Stephanie Janin

Stephanie Janin discovers stage direction at Hunter College in New York, while practicing acting. A scolarship with ERASMUS enables her to study the history of theatre at Cambridge University, England. Fascinated by the English language, its cultures and theatre practices, she tastes the joyful challenges of translating and adapting works in English for French-speaking stage. She pursues her studies in the Beckett Centre (Trinity College, Dublin) where she obtains an MPhil in Irish Theatre Studies. Her dedication for the issues of staging gender and social identities and exploring their politics and aesthetics brings her to meet Anne Bisang at the Comedie in Geneva. This fruitful collaboration will enable her to work as dramaturge on many stage productions. Nourishing devising processes and offering her dramaturgical gaze and experience to emerging companies and theatre projects is most meaningful to her.

Alongside her work in theatre and stage production, she trains with Jean-François and Marion Martel in Lille in France to acquire some techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. She devises workshops in vocational schools with apprentices working in industrial or craft trades, exploring self-respect in social power relationships. She conducts workshops in further education for social work, such as Collaborative devising of equality pedagogy provided by the HES-SO in Fribourg and Lausanne.

After a BA in Art History, French and English Language and Literature and a Federal Diploma of pedagogical abilities (D-1800), she teaches apprentices in diverse vocational schools, including stage technicians since the opening of this apprenticeship training at La Manufacture in 2011. She teaches them technical English for the stage and production work, theatre history, labour law, economics and communication skills.