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After studying philosophy and classical literature, she turned to lighting design, largely due to her encounters with Henri Alekan, whom she assisted on John Berger’s Question de géographie, and Dominique Bruguière on Botho Strauss’s The Time and the Room, directed by Patrice Chéreau.
While maintaining her passion for texts, she created lighting for productions by Marie Vayssière, François Rancillac, Alain Milianti, Jean-Paul Delore, Michel Cerda, Éric Vigner, Arthur Nauzyciel, Catherine Diverrès, Marie-Louise Bischofberger, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Jacques Vincey, Frédéric Fisbach, Niels Arestrup, Éléonore Weber, Alain Ollivier, Laurent Gutmann, Daniel Larrieu, Alain Béhar, Jérôme Deschamps, Denis Marleau and Stéphanie Jasmin, Christiane Jatahy, Salia Sanou, Cédric Gourmelon, Jonathan Châtel, and Soa Ratsifandrihana.
Since 2011, she has regularly collaborated with the German director Thomas Ostermeier. She designed the lighting for Ibsen's Ghosts at Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in 2013, and worked with Ostermeier again in Berlin for Yasmina Reza's Bella Figura in 2015, The Seagull in 2016, Twelfth Night in 2018, and King Lear at the Comédie-Française in 2022.
Alongside her lighting career, she is also a stage director.
In 1993, she directed I Don’t Want to Die, Bad Trip based on Danielle Collobert's journal. In 2001, she began an artistic collaboration with Daniel Jeanneteau, founding the company La Part du Vent, which became associated with Théâtre Gérard Philipe in Saint-Denis.
Their first production, Racine's Iphigénie, premiered at CDDB in Lorient and then at TNS. This was followed by Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata in 2003, Sarah Kane's Blasted in 2005, and Mikhail Bulgakov's Adam and Eve in 2007.
In 2008, they co-directed Labiche's The Affair of the Rue de Lourcine with the Groupe 37 at the TNS School, followed by August Stramm's Fires at the Avignon Festival, and Daniel Keene's Scissors, Paper, Rock at Théâtre national de la Colline in 2009. In 2010, she directed Virginia Woolf's The Waves at the Studio-Théâtre in Vitry, then at Théâtre national de la Colline, where she was an associate artist. In 2014, she co-directed Traffic by Yohann Thommerel with Daniel Jeanneteau at Théâtre national de la Colline. In 2017, she directed The Apple in the Dark, adapted from The Builder of Ruins by Clarice Lispector, at the MC93 in Bobigny.
In 2021, she oversaw the dramaturgy and lighting for Pelléas and Mélisande, directed by Daniel Jeanneteau at the Opéra de Lille. In 2023, she co-directed George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's opera Picture a Day Like This at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
From 1998 to 2007, she taught at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in the scenography department, later teaching at ENSATT from 2004 to 2016.
She became an associate professor at the University of Paris 10 - Nanterre from 2016 to 2022, focusing on performing arts, dramaturgy, and directing. In 2022, she was appointed co-director of the directing program at ENSATT alongside Guillaume Lévêque.
