Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communication, in full agreement with Norbert Métairie, Mayor of Lorient, Pierrick Massiot, President of the Regional Council of Brittany and François Goulard, President of the Departmental Council of Morbihan appointed Rodolphe Dana to the management of the National Drama Center of Lorient.
Rodolphe Dana began his acting career in Lorient with Eric Ruf (Of the disadvantage of the wind in 1997) and Eric Vigner (Marion De Lorme in 1998). In 2002, he co-founded the actors' collective Les Possédés, with whom he created numerous shows broadcast throughout France (The Distant Land, Last Remorse Before Oblivion by Jean-Luc Lagarce or Uncle Vania, Platonov of Chekhov for which Emmanuelle Devos has just received the Molière of the best actress).
His artistic project for the CDN of Lorient proposes to create a new artistic effervescence by associating the collective of the Possessed and his taste for the great theatrical frescoes bringing together many actors, as well as Jeanne Candel and Yoann Bourgeois, whose musical writings for one and circassian writings for the other also participate in the evolutions of contemporary creation. It will organize a continuous presence of authors in Lorient and will be attentive to the development of regional companies and emerging companies in the territory.
He will develop for the theatre of Lorient an ambitious theatrical program, open to dance and circus and wishes to pay special attention to the development of the adolescent audience for which he wishes to create a dedicated event “one is not serious when one is seventeen”.
The collective of the Possessed has always been strongly mobilized on the work of public awareness. Rodolphe Dana intends to continue and amplify cultural actions towards all audiences by inventing innovative, often playful devices, in order to make the presence of the theatre stronger on the city and more broadly on the department of Morbihan.
Responding to the need to support young creation, the challenges of diversity, the development of arts education and the consolidation of artistic employment, Rodolphe Dana’s project will be rolled out within a new EPCC: Théâtre de Lorient - a national drama centre, bringing together the municipal theatre of Lorient and the drama centre directed by Eric Vigner, giving birth to one of the most important CDNs in France.
The Minister wishes to acknowledge the work of Eric Vigner, who founded the CDN de Lorient and who will continue his artistic activity within his company.
Rodolphe Dana will succeed him on 1 January 2016
Paris, 9 July 2015