Frédéric Poty

Born in 1966, Frédéric Poty went on stage at the age of eleven in 1977. He did not descend from theater sets until 2000, when he chose to devote himself exclusively to writing and directing. In 1980, he became the youngest pupil of the Comédie de Saint-Etienne, the group to which he belonged will be one of the last to benefit from the knowledge of Jean Dasté…

In 1985, he opened a small theater in Saint-Etienne le cocotier In 1989, he left the city where he grew up for another mining area and landed in Lille where he joined the team of Dominique Sarrazin and shared until 1992 the adventures of the theater of discovery as well as the end of that of the Salamander National Theater of Nord Pas de Calais.

1992 Back to the South, Frédéric Poty joins the nascent adventure of the Équipage company in Marseilles, in 1994 he becomes its artistic director and leads it on the roads of France until 2003. In 2004, after a Mexican tour, he took the reins of the Villeneuve en Scène festival, to which he gave national visibility and which he directed until 2014.

In 2015, he left to take on the artistic direction of the Zygomatics festival in Fos Sur Mer, an offbeat event where humor, street shows, exhibitions and performances mingle.

After a quick stint in the administration of the Nono Theater in Marseille, in 2016 he joined the puppeteer Ezéquiel Garcia-Romeu as general administrator and production director and accompanied the company’s creations all around the world.

He was promoted to the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2015 and has been a member of the IETM’s advisory committee since March 2019.

Mélanie Khalef

Graduated in 2002 with a master’s degree in management and administration (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce – IPAG Paris) and in 2004 with a diploma as an assistant director (CEFPF – Paris), she began her career in the artistic world on the sets of filming. She left Paris in 2009 and joined the team of the Festival de Villeneuve en Scène (Villeneuve les Avignon – 30) in 2013 where she discovered the world of performing arts as an assistant director then secretary general, then she joined the team of the Festival d’Avignon in 2015 as Head of Partners and Patronage for one year. Since then, she has worked for several companies and places as a production, administration and communication attaché, as well as on set as an assistant director.

Théo Vodenitcharov

A graduate in economics and political science, a multifaceted person, sometimes radio journalist, sometimes producer of live shows, and sometimes audiovisual director, conceived in Algeria, born in Bulgaria, Théodore lives and works in Marseille.

In particular, he joined several structures over the years as Production Manager, the teams of « Planète Emergentes », the « Théâtre Nono » or the « Théâtre de la Massue – Cie Ezequiel Garcia Romeu.

Polyglot, he is fluent in French, English, Bulgarian and Spanish which facilitates the organization of international tours.

Marie Ousset
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