Marianne Badrichani


Marianne Badrichani is a Franco-British theatre maker, director, adaptor, producer and an actors' coach/tutor.

Career

With a background in film production in Paris, she trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and began directing plays and immersive performances in London in 2000. Best known for directing new writing and her adaptations, she has worked with Katie Mitchell, the Young Vic, the National Theatre, Theatre503 and in the West End.
She is a member of the Cross Channel Theatre Group, an initiative launched by the French Institute which promotes French new writing in the UK. She was a resident artist at the French Institute in 2014–2016. In 2012, she started to direct shows in China where she took Cravate Club/Members Only by Fabrice Roger-Lacan then Trois Ruptures/Three Splits in May 2015.
In the last three years, she has worked on a trilogy of new adaptations staging playwrights playfully discussing their work with the characters of their plays or with their muses. After a sell-out run in London in 2018, Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi returned to the Playground Theatre in January 2019.

Productions

As director

Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi, Trois Ruptures/Three Splits by :fr:Rémi de Vos|Rémi De Vos with Chris Campbell and Edith Vernes, Members Only with Robert Bathurst and Nicholas Tennant, The Little Black Book with Paul McGann and Susannah Harker and Three Women with Marcia Warren, Annie Firbank and Camilla Rutherford, The Match by Driss Ksikes at Gate Theatre for Nour Festival, Paris Calling New Writing.

Site-specific productions and installation performances (as director and adaptor)

Ionesco/Dinner at the Smiths, The Eyes Have It, Square Bubble, The Clock Stopped at 8.15, A Show in a Shop Window, La Peau de Chagrin, Blue Beard, Caprice, Cyrano, I am a Fool to Want You.

As translator or adaptor

The Season in the Congo for Joe Wright and the Young Vic, Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat for Katie Mitchell, Interiors for Vanishing Point.

Other work

She also teaches drama and run workshops about new writing at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London City University, Westminster School and the International School of Screen Acting.