Pascal Rambert

Pascal Rambert is a French writer, choreographer, and director for the stage and screen. He was born in 1962. From 2007 to 2017, he served as the Director of T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers, which he turned into a national dramatic center for contemporary creation, exclusively devoted to living artists (theater, dance, opera, contemporary art, film, and philosophy).Pascal Rambert's plays and dance pieces have been staged in Europe, North America, Asia, Russia, South America and the Middle East. His writing (theater, stories, and poetry) is published in France by Les Solitaires Intempestifs and has been translated, published, and staged in many languages: English, Russian, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Croatian, Slovenian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Spanish (Castile, Mexico and Argentina), Catalan, Dutch, Czech, Thai, Danish and Greek.

His dance pieces, including the most recent, Memento Mori, created in 2013 with the light designer Yves Godin, have been performed at major festivals and contemporary dance festivals: Montpellier, Avignon, Utrecht, Geneva, Ljubljana, Skopje, Moscow, Hamburg, Modena, Freiburg, Tokyo and New York.

Pascal Rambert has directed several operas in France and in the United States.

The short films he has directed have been selected and received prizes at festivals in Pantin, Locarno, Miami, and Paris.

His play Clôture de l’amour (Love’s End), created at the 65th Festival d’Avignon in 2011 with Audrey Bonnet and Stanislas Nordey, was an international success. The script won the prize for public theater in the Theater 2013 – Dithea competition, the prize for best new French-language play from the Syndicat de la Critique (Critics’ Union) in 2012, and the Grand Prize for dramatic literature from the French Centre national du théâtre (National Theater Center) in October, 2012.

By September 2018, Clôture de l’amour had been performed more than 180 times in France and far more all over the world. He has adapted Clôture de l’amour into ten languages: for the Moscow Art Theatre; in New York, Zagreb, Modena, and Rome, and at the Piccolo Theatro de Milano; in Shizuoka, Osaka, and Yokohama; in Berlin and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg; in Barcelona at the Grec Festival and in Madrid at the Festival de Otoño and in Seville; in Copenhagen, Aalborg, Aarhus, and Odense. An Argentinian version and a Chinese (in Mandarin) version are currently in progress.

Rambert created Une (micro) histoire économique du monde, dansée (A (micro) history of world economics, danced) at T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers, in 2010. After its French tour, Pascal Rambert adapted the work for further performances in Japan; in Hamburg and Karlsruhe, Germany; in the United States in New York, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh; in Cairo, Egypt and soon in Bangkok, Thailand.

His play Avignon à vie (Avignon for Life), read by Denis Podalydès of the Comédie Française, was first staged at the 2013 67th Festival d’Avignon in the Cour d’Honneur du Palais des Papes.

His play, Répétition (Rehearsal), written for Emmanuelle Béart, Audrey Bonnet, Denis Podalydès of the Comédie Française, Stanislas Nordey, and Claire Zeller, premiered December 12, 2014, at T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers- national dramatic center for contemporary creation as part of Festival d’Automne in Paris. It was subsequently performed in Lyon and toured nationally and internationally in the fall of 2015; Lausanne (ch), Poitiers (fr), à Modène within the festival VIE (it), Strasbourg at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg (fr), Clermont Ferrand (fr), Paris at the Théâtre National de Chaillot (fr), Orléans(fr), Chateauvallon (fr) and Valenciennes (fr) .

In 2015, the Académie française recognized Répétition with its annual literature and philosophy Prize.In January 2016, he premiered his play Argument, written for Laurent Poitrenaux and Marie-Sophie Ferdane, at the CDN Orléans / Loiret / Centre, then presented it at La Comédie in Reims and at the T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers - national dramatic center for contemporary creation.

In May 2017, he directed Une vie( A life), which he wrote for the Comédie-Française ensemble, at the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in Paris.

In August 2017, he directed GHOSTs, written for a group of Taiwanese actors and presented for the opening of the Performing Art Festival in Taipei.

