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Name
Pascal Rambert
Role
Writer
Books
Long Island, Race
Nominations
Moliere Award for Best Playwright
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Pascal Rambert is a French writer, choreographer, and director for the stage and screen. He was born in 1962.
Since 2007, he has served as the Director of T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers, which he has transformed into a national dramatic center for contemporary creation, exclusively devoted to living artists (theater, dance, opera, contemporary art, film, and philosophy).
Pascal Rambert has directed several operas in France and in the United States.
The short films he has directed have been selected and awarded 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. In September, 2015, Clôture de l’amour has been staged more than 140 times in France and much 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, Rambert has 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, Tha¨land.
His play Avignon à vie (Avignon for Life), read by Denis Podalydès, 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 from 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 afterward 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) .
The French Academy awarded in 2015 Répétition with her annual literature and philosophy Prize.
He will stage in 2016 the Italian version of Répétition; La Prova at the Teatro Arena del Sole in Bologna and at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and in 2017, Ensayo, the Spanish version in Madrid.
In June, 2015, in the bare space of the Bouffes du Nord Theater in Paris, Rambert will present five of his plays: Memento Mori, Clôture de l’amour, Avignon à vie, De mes propres mains (With My Own Hands) and Libido Sciendi.
He premiered his play Argument in January 2016, written for Laurent Poitrenaux and Marie-Sophie Ferdane, at the CDN Orléans / Loiret / Centre, then present it at La Comédie in Reims and at the T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers - national dramatic center for contemporary creation.
in 2016, he stages Die Drei Groschenoper of Bertolt Brecht at the national Theatre of Zagreb, the Chinese version of Love's End in Beijing and Shangaï and the argentinian version of Love's end in Buenos Aires. He is writing, Actrice (Actress) for the Ensemble of the Moscow Art Theatre, a life for the Ensemble of the Comédie Française and Die for the French actress Isabelle Huppert.
He writes in 2015 Lac for the students of La Manufacture, lausanne's international acting school.
Directing credits
1980: Arlequin poli par l'amour (Harlequin, refined by love) by Marivaux
1981: La Marcolfa by Dario Fo
1982: Léonce et Léna (Léonce and Léna) by Georg Büchner
1984: Désir (Desire) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Nouveau Théâtre de Nice
1984: Les Lits I (Beds I) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Nouveau Théâtre de Nice
1985: Météorologies (Forecasts) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Espace Pierre Cardin (paris)
1987: Allez hop! by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Ménagerie de Verre (Paris)
1987: Fellow of the Centre National des Lettres (National Center of Arts): while in artist’s residence at the Chartreuse of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, he wrote and directed Le Réveil (The Wake-Up), which was then staged at the Paris-Villette theater and afterward toured with "the Amis du Théâtre Populaire (A.T.P.)"
1988: 3+2+1 by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert
1989: Les Parisiens (The Parisians) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, 43rd Festival d’Avignon
1990: Burying Molière by John Strand, New York
1992: John and Mary by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Nanterre-Amandiers theater. (Written while in residence at the Villa Medici’s “Hors les Murs” initiative in Alexandria, Egypt.)
1992: De mes propres mains (With My Own Hands) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, with Eric Doye, Théâtre en Mai (Theater in May) in Dijon.
> 1993: New production of With My Own Hands with Charles Berling, Nanterre-Amandiers theater.
> 2007: New production of With My Own Hands/Solo with Kate Moran, Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy (Bonlieu National Theater in Annecy), Salins theater, Scène nationale de Martigues (National Theater of Martigues), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), PS122 in the Crossing the Line Festival in New York, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Grü / Grütli Theater in Geneva (Switzerland), Komaba Agora Theater in Tokyo (Japan).
> 2015: New production of With My Own Hands with Arthur Nauzyciel, Bouffes du Nord Theater (Paris).
1994: The Interview That Dies by Jan Fabre, Royal Flemish Theater in Brussels.
1994: Félicité (Bliss) by Jean Audureau, Théâtre de la Commune-Aubervilliers
1995: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, MC93 Bobigny.
1997: Long Island by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, to promote the E.R.A.C. (l’École Régionale d’Acteurs de Cannes, the Cannes Regional Acting School) which then toured at the National Theaters in Nice and Marseille and at the Ménagerie de Verre (Paris).
1997: Journal inédit, 1958-1961 (Unpublished Diary, 1958-1961) by Antoine Vitez, France Culture Reading at the 51st Festival d’Avignon .
1997: Race by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert at the Festival Octobre en Normandie, Théâtre Gérard Philipe and in Los Angeles with the Los Angeles Poverty Department Group.
1998: Brecht et la musique (Brecht and Music). Cabaret lyrique, Calvet Museum, 52th Festival d’Avignon.
