Mohamed El Khatib is a French playwright, stage director and director born in the Loiret in 1980. He studied Letters at Khâgne, briefly studied at Sciences Po and at the Centro de Arte Dramático A. C. (CADAC). In 2008, he co-founded with friends a collective called Zirlib. Some of his plays include Finir en beauté (2005), Moi, Corinne Dadat (2015), Stadium (2017), C’est la vie (2017), and La Dispute (2019). In 2018, he traveled with his camera from Orléans, France to Tangier, Morocco aboard a Renault 12, filming a documentary of the same name.