Featured Artists

Joël Pommerat

Playwright & Director

Joël Pommerat is an expert of deploying stage elements for neat and sharp theater piece. He only direct production of his own writing. In his opinion, there is no hierarchy: the direction and the text develop simultaneously during rehearsals. 
At the invitation of Peter Brook, Pommerat was the artist in residence at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord from 2007 to 2010. Between 2010 and 2015, he was an associate artist at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Paris as well as at the Théâtre National Bruxelles-Wallonie. What Pommerat seeks is to create an intimate and spectacular visual theater. He is dedicated to presenting the powerful presence of actors and overwhelming the audience, with unique way of storytelling on the stage. Many of his works constantly touch upon the most essential and common experiences of humanity like his rewriting of fairy tale trilogy and Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis.