Lobna Mlika
Tunisia

Performing Arts - 2025
Performing Arts - 2021

Lobna Mlika is a Tunisian actor, performance artist, theater director and trainer.

After graduating from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts of Tunis with a master’s degree in theater studies, she began a 14-year collaboration with director Fadhel Jaïbi that resulted in several internationally touring plays, such as Khamsoun (2006), Amnesia (2010), Violences (2015) and Fears (2017).

Lobna also collaborated with director and dramaturg Oussama Ghannam on his adaptation of George Buchner's Woyzeck (2019), Marwa Manai on On the Threshold (2020) and Untitled (2024) and Aymen Mejri on Le Point G (2021). Her directorial debut, I Dreamt About You Yesterday (2023), was a collaborative project with Syrian artist Brahim Jumaa. The project was produced by the Tunisian National Theater and supported by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and the African Culture Fund.

She has appeared in several film projects, including Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud’s The Professor (2012), Samed Haji’s Sayda Manoubia (2013), Nejma Zghidi’s Fire (2013) and Mariem Essoussi’s Craque Madame (2020).

Lobna has also conducted theater workshops for professionals and non-professionals with various organizations, including the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women and L’Art Rue. Since 2022, she has held a training position at the Tunisian National Theater acting school, giving weekly workshops on Commedia dell’Arte.