Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Bazei has been appointed as CEO of the newly established Theater and Performing Arts Authority, which will be responsible for developing Saudi theater of all forms, types and artistic specialties. Al-Bazei worked in journalism after graduating from King Saud University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1979. He worked as a reporter before he assumed the role of managing editor at Al-Riyadh newspaper. He worked at the Ministry of Higher Education and was appointed to work at the Saudi Cultural Mission in France from 1985-1988. He then assumed the role of secretary of the ministry’s international cultural relations committee. Al-Bazei also worked as an editor in chief of Al-Yaum newspaper in Dammam between 1993-1997. He oversaw the newspaper’s development plan and transformed it to adopt electronic publishing systems, making it the first Saudi newspaper to fully deploy these systems. He returned to work at the Ministry of Higher Education and assumed the role of secretary of the committee on international university relations. After that, he joined the National Guard as a general director of relations and ceremonies and a member of the preparatory committee for the national heritage and culture festival. Al-Bazei served as chairman of the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts (SASCA) between 2013 and 2017, and general supervisor of the Saudi Film Festival for three years. He is a member of the National Commission for Regulating Ethical Content at the General Authority for Audiovisual Media.