Thomas Quillardet

After training as an actor at the Studio-Théâtre d'Asnières, Thomas Quillardet began directing with Copi's Les Quatre Jumelles (2004). The following year, as part of the Year of Brazil in France, he organised the Teatro em Obras festival. From 2006 to 2014, he joined the Jakart/Mugiscué theatre collective, directing a number of shows including the diptych Le Frigo et Loretta Strong by Copi (2007), Le Repas (2008) and L'Atelier Volant (2009) by Valère Novarina, and Villégiature after Goldoni (2010, with Jeanne Candel). In 2012, invited by the Comédie-Française, he staged Les Trois Petits Cochons. In 2015, Thomas Quillardet founded the company 8 AVRIL, with whom he presented Montagne (2016), a Franco-Japanese creation, and Où les cœurs s'éprennent, based on Éric Rohmer (2016). Invited to the Festival d'Automne for the first time in 2018, he presented Tristesse et joie dans la vie des girafes by Tiago Rodrigues (2017), and returns in 2020 for Ton père, an adaptation of the novel by Christophe Honoré. His latest creation, Une télévision française (2021), was presented at the Théâtre de la Ville in 2022.