1998: The Epic of Gilgamesh, the man who would not die, in New York (Experimental Theater Wing, New York University) and Damascus.
2000: The Epic of Gilgamesh, the man who would not die, Sîn-Leqe-Unninni, at the 54th Festival d’Avignon.
2001: Asservissement sexuel volontaire (Voluntary Sex Slavery) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Théâtre National de la Colline (Paris), Théâtre des Salins- Scène National de Martigues and Bonlieu-Scène nationale d’Annecy.
2001: “Lecture électrifiée” (“Electric Reading”) from Début de l’A. (The beginning of Love) with Kate Moran, at the Flèche d’or (Paris) and afterward in New York, Miami, Tokyo, etc.
2002: La Lève by Jean Audureau, musical direction, reading by the students at the Cannes Regional Acting School (ERAC).
2004: Paradis (un temps à déplier) (Paradise (Time to Unfold)) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Théâtre National de la Colline (Paris), Comédie of Caen, New York (Dance Theater Workshop), Bonlieu-Scène nationale d’Annecy, Sarrebruck (Germany)
2005: Philomela, opera by James Dillon, Casa da Música Porto (PT), Odéon-Theater of Europe at the Ateliers Berthier, Festival Musica in Strasbourg, Őszi Fesztivá in Budapest (Automne Festival of Budapest )
2005: Le Début de l'A. (The beginning of love) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Studio-Theater of the Comédie-Française, reading at the 59th Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
>2008: The beginning of love. Japanese version, by Pascal Rambert, Tokyo, Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
2005: To Lose/Perdre/Danse, dance piece by Pascal Rambert, Centre de développement chorégraphique (Center for the Development of Choreography) in Toulouse, graduation project for the class of 2005.
2005: La Baie de Tokyo (Tokyo Bay) by Pascal Rambert, reading at the 59th Festival d’Avignon.
2005: After/Before by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, 59th Festival d’Avignon, Bonlieu Scène nationale d'Annecy, Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
2005: Pan, opera by Marc Monnet and Christophe Tarkos, National Opera of the Rhine.
2006: Un garçon debout (a Standing Boy), choreography by Rachid Ouramdane, performed by Pascal Rambert.
2006: Mon fantôme (My Ghost) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy Privas Theater, CDC (Center for Choreographic development) of Toulouse, schools in the Hauts de Seine French department, Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
> 2014: Production of Mon fantôme in Croatia: Moj Duh at the ZKM of Zagreb.
2007: L'Art du théâtre (The Art of Theater) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Tokyo (Japan)
2007: Toute la vie (Whole Life) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Bonlieu – Scène nationale d’Annecy, Printemps des arts festival in Monaco.
2008: Libido sciendi, dance piece by Pascal Rambert, Montpellier Dance, Ménagerie de verre (Paris), CDC (Center for Choreographic development) of Toulouse, CDC (Center for Choreographic development) Aquitaine, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Grü / Grütli Theater in Geneva, Ex Ponto Festival in Ljubljana, MOT Festival in Skopje, @Live Art / Kampnagel Festival in Hamburg.
> 2012: New production of Libido sciendi by Pascal Rambert, in the nave of the Grand Palais on the occasion of the cultural programming surrounding MONUMENTA 2012 - Daniel Buren, Saint-Clotilde de La Réunion in the Total Dance Festival, Paris – Picasso Museum, Vanves Theater, Bouffes du Nord Theater (Paris).
2008: Inferno, after Dante, Grü/Grütli Theater in Geneva.
2009: Portrait/Portrait, dance pieces by Pascal Rambert and Rachid Ouramdane, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
2009: Qu'est-ce que tu vois ? (What Do You See?) by Marie-José Mondzain, Théâtre de Gennevilliers - La Force de l'Art 02, Grand Palais (Paris).
2010: A (micro) history of world economics, danced by Pascal Rambert and Éric Méchoulan, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Fujimi Cultural Hall Kirari in Fujimi, Shizuoka at the SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Center, Le Phénix – National Theater of Valenciennes, Théâtre des Salins Theater – Scène nationale de Martigues, Scène nationale de Cavaillon, CDN (National Dramatic Center) Orléans/Loiret/Centre, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, LaMaMa - New York in the Crossing the Line Festival, Los Angeles with the LAPD, Dresden (Germany) in the Bügerbühne Festival, Thalia Theater of Hamburg (Germany), Cairo (Egypt) in the DCA Festival, Pittsburgh (U.S.).
2010: Armide (Armida) by Jean-Baptiste Lully with the Mercury Baroque Orchestra of Houston, Houston Wortham Center, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
2010: Knocking on Heaven’s Door, dance piece by Pascal Rambert, Association for Contemporary Dance in Geneva, Swiss Cultural Center in Paris, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Nishi Azabu Superdeluxe in Tokyo (Japan), CDC (Center for Choreographic Development) Toulouse/Midi Pyrénées.
