Daniel Mesguich was born in 1952 in Algiers, Algeria. After going through the conservatory of Marseille, it follows, for two years, studied philosophy at the faculty deCensier, in Paris. Admitted in 1970 at the Conservatoire national supér... (Full Biography Below)
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Daniel Mesguich was born in 1952 in Algiers, Algeria. After going through the conservatory of Marseille, it follows, for two years, studied philosophy at the faculty deCensier, in Paris. Admitted in 1970 at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, he receives the teaching of Antoine Vitez and Pierre Debauche. Barely out of the CNSAD, he founded his company, the Theatre of the Mirror, with which he opened a drama course. It is as well as ten years after, in 1983, he returned to the Conservatoire at the request of Jean-Pierre Miquel and became the youngest professor. He has not left since, and was appointed a director in October 2007. He is also frequently asked to conduct master-classes abroad : Academy of Beijing, Princeton University, Monterrey (Mexico), Budapest... and is invited to give many lectures on pedagogy in the theatre (New York, Harvard,Oxford, Bogota...). Many of the actors were his students, among which : Richard Anconina, Jerome Ager, Dominique Frot, Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Perez, Philippe Torreton... Daniel Mesguich has more than one hundred productions for the theatre, fifteen for the opera, in France and abroad (Brussels, Prague, Moscow, Budapest, Leipzig, Seoul, Brazzaville, Bologna, Beijing...) and has been the actor, forty films for the cinema and television. He assumed senior responsibilities, including the management of two national systems : the théâtre Gérard Philipe st.-Denis and the national theatre of Lille, Tourcoing and the region Nord/Pas-de-Calais. He held the Court of Honor duPalais of the popes during the Avignon festival of 1981 and the biggest stages in the French and foreign (Comédie-Française, the théâtre de Chaillot, Beijing Opera...). Daniel Mesguich is invited frequently as a reader in many literary events (Marathon des mots in Toulouse, Banquets Lagrasse... ) and occurs, equally frequently, as a narrator alongside musical personalities such as Brigitte Engerer, Soo Park, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Hélène Grimaud or under the baton of great conductors such as Kurt Masur, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Philippe Bender... With the pianist Cyril Huvé, it has revived the genre lost in the melodrama, this is evidenced by a CD published by the Editions of the Women. He wrote many theoretical papers on the theatre, and made numerous translations of theatre plays and is also the author of, inter alia, an essay, The eternal ephemeral (editions Verdier) He was director of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris from 2007 to 2013. A theatre is named after her at the Cours Florent. He is the father of Sarah Mesguich and William Mesguich. In 2010, it is part of the jury of the prix Marguerite-Duras.
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