Anna Noziere

Theater Director and author

After twenty years with an amateur theater company, Anna Nozière became involved with various professional institutions and companies. Her work, whether collaborative or individual, is always demanding, experimental, physical, and often musical. It shows a purposeful originality that has delighted the press and the public. Eventually this journey, which she calls “a great training ground”, led her to create more on her own.

She founded her company and started to write “ The Faithful – the Story of Annie Rozier ” a comic yet intimate text that was awarded first prize (by unanimous vote) by the Aide à la création du Center national du théâtre et du soutien de la SACD to the author (a national theatrical institution that supports creation and new authors). The text, published by the Solitaires Intempestifs, was the starting point of an ambitious production that would only be completed after three years of work. The ensuing play, which eventually opened at the National Theater of Bordeaux in 2010 before touring France, received the Souffleur's prize for “Most explosive play”, and was selected by the Charter ONDA (National Office for Artistic Development), and by the 2011 Festival Impatience (Odéon – Theater of Europe).

Anna Nozière's new play " La Petite " will soon open at the Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris and will run from September 27 to October 27, 2012 before touring France. This will be another test of her writing, which is always done in close collaboration with the actors she hires.

Anna Nozière's work with Synthesis mostly addresses issues of commitment – either collective or individual. Everyone is invited to become the author or co-author of the performance that is being invented as it slowly heads towards the unknown.