Pierre Audi
Lebanese English theatre director
Pierre Audi (9 November 1957 – 3 May 2025) was an English-Lebanese theatre director and artistic director.
Early life
Audi was born on 9 November 1957, the eldest of three children born to Lebanese banker Raymond Audi and Andrée Michel Fattal. 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. 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.
Almeida Theatre
In 1979, Audi founded the Almeida Theatre, an experimental theatre in Islington, North London based in a derelict former Salvation Army and toy factory building supported by university friends and vigorous fundraising. He directed many productions at the Almeida Theatre in the 1980s.
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