Birane
Ba
pensionnaire
Birane Ba could never imagine that a poem he recited in class would change his life. His professor of French suggested he join the school theater club, but a whole year passed before he did. It was love at first performance, which was only confirmed in 2009 when he attended a presentation of Eduardo De Filippo’s La Grande Magia directed by Dan Jemmett at the Salle Richelieu. The teenager promised to himself that he would return to The Comédie-Française, but this time to perform on stage.
During his training at the Vernon Municipal Conservatory, and later at the Rouen Regional Conservatory, Birane Ba discovered Georges Feydeau by playing in Feu la mère de Madame, Sergi Belbel with Après la pluie and Shakespeare through Hamlet. Subsequently, as part of a Cours Florent Classe Libre, he worked on Ibsen’s Peer Gynt with Jean-Pierre Garnier, and on Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Du luxe et de l’impuissance as well as Victor Hugo’s Ruy Blas with Julie Brochen.
In 2016, Birane Ba enrolled at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique (CNSAD) to be trained by Nathalie Bécue who introduced him to Racine through Bérénice. He returned to this playwright with Mithridate in the class taught by Nada Strancar who also introduced him to Corneille by working on Suréna. Through Robin Renucci’s course, he became familiar with the techniques of diction. At the same time, Birane Ba could be seen in The Prayer (La Prière), a film by Cédric Kahn released in cinemas in 2017, and in Paris etc, a film made for television by Zabou Breitman broadcast the same year on Canal+. On stage, he played Molière’s Dom Juan directed by Anne Coutureau at the Théâtre de la Tempête before going on tour, and Mohamed Rouabhi’s Jamais seul by Patrick Pineau staged at Bobigny’s MC93, which was also followed by a tour through France. In June 2019, he played in Matei Visniec’s Jeanne et le feu, as part of a CNSAD graduation workshop directed by Lisa Toromanian.
Birane Ba was first engaged as assistant artist at the Comédie-Française in September 2018, and performed as Octave in Molière’s Scapin the Schemer (Les Fourberies de Scapin) by Denis Podalydès on tour (later rerun at the Salle Richelieu), as well as the title role in Racine’s Bajazet staged by Éric Ruf. Having become pensionnaire of the Company on the 25th February 2019, Birane Ba rejoined Éric Ruf who entrusted him with the role of Ludovico Marsili in Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo. Lilo Baur saw him as American boxer Rugby, in her staging of Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear (La Puce à l’oreille).
During the 2019-2020 season, Birane Ba performs in Georges Feydeau’sA Flea in Her Ear (La Puce à l’oreille) by Lilo Baur at the Salle Richelieu; in Forums by Patrick Goujon, Hélène Grémillon, Maël Piriou, directed by Jeanne Herry at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and in the reruns of Scapin the Schemer (Fourberies de Scapin) by Molière, Racine’s Bajazet and Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo.
Biography as in the press release of La Puce à l’oreille , September 2019.
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C'est lundi au Vieux-Co : The advent of fame
Celebration of the 200th anniversary of Talma’s death
Vx-Colombier
TicketsAt the Comédie-Française
2025-2026
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C'est lundi au Vieux-Co : The advent of...
Celebration of the 200th anniversary of Talma’s death
Vx-Colombier
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by Molière directed by Clément Hervieu-Léger
Clitandre (alternating)
Richelieu
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after Anton Chekhov adapted and directed by Elsa Granat
Medvédenko, Sémione Sémionovitch, maître d'école
Richelieu
2024-2025
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EN TOURNÉE / Le Soulier de satin
by Paul Claudel staged and directed by Éric Ruf
le Chinois, le Vice-Roi de Naples et un soldat
Avignon
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after Anton Tchekhov adapted and directed by Elsa Granat translated by André Markowicz...
Medvédenko, Sémione Sémionovitch, maître d'école
Richelieu
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after William Shakespeare adapted, directed and staged by Silvia Costa translated by...
Sœur fatale, un messager et Assassin (alternating)
Richelieu
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by Paul Claudel staged and directed by Éric Ruf
le Chinois, le Vice-Roi de Naples et un soldat
Richelieu
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by Edmond Rostand directed by Emmanuel Daumas
Lignière, Jeune homme, Pâtissier, Poète, Cadet, le Capucin et Mère Marguerite de Jésus
Richelieu
2023-2024
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by William Shakespeare Translated by Yves Bonnefoy Directed by Silvia Costa
Sœur fatale, un messager et Assassin (en alternance)
Richelieu
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by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès
Octave, fils d’Argante et amant de Hyacinte (alternating)
Richelieu
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by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur
Rugby (en alt.)
On tour
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by Molière Directed by Clément Hervieu-Léger
Clitandre (alternating)
Richelieu
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by Edmond Rostand Directed by Emmanuel Daumas
Lignière, Jeune homme, Pâtissier, Poète, Cadet, le Capucin et Mère Marguerite de Jésus
Richelieu
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Bertolt Brecht - Kurt Weil with Elisabeth Hauptmann Adapted and directed by Thomas...
Macheath, chef d’une bande de malfaiteurs
Richelieu
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by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur
Rugby (en alt.)
Richelieu
2022-2023
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Théorème / Je me sens un cœur à aimer...
d'Amine Adjina d’après Pier Paolo Pasolini directed by Amine Adjina et Émilie Prévosteau
le Garçon
Vx-Colombier
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by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur
Rugby (en alternance)
Richelieu
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by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf
Ludovico Marsili et Moine (en alternance)
Richelieu
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After George Sand Adapted by Laurent Delvert et Aurélien Hamard-Padis Directed by...
Antonio, ami d'Astolphe
Vx-Colombier
2021-2022
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by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès
Octave
Richelieu
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(Molière-Lully, impromptu musical) Text and direction Yoann Gasiorowski
Studio
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d’après les frères Grimm Adaptation libre et mise en scène Rose Martine
Hansel
Studio
2020-2021
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after the Grimm brothers Freely adapted and directed by Rose Martine
Hansel
Studio
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by Jean Racine directed by Éric Ruf
Bajazet
Studio Marigny
2019-2020
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by Jean Racine Directed by Éric Ruf
Bajazet
Vx-Colombier
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de Patrick Goujon, Hélène Grémillon, Maël Piriou Devised and directed by Jeanne Herry
Jean, Calimero, Titit’, Lucas, Paixetlumiere, Séraphindumonde, Surlechemindelalumiere,...
Vx-Colombier
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"Scapin The Schemer" by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès
Octave (alternately)
Richelieu
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Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf
Ludovico Marsili et Moine (alternately)
Richelieu
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A Flea in her ear by Georges Feydeau Directed by Lilo Baur
Rugby (alternately)
Richelieu
2018-2019
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Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Éric Ruf
Ludovico Marsili et Moine (alternately)
Richelieu
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Scapin The Schemer by Molière Directed by Denis Podalydès
Octave (Alternating)
Richelieu
Gallery
Les Fourberies de Scapin 23-24
Birane Ba, Benjamin Lavernhe, Jean Chevalier
Le Misanthrope 23-24
Clément Hervieu-Léger, Gilles David, Adeline d'Hermy, Birane Ba
Cyrano de Bergerac 23-24
Nicolas Chupin, Alexis Debieuvre, Laurent Stocker, Jordan Rezgui, Elrik Lepercq, Yoann Gasiorowski, Birane Ba
