Director Jean Bellorini is passionate about bringing classic works of literature and drama to the stage in productions combining theatre and music. His portfolio includes Tempête sous un crâne based on Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, Paroles gelées adapted from Rabelais, which earned him the Molière Award for Best Director, The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht, which won the Molière Award for Best Public Theatre Show, Liliom by Ferenc Molnár, and Karamazov, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, created for the 2016 Festival d’Avignon.
Appointed in 2014 as the director of the Théâtre Gérard Philipe, a national drama centre in Saint-Denis, he created Un instant d’après Proust and Onéguine based on the novel by Pushkin. Each season, he also stages a play with the acting company he founded, the Troupe éphémère, whose members are all in their teens. He regularly works on operatic and international productions in collaboration with companies such as the Berliner Ensemble, the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and, in spring 2022, the Teatro di Napoli for the creation of Il Tartufo.

He has been the director of the TNP since 2020. His production of Valère Novarina’s play Le Jeu des Ombres was performed at the Semaine d’art en Avignon. In 2022, he was invited by the Teatro Di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale to create Molière’s Tartuffe with an Italian acting company, in a translation by Carlo Repetti. He and his company created The Suicide, a Soviet vaudeville by Nikolai Erdman, in 2022. In June 2023, he created Les Messagères, based on Sophocles’ Antigone, with actors from the Afghan Girls Theater Group. In November 2023, he directed Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, performed at the Opéra de Caen and conducted by Sébastien Daucé. In January 2024, he created Les Misérables in China, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, with the Yang Hua Theatre Company at the Poly Theatre in Beijing. He is currently working on Histoire d’un Cid, based on the work by Corneille, which will premiere in the summer of 2024 as part of the Château de Grignan’s Fêtes Nocturnes 2024.