Julien Gosselin

Julien Gosselin trained at the École supérieure d’art dramatique de Lille, directed by Stuart Seide. With six fellow students, he formed ‘Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur’ in 2009 and directed “Gênes 01” by Fausto Paravidino (Théâtre du Nord, 2010), “Tristesse animal noir” by Anja Hilling (Théâtre de Vanves, 2010), and “Les Particules élémentaires” after Michel Houellebecq (Festival d’Avignon, 2013; Les Ateliers Berthier, Odéon, 2014; reprised at Théâtre de l’Odéon 6e, 2017). Next came “Je ne vous ai jamais aimés” by Pascal Bouaziz (Théâtre national de Bruxelles, 2014), “Le Père” by Stéphanie Chaillou (Théâtre national de Toulouse, 2015), and “2666,” adapted from Roberto Bolaño’s whirlwind novel (Festival d’Avignon, 2016; Les Ateliers Berthier, Odéon, 2016).

After “1993” by Aurélien Bellanger (Festival de Marseille, with class 43 of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg), he returned to Avignon for “Joueurs, Mao II, Les Noms” after Don DeLillo (staged also at Les Ateliers Berthier, Odéon, 2018), which also inspired “Vallende Man” (« L’Homme qui tombe »), first performed at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (Netherlands), then “Le Marteau et la Faucille” (Printemps des Comédiens, Montpellier). In 2018, he won the XV Europe Prize for Theater in St. Petersburg. In 2021, Julien Gosselin worked with the Théâtre national de Strasbourg’s Groupe 45 on an adaptation of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Dékalog,” and directed “Le Passé,” based on texts by Russian author Léonid Andréïev (Odéon 6e, 2021). In 2023, he created “Extinction,” based on Thomas Bernhard and Arthur Schnitzler, which brought together actors from ‘Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur’ and the Volksbühne and premiered at the Printemps des Comédiens in Montpellier, before going on to the Avignon Festival, Berlin, Antwerp, and Paris (Théâtre de la Ville). He created “Musée Duras” with students from the CNSAD Class of 2025. He has been the director of the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe since July 2024.