Draft:Ammar Al Saffar

Ammar Al Saffar is an Iraqi-American actor, director, and writer.

Life
Al Safari was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. He graduated from Al-Nahrain University, College of Law. At age 23, he moved to Utah in the United States.

He began writing as a young age when his grandfather, Rifaat Marhoon Al-Saffar, asked Ammar to edit his book. In 2019, he wrote the play To The NoWhere Stan. In 2022, he self-published a memoir, The American Kitchen: The Journey of An Immigrant, and in 2024 he published the novel The 7th Amendment.

Al Saffar started acting at a young age, and after moving to the U.S. he starting taking acting classes at Salt Lake Community College.

Al Saffar is queer and a Muslim.

Acting
Plays

Shakespeare in Love			Ralph/Player Nurse	West Valley Performing Arts Center Around the World in 80 Days		Naidu/Man1		Hale Center Theatre

The Winter’s Tale			Polixenes		New World Shakespeare Company Hamlet					Osric/Player King	Parker Theatre

The Lord of Misrule			Page			Alliance Theatre

Its not you…it's me			Director		24-Hour Theatre Festival 2021

Raise The Veil				Writer			24-Hour Theatre Festival 2020

Fortinbras				Claudius		SLCC Black Box Theatre

To The NoWhere Stan 			Writer/Director/Sabir	Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival 2019

Love For Three Oranges			Clown			SLCC Black Box Theatre

Please Call Dr. Horderπ			Najee			24-Hour Theatre Festival 2019

Films

THE REGULAR				Man

Paratopia				social worker

Their House, My House			Paul