Born in Casablanca in 1996, Asmaa Samlali discovered a passion for theater and performance at L’Uzine, an arts education center she attended during high school. In 2016, she took part in her first “Radio Live” event in Casablanca, where she performed her own writing, and the following year she appeared in Sonia Terrab’s documentary film Shakespeare in Casablanca.

After arriving in France in 2017, she continued her training by enrolling at the École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne. She starred in L’Archipel, written by D. Lachaud and directed by Jean-Philippe Naas, and in Par la mer (quitte à être noyées) by Anaïs Allais Benbouali, and trained under Rébecca Chaillon and Joël Pommerat.

In 2026, she created Hmar Lil – somnambule, a work of autofiction in which she recounts her journey as a young queer refugee, weaving together her political activism, her trips to the prefecture, and her Pokémon stories. The show was performed at the Point du Jour, Théâtre 13, the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, and the Latitudes Contemporaines festival in Lille.