Rajha Shakiry

For the National:

Training

Rajha Shakiry trained at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: The Hot Wing King, The Father and the Assassin, Trouble in Mind, ‘Master Harold’… and the boys and Nine Night (also West End)

Other theatre includes: The Mountaintop at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Two Palestinians Go Dogging and seven methods of killing kylie jenner at the Royal Court; Return of Danton for Collective Ma’louba, Germany; Autoreverse at Battersea Arts Centre; Going Through and Misty (also West End and The Shed, New York) at the Bush; Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe; The Dark on UK tour; Sundowning for Kali Theatre; The Mountaintop at the Young Vic; Mobile for Paper Birds; How Nigeria Became at the Unicorn; Richard II for Ashtar Theatre at Hisham’s Palace, Palestine and Shakespeare’s Globe; I Stand Corrected at Artscape, South Africa and Ovalhouse; Krunch for Talawa and National Arts Festival, Grahamstown; Feeble Minds at the Albany and Rich Mix; Speak at Stratford East and LIFT Festival; A Night at the Theatre at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds; Muhammad Ali and Me at the Albany and on UK tour; and Visible, King, Changes and Love Wars for Cardboard Citizens

Short film

Complicité’s Can I Live?

Awards

seven methods of killing kylie jenner – Olivier Award nomination

The Mountaintop – JMK Award

Rajha Shakiry’s work has been exhibited at the V&A Museum and Prague Quadrennial as part of Society of British Theatre Designers and as part of World Stage Design.

(Updated July 2024)