Éric Vigner


Éric Vigner is a French stage director, actor and scenic designer.
He directed the Centre Dramatique National Théâtre de Lorient in Lorient, from 1996 to 2015.
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Early life and education

Vigner was born in Rennes.
Éric Vigner graduated in visual arts from the University of Brittany, France. He then studied in Paris, at the
École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.

Career

In 1990, he founded his own theater company, Suzanne M. Éric Vigner. In 1996, he was appointed by the French Minister of Culture to direct Brittany's Drama Centre, henceforth called the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient.
Since 1996, the graphic artists M/M Paris were in charge of the CDDB's visual communication. Besides Vigner's commitment to contemporary playwrights, including Marguerite Duras and, for which he was awarded the honour of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998, Vigner developed a new approach to the French classics – Racine's Bajazet, Corneille's L’Illusion Comique, Victor Hugo's Marion De Lorme, Molière's L’École des femmes and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and William Shakespeare's Othello.
In October 2010, Vigner founded an international theater academy, "The Academy", which follows the principles of a little democracy and assembles seven young trilingual actors from seven cultural backgrounds – Morocco, Romania, Mali, Belgium, South Korea, Germany, and Israel. They work on classical as well as contemporary forms of writing and present La Place Royale by Pierre Corneille, Guantanamo by Frank Smith and La Faculté by Christophe Honoré.
He has developed international collaborations to last over the years, searching for a genuine mutual cultural transmission. He has directed in different languages and cultural backgrounds: at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul, The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully ; twice at the National Theater of Albania, Tirana, 2007,The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais, and 2016, Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo ; at 7 Stages Theater, Atlanta, 2008, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès ; in India, Gates to India Song based on The Vice Consul and India Song by Marguerite Duras.
At the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, 2016, during Romania's campaign for Unesco's approval of The Wisdom of the Earth sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, he staged the famous trial from 1928 – Brancusi versus the United States.

Actor

Theatre productions

Opera productions

Scenic designs

The Academy

Decorations