Presentation

The Artistic Committee serves for three years and meets once a year to review grant applications and to make funding decisions. The Committee is chaired by the Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States; the Director of AFAA serves as Vice Chairman. The Committee is composed of American and French theater professionals. A Program Officer facilitates the operations and activities of the Artistic Committee and plays a vital role in assisting organizations in developing new projects, advising potential partners, evaluating the eligibility of their projects for support, and promoting the Fund.

Committee Members

Franck Bauchard
Theater Advisor
Ministère de la Culture, DMDTS, Paris

Jacques Blanc
Director
Le Quartz, Brest

Susan Booth
Artistic Director
The Alliance Theater, Atlanta, GA

Curt Colombus
Artistic Director
Trinity Repertory Theater, Providence, RI

Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
Director
La Comédie de Reims, Reims

Erik Ehn
Dean
School of Theater at CalArt

Oskar Eustis
Director
The Public Theater, New York, NY

Sandrine Grataloup
Head, International Promotion
SACD, Paris

Pierre Hivernat
Producer
Etablissement Public du Parc de la Villette, Paris

Gideon Lester
Associate Director
American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T) Cambridge, MA

Olivier Poivre d'Arvor
Director (Vice Chairman, ex-officio Etant donnés)
AFAA (Association Française d'Action Artistique), Paris

Mark Russell
Independant Curator
New York, NY

The Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States, the Director of AFAA and a representative of DMDTS are ex-officio members of the Artistic Committee.

Administrative Staff

Jérôme Neutres
Cultural Attaché
Head of Visual and Performing Arts Dept. (French Embassy)
Tel 212 439 1483
Jerome.NEUTRES@diplomatie.gouv.fr

Nicole Birmann Bloom
Program Officer (French Embassy)
Tel 212 439 1444
Nicole.BIRMANN@diplomatie.gouv.fr

Former Artistic Committee Members

Philip Bither, Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MN; Sabine Bossan, Entr'Actes-SACD - Paris; Marcel Bozonnet, Conservatoire National Supérieure d'Art Dramatique - Paris; Robert Cantarella, Théâtre du Parvis Saint-Jean – Dijon; Jim Carmody, Theater Forum University of California - San Diego, CA; Muriel Couton, SACD - Paris, Alain Crombecque, Festival d'Automne - Paris; Liz Diamond, Yale Repertory Theater - New Haven, CN; Jean-Claude Fall, Théâtre des Treize Vents – Montpellier; Michel Fournier, Ministry of Culture, DMDTS – Paris; Barbara Gaines, Chicago Shakespeare Theater - Chicago, IL; Del Hamilton, 7Stages - Atlanta, GA; Jean-Marie Hordé, Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris; Joseph V. Melillo, Brooklyn Academy of Music - Brooklyn, NY; Charles Newell, Court Theatre - Chicago, IL; Stanislas Nordey, Théâtre Gérard-Philippe - Saint-Denis; Laura Pels, Laura Pels Foundation - New York, NY; Carey Perloff, American Conservatory Theater - San Francisco, CA; Travis Preston, Center for New Theater and School of Theater California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) - Valencia, CA; Molly Smith, Arena Stage - Washington, DC, Philippa Wehle, SUNY at Purchase - New York, NY.

Honorary Members

Michel Fribourg (†), Harvey Lichtenstein, Nigel Redden, Donald T. Sanders, Pierre Santini, Pierre Schneider, Stuart Seide, Paul Tabet, Jean-Marie Villégier, Dominique Wallon, Lawrence J. Wilker, John R. Young.