Jassim Al Oboudi (1925 - 1989) جاسم العُبودي

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An Iraqi director and actor, born in the city of Al-Shatrah. He graduated with distinction from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1947. He received a scholarship to the United States in 1948, after which he joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and obtained a...Read more Master of Fine Arts degree in 1953. He held many academic and administrative positions, including a teacher of directing, acting, voice, recitation, and theatrical literature at the Institute of Fine Arts, and a lecturer in theatrical literature at the College of Education. He founded the Free Theater Troupe in 1954 and was its artistic director until 1973. His credits include All My Sons (1978), The Road (1969) and Earth (1971). He died on 10 November 1989.


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  • An Iraqi director and actor, born in the city of Al-Shatrah. He graduated with distinction from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1947. He received a scholarship to the...Read more United States in 1948, after which he joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1953. He held many academic and administrative positions, including a teacher of directing, acting, voice, recitation, and theatrical literature at the Institute of Fine Arts, and a lecturer in theatrical literature at the College of Education. He founded the Free Theater Troupe in 1954 and was its artistic director until 1973. His credits include All My Sons (1978), The Road (1969) and Earth (1971). He died on 10 November 1989.

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  • He wrote a number of plays early in his career, including: The Three Musketeers, A Lost Life, and Mother Earth. He also directed more than a hundred productions, and the following is some of his recorded works based on the plays he directed before leaving Iraq in 1948: Tariq bin Ziyad (1943), Dar Al-Mualimin Al-Alia, as well as The Year of the Elephant (1944), written by Dr. Abdul Jabbar Al Muttalabi, Dar Al-Mualimin Al-Alia.
  • On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Indian poet Tagore, he directed the play The Sacrifice in 1961 on the stage of the Institute of Fine Arts, as well as Othello by William Shakespeare on the stage of the Institute of Fine Arts, 1962. Following the success of Othello, he directed many plays, such as The Miser, written by Molière, Christian Cultural Club, 1962, as well as In the Combat Zone, written by Eugene O’Neill, Baghdad College on People's Hall Theater, 1962.
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  • Birth Country:
  • Iraq

  • Birth City:
  • Dhi Qar


  • Death Country:
  • US

  • Death City:
  • Michigan



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