Personal information

NameOsama ABO AMRO

AddressDodoensstraat 17,
2140 Borgerhout

Mobile+32466/27.75.64.

E-mail[email protected]

Date of birth05/09/1984

NationalitySyrian

StatusBelgian residence card

LanguagesArabic: Fluent (mother tongue)

English: Pre-advanced

Turkish: Pre-advanced

Dutch: Beginner

I am from Syria,now living in Belgium since one and a half year.

Theatre is my live, since I am young, first as an actor, then as a director.

I fled the war in my country.

I saw the dead every day. Women, kids, men died in front of me, while dying they sent me messages to take with me, to show to the rest of the world, I WANT TO and I WILL find a way to make they wish become true, they voices will be heard!

“Dying for life” My most known work in Belgium was written while waiting for documents at the asylum center. Inspired on my own story and at the same time also an indictment for the suffering of Syrian people.

The ACTORS in my play are mainly from Syria and Iraq. They all have a similar traumatic past which they can use to show themselves in the piece.

I am looking for new challenges within the artistic world. In the meanwhile I am writing new plays with the inspiration I gather from this new world in which I find myself now. I am interested in experimental dance, theater and children's theater.

Former plays

- Soldier or minister

(play directed by Samir Abdu El-Majid):Actor, Libanon (2000).

- Jongeren theater (play directed by Mahmood Darwish):Actor, Aleppo (2004).

-Bye bye Arab (play directed by Homam Hoot):
Actor. Aleppo (2008).

- Walking in your shoes (theater play):
Actor.Production from KunstZ in collaboration with Rataplan.
Screened in Rataplan (Belgium) and Warschau Theater (Poland). (2016)

-Bahlol and the king (theater play):

Theater director. Aleppo (2009).

- The flying elefant (theater play):
Theater director. Aleppo (2010).

- What happened in the night of the 13?
Theater director. Aleppo (2011).

- Dying for life (theater play):
Theater Director and Actor. (2016 – 2017)

Production from KunstZ and Laika.

Screened inBelgium: Rataplan, Arenbergschouwburg, Fakkeltheater.
Screened inWarschau Theater (Poland) a