Administration and committees ・ Comédie-Française

The Institution

“The Comédie-Française carries within it this utopia that consists of reading the present in the light of the past, its missions being too vast and the curiosity of its artisans too insatiable to be reduced to one meaning rather than another. The common catalyst remains its Troupe and all its departments, working tirelessly to lead you on these fanciful paths.”

ÉRIC RUF

Administrative Board, Reading Committee: the artists preside over the destiny of the Comédie-Française.

The Administrative Board

Chaired by the General Administrator, it is composed of seven tenured sociétaires – including the Doyen/Doyenne, who is an ex officio member – and two deputies. The composition of the committee is changed every year.

Precise composition:

Doyen/Doyenne, currently Madame la Doyenne Claude Mathieu.
three tenured sociétaires and a deputy elected by the general assembly of sociétaires.
three tenured sociétaires and a deputy appointed by the Minister for Culture, following proposals submitted by the General Administrator.

The Administrative Board deliberates on subjects affecting the life of the Troupe, such as:

nominations of actors to become sociétaires
the distribution of shares in the Société des Comédiens-Français

In a team boosted by two representatives from the technical and administrative staff and one representative of the pensionnaires, the Administrative Board examines and approves the budget and accounts by vote, as well as the decisive projects for the institution, in the presence of the Minister for Culture and budget controllers.

The Reading Committee

The Reading Committee examines the texts proposed by the General Administrator with a view to adding them to the Comédie-Française repertoire. Only works that have been registered in the repertoire, which ranges from Greek tragedies to contemporary authors, maybe performed on the main stage, currently the Salle Richelieu.

It is chaired by the General Administrator. It is made up of twelve members:

the entire Administrative Board
four personalities from the world of literature and the arts appointed for two seasons by the Minister for Culture, following proposals made by of the General Administrator.

Currently, these personalities are:

Mr Yves Angelo, filmmaker and cinematographer
Ms Séverine Daucourt, poet
Ms Florence Naugrette, theatre historian
Ms Sigolène Vinson, novelist

Staff structure

Administration

General administrator: Éric Ruf
Managing director: Kim Pham
Secretary general: Anne Marret
Technical director: Benoît Simon
Production director and head of artistic coordination: Bertrand Schaaff
Deputy head of artistic coordination: Claude Martin
General manager external and audiovisual productions: Olivier Giel
Wardrobe services manager: Sylvie Lombart
Building and equipment manager: Marie-Anne Geay
Director of human resources: Nathalie Bruyneel
Accounting officer and head of financial services: Éric Parent
Curator-archivist: Agathe Sanjuan
Literary advisor: Laurent Muhleisen
Deputy technical director: Patrick Moch

Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier

Deputy administrator: Bénédicte Nécaille
Technical director: Philippe Lagrue

Studio-Théâtre

Deputy administrator: Régine Sparfel
Technical director: Éric Dumas

Fondation pour la Comédie-Française

President: Marie-Claire Janailhac-Fritsch

Administrative Board (Until 1 January 2022)

General administrator : Éric Ruf
Doyenne : Claude Mathieu

Éric Génovèse
Florence Viala
Clotilde de Bayser
Loïc Corbery
Suliane Brahim
Sébastien Pouderoux

And
Françoise Gillard
Benjamin Lavernhe

Reading committee

Examines and selects plays with a view to their inclusion in the Repertoire.

Yves Angelo
Séverine Daucourt
Florence Naugrette
Sigolène Vinson
and the Administrative Board

The Institution

The Administrative Board

The Reading Committee

Staff structure

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