Karim Shohdy

Director Actor Music Composer Sound Designer Lighting/video designer

Karim Shohdy(he/him) is an award winning actor/director & music composer from Cairo, Egypt and is currently located in Egham.
He studied multiple forms of performance , including improv, physical
theater, acting for camera, musical theater among other forms..
Karim has directed/acted, sound designed and composed music for both film & theatre.

Credits

THEATRE DIRECTION 2013-Present

Cold Night in A Chicago Street - 2025 (Rehearsals) - TBD
Waves - 2024 - Egham, UK CCT/Bush Theatre
The Children (Excerpt) -2024 - Egham, UK KWB
REvolt , Said (Excerpt) - 2023 - Egham , UK KWB
Far Away (Excerpt) - 2023 - Egham , UK KWB (under direct supervision of Dir. Katie Mitchell)
No Truth at The Gate of Rashomon - 2021/2022 - Cairo Opera House , Artistic Creativity Center Theatre
Picnic On The Battlefield - 2016/2019 - Cairo Opera House , Artistic Creativity Center Theatre
Archaeologists Annual Festival (By Delegation) - 2015 - Cairo Opera House , Grand Theatre
It Still Goes On - 2013 - Cairo Grand Cathedral Theatre

FILM DIRECTION 2021 - Present

The Journey - Vladimir Horowitz (DOC) /dir. Karim Shohdy-Abdullah Ashour 2023
A Sniper Story (Feature) - 2024 (Preproduction)
Prisoner Zero (Short) - 2024 (Preproduction)
A Ticket To Hell (Short) - 2022
Number 1 (Short) - 2021

MUSIC COMPOSING & SOUND DESIGN

- Odyssey : Surviovor Saga/Theatre
- Hamlet /Theatre
- A Ticket to Hell /Film
- Opera Ghosts /Theatre
- Vezeeta (Short)/ Film
- Lama Kanet El Sama Safya (When the Sky Was Clear) /Film
- The Midnight Incident /Theatre
- The Trial / Theatre
- The Visitor/ Theatre
- Sallem Nafsak / Theatre
- Wall of Shame / Film
- Ghareeb / Film
- Mac & Lee (The Final Rehearsal of Macbeth) / Theatre




Training

- MA Intensive Directing Etudes , Director Katie Mitchel (UK) 2023
- BA Acting Collaborative Directing Etudes (UK) 2023
- Acting With Director Di Trevis (UK) 2022
- Reflections on Hamlet Masterclass with Dominic Champagne (Canada) 2022 CIFET
- Creativity and Improvisation Danilo Cremonte (Italy) 2021 CIFET
- Art of Role Analysis. Dr Jurij Alchitz (Germany) 2021 WTTI
- Masterclass, Improv/Directing Dr Olga Lapina (Lithuania) 2021 WTTI
- Artistic Creativity Centre Cairo Opera House Mr. Khaled Galal (Egypt) Acting/Improv, Dance, Singing 2010-2018
- Intensive performance workshop with Compagnie INTERFACE Dir. Andre Pignat (Switzerland) 2019
- Singing for Actors Intensive – Dr Niveen Allouba (Egypt) 2019
- Contemprary Dance - Monadel Antar (Egypt) 2019
- Theatrical Body Workshop - Carol Ackad (Egypt) 2023
- Intro To Meyerhold, Leeds University 2019
- Music Theory, University of Edinburgh 2019
- Psychodrama & Performance Workshops 2018/2019

Location

London

Experience

10+ years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - documentary
  • Film - short
  • Music
  • New technologies / digital
  • Photography

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • DJ
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Languages
  • Lighting Design
  • Mixing
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Performing
  • Sound Design
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Video Design
  • Working with young people

Additional Languages

Arabic - French - Italian

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