Jean-Luc Vincent

Jean-Luc Vincent Librettist

Biography

Born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Jean-Luc Vincent is an actor, dramaturge, and stage director. A former student of the École normale supérieure on rue d’Ulm and holder of the agrégation in Classics, he began his theatre career in 1998 after training at the École du Samovar. He was one of the founding members of Les Chiens de Navarre, the company directed by Jean-Christophe Meurisse, with whom he worked from 2006 to 2016, touring productions throughout France (including at the Théâtre du Rond-Point and Bouffes du Nord) as well as internationally. In 2015, he founded his own company, Les Roches Blanches.

He served as dramaturge for Bernard Levy on Endgame and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Théâtre de l’Athénée), The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco (Théâtre de l’Aquarium), and Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! by Dario Fo (MC2 Grenoble). He also collaborates in opera with Mariame Clément, notably on Offenbach’s Barkouf ou un chien au pouvoir at the Opéra national du Rhin and Carmen at San Diego Opera.

Alongside his stage career, he has worked extensively in film, notably portraying Paul Claudel in Bruno Dumont’s Camille Claudel 1915, presented at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, before reuniting with the director for Slack Bay (Ma Loute), selected for the Official Competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

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