Rémi Sarmini is a Syrian theatre director, actor, educator and founder of the theatre collective TajroubehTroupe. Has been awarded an IIE‐Artist Protection Fund Fellowship and holds a residence at Art Veda.

Rémi wrote and directed the play “First Class”,[1]  which premiered in 2019 in Tunisia and is based on his own experiences. It circles around three people waiting at an airport to travel to a safe country, and explores social and global topics, such as boundaries and discrimination, and the emotional state of waiting. Of his artistic practice,

Sarmini was working on a new theatre project called “Rémi without family” during his residency at AR-Tunis. Based on the French novel Sans Famille written by Hector Malot in 1878, this semi-autobiographical play told the story of a boy named Rémi who has grown up without his family and travelled from country to country searching for them. This Play is produced by Al Mawred Al Thaqafi.