Jean Bellorini

Director Jean Bellorini works with great dramatic and literary texts. His productions closely combine theatre and music. Among other achievements, he adapted Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables for the stage under the title Tempête sous un crâne (Tempest in a Skull), and directed Paroles Gelées (Frozen Words) based on Rabelais (which won him the Molière Prize for best direction). His other outstanding directions include Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan (Molière Prize for best public theatre production), Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (for the 2016 Avignon Festival). In 2014, he was appointed Director of Saint-Denis’s Théâtre Gérard Philipe Centre Dramatique National where he presented Un instant (A Moment) based on Proust, and Onegin based on Pushkin. He has established a company of teenagers (Troupe éphémère) with which he creates a production each season. He is regularly active in the opera genre and has worked extensively abroad. He has collaborated with the Berliner Ensemble and St Petersburg’s Alexandrinsky Theatre, and will present Il Tartufo with Teatro di Napoli in spring 2022. Since 2020, he has been Director of the prestigious TNP (Théâtre National Populaire). His production of Valère Novarina's Le Jeu des Ombres was presented during the 2020 Avignon Art Week (Semaine d’art).