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Ariane Mnouchkine is a world-renowned French stage director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964.

She has written and directed 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978). In 1989, she directed La Nuit Miraculeuse.

Biography

Ariane Mnouchkine (born 1939 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) is the daughter of Russian film producer Alexadre Mnouchkine and maternal granddaughter of British stage actor Nicholas Hannen. Ariane is the namesake of the production company "Ariane Films" that was founded by their father.

Ariane attended England University and studied psychology before returning to her roots in theater. She continued theater studies at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq where in 1964 she founded Théâtre du Soleil (Theater of the Sun) with her fellow students. The theater collective still continues to create social and political critiques of local and world cultures. In the beginning Theatre du Soleil was more experimental. As the group gained popularity and notoriety, the methodology became more contemporary.

Ariane is a strong influence in modern theater and is quoted for saying "I am in the present and only the present matters to me." on a regular basis.

While she is mainly a stage director, Ariane has been involved in a few movies. Her movie "1789", which dealt with the French Revolution, brought her international fame in 1974. In 1978 she wrote and directed "Molière", a biography of the famous French playwright for which she received an Oscar nomination. She has also collaborated with Hélène Cixous on a number of projects including "La Nuit miraculeuse" and "Tambours sur la digue", two made-for-television movies in 1989 and 2003 respectively. She also has writing credit for "L'Homme de Rio" (The Man From Rio, 1964).

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