Amrou Al-Kadhi is a British-Iraqi writer, filmmaker, and performer.

Their directorial debut feature film LAYLA premiered in competition at Sundance and was picked up for UK release through Curzon, and sold to Hulu in the US . Amrou has several other feature films in development in both the UK and US, one with Emerald Fennell as producer. They adapted their Harper Collins memoir LIFE AS A UNICORN for Universal Studios / The Forge Entertainment, and are adapting novel THE EXES for Fifth Season. Amrou is developing an original series with South of the River Pictures, and is writing a series for Pulse Films.

In television, they wrote the finale for the BAFTA-nominated LITTLE AMERICA for Apple TV+, which The Hollywood Reporter described as one of the best 10 episodes of television in 2020. Amrou also wrote an episode for THE WATCH for BBC America, based on the Discworld Novels of Sir Terry Pratchett, and a number of episodes for HOLLYOAKS.

Amrou has written/directed five short films, which have screened at Oscar and BAFTA qualifying festivals around the world, and have been distributed by Peccadillo Pictures, PBS, BBC4, NOWNESS, BFI Player and Revry and WeTransfer. As their drag alter ego Glamrou, Amrou has toured internationally, with several headline shows at the Soho Theatre. They also direct for the stage.

Amrou is represented by CAA in the USA.