Stage director
Graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique and former muse of Olivier Py, Michel Fau has directed and acted in André Roussin’s “Lorsque l’enfant paraît” with Catherine Frot, “Qu’est-il arrivé à Bette Davis et Joan Crawford ?” by Jean Marboeuf with Amanda Lear, “George Dandin” by Molière and Lully with Alka Balbir, “Trahisons” by Harold Pinter with Roschdy Zem, “Fric-Frac” by Edouard Bourdet with Régis Laspalès, “Douce-amère” by Jean Poiret with Mélanie Doutey, “Le Tartuffe” by Molière with Michel Bouquet, Barillet et Grédy’s “Peau de vache” with Chantal Ladesou, Christian Siméon’s “Brûlez-la” with Claude Perron, Barillet et Grédy’s “Fleur de cactus” with Catherine Frot, André Roussin’s “Un amour qui ne finit pas” with Léa Drucker and Pascale Arbillot, Molière’s “Le Misanthrope” with Julie Depardieu, Joe Orton’s “Que faire de Mister Sloane ?” by Joe Orton with Charlotte de Turckheim and Gaspard Ulliel, “Demain il fera jour” by Henry de Montherlant with Léa Drucker, “Britannicus” by Racine with Geneviève Page, “Nono” by Sacha Guitry with Julie Depardieu, Ibsen’s “Maison de poupée” with Audrey Tautou, David Mamet’s “American buffalo” with Michel Vuillermoz and Nicolas Duvauchelle, Strindberg’s “Créanciers“, Frédéric Constant’s “La Désillusion“, Zola’s “Thérèse Raquin” with Isabelle Gardien…
Michel Fau has directed the following operas : Berg’s “Wozzeck“, Strauss’s “Elektra“, Offenbach’s “La belle Hélène“, Adam’s “Le postillon de Lonjumeau“, Strauss’s “Ariane à Naxos“, Rameau’s “Dardanus“, Hahn’s “Ciboulette“, Mozart’s “Bastien et Bastienne“, Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly“, Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin“, Verdi’s “Rigoletto“, Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte“, Puccini’s “Tosca“, Capdenat’s “Le condamné à mort” (after Genet)…
He has performed Shakespeare, Labiche, Maeterlinck, Racine, Feydeau, Claudel, Aeschylus, Copi, Genet, Bernhard, Sade, Courteline, Durif… under the direction of Jérôme Deschamps, Benjamin Lazar, Jean-Michel Ribes, Olivier Py, Philippe Calvario, Eric Vigner, Emmanuel Daumas, Sébastien Rajon, Paul Desveaux, Olivier Desbordes, Jean-Michel Rabeux, Jean Gillibert, Stéphane Braunschweig, Jean Macqueron, Pierre Guillois, Jean-Claude Penchenat, Jean-Luc Lagarce, Laurent Gutmann, Gilberte Tsaï ,Gabriel Garran ,Stephane Auvray-Nauroy, Eric Sadin…
He has appeared in films directed by Arielle Dombasle, Josée Dayan, Stéphane Demoustier, François Ozon, Pierre Palmade, Clément Metayer, Muriel Robin, Benoit Mariage, Cédric Anger, Franck Ribière, André Téchiné, Sacha Barbin, Edouard Baer, Christophe Honoré, Xavier Giannoli, Valérie Minetto, Arnaud Sélignac, Albert Dupontel, Jean-Michel Ribes, Jérôme Legris, Nina Companeez, Noémie Lvovsky, Michel Hassan, Benoît Pétré, Alain Brunard, Benoit Jacquot, Dominik Moll, Gilles Bourdos…
Michel Fau was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe of the City of Paris in 1998, the 2006 Prix du meilleur comédien by the Syndicat de la critique for Olivier Py’s “Illusions Comiques“, the 2015 Grand Prix du meilleur spectacle lyrique by the Syndicat de la critique for his staging of “Dardanus” under the baton of Raphaël Pichon, and the Prix du Brigadier for “Un amour qui ne finit pas” and “Fleur de cactus“.
