Anna Nozière started acting at 13 when she created a village theatre troupe with her friends. Two decades later, she wrote Les Fidèles – Histoire d’Annie Rozier, exploring the phantoms of her family history. Published by Solitaires Intempestifs and awarded writing grants by the CNT and the SACD, Anna Nozière directed her play at the Théâtre national de Bordeaux in 2010. Selected by the Charte ONDA (National Office for Artistic Development) and the Festival Impatience, the show was performed a few months later at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe and went on a national tour.
In 2012, 2014 and 2016, La Colline–Théâtre national, La Biennale jeune public Odyssées en Yvelines and the Festival international des Arts de Bordeaux Métropole invited Nozière to direct La Petite, Joséphine-les enfants unis, her play published by Actes Sud/Héyoka. In 2016, Nozière began her empirical research into the “relationships the dead and living weave between them”. In 2017, Wajdi Mouawad invited her to take part in a workshop with “no obligation to produce a result”. The laboratory took place in 2017 and has led to other similar initiatives involving a dozen artists who collectively explore their connection to people who have died.
Between 2018 and 2021, Anna created dramatic forms that bore witness to the nature and vitality of this experience. These sometimes radically different forms were known as Esprits (“Spirits”).
Mirroring this work, and in parallel to it, Anna wrote Oiseau, a text to be read from the age of nine, which addresses the relationships between the living and the dead from both points of view. A new version of Esprits and Oiseau, awarded the CNL writing grant, the ARTCENA stage writing grant, and the 2021 PlatO Prize for youth writing, form a diptych that appeals to all generations.