After a concerted dialogue with the partner local authorities, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, agreed to the proposal to appoint David Bobée as director of the Théâtre du Nord, the Lille-Tourcoing national drama centre.
Born in 1978, David Bobée was trained in cinema and performing arts at the University of Caen-Normandie before being the collaborator of Eric Lacascade and Pascal Rambert and then founding the Rictus company. Appointed to the management of the Normandy-Rouen National Drama Centre in 2013, he led a multidisciplinary, intergenerational and international project on several sites, with the desire to conquer new audiences.
David Bobée wants the Théâtre du Nord to be, under his mandate, a place of dynamic, open and shared creation. Accompanied by Armel Roussel, Eva Doumbia and Virginie Despentes, it intends to make the drama centre a home committed to the challenges of sustainable development and a laboratory of equality capable of charting new paths against all forms of identity withdrawal and discrimination. Equal opportunities and openness to the world will irrigate his action at the head of the School of the North, which he will also take the direction with the will to bring out new profiles of transdisciplinary artists.
David Bobée also intends to pay particular attention to the regional teams by creating a production platform at the regional level, as well as the roaming that he envisions as a way to mesh the territory of Hauts-de-France, to broaden and diversify the public.
David Bobée will take up his duties quickly, succeeding Christophe Rauck, appointed at 1er January 2021 at the Théâtre de Nanterre-Amandiers. Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin salutes the action of the latter at the head of the Théâtre du Nord, which, under his mandate, has become a well-known place for the quality and diversity of its programming, attracting a large and rejuvenated audience.