Seuls en Scène 2020 presents “A Conversation with Rémi Director Jonathan Capdevielle”

Photo by Julien Pebrel

JONATHAN CAPDEVIELLE was born in 1976 in Tarbes, France and lives in Paris. Trained at the National School of Puppetry Arts, he is an artist, actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist, dancer, and singer. Capdevielle is an associate artist at the Garonne Theater, European Stage, Toulouse and at the Center Dramatique National Orléans / Center-Val de Loire. Read Jonathan Capdevielle’s full bio

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.