Reham Alsamerai is a creative producer, arts manager, and festival director working across festivals, performing arts, and large-scale cultural programming. Her practice focuses on initiating and leading cultural platforms, developing creative production structures, and enabling artistic work at institutional and international scale.
From 2017 to 2021, she served as Head of Creative Production at Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre (JACC) in Kuwait City, where she established and led the Creative Production department. Through this role, she oversaw the programming, creation, and production of JACC’s major in-house musical and theatrical works, contributing to the development of contemporary cultural production in Kuwait and the wider region.
Since 2021, Reham has been Co-Founder and Executive Creative Producer at Scene Productions, where she leads the creative production of festivals, performances, and cross-disciplinary projects, including Aghani Musalsalat, Cartoon Orchestra, and World of Abdulhussain. Her work has included producing Kuwaiti–British orchestral collaborations presented in both London and Kuwait, highlighting cultural exchange through music.
Reham holds an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she previously served as Entrepreneur in Residence. In 2015, she launched the first London edition of the Green Caravan Film Festival, a socially driven festival she co-founded in 2009, and co-curated Contemporary Gulf Cuisine for the Nour Festival. She later co-directed the festival’s sixth edition as a multi-country tour across Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.
Her earlier leadership roles include serving as Festival Director of The Nest, a month-long public art and design festival in Bahrain, and producing the inaugural Kuwait Film Festival, initiated by Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters. She has also worked as Production Manager on internationally acclaimed theatre productions, including In the Eruptive Mode – Voices from the Hijacked Spring by Sulayman Al-Bassam.
In addition to her institutional and festival work, Reham has collaborated with UK-based companies including Done + Dusted and 59 Productions on a range of international projects over several years.