Lorraine de Sagazan

Lorraine de Sagazan is a director and visual artist.

After studying philosophy and training as an actress, Lorraine de Sagazan turned to directing in 2015. She trained in Berlin with Thomas Ostermeier, Marius von Mayenburg and Romeo Castellucci.
Her first show is an adaptation of Lars Norén’s Demons. This marks the beginning of what is now a cycle of work devoted to adapting texts from the classical and contemporary repertoires, and to the way in which “the fiction of a work confronts reality”. The second part of this cycle is the adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, accentuating the search for what, today, reactivates the shock of past masterpieces. She closes her first cycle in 2019 with L’Absence de père based on Anton Chekhov’s Platonov for Les Nuits de Fourvière and the MC93, co-signing the adaptation with author and playwright Guillaume Poix.

This piece, which frankly incorporates the actors’ own experiences, marks the start of a second creative cycle focused on collecting testimonies and exploring how, this time, fiction responds to reality. Guillaume Poix co-wrote the following pieces. Her company, La Brèche, is deployed throughout France, with an international outlook. She, who questions the spectator’s gaze, decides to meet those who cannot see, and invites a blind amateur actor on stage in La Vie invisible, a show presented at the Théâtre de La Ville in January 2022. Caught up in the upheavals caused by the pandemic since March 2020, she abandons the project of staging Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Le Décalogue to “radicalize” the previous gesture by going to meet and question about reparation as many people as days spoiled by the health and political crisis. The writing work deepened the experience of a metatheatricality that had been apparent since the initial research, and Sacred was created in 2021. In Rome, Lorraine de Sagazan, resident at the Villa Médicis for a year from September 2022, is continuing her immersive research.Her aim is to observe the hollowness of reality and respond by creating counter-spaces. LEVIATHAN, a critical investigation of the contemporary justice system, will premiere in July 2024 at the Festival d’Avignon and be presented at the Odéon - Théâtre de l’Europe in May 2025.

In January 2024, she will create Le Silence based on the work of Antonioni at the Comédie Française - Vieux-Colombier.

At the Académie de France in Rome, she moves towards a more plastic dimension and begins to develop installations and performances, including Monte di Pietà, presented at the Collection Lambert and the Lyon Biennial in 2024, Nature Morte for the Ferme du Buisson art center, La Défense for the Mac Val and BABEL as part of Anish Kapoor’s Parliament of the Invisible, presented in Venice in May 2025.