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Nabil Shaban is an actor, writer, visual artist and film-maker. In 1980, he co-founded, with Richard Tomlinson, the Graeae Theatre Company – Britain's first and currently premier professional national theatre of disabled performers.
As a theatre actor he has played Hamlet (‘Hamlet' 1988), Jesus (‘Godspell '1987), Haillie Sellassie (‘The Emperor '1987), Ayatollah Khomeini (‘Iranian Nights' 1989), Angelo (‘Measure for Measure '1990), Tom in Terry Johnson's ‘Imagine Drowning' (1991) and Volpone (‘Fleshfly' 1996), and Argus, a disabled freedom-fighter (‘D.A.R.E.' 1997). Rashid, master story-teller in Salman Rushdie's ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories' at the Royal National Theatre (1998/99). Azim the Lamp-Guide in Ghassane Kanafani's ‘The Little Lamp', a Christmas show for the Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh (1999).
Feature Films include ‘City of Joy' (1991 with Patrick Swayze), Derek Jarman's ‘Wittgenstein' (1992), ‘Age of Treason' (1994), ‘Slave of Dreams' (1995).
On December 10th 1997, Nabil Shaban was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Surrey, for his revolutionary work within the performing arts, in changing public perceptions of disabled people.