Jean-Marie Besset is a French contemporary playwright, translator and
theater director.He has been nominated ten times for the Molière
award (France's Tony Award) - six times as Best Playwright and four
times as Best Translator. He won in 1999 for his adaptation of Michael
Frayn's Copenhagen. He won the Best New Play award from the Syndicat
National de la Critique Dramatique (Association of French Critics) for
Ce qui arrive et ce qu'on attend in 1993, the New Theater Talent prize
from the SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers), also in
1993, and the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française in
2005. He was named Chevalier (1995) and Officier (2002) in the Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres, and Chevalier in the Ordre national du
Mérite (2009) by the French government.Born in Carcassonne on
November 22, 1959, Besset spent his youth in Limoux, a small town in
the southwest of France and continued his studies in Paris following
the baccalauréat. After graduating from the École supérieure des
sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC) in 1981 and the Institut
d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1984, he began to pursue his career as
a playwright. After fulfilling his national service at the French
Institute in London (1984â€"85), he lived in New York from 1986 to
1998.In 1999, he returned to France to become the artistic director of
the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a landmarked Paris theatre acquired by
Laura Pels. In 2000, in partnership with producer/director Gilbert
Désveaux, he formed the company BCDV THEATRE to initiate and mount
projects (among which was a summer theatre festival, NAVA â€" New
Authors in the Aude Valley.)
theater director.He has been nominated ten times for the Molière
award (France's Tony Award) - six times as Best Playwright and four
times as Best Translator. He won in 1999 for his adaptation of Michael
Frayn's Copenhagen. He won the Best New Play award from the Syndicat
National de la Critique Dramatique (Association of French Critics) for
Ce qui arrive et ce qu'on attend in 1993, the New Theater Talent prize
from the SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers), also in
1993, and the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française in
2005. He was named Chevalier (1995) and Officier (2002) in the Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres, and Chevalier in the Ordre national du
Mérite (2009) by the French government.Born in Carcassonne on
November 22, 1959, Besset spent his youth in Limoux, a small town in
the southwest of France and continued his studies in Paris following
the baccalauréat. After graduating from the École supérieure des
sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC) in 1981 and the Institut
d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1984, he began to pursue his career as
a playwright. After fulfilling his national service at the French
Institute in London (1984â€"85), he lived in New York from 1986 to
1998.In 1999, he returned to France to become the artistic director of
the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a landmarked Paris theatre acquired by
Laura Pels. In 2000, in partnership with producer/director Gilbert
Désveaux, he formed the company BCDV THEATRE to initiate and mount
projects (among which was a summer theatre festival, NAVA â€" New
Authors in the Aude Valley.)
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