Enkidu Khaled – Writer, Director, Performer

Enkidu Khaled (born in Baghdad, 1985) is a theatre maker and performer. He studied theatre until 2007 in the Institute of Fine Arts of Baghdad and began working in cinema. He has contributed in several feature and documentary films such as “War Love God & Madness” and “Dreams” by Mohamed Al -Daradji. In 2008 he had to flee Iraq because of the emerging war. Later settling in Belgium, Khaled created several internationally recognized theatre productions including “Crash”, “Kid Nap”, “12 Isolations” and “Dreams of Environment”. In 2016, his solo performance “Working Method” won the “Big in Belgium” Award and was presented at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2017, he graduated from DAS Master of Theatre in Amsterdam. His last performance was a documentary theater piece “Baghdad” presented more than 20 times in Holland, Belgium and international festivals. For this work he got awarded with the Best Acting Performance at the MESS International Theater Festival Sarajevo in 2018.