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Grégoire Delacourt, both advertising executive and writer, was born in Valenciennes, in the north of France. He began his career in the early 1980s by joining an advertising agency. In 2011, he published his first novel, L’Écrivain de la famille, a largely autobiographical work. The book received several awards, including the Marcel Pagnol Prize, the Rive Gauche Prize, the First Novel Prize, and the Cœur de France Prize. He followed this success in 2012 with La Liste de mes envies, which was praised by critics. L’Enfant réparé, his tenth book and first autobiographical account, was published in September 2021.

After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre, he chose to become a farm worker in the Pays de Caux. This experience provided the material for most of the films he has directed since 1992. He is the author of around twenty films, all of which have been presented at the Marseille International Film Festival. L’Heure du berger won both the Grand Prize of the French Competition and the National Association of Art House Cinemas Award in 2008. Three of his feature-length films have had national theatrical releases: Secteur 545 (2004), Maniquerville (2009), and Va, Toto ! (2017). He occasionally teaches at art and film schools in Paris, Geneva, Beijing, and Angers.

He has been leading the Compagnie de l’Arcade since its founding in 1993. His recent productions include Ma Forêt fantôme by Denis Lachaud, Je ne marcherai plus dans les traces de tes pas and Pulvérisés by Alexandra Badea, Sous la glace by Falk Richter, La Dispute by Marivaux, La Revue tragique after Seneca, Reines perdues inspired by Racine and Winnicott, Combats de possédés by Laurent Gaudé, Les Autres by Jean-Claude Grumberg, Le Bain by Jean-Luc Lagarce, L’Enfant Dieu by Fabrice Melquiot, Rouge/Sang, a dance-theatre creation, Pour Phèdre by Per Olov Enquist, and Divagations Amoureuses based on texts by Xavier Durringer and Eugène Durif.

Cast Guillaume Clausse, Juliette Coulon, Xavier Czapla, Sylvie Debrun, Patrice Gallet, France Hervé, Elodie Wallace
Set design François Gauthier-Lafaye
Lighting design Eric Seldubuisson
Costumes design Rose-Marie Servenay
Technical director Jérôme Bertin

Produced by Compagnie de l’Arcade
Co-produced by La Comédie de Picardie (Amiens), Le Mail – Scène culturelle (Soissons), La Manekine (Pont-Sainte-Maxence), and Théâtre Jean Vilar (Saint-Quentin)
With the support of Adami, Spedidam
The text L’Enfant réparé is published by Éditions Grasset.
The text Une honte. Essai sur une image de soi is published by Le Gac Press.
Compagnie de l’Arcade receives support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication under the framework of support for approved theatre companies.
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