Philippe Adrien

Philippe Adrien is an author, scenario writer and director French.

Philippe Adrien turns very quickly to the theater and becomes actor, but also assistant of Yves Robert and Jean-Marie Serreau.

Since 1965, he writes his own parts. The last date of 1982: The disastrous passion of professor Forenstein. With the cinema, he is the author of several scenarii: Breakdown, in collaboration with Bertrand Blier; Kingpin, in collaboration with Diane Kurys; Champollion, according to Jean Lacouture.

Its course of director alternates the dramatic texts (inter alia Molière, Claudel, Shakespeare, Jarry, Beckett) and of the adaptations of Kafka, Amos Tutuola, Georges Bataille, Pavel Kohout,…

Many its spectacles left in round in all Europe.

Throughout its career, it obtains many prices:

Price of the Critic 1985 for its adaptation of Dreams of Kafka, created with the Theater of the Storm and taken again with the Festival of Purchase, New York.
For its spectacle made Advertisement with Marie de P. Claudel, nomination for the setting in scene at the Dominique Price and the “molière” (1991).
Grand Prix of the Performing arts of the Town of Paris (1997).
For its spectacle Kinkali d' Arnaud Bédouet: “molière” of the best spectacle of creation and “molière” of the best author (1997).

In 1981, it takes the succession of Antoine Vitez to the direction of the Theater of the Districts of Ivry.

In 1985, it founds the Workshop of Research and Theatrical Realization to the Cartridge factory of Vincennes.

By choosing great authors like Brecht, Beckett or Claudel, it reveals its taste for a dramatic poetry with the strong philosophical, religious or political accents. But it is also interested in the contemporary authors: Copi, Armando Spangled, Enzo Cormann, Stoppard, Werner Schwab, …

Since 1996, it directs the Theater of the Storm in Vincennes.

Philippe Adrien is professor of interpretation to the National Academy of Dramatic art of Paris since 1993.

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