Claude Régy
Claude Régy is the Director of Les Ateliers Contemporains founded 1976, which receives funds from the French Ministry of Culture since 1978, and is dedicated to the production of contemporary theatre. He was one of the first to direct plays by Marguerite Duras (1960) and Nathalie Sarraute (1972). He introduced in France the works of playwrights Edward Bond, Peter Handke, Botho Strauss, Gregory Motton, and Jon Fosse, as well as poets Wallace Stevens, Charles Reznikoff, and Henri Meschonnic. He also worked for La Comédie Française and directed operas at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Opéra Bastille. His late work include 4.48 Psychose with Isabelle Huppert by Sarah Kane (2002), Variations sur la Mort (2003) by Jon Fosse, and Comme un chant de David, from the Psaums translated by Henri Meschonnic, with Valérie Dréville (2006). He was professor at the Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique, Paris (1981-86) and received Le Grand Prix National du Théâtre in 1991 and Le Grand Prix des Arts de la Scène de la Ville de Paris in 1994. He is the author of Espaces Perdus (1998), L’Ordre des Morts (1999), and L’Etat d’incertitude (2002).