Julien Gosselin

Julien Gosselin trained at the École supérieure d’art dramatique de Lille, directed by Stuart Seide. In 2009, with six classmates from his graduating class, he founded the company Si vous pouviez lécher mon coeur. He first directed Gênes 01 by Fausto Paravidino and Tristesse animal noir by Anja Hilling. In 2013, his staging of Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules élémentaires (The Elementary Particles), presented at the Festival d'Avignon, propelled him to the forefront of the European scene. He became known for his long-running theatrical frescoes, which adapt ambitious works of fiction. He then directed Roberto Bolaño's 2666 (2016), before tackling the work of Don DeLillo through a series of shows: Joueurs, Mao II, Les Noms (2018), Le Marteau et la Faucille (2019), and Vallende Man (The Falling Man) (2019). In 2021, he staged an adaptation of Kieślowski's Dékalog with the Théâtre National de Strasbourg's Group 45 and created Le Passé, based on texts by Leonid Andreyev. In 2023, he presented Extinction, based on Thomas Bernhard, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Arthur Schnitzler, with a cast combining his troupe and that of the Volksbühne. Appointed director of the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in 2024, Julien Gosselin will revive Le Passé for the 2025-2026 season and create Musée Duras with the graduating class of the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique.