Hamad Al Jenaie

Born in Kuwait

Member of One World Actors Centre founded by Alison Shan Price MBE

Hamad al Jenaie is the winner of the first Dame Judi Dench Award for Shakespeare, 2019, the International Award for Drama, 2018, and the Adam Darius Award for Excellence in Performance, 2017. He trained in the UK and in Kuwait, under Alison Shan Price MBE, Emmy Award winner Adam Darius, Soprano Anna Karadimitrova and Tenor Jumel Carvajal. Hamad is holder of LAMDA Gold Medals in Acting, Musical Theatre and Shakespeare.

My idea as a Director was to create emotion and suspending disbelief within an audience is my objective and the dramaturg I admire most is Artaud, within the Theatre of Cruelty. The reason being that I believe that today's audiences need to reconnect, and to be part of action is vital not only for connecting but catharsis denied by today's society. I concentrate on stage lighting to create audience mood, compositions, movements, intensity, and colours utilising Beam Angles, Backlighting, Boom, Gobo, Reflector and Lighting Emitting Diode (LED). For sound, I use a create sound-scapes to build tension and change mood. In rehearsal I give the actors a piece of music to listen to while performing their scenes with metronomic rhythm and sometimes use voices to create repetition, whispering, echoes or ghostly sounds. Senses are vitally important. I admire Joan Littlewood's workshops for character preparation. The costumes, I mainly focus on an Anachronistic Fantasy mix between history and modern periods.

Credits

As a Director

THE TEMPEST
Dar Al Athar Islamiya Yarmouk Cultural Centre
Kuwait and presented by the National Council of Cultural and Letters. December 2022

THE TALE OF EBENEZER SCROOGE
The Culture Centre, Kuwait, December 2021

HAMLET
Dar Al Athar Islamiya Yarmouk Cultural Centre
Kuwait and presented by the National Council of Cultural and Letters. November 20-23 2019

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
The British Embassy of Kuwait, March 20-21 2019

SWEENEY TODD the Musical,
Discovery Theatre in Kuwait, December 7-12 2016

ANTIGONE: an Arabic Version,
at Al Americani Theatre Kuwait, April 10-12 2015

TWELFTH NIGHT,
Gulf University of Science and Technology Auditorium, March 15, 2014

The WOMAN IN BLACK,
The Boxhill Theatre Kuwait, October 29-31, 2013


As an Assistant Director

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy, Emerald Theatre, Greenside Venue, Nicholson Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Fringe Festival August 7-15 2015

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Blue Box,Emerald Theatre, Greenside Venue, Nicholson Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Fringe Festival August 8-16 2016

Production Teams:

Stagehand Leader, BLACK and WHITE, at Jaber Abdullah Cultural Centre (National Theatre) collobrated wth 59 Production UK.
october 2018

Props Master, Memoirs of a Sailor: A Kuwaiti Musical,Jaber Abdullah Cultural Centre (National Theatre) collobrated wth 59 Production UK.
April

Training

Trained at ONE WORLD ACTORS CENTRE Founder ALISON SHAN PRICE MBE

London Academy of Musical and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) Examination Qualification Certificate:

• LAMDA Examinations Level 3 Grades 8: Musical Theatres with Distinction.
• LAMDA Examinations Level 3 Grades 8: Acting with Merit.
• LAMDA Examinations Level 3 Grades 6: Miming with Distinction.
• LAMDA Shakespeare - LAMDA Level 3 Certificate in Shakespeare

British Academy of International Arts Achievement Award for Uprising Newcomer in 2010.


• Award for Best Performer and Writer for Writers Arabic Association at GUST, Kuwait.

• Kuwaiti International Representative at the Edinburgh Cultural Fringe Festival in 2015 & 2016, for the plays
‘Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy’ and ‘The Blue Box’, respectively.

• Certificate Complete 3 days Workshop in ‘Fundamentals of the Cinematic Language’’ for New York Film
Academy in Dubai, April 2017.

• Workshop with Ricky-Beadle Blair MBE At The Old VIC, London, August 2018

• Workshop with Emmy Award Winner and Father of Contemporary Mime, Adam Darius

• Workshop with SABAB theatre by Founder Sulayman Al Bassam

• Working with 59 Production on ‘Black & White’ and ‘Memoirs of a Sailor’ at Jaber Cultural Centre, Kuwait

• Theatre Directing Acceptance to Mountview Theatre of Arts London 2018

• Theatre Directing Acceptance to East 15 Acting School London 2018