Acting

Racha Baroud

Born in Paris in 1985, Racha Baroud is a Lebanese actress and director. Beside her Master in Theatre Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, she trained in Paris in L’Atelier du jeu led by Jacques Fontaine. She later focused on physical work with Studio Matejka, based in the Grotowski Institute in Poland and deepened her craft in the frame of several workshops in Europe particularly among Alessio Castellacci, Irena Tomazin and Theodoros Terzopoulos. In 2015, she staged her first performance Today was my birthday, a musical tribute to the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor. Her interest in cinema led her to attend the intensive program Practice of directing documentary films in Atelier Varan in Paris.