Daniel Jeanneteau

Born in Creutzwald, Moselle, Daniel Jeanneteau trained in Strasbourg at the École supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the École supérieure d’art dramatique du Théâtre National. Awards include the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto (1998), Villa Médicis hors-les-murs in Japan (2002) and the Grand Prix du Syndicat de la critique (2000, 2004). In 1989 he met Claude Régy, with whom he designed sets for 15 years. Since 2001, he has collaborated with Marie-Christine Soma. Additional collaborations include with Catherine Diverrès, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Alain Ollivier, Nicolas Le Riche, Trisha Brown, Jean-François Sivadier and Pascal Rambert. He directed Studio-Théâtre de Vitry from 2008–2016 and has directed Théâtre de Gennevilliers-centre dramatique national since 2017. Directing highlights include George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s Into the Little Hill (Paris Opera, 2006), The rest will be familiar to you from the cinema by Crimp (Avignon Festival, 2019), L’Autre fille (Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2020), Pelléas et Mélisande (Opéra de Lille, 2021), Aguets, partition pour un cirque ensauvagé with Mammar Benranou and The Cherry Orchard, (Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, Japan).