- They are between 17 and 20 years old, they run into each other, talk to each other, lie to each other, ignore each other, defy each other, take drugs and make love. They have their territories: the housing projects or the subdivisions, the football field, the faculty. Codes function, prohibitions are contained in the unspoken, until the day when deadly tragedy disturbs the state of things, making conflicts explode, turning upside-down the fragile balance of their micro-society. A racist murder? A sex crime? A tragedy, in any case, like one that is heard in ancient Greece, that crosses siblings, that sets common law against family law. Under Christophe Honoré's pen, these characters from daily life become the heroes of a clash that goes beyond them and forces them to admit what cannot be admitted. It is this theatre of today, always linked to that of origins, that Éric Vigner stages with the actors of the Académie, these young actors who have come from near and far, worthy representatives of the “world's youth”. A laboratory theatre in which Christophe Honoré's “mixed words”, both poetic and concrete, never drawing back before crudeness, give an account of the complexity of amorous desires, the fear of differences, the violence of a troubled society threatening to fall to pieces. It is with these extremely alive bodies haunted by strong words that Éric Vigner occupies the theatre's stage. For a striking portrait stripped of all artifice that is as much drama as pamphlet.
- Distribution
direction, scenography and costumes Éric Vigner
artistic collaboration Jutta Johanna Weiss
lighting Kelig Le Bars
dramaturgy Sabine Quiriconi
make up and hair Soizic Sidoit
assistant to the direction Morgan Dowsett
assistant to the scenography Nicolas Guéniau
assistant to the costumes Sophie Hoarau
with the actors of the Académie Vlad Chirita, Lahcen Elmazouzi, Eye Haidara, Hyunjoo Lee, Tommy Milliot, Nico Rogner, Isaïe Sultan
and Scott Turner Schofield, Jutta Johanna WeissProduction
production CDDB-Theater of Lorient, National Drama Center of Brittany
coproduction National Dramatic Center Orléans/Loiret/Centre, La Comédie de Reims National Dramatic Centre
with the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre national
- Lorient
- from 2012/10/09
to 2012/10/19 - CDDB Théâtre de Lorient
Centre dramatique national
- Toulouse
- from 2012/10/24
to 2012/10/26 - Théâtre national de Toulouse
Midi-Pyrénées
- Clermont-Ferrand
- from 2013/01/22
to 2013/01/23 - Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand
Scène nationale
- Reims
- from 2013/05/14
to 2013/05/17 - Comédie de Reims
- Orléans
- from 2013/05/22
to 2013/05/23 - Centre dramatique national d'Orléans/Loiret/Centre
Monday, August 20, 2012
La Faculté
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Actor Resumé
EYES: blue HAIR: blonde HEIGHT: 5'11" WEIGHT 145
Representation: email Gaskins Management
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| Written up in Entertainment Weekly |
Des Mots de Minuit
Talkshow Guest
France 2
Aired 10/10/10
The Conveyor Belt of Love
Primary Contestant
ABC
Aired 01/04/10
Primary Contestant
ABC
Aired 01/04/10
Portrait of Turner
Principal
Director: Irene Gustafson
Independent Feature
Director: Irene Gustafson
Independent Feature
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| With George Lucas |
Mysterious Rituals
Principal Subject
Director: Deborah Blum
The History Channel
Principal Subject
Director: Deborah Blum
The History Channel
Teller Training Industrial
Teller-in-Training
Teller-in-Training
Bank of America
Commercial appearances available upon request
Theatre
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| La Faculté with Isaïe Sultan |
La Faculté
by Christophe Honoré
Stéphane
World Premiere at Festival d'Avignon 2012
Currently touring
Director: Eric Vigner
Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps
Original Solo Performance
Original Solo Performance
Currently touring
Director: Steve Bailey
Director: Steve Bailey
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| Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps |
Debutante Balls
Original Solo Performance
Currently touring
Director: Steve Bailey
Currently touring
Director: Steve Bailey
Wizzer Pizzer
by Amy Wheeler
by Amy Wheeler
World Premiere at 7 Stages
Director: Melissa Foulger
Director: Melissa Foulger
Underground Transit
Original Solo Performance
Original Solo Performance
As You Like It
Le Beau
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| Wizzer Pizzer with Topher Payne |
Le Beau
Director: Janice Akers
Voice Over
Necessary Luxuries
various characters
various characters
by Topher Payne
Self-Organizing Men
self
Edited by Jay Sennet
self
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| Des Mots de Minuit |
Edited by Jay Sennet
Training
Film Acting Alliance Theatre Acting Program
Stage Acting DAH Teatar International School; Emory University Theatre Program
Voice Bucky Motter; Elisa Lloyd
Movement Celeste Miller; SITI Company Summer Intensive; Out of Hand Theatre Company
Aerial Acrobatics Nicole Mermans; Cathy Sutherland
Clowning Kenny Raskin; Kelan Scher
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| Strange Rituals |
Special Skills
Moves eyebrows independently; French (intermediate fluency), Spanish (fluid speech); Deep South and Texas accents, Southern and Yorkshire British accents; Aerial acrobatics on tissu; Rhythm guitar; Horseback riding (Western); Juggling 3 balls; Drag.
Writer Resumé
Books
Two Truths and a Lie: A Memoir written and performed. Homofactus Press. Ypsilanti, 2008.
Finalist for 2008 Lambda Literary Awards in Drama and Transgender categories -
2009 American Library Association Rainbow List -
Plays
"The Spitting Game" with Lauren Feldman, Sigrid Gilmer, Dan LeFranc, Nicholas Surbey and Steve Yockey. Full length. Workshopped at Theatre Emory Brave New Works 2009.
"School's Out" with Mark Blankenship. Full length. Workshopped at Theatre Emory Brave New Works 2005.
"Turn Me On" with Sheri Mann Stewart. Full length. Workshopped at Theatre Emory Brave New Works 2004.
“Underground Transit” in National Transgender Theater Festival Reader, New York: Renegade, 2003.
Excerpt from “Underground Transit” in [Becoming] Young ideas on gender, identity, and sexuality. Diane Anderson-Minshall and Gina Devries, Eds. Exlibris Corporation, July, 2004.
Essays
"The Wrong Body" Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation. S. Bear Bergman and Kate Bornstein, Eds. Seal Press. New York, 2010.
2011 Lambda Literary Awards for Transgender Nonfiction and LGBT Anthology -
“Are We There Yet? On Being and Becoming a Transgender Performance Artist” Self Organizing Men. Jay Sennet,
"Coming of Age—Still Performance / Manifesto" Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory, #28. New York University, New York 2004.
Articles
“Top 10 Queer Music Moments” list contributor, Out Magazine, July issue, 2008.
“Letter to the Editor” Out Magazine, April issue, 2008.
“When I First Knew” Out Magazine, March issue, 2008.
“I am the Pride Sucker.” Atlanta Creative Loafing, June 20, 2003.
Copy
Didn't It Feel Kinder by Amy Ray (Daemon Records, 2008). Promotional copy for publicity and sales.
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