Osama Ghanam is a theater director, playwright and translator with a PhD in Theater Studies from Paris 8 University. He teaches at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus and previously curated the theater and dance programming for the 2008 Damascus Arab Capital of Culture Festival. Osama is the founder and artistic director of the Damascus Theater Laboratory, established in 2009. His productions at the lab include Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (2009), It Happened Tomorrow (2010), based on works by Mark Ravenhill, Kroetz, and Dario Fo, The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (2013), Glass (2015), a free adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie, Drama (2018), a free adaptation of Sam Shepard’s True West, and Woyzeck by Georg Buchner at Tunisia’s National Theater (2019). He directed his own play Shams and Majd in 2021. Alongside his directorial and training work at the laboratory, Osama recently translated Patrice Pavis’s Routledge Dictionary of Contemporary Theater and Performance, as well as various plays. He has taught at Saint Joseph University in Beirut and the L’Ecole de L’Acteur in Tunisia and his works have been staged in Damascus, Beirut, Tunis, Germany, and Belgium.