Succeeding Christian Duchange, Séverine Coulon will take up her duties as artistic and general director of the hall for young audiences next May.
Press release from the Mill of April 11, 2023:
Séverine Coulon, director and actress will become artistic and general director of La Minoterie from May 2023. She joins a team of 7 people and succeeds Christian Duchange, founder of the place.
Chosen by a jury made up of the President of the La Minoterie Association, qualified representatives of the City of Dijon, the DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region, Séverine Coulon will be keen to pursue the powerful commitment of La Minoterie to creation for young audiences. At the same time, she will remain artistic manager of the Cie Les Bas-bleus which is settling, on this occasion, in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Séverine Coulon wishes to develop the co-generational aspect of the place: come all together to the theater, whatever our age, alone or accompanied or even young spectators in our theatrical practice.
A committed artist, she will pay particular attention to cultural plurality, parity, inclusiveness on stage as well as the opening and broadening of audiences.
Convinced of the need for the collective, she will develop collaborations in pooling and collective intelligence with many actors and artists in the sector at regional, national and European level, thinking in particular about the question of the sustainability of shows.
Séverine Coulon is the founder and artistic director of the Cie Les Bas-bleus, she is an associate artist at the ARC (Scène Nationale Le Creusot) as well as at the Théâtre à la Coque (National Center for Puppetry) in Hennebont. She was also an associate artist at the Grand Bleu (a stage for young audiences) in Lille from 2019 to 2021.
A lifelong lover of the stage, she is an actress, puppeteer, director, and author and has collaborated with numerous companies including the Cie Tro-Héol and the Bouffou Théâtre.
She has often been seen on stage in creations aimed at children and young people and in particular in La mer en dotillés (S. Boulier) which won the Molière award for young audiences in 2007.
In 2019, she took advantage of the great success of her first production Filles & Soie (created in 2016, more than 300 performances to date) to create her own company (Cie Les Bas-bleus). She has since written and directed The Animated Life of Nina W. in October 2020 as well as The Little Story of The Animated Life of Nina W. in January 2021 in response to the health crisis and lately, Gourmandise or you have to love the life in January 2023.
Séverine is also very committed and militant around the issues of performing arts for children and young people. (Board of Directors of the association Scènes d’Enfance/ASSITEJ France and former co-president of platO – young public platform of Pays de la Loire).
Photography Laurent Guizard / The Flour Mill
