Transmitting
“What the theatre has given me: the ability to escape from a small, narrow, strict world to join one that is inexhaustible and multiple, one that combines literature, poetry, politics and history. This is the theatre we work on every day, to transmit it to young audiences.”
ÉRIC RUF
Since 2009, the Comédie-Française has taken in young graduates from France’s leading theatre schools every season, who thus benefit from a unique extension to their training:
- seven actors, selected through an audition and an interview with the General Administrator
And since 2015:
- a director-playwright
- a scenographer
- a costume designer
Selected through applications and an interview with the General Administrator and the person who is the head of their speciality at the Comédie-Française.
It’s already an old idea: that each theatre should incorporate a school and that the schools would be as different from each other as the theatres themselves.
Antoine Vitez
The Academy offers them unique practical experience working along side the Troupe, as well as with guest directors and the House teams. Together, at the heart of the Comédie-Française, their lessons shift between the stage, the sets and workshops, as well as in all the departments of our three theatres.
From school to reality, training leading to a diploma
For eleven months, while participating in the buzzing life of the Hive, they put the sum of the oretical and aesthetic learning acquired in theatre schools to the test of the stage. This is truly an immersion in reality.
Under the direction of major great artists (for example Alain Françon, Ivo van Hove, Christian Lacroix, Christiane Jatahy, Jacques Gabel and Ezio Toffolutti) and thanks to the classes given by the Groupe IGENSIA Education, their training is crowned by an MBA in cultural project development.
The class of 2023-2024
- The actors Fanny Barthod, Édouard Blaimont, Melchior Burin des Roziers, Rachel Collignon, Gabriel Draper, Blanche Sottou.
- The director-playwright Aristeo Tordesillas
- The scenographer Anaïs Levieil
- The costume designer Aurélia Bonaque Ferrat
- The sound designer Samuel Robineau
Portraits de Stéphane Lavoué
Avec le mécénat du Groupe IGENSIA Education et le soutien de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
