Habib Azar (born October 19, 1979 in Pennsylvania, USA) is an American film, theater and television director.
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He began his television directing career at the daytime soap opera As the World Turns after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University at the age of 22.[1]
In 2007, Habib Azar won an Emmy Award for directing As the World Turns.[2]
Azar has directed numerous plays including Kyle Jarrow’s Gorilla Man at PS122 for which the Village Voice said his direction “snaps, crackles, and rocks.” His directing credits feature contemporary operas in the US and abroad, including Lewis Nielson’s USW which will premiere in February 2010. Azar has worked as a 3-camera rehearsal director for the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series and has directed webcasts for Live From Lincoln Center including performances by the New York Philharmonic and Wynton Marsalis. Also an accomplished composer and conductor, his most notable commission was for his second opera Heliopause, which premiered at the Wats:on? Festival in Pittsburgh. Armless is his first feature film.[3]
His first feature film Armless was an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, as part of the new category 'NEXT' which selects films for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking. Armless is an off-kilter comedy about a man who suffers from a strange psychologicial condition.[4]