Zahira Ben Ammar

Birthplace

Tunis

Biography

A Tunisian writer, director and actress, born in Tunis. She contributed to the revival of the theater movement in Tunisia since its beginning in the eighties with the Triangle Theater Troupe, with which she began her career. She worked with major Tunisian directors and established a theater company in 2000 that wrote and directed many plays. She participated in several training courses in the theater. She formed a number of theatrical workshops based on the directives of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation in Tunisia. She won the Best Actress Award in the first edition of the Carthage Theater Days Festival, as well as the Prize for Literature and Arts awarded by the President of the Republic of Tunisia.