Chrystèle Khodr is a theater performer, playwright and director based in Beirut. She studied theater in the Institute of Fine Arts, Lebanese university and was trained in physical theater at l’École Internationale de Théâtre LASSAAD Brussels– Jacques Lecoq pedagogy.

Her work springs from the emergency to reconstitute the collective memory from personal stories. In her most recent projects, Chrystèle is increasingly concerned with the movement of History and its impact on time and narrativity as a basic formal dimension of theater.

Between 2009 and 2012 she has created small format plays and solos: Bayt Byout, 2007 or how I smashed my bubble envelopes and Beirut Sepia, all of which were shown in several festivals and venues in Lebanon, Egypt, France and Belgium.

Her  acclaimed theater production Augures premiered in May 2021 in Théâtre Tournesol in Beirut and has toured across Europe in venues and festivals such as Festival Sens’Interdits, Biennale des Arts de la Scène de la Méditerranée, NTGent and MC93.

As well as an independent theater maker she has collaborated and performed with several artists from multiple disciplines. In the framework of her artistic collaboration with Zoukak Theater Company, she has performed in the company’s devised performances: He who saw everything, Death comes through the eyes and The Battle Scene. In 2017 she wrote and co-directed alongside Waël Ali Temporary Stay. She created with visual artist and set designer Bissane Al-Charif the installation I once entered a garden.

As part of her research cycle around the economical speculation and its impact on theatrical narratives, Chrystèle created the listening piece Rise and Fall of Orient Swiss – Bedtime stories commissioned by Zürcher Theater Spektakel and the interactive installation Who Killed Youssef Beidas? which premiered in June 2022 in Beirut Art Center. Both works were shown in Théâtre Vidy Lausanne.

Chrystèle was awarded the Ibsen Scope in 2019, and has written and directed Ordalie – inspired from Ibsen’s The pretenders – which  premiered in October 2023 in Théâtre des Célestins in the framework of  Festival Sens’Interdits in Lyon. The play is currently on tour.

She worked  on her new solo piece Record alongside her long-term theater partner Nadim Deaibes, that retraces the events of the 1976 massacre in the Palestinian camp of Tel Al Zaatar. The piece opened in February and is touring across Sweden as part of the Riksteatern program.