William Mesguich (born 1972) is a French actor and director, the son of theatre director

Daniel Mesguich Daniel Mesguich (born 15 July 1952) is a French actor and director in theater and opera, and professor of stage acting school. Biography In 1970, he was admitted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, after which he opened ...

. With Philippe Fenwick, he created La Compagnie de l'Étreinte in 1998.

Theatre

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Robert Garnier Robert Garnier (1544 – 20 September 1590) was a French poet and dramatist. He published his first work while still a law-student at Toulouse, where he won a prize (1565) in the Académie des Jeux Floraux. It was a collection of lyrical pi ...

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Athalie ''Athalie'' (, sometimes translated ''Athalia'') is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known" and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. Charles August ...

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Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditio ...

, directed by Roger Planchon, TNP Villeurbanne, Théâtre national de l'Odéon * ''

Marie Tudor ''Marie Tudor'' is an 1833 play by the French writer Victor Hugo. It is a historical work portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England (1516–1558). Mary has Fabiani thrown in the Tower of ...

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Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

* ''L’Histoire qu’on ne connaîtra jamais'' by Hélène Cixous * '' The Trojan Women'' by Seneca the Younger * ''

Fin de partie ''Endgame'', by Samuel Beckett, is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play about a blind, paralyzed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric parents and his doddering, dithering, harried, servile companion in an abandoned shack in a post-apocalypti ...

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Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

* '' L’Échange'' by Paul Claudel * ''Alice Droz'' by * ''Fin du monde chez Gogo'' * 1996: '' La Périchole'' by Jacques Offenbach, directed by Robert Angebaud, Théâtre du Jour Agen * 1998: ''La Légende des porteurs de souffle'' by Philippe Fenwick * 1999: ''Des saisons en enfer'' by

Pierre Bourgeade Pierre Bourgeade (7 November 1927 – 12 March 2009) was a French man of letters, playwright, poet, writer, director, journalist, literary critic and photographer. A descendant of Jean Racine, he was also the brother-in-law of the writer Paule Con ...

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Marius Constant Marius Constant (7 February 192515 May 2004) was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Although known in the classical world primarily for his ballet scores, his most widely known music was the iconic guitar theme for ''The Twilight Zone ...

, directed by Daniel Mesguich, * 1999: ''

La Seconde Surprise de l'amour LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...

'' by Marivaux, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet * 2000: '' The Prince of Homburg'' by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Daniel Mesguich, , Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet * 2001: ''

The Devil and the Good Lord ''The Devil and the Good Lord'' (french: Le Diable et le Bon Dieu) is a 1951 play by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The play concerns the moral choices of its characters, warlord Goetz, clergy Heinrich, communist leader Nasti and others dur ...

'' by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet * 2003: ''

Antony and Cleopatra ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (First Folio title: ''The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around ...

'' by William Shakespeare, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet * 2003: '' Tartuffe'' by Molière, directed by Pierre Debauche * 2003: '' Exit the King'' by

Eugène Ionesco Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...

, directed by Pierre Debauche * 2003: ''Paul Schippel ou le prolétaire bourgeois'' by

Carl Sternheim Carl Sternheim (born William Adolph Carl Francke; 1 April 1878 – 3 November 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emergi ...

, directed by Jean-Louis Benoit, Théâtre de , Théâtre national de Nice, * 2004: ''Il était une fois… les Fables'' by

Jean de La Fontaine Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Euro ...

, directed by William Mesguich, Théâtre Georges Simenon Rosny sous Bois * 2004: ''

As you like it ''As You Like It'' is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has b ...

'' by William Shakespeare, directed bye William Mesguich, Théâtre Georges Simenon Rosny sous Bois, * 2004: ''Tohu-Bohu'',

Bagneux Bagneux may refer to: Communes in France *Bagneux, Aisne * Bagneux, Allier *Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine * Bagneux, Indre * Bagneux, Marne * Bagneux, Meurthe-et-Moselle * Bagneux-la-Fosse, Aube Other * Bagneux British Cemetery, département of the Somm ...

* 2005: ''The Prince of Homburg'' by Heinrich von Kleist, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre de la Criée, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet * 2005: ''Il était une fois… les Fables'' by Jean de La Fontaine, directed by William Mesguich, * 2006: '' Ruy Blas'' de Victor Hugo, directed by William Mesguich, Scène Watteau Nogent-sur-Marne, * 2006: ''Comment devient-on chamoune ?'' by Charlotte Escamez, directed by William Mesguich, Théâtre Georges Simenon Rosny sous Bois, Sudden Théâtre * 2006: ''Confusion, la Légende de l’étoile'' by Philippe Fenwick, directed by William Mesguich, Théâtre Georges Simenon Rosny sous Bois * 2007: '' L'Entretien de M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune'' by

Jean-Claude Brisville Jean-Claude Brisville (28 May 1922 – 11 August 2014) was a French writer, playwright, novelist and author for children. A screenwriter, in particular for the film '' Beaumarchais, l'insolent'', he obtained the Grand Prix du théâtre of the A ...

, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre de l'Œuvre * 2007: ''La Veuve, la couturière et la commère'' by Charlotte Escamez, directed by William Mesguich, L’Atalante Paris * 2008: ''Du cristal à la fumée'' by Jacques Attali, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre du Rond-Point * 2008: ''L'Entretien de M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune'' by Jean-Claude Brisville, directed by Daniel Mesguich, tour * 2008: ''La Belle et la bête'' by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, directed by William Mesguich, Théâtre Mouffetard, * 2008: '' Ruy Blas'' by Victor Hugo, directed by William Mesguich, Théâtre du Chêne Noir * 2009: ''L'Entretien de M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune'' by Jean-Claude Brisville, directed by Daniel Mesguich, tour * 2009: ''L'Initiatie show'', directed by William Mesguich, gymnase de l'initiative * 2009: ''Il était une fois ... la création du monde'', directed by William Mesguich, Bouffes Parisiens * 2010: '' Life Is a Dream'' by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, directed by William Mesguich, Théâtre 13, * 2010: ''L'Entretien de M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune'' by Jean-Claude Brisville, directed by Daniel Mesguich, Théâtre national de Nice * 2010: ''

L'Histoire du soldat ' (''The Soldier's Tale'') is a theatrical work "to be read, played, and danced" () by three actors and one or several dancers, accompanied by a septet of instruments. Conceived by Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, the piece was bas ...

'' by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Igor Stravinski, directed by William Mesguich * 2010: ''Il était une fois... les fables'' by Jean de La Fontaine, directed by William Mesguich, Théâtre de la Criée * 2010: ''Agatha'' by Marguerite Duras, directed by Daniel Mesguich, with William Mesguich and Sarah Mesguich, Théâtre du Chêne Noir-

Avignon Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...

* 2013: ''Hamlet'' directed by Daniel mesguich, with william mesguish au théâtre national de Nice. * 2015–2017: ''Noces de Sang'' by Federico García Lorca directed by William Mesguich, Chêne noir

and tour in France * 2019: ''Dans les forêts de Sibérie'' adapted from

Sylvain Tesson Sylvain Tesson (born 26 April 1972) is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are '' The Consolations of the F ...

eponymous book.

Filmography

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Nina Companeez Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companee ...

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External links

Interview de William Mesguich

''Le fol été de William Mesguich, trois fois à l'affiche du Off d'Avignon''

William MESGUICH, ''la tentation de l’infini''
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