Sébastien Kheroufi

Sébastien Kheroufi is a stage director. Born in the working-class districts of the Hauts-de-Seine, he enrolled at the École supérieure d'art dramatique in Paris after completing a BEP (vocational training certificate) in mechanics and a number of other trades. As soon as he finished his training, he played in Peer Gynt, directed by Anne-Laure Liégeois at the Théâtre du Peuple in Bussang, as well as Transfuges by Alexandra Badea and Mais cette nuit, vivre! based on Platonov by Anton Chekhov, directed by Louisa Chas. In 2022, he was one of the winners of the Ateliers Médicis and took part in the sixth edition of Création en cours and the third edition of the TRANSAT festival. In early 2023, he worked with the Théâtre National de la Colline and a secondary school class in Épinay-sur-Seine on the issue of exile. In June of the same year, he presented his first production, Antigone, at the Théâtre du Soleil during the Départ d'Incendies festival. In the cinema, he regularly films under the direction of Marguerite de Hillerin and Félix Dutilloy-Liégeois, as well as with other filmmakers of his generation. In 2024, he premiered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry, and that same year presented a re-creation co-produced by the Festival d'Automne, the TQI and the Centre Pompidou.