In 2011 Caroline and her company created Se souvenir de Violetta at the Comédie de Valence Theatre, followed by Ses Mains (2012), Le Bal d’Emma (2013), Elle brûle (2013) and Le Chagrin (2015). From 2013 onwards her shows toured throughout France. In 2015 she began a collaboration with the directors of Arles’ high-security prison to create performances with a troupe of inmates. In 2020 she shot her first film, Les Engloutis , inside the walls of the prison. In 2016, with Alexandre Plank and Antoine Richard, she made a radio play for France Culture as part of their Radiodrama series called Le Chagrin (Julie et Vincent) . The same year she devised a show to be performed directly in people’s homes, which toured different cities, including Paris, Rennes and New York. In 2017 Caroline made SAIGON , first presented at the Comédie de Valence Theatre’s annual festival, Ambivalence(s), before transferring to the 71st Festival of Avignon. Still touring regularly today, the show has been performed in more than 15 countries. For the 75th Avignon Festival, she made FRATERNITÉ , Conte fantastique , performing throughout France and Europe for a total of more than 130 representations. Upon invitation by the Schaubühne in Berlin to make an original production with the actors of their permanent troupe she wrote KINDHEITSARCHIVE , a fiction weaving different stories of adoption as told in an international agency for the protection of children, which she first staged in October of 2022. In 2023, with the active participation of Aurélie Charon, she released Un théâtre cardiaque published by Actes Sud and began rehearsals for her next project, LACRIMA . It premiered at the Wiener Festwochen in Austria and was then presented at the Festival d’Avignon in July. The show was a huge success and was quickly scheduled by venues in France and around the world. Caroline has been an associate member of theatres that mark the journey she and her productions have taken. Today she is an associate artist at the Théâtre national de Bretagne (Rennes) and the Schaubühne (Berlin) and a master-teacher at the Théâtre de Liège. In September 2023 she officially took over as Director of TnS and its drama school.
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About Caroline Guiela Nguyen Caroline is an author and director for both the stage and the screen. After starting out as a sociology student, she joined Théâtre national de Strasbourg (TnS) drama school and then, immediately after graduating in 2009, founded her own theatre company, Les Hommes Approximatifs. Its work centres bodies and histories that the theatre has paid little attention to, creating ambitious fictional tales in collaboration with both professional and non-professional actors who have emerged during extended periods of research. Guided by her dual belief in the inherent power of fiction and the need to depict the world in its material reality, Caroline begins each new creation with a period of writing, immersing herself in places that capture the pressing problems of our time, in contact with those she calls ‘experts in realities’. Project after project, with the other long-standing members of the company: Alice Duchange (set designer), Benjamin Moreau (costume designer), Jérémie Papin (lighting designer), Antoine Richard (sound designer), Paola Secret (assistant director) and Jérémie Scheidler (dramaturg and videographer), Caroline has crafted an aesthetic and a research into new forms that leave an indelible print on their productions.
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