Lucien

Bourjeily

Emmy nominated director (2021), mostly known for his innovative work as a writer and director in the performing arts field and as a filmmaker, he has conducted numerous acting, improvisation, and storytelling workshops in Lebanon, the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S. to a wide variety of participants. He is a Fulbright scholar and holds an MFA in Filmmaking from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

In 2012, his play “66 Minutes in Damascus” was chosen by Huffington Post as one of 10 plays in the world that “rethink the stage.” In 2014 he was nominated for the “Freedom of Expression” awards held annually at the Barbican Center in London by Index on Censorship. His work has traveled to renowned film festivals such as the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, the Palm Springs Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival. His debut feature-length fiction film “Heaven Without People” (2017) won the Jury Prize award at the Dubai Film Festival and toured more than 25 film festivals and was distributed internationally on Netflix in 2020.
He co-wrote a VR 360 short film project entitled "Abandon" which was selected to the Venice Film Festival's 2021 production bridge and his most recent work is writing and directing the play “Habibet Albi Enti” (2023) and adapting/directing the timeless play “An enemy of the people” (2023) to an immersive theatrical experience that was presented at AUB.


He also teaches acting and theater at the American University of Beirut and conducts "Directing Actors in Films" seminars at ALBA university.