Seuls en Scène brings celebrated French actors and directors, as well as promising early-career artists, to Princeton University and the local community to present their work, introducing American audiences to dynamic and engaging French productions. We are thrilled to bring you this new edition of the festival in partnership with the Festival d’Avignon and the 54th Edition of Festival d’Automne in Paris.
Bon Festival à toutes et tous! (Have a great festival everyone!)
Individual Festival Show Programs
- Program for Une Ombre Vorace by Mariano Pensotti — Sept. 12-13 at 8 PM
- Program for Le Grand Sommeil by Marion Siéfert — Sept. 13-14 at 5 PM
- Program for Reading-Performance of La Métamorphose by Franz Kafka — Sept. 17 at 8 PM
- Program for Insuline & Magnolia by Stanislas Roquette — Sept. 19-20 at 8 PM
- Program for Mémoires sauvées de l’eau by Nina Léger — Sept. 20 at 5 PM
- Program for Nous sommes un poème by Stanislas Roquette & Gilles Geenen — Sept. 21 at 5 PM
Sponsorship
The French Theater Festival is sponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, L’Avant-Scène, Department of French and Italian, The Office of the Provost, Humanities Council, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Study (PIIRS), European Politics and Society Program (EPS), Department of Comparative Literature, Department of German, Department of Music, University Services, Center of Excellence, and Rockefeller College. International sponsors include Festival d’Avignon, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Cultural Services of the French Embassy – Villa Albertine, Albertine Foundation, the Education Department of the French Embassy, and Institut français.
Seuls en Scène 2025 Production
Directed and Curated by Florent Masse
Assisted by Kelly Eggers and Corine Caffort
Stage Management: Andrea Cibelli
Production, Technical Direction and Supervision: Chloe Brown, Matt Pilsner, Nick Robinson, Lucien Dowdell, Tim Godin, Torrey Drum, Kay Richardson, Miriam Patterson
Administration: Sena Hill
Communications: Steve Runk, Jaclyn Sweet, Tracy Patterson, Jonathan Sweeney, Zohar Lavi-Hasson, Shuquin Windbush
Logistics and Community Support: Corine Caffort, Anne Hoppenot, Sophie Orloff, Maryam Simon, and Emmanuel Simon
Special Thanks
With gratitude and thanks to Sena Hill, Kelly Eggers, Charles Leonardi, Marion Young, Chloe Brown, Matt Pilsner, Andrea Cibelli, Jane Cox, Christy Wampole, Göran Blix, Judith Hamera, Jennifer Rexford, Rick Myers, Christina H. Lee, Kathy Crown, Deborah Yashar, Mohamed Bouabdallah, Diane Josse, Louise Dodet, Vincent Mano, Anne Hoppenot, Sophie Orloff, Corine Caffort, Maryam, Emmanuel Simon, Claire Massy Paoli, Amina Shabani, Yassine Ait Ali, Joe Fonseca, and Pascal Rambert.
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information about ways you can engage with and support the Indigenous community on campus please visit the website of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAI) at Princeton University, Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Acting Chair: Stacy Wolf
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
View a list of LCA faculty & guest artists
For a look at all the people working behind the scenes to bring you this event, view a list of LCA staff.
The programs of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are made possible through the generous support of many alumni and other donors. View a list of LCA Supporters
Department of French & Italian
Chair: Göran Blix
Associate Chair: Pietro Frassica
Director, L’Avant Scene: Florent Masse
