Stanislas Nordey

Stanislas Nordey (born 1966) is a French actor and theatre director. He is the son of actress Véronique Nordey and film director Jean-Pierre Mocky.

Biography

Nordey was born in Paris. After his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, he made his directorial debut in 1988, with La Dispute by Marivaux at the Théâtre Pitoëff in Geneva. He is known for his innovative directing, in particular, texts by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bêtes de style in 1992 at the Festival d'Avignon Off, Porcherie, etc.) and by Werner Schwab, and also for his direction of operas.

From 1994 to 1997, he was the artist associated with the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers at the invitation of Jean-Pierre Vincent and, from 1998 to 2001, he worked at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe - Centre dramatique national in Saint-Denis before leaving due to the severe financial crisis.^[1] He explained this failure, his adventures in "citizen theatre" and related his artistic journey in his interview collection, Passions civiles.

Today, he is teaching director at the high school of the Théâtre national de Bretagne. In 2008 he won the "Laurence Olivier Award" in London for the opera Pelléas et Mélisande.

Theatre

Actor

1990 : Shaptai by Raphaël Sadin, director Madeleine Marion
1990 : Combat dans l’ouest by Vsevolod Vishnevsky, director Jean-Pierre Vincent
2002 : Quai ouest by Bernard-Marie Koltès, director Jean-Christophe Saïs
2003 : Orgia by Pier Paolo Pasolini, director Laurent Sauvage
2004 : Pasteur Ephraïm Magnus by Hans Henny Jahnn, director Christine Letailleur
2005 : Les Habitants by Frédéric Mauvignier, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Ouvert
2007 : Philosophy in the Bedroom by Sade, director Christine Letailleur
2007 : Thérèse Philosophe, director Anatoly Vasiliev
2008 : La Ballade de la geôle de Reading by Oscar Wilde, director Céline Pouillon, Maison de la Poésie
2010 : Les Justes by Albert Camus, director Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre national de la Colline

Director

1988 : La Dispute by Marivaux, Théâtre Pitoëff Genève, Festival d'Avignon Off
1991 : Bête de style by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Théâtre Gérard Philipe Saint-Denis
1992 : Le Bon Sens by Jorgos Magnotis, written for Festival d'Avignon
1992 : La Légende de Siegfried by Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre de Sartrouville, Festival Enfantillages, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
1992 : La Dispute by Marivaux
1992 : Tarataba by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
1992 : La Conquête du pôle sud by Manfred Karge, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
1993 : Calderon by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1993 : Abou et Maïmouna, Festival Enfantillages
1993 : Notes sur Pylade, Festival de Saint-Herblain
1993 : 14 pièces piégées by Armando Llamas, Studio Théâtre du CDRC de Nantes
1994 : Pylade by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Le Quartz, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
1994 : Vole mon dragon by Hervé Guibert, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre de la Bastille
1994 : La Suffocation mécanique by Hervé Guibert, written for the Festival d'Avignon
1994 : La Vraie Vie d'Hector F. by Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre de Sartrouville
1995 : Splendid's by Jean Genet, Théâtre des Amandiers
1995 : Ciment by Heiner Müller, Théâtre des Amandiers
1995 : Un mal imaginaire by Maxime Montel, written for the Festival d'Avignon
1995 : A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Théâtre des Amandiers
1996 : Un étrange voyage by Nazim Hikmet, Espace Malraux Chambéry, Théâtre de la Ville
1996 : La Noce by Stanisław Wyspiański, Théâtre des Amandiers
1997 : Contention by Didier-Georges Gabily after La Dispute by Marivaux and others, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre des Amandiers
1997 : Champ contrechamp by Philippe Minyana, written for Festival d'Avignon
1997 : J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne by Jean-Luc Lagarce, Théâtre Ouvert Paris
1998 : Mirad, un garçon de Bosnie by Ad de Bont, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
1998 : Tartuffe by Molière
1998 : Les Comédies féroces by Werner Schwab
1999 : Pigsty by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Théâtre Gérard Philipe
1999 : Les Trois Sœurs, opera by Peter Eötvös, created by Utrecht
2000 : Récits de naissance by Roland Fichet, Philippe Minyana and Jean-Marie Piemme, Passerelle de Saint-Brieuc
2001 : Violences by Didier-Georges Gabily, Théâtre national de Bretagne
2002 : L’Epreuve du feu by Magnus Dahlström, Théâtre national de Bretagne
2003 : Atteintes à sa vie by Martin Crimp, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre national de Bretagne
2003 : A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, Théâtre national de Bretagne, Théâtre de la Colline
2004 : Le Triomphe de l'amour by Marivaux, Théâtre national de Bretagne
2004 : Deux morceaux de verre coupant by Mario Batista, written for the Librairie de Paris
2005 : Les Habitants by Frédéric Mauvignier, Théâtre Ouvert
2005 : Cris by Laurent Gaudé, Théâtre Ouvert
2005 : Le Bain by Jean-Luc Lagarce, Théâtre Ouvert
2006 : Gênes 01 and Peanuts by Fausto Paravidino, Théâtre national de Bretagne
2007 : Électre by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Théâtre de la Colline
2007 : The Screens by Jean Genet, Studio-théâtre de Vitry, Festival d'Avignon
2007 : Incendies by Wajdi Mouawad, Théâtre National de Bretagne
2008 : Pélleas et Mélisande by Debussy, Austria and London, Covent Garden (2008 Sir Laurence Olivier Prize)
2008 : Sept secondes (In God we trust) by Falk Richter, Théâtre du Rond-Point
2008 : Das System (Le Système) by Falk Richter, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre national de Bretagne
2010 : Les Justes by Albert Camus, Théâtre national de la Colline

Opera

Director

1997 : Le Rossignol by Igor Stravinsky, Théâtre du Châtelet
1997 : Pierrot lunaire by Arnold Schoenberg, Théâtre du Châtelet
1998 : Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti, after Enschede
1998 : Three Sisters by Peter Eötvös after Chekhov, Opéra de Lyon
2000 : Kopernikus by Claude Vivier, after Banff
2000 : Héloïse et Abélard by Ahmed Essyad, written by Opéra national du Rhin, Festival Musica Théâtre du Châtelet
2002 : Le Balcon by Peter Eötvös after Jean Genet, created for Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
2003 : Capuletti et Montechi by Vincenzo Bellini, Staatsoper Hannover
2003 : Jeanne au bûcher by Arthur Honegger, Festival in the Ruhr
2004 : Les Nègres by Michael Lévinas after Jean Genet, created by the Opéra de Lyon
2004 : Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen, Opéra Bastille
2008 : Melancholia by Georg Friedrich Haas, Opéra Garnier

Cinema

Actor

1986 : On a volé Charlie Spencer ! by Francis Huster
1993 : Three Colors: Blue by Krzysztof Kieslowski
1995 : Don't Forget You're Going to Die by Xavier Beauvois

Bibliography

Stanislas Nordey and Valérie Lang, Passions civiles, interview with Yan Ciret and Franck Laroze, Éditions La Passe du Vent, 2000 - ISBN 2845620187
(in Italian) Il corpo del testo, preface by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Teatro, Milan, A. Mondadori, 2001