The author and director Caroline Guiela Nguyen will take the lead, from September 2023, of the National Theater of Strasbourg (TNS). She will succeed Stanislas Nordey, in office since 2014, announced the French Ministry of Culture.
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The 41-year-old director is a former student of the TNS school, the only national theater in the region. Daughter of a Vietnamese mother and a pied-noir father, Caroline Guiela Nguyen joined the TNS school in 2006 to devote herself to directing.
She then created her company, “Les Hommes Approximatifs”, which was interested “in the stories of the intimate crossed by the great History and which reflect the evolutions of our society”, indicated Monday the Ministry of Culture in a press release. .
Among his main creations, the pieces “Saigon”, “Fraternité Conte Fantastique”, or the film “Les Engloutis”. She had won the prize for the best show created in the province for “Saigon” at the Grand Prix de la critique in 2018.
International recognition
“An internationally recognized artist, Caroline Guiela Nguyen is today associated with the Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, the Schaubühne in Berlin, the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, the Comédie de Reims, the MC2: Grenoble and at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan”, continues the ministry.
The director wants to make the TNS “a school where the practices of theatre, cinema and audiovisual are built and thought of in the same movement”, and to do this the theater will join forces with the television channel Franco-German Arte, headquartered in Strasbourg.
A “resolutely European” project
She will take office on September 1 following Stanislas Nordey, 56, whose Minister of Culture Rima Abdul-Malak salutes “the remarkable action in favor of contemporary creation and writing, but also his important work in collaboration with around twenty associated artists – directors, authors and actors”.
Rima Abdul-Malak is delighted “with the new dynamic that Caroline Guiela Nguyen will breathe into the TNS, with an open and generous, resolutely European project. Like its shows and its writing process, it will carry a decompartmentalized vision, mixing theater and cinema, small history and great history, the intimate and the collective, ”continues the ministry.
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