Pascal Rambert is French writer, choreographer and director for the stage and screen. In 2016, he received the Theater Prize from the Académie Française for his entire body of work. Among the affiliated institutions he worked closely with Paris Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and the National Theater of Strasbourg. In 2026 he was made a Knight of the legion of honor.
Rambert’s theatre plays and choreographies have been produced by structure, supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and staged in Europe, North America, Asia, Russia, South America and theMiddle East.
His writings (theatre, stories and poetry) are published in France and translated, published and staged in over 20 languages around the world. His dance pieces, including Memento Mori (2013) created with lighting designer Yves Godin, have been performed at major festivals and contemporary dance festivals in Europe as well as New York, Tokyo and Los Angeles.
One of Rambert’s career highlights is Clôture de l’amour (Love’s End) (2011) for which the script won the prize for public theater in the Theater 2013 – Dithea competition, the prize for best new French-language play from the Syndicat de la Critique (Critics’ Union) in 2012, and the Grand Prize for dramatic literature from the Centre national du théâtre (National Theater Center) in October, 2012. In 2017, Clôture de l’amour was staged over 180 times in France and much more all over the world and was translated in 23 languages. Another notable play is Répétition (Rehearsal) (2014), presented as part of the Festival d’Automne in Paris, which won Rambert the 2015 annual prize for literature and philosophy at the Académie Française.
Other acclaimed works in the past decade include Avignon à vie (Avignon for Life), De mes propres mains (With My Own Hands), Argument, Une vie (A Life), Actrice (Actress), Reconstitution, Nos Parents (Our Parents) and Christine.
In 2019, Soeurs (Sisters) premiered in France, followed closely by the Spanish version, Hermanas. In the same year, Rambert was Visiting Belknap Fellow in the Humanities and Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University.
In 2019 he was a Belknap Longterm Fellow at Princeton University for 3 months.
In 2022, he created his new play Sowane written for Egyptian actresses and actors during the D-CAF Festival in Cairo (EGY) and adapted his play Finlandia created in Madrid in 2022 for Israel Elejalde and Irene Escolar into a French version with Victoria Quesnel and Joseph Drouet at The Bouffes du Nord Theater in Paris (FR).
In 2025 he created the Mexican version of Ranger, and the first part of his French trilogy Les conséquences at the TNB in Rennes, which was on tour in Paris at the Théâtre de la Ville as part of the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Annecy and Nice. He recreated Soeurs with Audrey Bonnet and Victoria Quesnel in 2026.
