Didier Girauldon is an actor and director. After his training at the Tours Conservatory, he joined Royal Holloway in London, then worked for several years in England and Scotland as an actor and dancer. Returning to France, he perfected clown and mask techniques with Mario Gonzalez, whose assistant he became, notably at the CNSAD in Paris. He is now one of his closest collaborators. His career as an actor and director has him traveling regularly to Europe, Scandinavia, Ukraine and the United States, notably to New Orleans where from 2005 to 2008 he was involved in a cultural reconstruction project in Louisiana. and in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. From 2001 to 2011, he co-directed the collective Les Gueuribands. In 2010-2011, he was an associate director at the Center Dramatique Poitou-Charentes. From 2011 to 2014, he was artistic director of the University Theater of Tours. In 2011, in order to continue the research around stage and participatory writing that he has been carrying out for around ten years, he created the Jabberwock Company in Tours. He translates, adapts and directs texts by English-speaking authors, and forms a lasting association with the Quebec author Marc-Antoine Cyr, of whom he will soon create Les Paratonnerres. He recently collaborated with Constance Larrieu for the staging of the opera Platée, by Rameau, in the Czech Republic.
