Lorraine de Sagazan

Lorraine de Sagazan is a theater director and visual artist.

Born in the 1980s, she belongs to a generation that explores individual and collective legacies, socio-political determinism, intimacy caught up in systemic mechanisms, and the role of ideals.
With her trusted group of actors and creators, from 2015 to 2019, she produced an initial “initiatory” cycle dedicated to adapting plays from the dramatic repertoire by blending reality and fiction. Following her first production, Démons, based on Lars Norén, she adapted Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. L’Absence de Père, based on Chekhov’s Platonov, which explores questions of legacy in a generation without bearings, premiered in June 2019 at the Les Nuits de Fourvière festival and at the MC93.

The second cycle she launched in 2020 focuses on co-writing projects that no longer depict reality but explore how fiction can respond to it. After extensive research in public institutions such as hospitals and courthouses, she delves into the gaps in the contemporary system and begins a writing collaboration with the writer Guillaume Poix. La Vie invisible is the first project in this cycle, commissioned by the Comédie de Valence in 2020, a touring production that is still on the road today. She followed this with the creation of Un sacre in September 2021, which is also still touring. In 2022–2023, she became a resident at the Villa Médicis, which allowed her to develop a more visual and radical dimension in her work. She premiered LEVIATHAN in 2024 at the Festival d’Avignon. The production won the 2025 Syndicat de la critique award for Best French-Language Play and the Prix Patrice Chéreau.
There, she also created the visual and performative installation Monte di Pietà with Anouk Maugein. That same year, the Comédie Française commissioned her. She proposed Le Silence, a wordless play, which was revived with her company during the 2026–2027 season. She was selected by the Festival d’Automne to work with Adami’s young talents in 2025, with whom she created the show LACK, and that same year premiered Chiens at the Bouffes du Nord, a radical musical about the trials surrounding pornography.

With Anouk Maugein, their artistic career has taken them across France and abroad. Following their installations Nature Morte and Babel in Venice, they will serve as curators of the French Pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial in 2027.

Lorraine de Sagazan is associated with the Comédie de Saint-Étienne—National Drama Center, the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, National Stage, and the Scène Nationale 61 (Alençon, Flers, Mortagne).