilaya Centre for Culture and Arts for four years. From 2004 to 2015, he served as Director of the Theatre of Bejaia. He founded the Mostaganem Amateur Theatre Festival and has been its organiser for 35 years. In 2007, he founded the National Professional Theatre Festival of Algiers and has been its organiser  since. He participates in the Theater an  der Ruhr Festival in Mülheim, Germany, in the framework of the Arabic Theatre Days, with the performance Arifa, written and directed by him. He is also a member of the management team of the Odysseus 2001 international project, in collaboration with the International Institute of Mediterranean Theatre.

Major productions: The Great Epic of the Algerian Revolution (300 participants, 2015); Valentin Petrovich Katayev: Squaring the Circle (adaptation); Ionesco: Rhinoceros (Arabic version, direction); staging of The Watchers by Algerian novelist Tahar Djaout, FNTP Grand Prix, 2009; Ibsen: An Enemy of the People, (adaptation), Festival of Carthage Award; Remembrance, a festival performance, Jury’s Award. In 2009, he received the Ministry of Culture Award and the PROJECTEURS Association Award.