Daniel Jeanneteau - ©Mammar Benranou
A native of Creutzwald, Moselle, the set designer and director Daniel Jeanneteau trained in Strasbourg at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the École Supérieure d'Art Dramatique of the National Theatre. He was awarded the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 1998 and the Villa Médicis Hors-les-Murs in Japan in 2002. He received the Grand Prix of the Syndicat de la Critique in 2000 and 2004. His encounter with the director Claude Régy led him to design Régy’s stage sets for about fifteen years. He also collaborated with many directors and choreographers, including Catherine Diverrès, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Alain Ollivier, Nicolas Le Riche, Trisha Brown, Jean-François Sivadier, and Pascal Rambert. Since 2001, he has been focusing on creating his own productions, in collaboration with Marie-Christine Soma, based on texts by Racine, Strindberg, Labiche, Bulgakov, Maeterlinck, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Daniel Keene, and Anja Hilling. From 2002 to 2017, he was an associate director at various public theaters.
In 2006, he directed the premiere of Into the Little Hill by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp at the Paris National Opera. He led the Studio-Théâtre de Vitry from 2008 to 2016, and since 2017, he has been the director of the Théâtre de Gennevilliers, National Drama Center, alongside Juliette Wagman and Frédérique Ehrmann.
In 2019, he created The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from the Cinema by Martin Crimp, presented at the Avignon Festival. In 2020, he adapted The Other Daughter by Annie Ernaux, at the invitation of Ircam-Centre Pompidou. In 2021, he directed Pelléas and Mélisande at the Opéra de Lille, then collaborated with Mammar Benranou on Aguets, a score for a "wild circus" performed by nine young artists from the Académie Fratellini, and The Cherry Orchard* 桜の園 by Anton Chekhov at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center in Japan.
