Available at: https://www.festival-avignon.com/en/artist/2017/caroline-guiela-nguyen. Consulted in 05-09-2019

Caroline Guiela Nguyen has written and directed for the stage and screen. In 2009, she created her own theatre company, Les Hommes Approximatifs, with Claire Calvi, Alice Duchange, Juliette Kramer, Benjamin Moreau, Jérémie Papin, Antoine Richard, Jérémie Scheidler and Manon Worms. Their work, drawing on their own life stories, gives centre stage to bodies and histories that theatre has generally paid little attention to: Se souvenir de Violetta (2011), Ses Mains, Le bal d’Emma (2012), Elle brûle (2013), Le chagrin (2015), Mon grand amour (2016), SAIGON (2017). SAIGON, her company’s most recent production, was extremely well received during the Festival Ambivalence(s) and the 71st edition of the Festival d’Avignon. SAIGON was nominated at the Molières and won the Georges Lherminier Prize.
In 2016, along with Alexandre Plank and Antoine Richard, she wrote a work for radio, Le chagrin (Julie et Vincent) for France Culture.
She is currently working on a new dramatic cycle with Les Hommes Approximatifs around the question of FRATERNITY, out of which three new works are planned: a film and two theatre projects.
Artist at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, MC2 in Grenoble, and the company at the Comédie de Reims. She is also a member of the Artistic Collective attached to the Comédie de Valence Theatre. She was nominated to the grade of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2016.
Caroline Guiela Nguyen was also awarded the SACD’s Best New Theatre Talent prize in 2018.

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David Geselson wrote and staged Doreen, En Route-Kaddish, Unwritten Letters, and staged Eli, Eli de Thibault Vinçon and The Insomniacs of Juan Mayorga. He attended the Chaillot National Theater School and the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique Art. As an actor, he worked with Brigitte Jaques, Cécile Garcia-Fogel, Gilles Cohen, David Girondin-Moab, Muriel Trembleau, Christophe Rauck, Jean-Pierre Vincent, Juliette Navis, Raphael Bouchard, Jean-Paul Wenzel and Tiago Rodrigues.

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Joana Craveiro is a playwright, actress, director, performer and anthropologist. She has studied several subjects in various institutions but, more recently, she has completed her PAR-PhD at Roehampton University, in London, for which she created the 6-hour long performance A living museum of small, forgotten and unwanted memories. She is founding member of Teatro do Vestido, the company she directs since 2001. She has written and directed most of the over 40 performances produced by the company. Craveiro further studied with Alexander Kelly (Third Angel), Goat Island and Every house has a door. In her work, Craveiro uses oral history and anthropology methodologies merged with a poetic gaze at political memory, archives, life stories and accounts. She is interested in the poetics and the transmission of memory, and her work intersects autobiography, (political) memory and private archives.

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João Brites and Teatro O Bando welcomed the team of the international project ARGOS Acts of creation and dynamics of crossed collaborations in the performing arts, in which they participate, at the company’s headquarters in Vale de Barris. He is the guest artist of the panel «Communauté d’observateurs  et constructions de mémoires. ARGOS et l’observation d’un processus de creation du Teatro O Bando».
He is a Portuguese theatre director, scenographer, dramaturge and visual artist. João Brites is a founding member and director, since 1974, of Teatro O Bando, an independent theatre company known for its strong political intervention, projects involving local communities and natural elements as well as an aesthetics of grotesque and poetic imagery. O Bando is currently undertaking the herculean project of staging Dante’s Divine Comedy, premièring this year Purgatory, following Hell (2017). He staged large scale performances and events in the context of Europalia ’91 and Lisbon ’94 and he coordinated the Performance Department in Expo ’98. In 2004, he was distinguished with the Almada Prize for theatre, awarded by the Instituto das Artes – Ministry for Culture. He authored several articles about the creative process and he is currently working on a book project that assembles his practice-based theoretical thinking around the work of the actor, in particular, the actor’s awareness of being on stage.

Available at: https://www.theatredelaville-paris.com/en/les-artistes/details/mohamed-el-khatib. Consulted in 05-09-2019

Mohamed El Khatib is a director, and he makes a point of confronting theatre with other media (cinema, installations, media) and observing the product of these frictions. After studying literature (khâgne) and a sociology dissertation on Criticism in the French Press (director Nicolas Pélissier), he worked for various associations and institutions. In 2008, in Orléans, he co-founded the Zirlib Collective around a simple postulate: aesthetics is not devoid of political meaning. Zirlib is the result of a meeting between authors, actors, researchers, dancers, videographers and musicians from different backgrounds. Mohamed El Khatib is associate artist at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and at the Théâtre national de Bretagne. In 2016, for the writing of Finishing in Beauty, he won the Grand Prix de Littérature Dramatique. In 2018, for the writing of C’est la vie, he won the Theater Prize of the Académie Française.

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Raquel André is a performance artist and a collector of ephemeral things. She studied theatre at the School of Theatre and Cinema (Lisbon). She received her Master’s Degree on the topic “Collecting in Performing Arts” from the University Federal of Rio de Janeiro (2016) mentored by researcher and performer Eleonora Fabião with a scholarship by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal).
In 2011, she moved to Rio de Janeiro supported by the InovArt program of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. A 5-month artistic residency in Companhia dos Atores turned out to be 5-year working period with director and actress Bel Garcia in several theatre productions. She is currently an APAP (Advancing Performing Arts) artist with the support of the National Theatre Dona Maria II (Lisbon).
Since 2014, she has been working on the project Collection of People, which includes theatre productions, a television play, an exhibition, a book and a conference.

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Sara Barros Leitão has a degree in Acting by the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo and attended Classic Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She works regularly in television, cinema and theatre productions. Presently, she works as an actress, director, assistant director and dramaturge. Amongst the last  productions, she highlights the direction of  Trilogia das Barcas (2018), by Gil Vicente, and King Lear (2019) by William Shakespeare, co-produced by Centro Cultural de Belém and Toy Ensemble as well as Teoria das Três Idades (2018), co-produced by Teatro Experimental do Porto and Teatro Municipal do Porto, based upon the Oporto company TEP archives.