ABOUT
Juliette has trained as an actor/singer and director
In March 2008, she took a leap of faith and moved from Paris to London
Since in London, Juliette has worked as a Director, Assistant Director and Stage Manager for various fringe theatre productions
As a playwright, she now has a body of work of eight full length plays
Plays
ROOTS AND WINGS (2024) work in progress
HOBBLEDEHOY (2023) full length play, read by the Script Readers at Theatre Royal Stratford East in London and by The Bridge House Theatre in London
DYLAN (2022) full length play, shortlisted by The Druid Theatre in Galway and shortlisted by London Playwrights Blog. The first act was also read at the Baron’s Court Theatre, London, as part as their Sunday’s Fix event
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF NOA FITZSIMMONS (2021) full length play, shortlisted by Traverse Theatre in Glasgow and shortlisted by the BBC Writer’s Room
LITTLE WING (2016) full length play, produced by Five Minutes Before the Miracle at the Jack Studio Theatre, London in 2020 (postponed because of the pandemic) Also staged for 4 nights at The Take Courage Theatre in Canada Water, London, a Bare Essentials production as part of their Christmas Special
BITTERSWEET (2015) full length play
430 KING’S ROAD An Urban Odyssey (2013) full length play, produced by Five Minutes Before the Miracle at Eat Me Drink Me in Hammersmith, London
DEAR WALLIS (2011) full length play, produced by Exchange Theatre for the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town, London and by the Horse Trade Theatre in Manhattan, New York
Director and Producer (theatre)
LITTLE WING (2020), Director and Producer, The Jack Studio Theatre, Brockley, London
430 KING'S ROAD An Urban Odyssey (2013), Director and Producer, Eat Me Drink Me, Hammersmith, London
SHORT PIECES for Bastille Day in Battersea Park, London (2010), Assistant Director
ORAN RUE DES JUIFS (2007) Assistant Director, Theatre du Nord Ouest, Paris
Producer for several EICAR short films
Short films (writer and director)
NO F*** CHICKEN (2021) Director (written by Jessica Ann-Jenner) an Arts Council England project produced by The Jack Studio Theatre
IRISH VIOLET (2005) in French, subtitled in English. Produced By EICAR
JUST FOR TODAY (2004) in English and French. Produced by EICAR
Acting
Part of Wallis in my play DEAR WALLIS in 2011 at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town, London
Different parts in short films produced by EICAR
Two different characters in 50 EUROS a play directed by John Haggerty in Paris and produced by EICAR
in 2005
Stage Management
THE FLIES directed by David Furlong at the Camden Theatre, London in 2009
F*** MEN directed by Phil Wilmott at the Finborough Theatre London in 2008
MADAME’S LATE MOTHER directed by Samuel Miller at the Rosemary’s Branch, London in 2008
Internship at the Arcola Theatre (technician position), London in 2008
Various technical jobs for short films produced by EICAR, Paris
A few words about myself…
I left Paris 16 years ago and came to London in order to work for the English theatre. Not knowing anyone at the time and being quite isolated, I immediately found myself an internship at the Arcola Theatre and a stage manager job at the Finborough Theatre. Back then, I was also working two jobs in Portobello Road
When it comes to playwriting I'm self-taught. I read a lot about theatre and a lot of plays, I watch interviews and talks online, I see plays onstage and I learn something each and every time I receive feedback on my own work
Playwriting is now my only professional activity. I currently try to work on two plays a year and one or two translations of my plays from English to French, a year
I have a strong imagination and a solid life experience, which makes for a good combination when it comes to writing fiction. My plays tend to depict "slices of life" and I like to write about human beings when at a tipping point, their capacity for transformation, transcendence and resilience. All of this sprinkled with a good deal of fantasy, poetry and lyricism (By the way, I’ve also trained as an opera singer when I was younger).
I produced and directed my work twice: 430 King’s Road with 11 actors (premiered in 2013 in a performing space in Hammersmith) and Little Wing which unfortunately, at the end of an eighteen months process, had to be postponed because of the pandemic.
I learn and rectify my mistakes very quickly. When I was producing and directing my play Little Wing, I would, when necessary, rework passages from one rehearsal to the other. I think, that I have now learned what it means to kill one's darlings and I have become quite good at it
I have always bounced back stronger from the different setbacks I have encountered in my life. I heard recently that this is called being anti-fragile and not resilient, giving that not only you are bouncing back but you are bouncing back stronger and that is the anti-fragile part of it.
I thought I was a master procrastinator, but in the past few years I have discovered that I am actually a hard working person with a very strong routine and discipline especially when it comes to writing.
And finally, my other interests/hobbies aside from playwriting are cinema, ballet, music, photography, languages and cities/architecture.