Patrick Loubatière

Patrick Loubatière is a French author and journalist, stage director and teacher. He is also a chess coach, and a former national champion.

Career

Plays

He wrote and directed two French stage pieces for Alison Arngrim: ''Confessions d’une Garce de la Prairie'' (2006+) and ''La malle aux trésors de Nellie Oleson'' (2012+). These comedic, interactive shows are based on the cult series Little House on the Prairie, where Alison Arngrim played the role of Nellie Oleson. Patrick Loubatière joins Arngrim on the stage as a comedy duo. Both shows got rave reviews in the French media. In August 2016, a book was published to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the shows.

Journalist

He is also a prolific television and music journalist. Writer for the Belgian weekly '' Télépro'' and for several French magazines, he has published interviews with most of the actors on the series Lost, NCIS, The Mentalist, Desperate Housewives, Criminal Minds, Revenge, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, etc. He has also interviewed such TV legends as Larry Hagman, Robert Conrad, Lee Majors, David McCallum, Stefanie Powers, Paul Michael Glaser, Patrick Duffy, Barbara Bain, etc.

Loubatière's book ''Little House on the Prairie from A to Z'' accompanies the complete series on DVD. He also interviewed the actors on the ''bonus'' segments, plus created the trivia quizzes.

Since 2011, he has written and published a tribute series of books/magazines called ''Forever''. Each number is an exhaustive review of a favorite artist's career, including exclusive interviews with persons close to the subject, and exclusive pictures. Among the actors and singers honored in these are Michael Landon, Autumn Reeser, Antonio Fargas, German pop star Sandra, Karen Grassle, etc. Only two of them were published in English: ''Prairie Memories'' and ''Autumn Reeser - No Ordinary Girl''.

Chess

Loubatière teaches Chess in high school and established this program as a degree option. A former national Chess champion himself at age 14, he no longer competes but has coached his teams to victory in over 20 French and European title competitions.

Other activities

Patrick Loubatière teaches French literature at a Montpellier high school, in the south of France.

He is an activist promoting youth health programs, including anti-smoking and child abuse campaigns.

He also organized conferences between hundreds of high school students, French authors and comedians: Jean d'Ormesson, Patrick Bruel, Íngrid Betancourt, Amélie Nothomb, Bernard Werber, Marc Levy, and so on.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to combat the risk of demotivation among students while maintaining a sense of community during the lockdowns, he launched the ''Stars & Lycéens'' project: a book created by his students, showcasing both the perspective of adolescents on the crisis (''Covid-19 from A-Z'') and that of adults. He organized interviews between his students and American actors like Mark Harmon and Jane Fonda, as well as many distinguished French personalities, including Sophie Marceau, Jean-Jacques Goldman (his first interview in many years), Pierre Richard, Francis Cabrel, etc. The book was published to benefit the French Red Cross and quickly raised €8,876 for the humanitarian aid organization.

Award

2022 : Prix de l'Éducation Citoyenne, Ordre national du Mérite.Un projet scolaire et humanitaire honoré par l'Ordre National du Mérite

References

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Living people
French directors
French journalists
French male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)