Wael Salem

Graduate of Damascus Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts in 2015, Wael Salem attended several workshops at Damascus Theatre Lab. Wael made his debut as a playwright with a short play titled Living Room Tragedy. Soon after, he translated Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane, which was the first work by Orton to be translated into Arabic. In 2015, Wael was forced to leave Syria and  has been living in Berlin since late March 2016. In fall of 2017, Wael will begin his candidacy as a PhD graduate in Theatre Studies, researching post-World War II German theatre, in addition to continuing his work as a dramaturg and translator.