Seuls en Scène 2020 presents “A Conversation on the State of Festivals and Theaters in France”

ANNE-MATHILDE DI TOMASO serves as Direction of Productions at Avignon Theater Festival, formerly Director of Productions at Comédie de Valence – Centre Dramatique Drôme Ardèche.

BAPTISTE MANIER is Production Administrator for Comédie-Française.

PIERRE GENDRONNEAU is Director of Productions for Festival d’Automne in Paris, formerly Director of Productions at CDN Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil and Chargé de Production at Scène National de Sénart. At Festival d’Automne in Paris, Pierre Gendronneau closely works with Festival Director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and artistic Directors Marie Collin and Joséphine Markovitz. He is a 2012 graduate of Science-Po Paris and a former Sciences-Po Paris/Princeton University exchange student (2009-2010).

FLORENT MASSE, who curates the Festival, was trained as an actor and director at Lille National Theater alongside his studies in American Literature and Civilization at the University of Lille. He later pursued his theater studies at Amherst College as a Levy-Despas Fellow and a teaching assistant in the Department of French. It is there that he originated L’Avant-Scène, a program that combines language and dramatic training. He has directed more than 60 full-length productions of canonical and new works of French theater since arriving at Princeton in 2001 and has hosted several prominent theater artists. In 2017, he was named Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture.