Caroline Guiela Nguyen
Caroline Guiela Nguyen is an author, director and producer. Initially a sociology student, she joined the École duThéâtre National de Strasbourg and upon its release in 2009 founded the company Les Hommes Approximatifs. Keen to put on stage faces and bodies that are usually absent, to imagine with them great fictional stories, the company Les Hommes Approximatifs spent a long time looking for its actors, both professional and amateur. Convinced of the power of fiction while being attentive to telling the world as it presents itself, Caroline Guiela Nguyen always writes in advance, immersed in places that capture the issues of our time, in contact with those she calls “experts of our realities”.
In 2017, she created Saigon at the Ambivalence(s) festival at the Comédie de Valence and at the 71st Festival d’Avignon. Presented at the Ateliers Berthier in 2018 and 2019, and still touring today, the show has been performed in some fifteen countries. Fraternité, a fantastic tale, also created at the Festival d’Avignon, was presented at Les Ateliers Berthier in 2021, and is touring France and Europe. In 2022, she wrote and directed Kindheitsarchive, a drama about adoption, at the Schaubühne in Berlin, with the actors of the permanent ensemble.