Born in 1957. In 1983, graduated from the performing arts school Beit Tsvi, the most renown drama school in Israel. Took part in the performances: Canary on the roof (1983), and the film Range and Glory (1984). After performances in Tel Aviv, with conventional companies such as Ha Bima theatre company, he joined the founding team of the Acco Theatre Center in 1995 and took part as an actor in the Center’s productions: New Life, The Little Prince, Vienna-Prague, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Second Generation Memories in the Bosom of the Old City, Arbeit Macht Frei.
I was an actor with the group until 1987, when I started to Direct, and founded a Jewish-Arab theater group, Diwan, composed of artist residents of the old city of Akko working alongside and in cooperation with the Theatre. Directed the productions Joha Stories, Diwan, Khaled Abu Al is married to two. Between 1987-1996 he produced the concert Between the Walls and the performance Arab Dream awarded the prize for best directing and best performance at the 1996 Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theater. Starting in 1996, Diwan became fully integrated into the theatre and created a series of collaborative pieces with the theatre, such as ‘Welcome Bride,’ ‘Arabic Dream,’ ‘Wolf and Sheep,’ ‘Wedding Night,’ ‘Anthology’ etc. ‘Diwan,’ ‘Welcome Bride,’ ‘Arabic Dream,’ and ‘Anthology’ won several prizes for best performance abroad as well as at the Akko Theater Festival (not linked with the theatre).
After 1998, he became the Co-Director of ATC with Smadar Yaaron. Since then, he has continued to act with the theater and increasingly played a key organizational role. In 2002, he initiated the Masrachid Festival.