He wrote Actrice (Actress) for the actors of the Art Theater of Moscow and opened it on December 12, 2017, at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, starring Marina Hands, Audrey Bonnet Jakob Öhrman, Elmer Bäck, Rasmus Slätis, Jean Guizerix, Emmanuel Cuchet, Ruth Nüesch, Luc Bataïni, Lyna Khoudri, Yuming Hey, Sifan Shao, Laetitia Somé, and alternately, Anas Abidar, Nathan Aznar, and Samuel Kircher.

Actrice toured in France from January to March 2018. Rambert directed Glumica, the Croatian version of Actrice at the National Theatre in Zagreb in February 2019.

In March 2018, he wrote Reconstitution to be performed by Vero Dahuron and Guy Delamotte of the Panta Theatre in Caen.

He wrote Nos Parents (Our Parents) for the student actors of the Manufacture in Lausanne, which opened in his production in April 2018.

In September 2018, he staged his play Christine at the Comédie de Genève during the Festival Julie's Party, then staged Teatro at the Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II in Lisbon, starring Beatriz Batarda, Cirila Bossuet, João Grosso, Lúcia Maria, Rui Mendes.

In November 2018, he directed Soeurs (Sisters) written for Marina Hands and Audrey Bonnet. In December, he directed the Spanish version, Hermanas, with Barbara Lennie and Irene Escolar.

In February 2019, he staged Glumica, the Croatian version of Actrice with the actors of the National Theater of Zagreb.

From February to June 2019, he is Visiting Belknap Fellow in the Humanities and Visiting Lecturer in French and Italian with Florent Masse at Princeton University, New Jersey. By May 2019, he will direct the students in his play Other's.

In March 2019, he created 愛的落幕, the Taiwanese version of Clôture de l'Amour at the Metropolitan Theater of Taipei.

In June 2019, he created Mont Vérité with the TNS school students for the Printemps des Comédiens Festival.

His play Architecture, written for Emmanuelle Béart, Audrey Bonnet, Anne Brochet, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Arthur Nauzyciel, Stanislas Nordey, Denis Podalydès, Laurent Poitrenaux, Pascal Rénéric and Jacques Weber, has been premiered at the Festival d’Avignon in 2019 (Cour d'Honneur du Palais des Papes).

In November 2019, he created Rakkauden Pãatõs, the Finnish version of Clôture de l'amour at the Finnish National Theater of Helsinki (Finland).

In February 2020, he created Desaparecer in Mexico (UNAM, Merxico city).

He created 3 annonciations for Audrey Bonnet (FR), Silvia Costa (IT), Barbara Lennie (ES) alternately with Itsaso Arana (ES), on September 29, 2020, at the TNB Théâtre National de Bretagne and toured in France and in Europe in 2020–21.

Opening Αδελφές, the Greek version of Soeurs in Athens (Michael Cacoyannis Foundation) in November 2020, Ōed, the Estonian version in Tallinn (Tallinna Linnateater) and Sorelle, the Italian version in Turin (Teatro Astra).

In February 2021, he created STARs in Switzerland (Comédie de Genève).

He created Sorelle, Italian version of Soeurs, opening at Teatro Astra. He wrote and created Dreamers for the TNB's students (opening June 2021 at TNB-Rennes). He wrote and created Deux amis with Charles Berling and Stanislas Nordey (opening July 2021 at Festival d'été of Châteauvallon). He created Kotatsu (September 2021 at Ebarra Riverside Theater, Toyooka, Japon).

He directed the play 8 ensemble that he wrote for 8 young actresses and actors created during the Festival d’Automne à Paris, in the frame of Talents Adami Théâtre.

January 2022, he adapted with Jim Fletcher and Ismaïl ibn Conner two monologues The Art of Theater and With my own hands, premiered on January 14, 2022, at PS21 (Performance Spaces for the 21st Century), Chatham, NY, co-presented by PS21 and The Public Theater/Under the Radar : On the Road initiative.

As of March 2022 he is rehearsing the play that he wrote, Sowane, in Cairo (EGY) (creation October 2022), adapting the French version of the play Perdre son sac with the actress Lyna Khoudri (creation November 2022 in Rabat (MA)), creating the play L’interview that he wrote for Pierrette Monticelli (creation April 2022 in Nest Theater at Thionville, produced by La Joliette Theatre), and writing the play Je te réponds made for 8 prisoners people from the Reau prison center (creation January 2023).