Jean-Denis Monory

Jean Denis Monory is one of the most remarkable French directors and specialists on baroque theatre, baroque gesture and declamation. He grew up in Grece and Italy and spent several years in London working with the Royal Court Young People Theatre and at Barbican Centre. Since 1991 he has worked with a number of prominent French theatre companies, such as L’Arc-en-Ciel, La Pleine Lune, Le Théâtre de la Sapience and his own ensemble La Fabrique à théâtre. For his directorial debut (Fando et Lis by Fernando Arrabalo) at the Festival Off d’Avignon in 1994 he received the Prix du Théâtre Vivant awarded by the RFI.

In 1997 Monory produced Les Folies Françaises, a show inspired by La Fontaine’s fables and the music of Françoise Couperin. As an actor he has appeared in a number of roles ranging from Molière’s Barbouillé through Shakespeare’s Count Orsino to Trofimov in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, as well as in films by Robert Altman, Christian Vincent and Raúl Ruiz.

Jean-Denis Monory is regularly invited to collaborate as a reciter on programmes of various early music ensembles, including Le Poème Harmonique, La Simphonie du Marais or L’Ensemble Philidor. He is one of the protagonists in the grandiose theatre production of Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre, directed by Benjamin Lazar, choreography by Cécile Roussat).