Julien Gosselin

Julien Gosselin is a French actor and director. He founded the theatre company Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur together with six colleagues from the Ecole professionnelle supérieure d’art dramatique in Lille in 2009. In 2010, he directed their first production Gênes 01 by Fausto Paravidino at the Théâtre du Nord. Their other works include Tristesse animal noir by Anja Hilling, Les Particules élémentaires by Michel Houellebecq, premiered at the Festival d’Avignon in 2013, Je ne vous ai jamais aimés - a short play inspired by a text by Pascal Bouaziz from French rock band Mendelson, Le Père by Stéphane Chaillou and 2666, based on Roberto Bolano’s novel, which toured through France and worldwide. In 2017, he produced 1993 together with students from the 43rd school year of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg at the Festival de Maseille. For the Festival d’Avignon 2018, he adapted three novels by American writer Don DeLillo for the stage - Players, Mao II and The Names. Julien Gosselin carried on working with his texts in Falling Man for the International Theatre Amsterdam and Hammer and Sickle at the Printemps des Comédiens in Montpellier in 2019. In May 2021, he adapted Dekalog by Krzysztof Kieslowski with students from the 45th school year of the Theatre National de Strasbourg. Among his latest works are Le Passé, inspired by texts of the Russian author Leonid Andreyev, Sturm und Drang – Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur I, premiered in 2022 at Volksbühne Berlin and Extinction after Thomas Bernhard and Arthur Schnitzler, which was part of the Wiener Festwochen 2023.