Pascal Rambert
Playwright
Pascal Rambert is a French writer, choreographer, and stage and screen director. In 2016, he received the Theater Prize from the Académie Française for his entire body of work. His theater writings, stories and poetry, are published in France and staged and translated into more than 20 languages around the world. His dance pieces such as Memento Mori, created with lighting designer Yves Godin, have been performed at major festivals and contemporary dance festivals in Europe as well as New York, Tokyo and Los Angeles. In addition to Clôture de l’amour, he is best known for his play Répétition (Rehearsal), which was first presented as part of the Festival d’Automne in Paris and garnered the 2015 annual prize for literature and philosophy at the Académie Française. Other acclaimed works over the past decade include Avignon à vie (Avignon for Life), De mes propres mains (With My Own Hands), Argument, and Une vie (A Life).