Carole ABBOUD
Lecturer
Instructor
Institute of Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic Studies
+961 (1) 421 000 carole.abboud1@usj.edu.lb
Carole has been a theater and film actress for more than thirty years. Since 2007, she contributed to the birth of Theatre Babel in Beirut, where she held the position of producer and programmer on various projects and festivals ('Jean Genet Through Arab Eyes' - 2009) and concerts (The Ramadan Nights, 2007-2008), and this until 2009. She was born and lives in Beirut - Lebanon. Carole holds a Higher Studies Diploma in Dramatic Art from the Lebanese University on the play 'Talk to Me Like the Rain' by Tennessee Williams, as well as a Professional Master's in Performing Arts from University Paris 8 - France in 2006 on the creation 'Battles, or Waiting for the Moon,' an adaptation of 'Story of Vasco' by Georges Schehade. Early in her career, Carole performed with great directors of Lebanese theater: Yacoub Chedrawi in 'Don't Play the Little Ones' (1992), Roger Assaf in 'The Memory of Job' written by Elias Khoury (1995), and 'The Bald Soprano' by Eugene Ionesco (1996). She continued her career with the role of Nijinsky's wife in the play 'Nijinsky' by Jalal Kaissy, directed by Majdi Bou Matar (1997), and the role of Yerma in a staging of the eponymous play by Federico Garcia Lorca directed by the Moroccan Hassan Ben Jeddi (2000), with whom she also worked in 'Squadron Marches to Death' by Alfonso Sastre (2001). At the Byblos International Festival, she performed in 'Oum' by Adel Hakim, directed by the Tunisian Lotfi Achour (2003), and at the Baalbek International Festival, she played 'Rosa' in 'The Emigrant of Brisbane' by Georges Schehade, directed by Nabil Al Azan (2004). She was part of the first cohort of trainee artists at the 'Arab-African Center for Theatrical Training and Creation' in Tunis (2001-2002-2003), and in that context performed the play 'Let's Talk in Silence' by Ezzedin Gannoun at La Gare au Theatre in Vitry-sur-Seine (2003). At the Beirut Street Festival 2008, she was part of two shows, 'You Who Watch Us' by Rami Nihawi and 'Erase This Face Off You' by Hashem Adnan. Her collaboration as an actress with director Jawad Al Assadi appears in three plays: 'Widows on Bicycles' (2008), 'Ashura' (2009), and 'The Maids' (2009-2012). In 2007, she was invited by director Suleyman Al Bassam to play Queen Elizabeth in the adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, 'Richard III - An Arab Tragedy.' The premiere took place at the Royal Shakespeare Company in February 2007. An international tour of the play ran from 2007 to 2009 (Greece - Attiki Festival / Kuwait / Syria - Opera House / Bouffes du Nord - Paris / Holland Festival - Netherlands / United Arab Emirates / Kennedy Center - Washington and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - New York). In 2011, her second collaboration with Suleyman Al Bassam was 'The Speaker's Progress,' an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night,' in which she played Olivia. The play had an international tour (Dar Al Athar Al Islamiya - Kuwait / Tournesol Theater - Beirut / BAM - New York / Arts Emerson - Boston / Theatre de la Ville - Tunis / AUC Theater Cairo, and at the Holland Festival - Amsterdam 2012). In 2010, she assisted Nabil Al Azan in staging 'Viva la Diva' by Hoda Barakat, and produced and staged Heiner Muller's triptych 'Deserted Shore - Medea Material - Landscape with Argonauts' at Theatre Babel - Beirut in February 2012. 'Four Hours in Chatila' by Jean Genet (2013/2014), directed by Stephane Olivier Bisson, is a solo piece presented at the Monnot Theater and on a French tour. In 2014, another solo piece with Yousef Al-Kabra - Palestinian director - was 'Footfalls,' the dramaticule by Samuel Beckett, at the Tournesol Theater - Beirut. During her career, Carole took several workshops in dance (Butoh technique, jazz technique), dance-theater with the Abbondanza-Bertoni company (Italy), and acting, notably with The New World Performance Laboratory (creation and performance of Goethe's Faust), The Living Theatre, and the Lee Strasberg method with Danish actor Hassan Priesler. Since 2011, through her company c.cam production, Carole has produced creative documentaries, awarded at numerous international film festivals ('Guardians of Time Lost' by Diala Kachmar, 'This Little Father Obsession' by Selim Mourad, 'Room for a Man' by Anthony Chidiac).
Education
| Degree | University | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master - Arts | Université Paris-Nord (Paris XIII) | France | 2007 |
| Licence - Théâtre | Université Libanaise | Liban | 1989 |
French