2011: 16 ans (16 Years) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, The Cité de la Danse Agora in Montpellier as part of the Hybrides Festival, the CDN (National Dramatic Center) Orléans/Loiret/Centre, the Ado Festival in Préau, and the Regional Theater Center of Lower Normandy in Vire.
2011: Clôture de l’amour (Love’s End) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, 65th Festival d’Avignon, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Grü/Grütli Theater in Geneva, Teatro Passioni in Modena, Youth Theater Festival in Zagreb, la Comédie in Clermont Ferrand, Pompidou Center, BOZAR dance and theater in Bruxelles, Châteauvallon Theater, TAP in Poitiers, TU in Nantes, Grand R in La Roche-sur-Yon, Nouveau Théâtres of Angers - CDN Pays de la Loire (Loire Region), Théâtre du Nord in Lille, Scène Nationale de Martigues, Theater of the Manufacture - CDN in Nancy, Célestins Theater in Lyon, L’espace Malraux – scène nationale de Chambéry and the Savoie, Saint Quentin Theater in Yvelines, Charleroi, Pau, TEAT Champ Fleuri - Saint-Denis de La Réunion, Saint-Étienne du Rouvray as part of the Autumn Festival in Normandy, La passerelle Saint Brieux, the Théâtre du Rond-Point (Rond-Point Theater) in Paris, Stadtstheater de Karlsruhe (Germany), Théâtre Joliette Minoterie in Marseille, Théâtre du Casino Barrière in Deauville, Bonlieu Scène Nationale, Les trois Pierrots in Saint Cloud, Vanves Theater, Lorient Theater, Panta Theater of Caen, Bouffes du Nord Theater (Paris), National Theater of Strasbourg.
> beginning in 2012: Productions in multiple languages of Clôture de l’amour (Love’s End) directed by Pascal Rambert, production and incorporation into the repertoire of the Moscow Art Theatre, production and incorporation into the repertoire of the ZKM– Zagreb, Teatro delle Passioni – Modena, Roma Teatro Vascello - Rome, Salle Bartoli de Trieste, Teatro Filoframmatici de Piancenza, Teatro Metastasio de Prato, Teatro Pubblico de Casalecchio, Teatro Atti de Rimini, Teatro Dusede Genova, Piccolo Teatro of Milan, Abrons Arts Center – New York as part of the Crossing the Line Festival 2013: SPAC - Shizuoka, Knowledge Theatre - Osaka, KAAT - Tokyo, 2014: Thalia Theater of Hamburg, Berlin as part of the Foreign Affairs Festival, Barcelona in the Grec Festival, Madrid in the Festival Otoño a Primavera, the Panorama Festival in Buenos Aires, National Theater of Odense (dk), Århus Theatre, Århus (dk), Ålborg Theatre, Ålborg (dk), Husets Theatre, Copenhagen (dk)
2012: 50 minutes by Pascal Rambert, Les Hivernales Festival in Avignon.
2013: Memento Mori dance piece by Pascal Rambert, Les Hivernales in Avignon, VIA Festival in Mons, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Modena, ZKM - Zagreb, Musica Festival -Strasbourg, Festival NET Centre Meyerhold - Moscow, Utrecht Spring Dance, Bouffes du Nord Theater (Paris).
2013: Avignon à vie (Avignon For Life) by Pascal Rambert read by Denis Podalydès, Cour d’Honneur du Palais des Papes at the 67th Festival d’Avignon, T2G – Théâtre de Gennevilliers, CNCDC (of Chateauvallon, Bouffes du Nord Theater (Paris).
2014: Revenir (To Return), dance piece at the Mini-Teater of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
2014: Répétition (Rehearsal) by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers as part of the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Célestins Theater with the Théâtre Radiant Bellevue of Lyon / Caluires, Vidy Theater - Lausanne, TAP of Poitiers, Modena (Italy) as part of the VIE Festival, National Theater of Strasbourg, the Comédie of Clermont-Ferrand, National Theater of Chaillot, CDN (National Theater Center) Orléans / Loiret / Centre, CNCDC (National Center for Contemporary Dramatic Arts) Chateauvallon, Le Phénix of Valenciennes.
2016: Argument by (and directed by) Pascal Rambert, Orléans, Reims, T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers.
