Joël Jouanneau began his career in amateur theatre with the Collectif du Grand Luxe and directed works by Genet, Pinter, Fassbinder, Gombrowicz, Borges, Artaud and others from 1970 to 1984. From 1999 to 2003, he was co-director of the Théâtre de Sartrouville-CDN. He also took part in the teaching collective of the École du Théâtre National de Strasbourg between 1992 and 2000, and then taught at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique de Paris. Since 1985, he has written several plays published by Actes Sud-Papier, all of which have been staged. Since 1988, he has written and directed plays for children “of all ages”, which have been published in the Heyoka Jeunesse collection by Actes Sud-Papier. He has adapted Shakespeare for young audiences with Le Roi Errant and ventured into the world of musical theatre and children’s opera, directing Les Trois Jours de la Queue du Dragon by Jacques Rebotier and writing L’Indien des Neiges with music by Jacques Rebotier. As a playwright, Joël Jouanneau has helped build a theatrical repertoire for young audiences. He was elected president of ANRAT, the French National Association for Theatrical Research and Action, in 2006. He has created stage adaptations of works by Robert Walser, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Jelinek and Shakespeare and regularly directs contemporary plays, including Waiting for Godot, Endgame, The Last Tape and Happy Days by Beckett, Minetti by Thomas Bernhard, Rimmel, Gouaches and Velvette by Jacques Serena, The Queens by Norman Chaurette, Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertész, And Give Us the Shadows by Lars Noren and Juste le fin du monde, Le Pays lointain-traversée and J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne by Jean-Luc Lagarce.

Patrick Bouvet was born in 1962. A singer and songwriter in a rock band, in the 1980s, he devoted himself primarily to creating music. He has written several radio plays for France Culture, and his texts are regularly adapted for the theatre. He has collaborated with musician Avril and on an audiobook for the label founded by Rodolphe Burger (Territory, Filigranes Éditions, and Dernière Bande Productions). His DVD, Big Bright Baby (Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 2006), features three short films and a slideshow of two exhibitions, one at the Lyon Biennale in 2001 and the other at Bobigny Media Library in 2002. In 2010, his CD Pulsion Phantom (Kwaidan label) was produced by Marc Colin, founder of the Nouvelle Vague group, with Julie Delpy, Helena Noguerra and Elli Medeiros. Since the early 1990s, his artistic approach to sampling and musical collage has found a new outlet in writing. His debut novel, In situ, was published by Éditions de l’Olivier in 1999. Since then, he has published Shot (2000), Direct (2002), Chaos boy (2004), Canons (2007), Pulsion lumière (2012), Carte son (2014), Petite Histoire du spectacle industriel (2017) and Le Livre du dedans (2019).