Kal Naga LOS ANGELES · CAIRO
Spacecraft engineering
M.Phil research in spacecraft systems, and work tied to the UoSAT-5 microsatellite programme — small satellites, real constraints, elegant solutions.
- M.Phil
- UoSAT-5
- Satellite systems
Kal Naga
Khaled Abol Naga
خالد أبو النجا
Stories. Systems. Sound. Images.
Actor, filmmaker, songwriter, engineer and photographer — one practice that moves between the screen, the studio, the circuit board and the lens. Cairo to Los Angeles — in Arabic, English, French, and whatever language the story asks for.
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Actor
19+Best Actor awards
Filmmaker
18+Producer awards
Songwriter
45+Songs released
Music
8+TV shows
Engineer
19+Plays & musicals
Photographer
10+Festival juries
Creator
26+Feature films
Music
3M+Followers across platforms
Actor
19+Best Actor awards
Filmmaker
18+Producer awards
Songwriter
45+Songs released
Music
8+TV shows
Engineer
19+Plays & musicals
Photographer
10+Festival juries
Creator
26+Feature films
Music
3M+Followers across platforms
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Cinema
Film, television & theater — 25 years on screen and stage.
Music
Songwriter & producer as KALNAGA — across languages.
Engineering
Spacecraft, software, AI & computing infrastructure.
Photography
Fine art, portrait, travel and commercial work.
Now / Next
Screenplay, directing debut, new music, ebooks, AI experiments.
About
Egyptian-American, based in LA. SAG-AFTRA · Equity UK/USA.
Twenty-six features, eight series, nineteen stages.
Leading roles across Egypt, the US, UK, Europe, Australia and the Middle East — from independent Cairo cinema to Netflix, History, BBC and FX — and a parallel career as a producer since 2009, with eighteen producer awards. Performed in Arabic, English, French — and Old Norse.
26+Feature films
8+TV shows
19+Plays
18+Producer awards
10+Festival juries
- StageIn the Shadow of Her Father59E59, NYC
- StageNouraGuthrie Theater
- StageDecolonizing SarahChicago
- FilmEyes of a Thief · Villa 69 · MicrophoneBest Actor
- FilmMiss Fisher & the Crypt of TearsAustralia
- TVVikingsHistory · Old Norse
- TVRamyHulu
- TVTyrant · The Last PostFX · BBC
- TVMessiahNetflix
Silver Pyramid, Best ActorCairo International Film Festival
Golden TulipIstanbul International Film Festival
Tanit d'OrJournées cinématographiques de Carthage
Best ActorIMA Biennale of Arab Cinema, Paris
Listen · KALNAGA
KALNAGA — songwriter, lyricist, producer.
كلمات وألحان · القاهرة ↔ لوس أنجلوسEgyptian Arabic lyricism meets electronic, indie-pop and world-fusion production. Written in Arabic, English and French — and open to any language a song asks for, in the tradition of Dalida and Omar Sharif. Built in a home studio in Los Angeles at Tanasi.club, where classical maqam thinking meets AI-assisted production tools.
- 01Fate Favors Irony Genre Showcase AlbumAlbum
- 02Shorom Borom! شُوروم بورومAlbum
- 0311:59 PARTYAlbum
- 04Ma Plus Belle Erreur!French EP
- 05Zero · ما اقواه · Erfaa Rasak Foq ارفع راسك فوق – انت مصريSingles
03 — Engineering
Systems, from orbit to studio
Space · Software · AIThe same mind that builds a satellite writes the second verse.
Before the camera there was the lab: an M.Phil in spacecraft engineering and work connected to the UoSAT-5 satellite programme. That training never left — it shows up today in product design, AI workflows, infrastructure and the way a song gets structured.
Preroll
A tool for independent musicians: inspect and clean audio metadata and meta-tags before distribution — in the browser, nothing uploaded, no re-encoding. Built for the release workflow, from the studio to Spotify.
- Music distribution
- Metadata
- Product design
Intelligence & infrastructure
Technology consulting, app development, computing infrastructure and server design — including custom crypto-mining systems — plus daily experimentation with AI in writing, music and image-making.
- AI workflows
- Consulting
- Server design
- Mining systems
The camera came before the stage. Photographer and lighting designer — jewelry, fashion, portraits, fine art and travel — capturing the precise through Alhazen's eyes. The same eye that frames a scene frames a product.
05 — Now / Next
In production, in progress
2026 → 2027- NowPilgrimage — directingDirecting the stage reading of the new play by Humaira Ghilzai and Bridgette Dutta Portman. The Lab at Georgetown University, Washington DC, November 11–16, 2026 · casting open →Nov 2026
- NowNew music as KALNAGANew singles and a next album — Arabic, English and French, produced at Tanasi.club.2026
- NowFirst feature screenplayWriting an original feature — a story that could only be told by a multi-culture “code-switcher”.2026
- NextFeature directing debutFrom producing award-winning films — and directing for the stage — to directing the first feature.2027
- NextEbooksA first series of my ebooks — on craft, on AI, on cityscapes: LA · SF · NYC · LON · CAI · BCN…2026–27
- NowExperimental AI projectsMusic, image and language experiments — where engineering meets performance.Ongoing
- NextOne-man live showCaptain Dodi DJ’ing, singing and dance in one evening.TBA
Photo · Brigitte Lacombe, I AM FILMOne person. Several worlds.
خالد أبو النجاKal Naga — Khaled Abol Naga — is an Egyptian-American actor, filmmaker, songwriter, engineer and photographer, based in Los Angeles since 2021 with a body of work spanning the EU, UK, Australia, Africa and Asia. SAG-AFTRA and Equity UK/USA. Nineteen Best Actor awards since 2001; eighteen producer awards for features produced since 2009; jury member at more than ten international festivals; acting workshops for MFA/BFA programmes and Arabic dialect coaching.
06 — Contact