Published works
1988: Le Réveil (The Wake-Up), Actes Sud-Papiers
1989: Les Parisiens ou l'Été de la mémoire des abeilles (The Parisians or the Summer of the Memory of Bees), Actes Sud-Papiers
1992: John & Mary followed by Les Dialogues(Dialogues), Actes Sud-Papiers
1997: De mes propres mains (With My Own Hands), Solitaires Intempestifs
1997: Race,
1998: Long Island, Solitaires intempestifs
2000: Asservissement sexuel volontaire (Voluntary Sex Slavery), Solitaires Intempestifs
2000: Récit de la préparation de Gilgamesh jusqu'à la première répétition en Avignon (Telling of the preparation of Gilgamesh up to the first rehearsal in Avignon), Solitaires intempestifs
2001: Le Début de l'A. (The Beginning of love), Solitaires Intempestifs
2001: “ASV p.r ; auto-interview trafiquée en plein air 6204+3,” (“VSS p.r, Auto-interview trafficked in the open air),”in LEXI/textes n°5, L'Arche
2003: “Où le plus grand événement est l’envol d’un coq de bruyère, nouvelle auto-interview enregistrée à Kyoto et Tokyo en avril 2003, (exemplaire 002),” (“In which the most major event is a grouse taking flight, new auto-interview recorded in Kyoto and Tokyo in April, 2003 (number 002),” in LEXI/textes n°7, L'Arche
2004: Paradis (un temps à déplier), (Paradise (Time to Unfold)), Solitaires intempestifs
2004: Quand nous étions punk (When we were punk). (16 min – 35 mm)
With Kate Moran and Nicolas Granger. Cinematography: Caroline Champetier. Production: Les Films du Bélier with the participation of France 2 Selection of the Locarno Film Festival 2004 – Paris Tout Court 2004 – Travelling Rennes 2005 – Larissa 2005, Nice 2005 – Caen 2005 – Paris Onze bouge 2005 – Cork 2005 – Aye Aye Festival in Nancy – Rome Festival
2005: Car Wash (10 min – HD)
With Kate Moran and Olivier Torres. Cinematography: Caroline Champetier. Production: Les Films du Bélier with the participation of France 2 and the Regional Council of the Pays de la Loire (Loire Region) and the support of the Délégation Aux Arts Plastiques. Selection of the Locarno Film Festival 2005 – Rome Film Festival 2006
2006: Début (Beginning) (25 min – 35mm)
With Véronique Porral and Antoine Formica. Cinematography: Yorick Leseaux. Production: Les Films du Bélier with the participation of France 2, of the CNC (National Center of Cinematography) COSIP and the support of the Rhône-Alpes Region and the Département of the Haute-Savoie. “Prix de qualité” Prize of the CNC (National Center of Cinematography). Selection of the Vendôme Festival – Locarno Festival – Rome Festival – Rencontres du cinéma Européen de Vannes (Vannes European Film Meetings) (Prix de la ville de Vannes / Prize of the City of Vannes) – Short Film Festival of Nice – Paris Cinéma Festival – Côté court (Short Side) Festival of Pantin (GNCR Prize)
2008: Avant que tu reviennes (Before you come back) (30 min – 35 mm)
With Kate Moran, Clémentine Baert, David Bobée, Lorenzo de Angelis, Gilles Groppo, Grégory Guilbert, Julien Joannel, Antonin Ménard, Alexandre Meyer, Cécile Musitelli, Ikue Nakagawa, Vincent Thomasset, and Virginie Vaillant. Cinematography: Sébastien Buchman. Production: Les Films du bélier with the participation of the CNC (National Center of Cinematography) programming fund and the PROCIREP
2009: Premier anniversaire (First birthday) (25 min – 35 mm)
With Kate Moran, Lou Rambert-Preiss, Josette and René Graner. Cinematography: Caroline Champetier Production: Les Films du Belier with the participation of France 2, the support of CNC (National Center of Cinematography), and the support of the Lorraine Regional Council, the PROCIREP, and the ANGOA-AGICOA. Locarno Festival 2009. International Film Festival Selection—Locarno – International Short Film Festival Leuven 2009
Awards and distinctions
1985: Météorologie special award / Printemps du théâtre (Spring of the Theater)
1991: “Hors Les Murs” award of the Villa Medici / residency in Alexandria (Egypt)
2003: Award of the Kujuyama Villa / Residency in Kyoto (Japan) for the writing of Paradis (paradise)
2012: Award of the Syndicat de la critique (Critics’ Union) for Clôture de l'amour (Love’s End), meilleure création d'une pièce en langue française (best new French-language play).
2012: Grand Prize in Dramatic Literature 2012 for Clôture de l'amour (Love’s End) - Les Solitaires intempestifs
2013: Named as Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Aurélie Filippetti, French Minister of Culture
2013: Prix de l'auteur (Author’s Award) for Clôture de l'amour (Love’s End) at the Palmarès du théâtre
2015: nomination for the French living author by the Molières Academy for Répétition
2015: French Academy's Prix Émile Augier for Répétition