Layla Madanat

Training

Layla Madanat is a director, producer and dramaturg. She has a BA from Bristol University and MSc from the London School of Economics.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: A Tupperware of Ashes

Other theatre includes: as director, succession theme is my ringtone at Rose Theatre Studio; Made at Home for Tamasha; She is a Place Called Home at VAULT Festival; A New Dawn at King’s Head and the Union; and Colour is Too Sweet at King’s Head; as producer, Little Amal’s Spring Gathering; My Brother’s Keeper at Theatre503; and Bayti Baytek at Shubbak Festival; as associate director, The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Rose, Kingston (also as puppetry director); as associate to the artistic director, The Walk with Little Amal on European tour 2021; as assistant director, The Empress for the RSC (also at the Lyric Hammersmith as associate director); Hakawatis at Shakespeare’s Globe; and The Seven Pomegranate Seeds at the Rose, Kingston; and as co-writer, Things We Do Not Know on tour

Film

mosaic (featured at BFI London Film Festival, Sheffield Doc Fest and Shubbak Festival) as co-director

Layla Madanat is a tutor on the MFA Acting at GSA and a freelance researcher for charitable organisations.

(Published September 2024)