Omar Elerian

Omar Elerian is a freelance director, dramaturg, and theatre-maker. Italian of Palestinian descent, Omar trained in Italy and then graduated from Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris in 2005. He was the resident Associate Director at the Bush Theatre from 2012 to 2019, where he commissioned and directed some of the theatre’s most successful shows. For the Bush, his credits include smash-hit Misty by Arinzé Kene (Bush, West End and Off Broadway), NASSIM  by Nassim Soleimanpour (Bush, Traverse Theatre and world tour), Going Through by Estelle Savasta and Islands by Caroline Horton.

Outside the Bush, he directed Olivier nominated show You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy  by Caroline Horton and co-created acclaimed site-specific show The Mill: City of Dreams with Madani Younis for Freedom Studios. His most recent directing credits include Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco at the Almeida Theatre, Nowhere by Khalid Abdallah at BAC, The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner  by Syrian playwright Mudar Alhaggi at Factory International, The Chairs  by Eugene Ionesco at the Almeida Theatre, the Olivier nominated two Palestinians go dogging by Sami Ibrahim and ECHO by Nassim Soleimanpour at the Royal Court, and As You Like It  for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon.