Tayeb Saddiki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tayeb Saddiki

Moroccan writer

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1939

Place of Birth: Essaouira, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco

Date of Death: 05-Feb-2016

Profession: writer, playwright, stage actor, calligrapher, theater director

Nationality: Morocco

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Tayeb Saddiki (5 January 1939 – 5 February 2016) was a Moroccan playwright, writing in both Arabic and French.
He was born in Essaouira and grew up in Casablanca in a neighborhood between el Habous and l'Hermitage.
After training courses with André Voisin, at the age of 17 he went abroad to France to study theater at Comédie de l'Ouest - CDO, directed by Hubert Gignoux.
Back in Morocco, together with the Union Marocaine du Travail (UMT) he founded a Workers' theater / Al Masrah Al Oummali (1957). At 23 he became artistic director of the Mohamed V theater (théâtre national Mohammed-V).
After that he worked as director of the municipal theater of Casablanca (théâtre municipal de Casablanca) from 1964 to 1977.
He founded several theatre companies, Firqat Saddiki / Saddiki's troup, Al Masrah Al Jawal / Traveling theater, Masrah Ennas / People's Theater and also his own cultural center at Casablanca, Espace Tayeb Saddiki (Tayeb Saddiki's center) at the boulevard Gandhi in Casablanca. (Source : Tayeb Saddiki Foundation)