BIOGRAPHY
Arthur Nauzyciel
Director Arthur Nauzyciel (Julius Caesar) is a native of Paris where he studied plastic arts, film, and acting (School of the Théâtre National de Chaillot, with the great director Antoine Vitez). He was an associate artist at the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient from 1996 to 2006. He founded his own company, Compagnie 41751/Arthur Nauzyciel in 1999 in Lorient, where he directed his first production, Le Malade imaginaire ou le silence de Molière, after Molière’s Imaginary Invalid and Giovanni Macchia (selected as part of the European program AFAA/Générations 2001, the production was performed in France and at the Ermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg in 2000 and has been reprised regularly since; it was also performed at the National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik in 2007). In June 2003 he directed Happy Days at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris, reprised for two months in 2004 at the Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires (awarded the critics’ prize for best foreign play, best actress, nominated for best director) and performed in Madrid in 2007. Other credits include Place des Héros (Heldenplatz), by the leading Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard, premiered at the Comèdie Française in 2004; B.M. Koltès’ Black Battles With Dogs (Combat de nègre et de chiens) in Atlanta, Chicago, Avignon Festival, and the Athens International Festival; Koltès’ Roberto Zucco at the Emory Theatre in Atlanta; and Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party at the A.R.T. Institute. He collaborated with Maria de Medeiros on A Little More Blue, a recital based on the Brazilian repertoire of Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, and Gilberto Gil in 2006; premiered Samuel Beckett’s The Image in Dublin as part of the 2006 Centenary Beckett Festival (reprised in Iceland and in France during the Grandes Traversées Festival in Bordeaux in 2007). Future projects include Kaj Munk’s Ordet (The Word) for the opening of the next Avignon Festival at the Cloître des Carmes. In June 2007 Nauzyciel joined the Centre Dramatique National/Orléans-Loiret-Centre (France) as Artistic Director.