Sami Khayat | |
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Born | سامي ألبير خيَّاط
2 December 1943 |
Died | 26 April 2023 (aged 79) |
Awards |
Sami Khayat ( Arabic: سامي خياط; 2 December 1943 – 26 April 2023) was a Lebanese francophone theatre comic actor, director, and writer. [1] He is considered[ by whom?] one of the pioneers of comic theatre in Lebanon.
Khayat was born on 2 December 1943. [2] He began his artistic career with a play he presented in 1960, entitled Molière Hugo and Sofocole. His plays were classified as satirical lyric theater, [3] [4] known as the chansonnier. [4] He duetted with Pierre Chamassian from 1973 until 1986, and once again in 2013. [5]
In 2020, he was awarded the French Medal of Arts and Literature with the rank of officer, in recognition of his 60 years of theatrical work in the French and Franco-Lebanese languages. which did not stop even in the midst of the Civil war. [3] [6] He was honored on several occasions in Lebanon by The Gebran Tueni Foundation and Fakhruddin Foundation. [3] [7]
Sami Khayat died of bone cancer on 26 April 2023, at the age of 79. [8]
His works include: [3]
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