Pierre Audi (born 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese
theatre director and artistic director.[1]Audi is the son of the
Lebanese banker Raymond Audi and Andrée Michel Fattal, the eldest of
three children.[2] Audi's family were originally from Saida, but he
attended the French Lycée in Beirut. While still at school, he
initiated a cinema club and invited speakers including the film
directors Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jacques Tati.For family reasons, he
moved to Paris in France and there attended the Collège Stanislas de
Paris.[2] At the age of 17, Audi together with his family moved to
England. He studied history at Exeter College, Oxford. In his last
year at Oxford during November 1977, he directed an Oxford University
Dramatic Society production of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
at the Oxford Playhouse.[3]In 1979, Audi founded the Almeida Theatre,
an experimental theatre in Islington, north London. He directed many
productions at the Almeida Theatre in the 1980s.
theatre director and artistic director.[1]Audi is the son of the
Lebanese banker Raymond Audi and Andrée Michel Fattal, the eldest of
three children.[2] Audi's family were originally from Saida, but he
attended the French Lycée in Beirut. While still at school, he
initiated a cinema club and invited speakers including the film
directors Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jacques Tati.For family reasons, he
moved to Paris in France and there attended the Collège Stanislas de
Paris.[2] At the age of 17, Audi together with his family moved to
England. He studied history at Exeter College, Oxford. In his last
year at Oxford during November 1977, he directed an Oxford University
Dramatic Society production of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
at the Oxford Playhouse.[3]In 1979, Audi founded the Almeida Theatre,
an experimental theatre in Islington, north London. He directed many
productions at the Almeida Theatre in the 1980s.
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