ÉZÉQUIEL GARCIA-ROMEU
Director, scenographer, puppeteer.
Ézéquiel Garcia-Romeu, artistic director of the Théâtre de la Massue, is an inventor of universes; a director and scenographer based at Le 109, Nice's Center of Contemporary Cultures, he works in partnership with the Entre-Pont, which he has co-directed since 2012.
He explores contemporary forms of puppetry and new stage writing. His work is conceived as a paradigm within a creative theatrical laboratory.
His shows have been programmed at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, the Odéon, the Théâtre de la Commune, the Auditorium du Musée d'Orsay, the Festival in d'Avignon, the Berliner Festspiele, and numerous festivals and venues around the world, which he continues to visit, such as FIBA (Buenos-Aires) or Santiago a Mil (Chile) and the FMTM in Charleville.
Between 2015 and 2023, "Le Petit Théâtre du Bout du Monde", work in progress(in co-production with the Théâtre National de Nice, the TJP - Centre Dramatique National de Strasbourg, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and the Théâtre d'Arles). This form will evolve and change over time. The final production of Petit Théâtre du Bout du Monde will premiere at the Festival Mondial de Charleville-Mézières in September 2023, then at Théâtre 71 (Scène nationale de Malakoff) and Théâtre National de Nice in 2025.
He took part in Stéphane Brizé's feature film, Un Autre Monde (Another World), released in France's movie theaters in March 2022.
He is also developing training workshops and an artistic residency project at Le 109 in Nice with l'Entre-Pont and his company.
He was associate professional teacher, PAST, at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, from 2015 to 2022. He took part in a workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Marionnette in Charleville Mézières in 2017.
He directs the INEUPUP Creative Europe project, which aims to develop contemporary puppetry, and has brought together a number of European theatre and higher education partners, including the UCA and the Arts Department, with the participation of Jean-François Trubert.
Ézéquiel Garcia-Romeu was associate director at the Théâtre Granit - scène nationale de Belfort (1999-2003), at the Théâtre de la Manufacture - Centre Dramatique National de Nancy (2007-2009), at the Théâtre de la Commune, Centre Dramatique National d'Aubervilliers (2013).
