Eléonore Bonah

Artist in residence at the Comédie de Genève, Eléonore Bonah grew up between rural Plaine valley in the Vosges mountains and Strasbourg. After studying literature and philosophy in Paris, combined with tap dance training with Victor Cuno, she studied acting at the Ecole Internationale Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she performed under the direction of Olivia Corsini and Serge Nicolaï. Before starting an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor in Potsdam, Germany, she met Johan Simons in April 2018 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and is recruited by him for a first professional engagement in September 2018 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum as assistant director. Between September 2018 and June 2020, she collaborates with Johan Simons, as well as with Tobias Staab, Karin Henkel, Koen Tachelet and Herbert Fritsch. During the 2019-2020 season she signs her first personal stage direction at Bochum Schauspielhaus with the actor Lukas von der Lühe in a project entitled " The Earth is a Ball " (Die Erde ist eine Kugel), for which she also elaborates the set design. At the same time, she meets in Bochum Julian Rosefeldt and participates in the preparation of his opera "Szenen aus Goethes Faust" at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and the shooting of his film "Penumbra". She joins La Manufacture in Lausanne in September 2021 in the Stage Directing section. Her training led her to cross paths with Mathilde Monnier, Béatrice Houplain, Manon Krüttli, Michèle Pralong, Nicolas Maury, Marianne Denicourt and Rudy Decelière and she will complete it in 2023.
In addition she is engaged to collaborate as a dramaturge on a student project at the ESAD du TNS, in France. Furthermore, she is hired by Philippe Grandrieux as assistant director for his opera “Tristan and Isolde” at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2024 she collaborated with Alexandre Montin&Maxine Reys for “Amazing Journey”, with Redwan Reys for “Carmen Carat” and benefits from a research residency into directing actors at the Théâtre de Carouge as part of the “Transmission” program.
In November 2024, she will co-wrote the show “Lenz” with Maria Clara Castioni at the Comédie de Genève, based on work presented as part of the OUT 10 festival at La Manufacture. A free stage adaptation of Georg Büchner's story Lenz, with Luna Desmeules and Anne Tismer on stage. The project will tour at the CDN Orléans - Val de Loire and Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in spring 2025.
She is the winner of the Prix Tremplin Leenaards/Manufacture 2023.