Theo Hakola

Novels

• The Snake Pit, published in French translation by Actes Sud as Idaho Babylone
• Rakia, published in French translation by Éditions Intervalles
• The Blood of Souls, published in French translation as Le Sang des âmes by Éditions Intervalles
• Blood Streams, published in French translation as La Valse des Affluents by Le Serpent à Plumes and in Finnish by WSOY
• The Way of Blood, published in French translation as La Route du Sang by Le Serpent à Plumes and in Finnish by WSOY

  Music

Albums

solo

• I Fry Mine in Butter
• This Land is Not Your Land
• Drunk Women and Sexual Water
• La Chanson du Zorro Andalou
• Overflow
• The Confession
• Hunger of a Thin Man

  with Passion Fodder

• And Bleed That River Dry 1985-1991
• Songs Sacred and Profane 1985-1991
• What Fresh Hell is This?
• Woke Up This Morning
• Love, Waltzes and Anarchy
• Fat Tuesday
• Hard Words from a Soft Mouth

  with Orchestre Rouge

• More Passion Fodder
• ''Yellow Laughter'

  Production

• Noir Désir - "Où veux-tu que je r'garde ?" –1987
• E.V. - "Reuz" – 1994
• Les Hurleurs - "Bazar" – 1996
• Les Malpolis - "La Fin du retour de la chanson" – 2005
• Gecko Palace – "Tout va si bien" – 2008

  Film Music

• "Babel metropolite," directed by Beajena Borakova – 1988
• "Peaux de vaches," dir. Patricia Mazuy – 1989
• "Perpetua," dir. Claudia Neubern – 1999
• "La Fille préférée," dir. Lou Jeunet – 1999
• "Les Petites Mains," dir. Lou Jeunet – 2001
• "The wind", dir. Victor Söjström - 2007
• "La Vallée de larmes," dir. Agathe Dronne – 2011
• "Au bonheur des dames", dir. Julien Duvivier - 2013

  Theatre

• "Idaho Babylone," scored reading based on the novel, with Dominique Reymond, Bénédicte Villain and Simon Texier; author/composer/musician... Grenoble, Frontignan – 2017
• "American Tabloid," composer/musician – MC93-Bobigny – 20013. Directed by Nicolas Bigards.
• "Rakia," scored reading based on the novel, with Dominique Reymond; author/composer/musician... Dijon – 2013
• "Sur la route," scored reading based on Kerouac's On The Road, composer/musician... Manosque, Toulouse, Grenoble, Caen, Vendôme, Vincennes, Rennes – 2012-2015...
• "La Ballade de Carson Clay," scored reading based on La Valse des affluents, author/composer/musician... Grenoble, Bobigny – 2011-2015
• "L'Invention du monde," – composer/musician – at the MC93-Bobigny – 2010. Directed by Michel Deutsch.
• "Chroniques du bord de scène - Hello America," 2009/10, followed by "USA, d'après Dos Passos" – composer/musician/actor – at the MC93-Bobigny – 2009/10. Directed by Nicolas Bigards.
• "Le Chant des âmes," scored reading based on Le Sang des âmes, author/composer/musician... Finnish Cultural Center, Paris – 2009.
• "La Thébaïde" – composer/musician, Centre dramatique national de Montreuil and the Atelier du Rhin in Colmar – October/Novembre 2007. Directed by Sandrine Lanno.
• "Ellen Foster" – composer/musician and translator in Dijon and Lille – 2002 then, as co-director, Bagnolet and Lyon – 2005.
• "Les Chansons de ‘La Valse des affluents’" scored reading based on the novel, author/composer/musician... Manosque, Poitiers – 2004, and Lyon – 2005.
• "Une Dizaine de morts,", adapter-author/composer/musician... Lyon, Manosque – 2003, Paris, Lille – 2004
• "La Chanson du Zorro andalou" – author/actor/composer/director, 1999–2000, Rennes, Lille, Paris...
• "Mahagonny" – actor, Paris and on tour in France... – 1983 Directed by Hans-Peter Cloos.

  Radio/Journalism

• D.J./producer on France-Inter, Radio Monte Carlo, France Culture, Radio Nova and Radio Cité 96.
• Publication of articles on European culture and politics in In These Times and in Cinéaste and in La Règle du jeu, Libération, Actuel, Globe, Les Inrockuptibles....

  Education

• The London School of Economics and Political Science – 1975/76
• B.A. in Political History – Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio – 1977

  Other Work

• Film actor: Pictures, Florent Quint, Suerte, Jacques Séchaud ; The Portuguese Man O' War, Lauren Makael ; Une Famille parfaite, Pierre Trividic ; Ma Mère, Christophe Honoré ; La Fille préférée, Lou Jeunet...
• Director: “Reliefs” fiction workshop – Saint-Priest, 2005 “La parole et les cris” lyrics workshop – Nevers, 1998–1999
• Translator: Composition and Non-composition by Jacques Lucan as well as numerous film scripts, plays, poems, songs and articles...
• Organizational Secretary: The US Committee for a Democratic Spain, New York – 1975
• Instructor: “The Spanish Civil War,” Antioch College, Ohio – 1974 “Photography,” Antioch College, Ohio – 1974
• Sound, lights, programming: Tramps Club, New York – 1977/78
• English teacher, photographer, rewriter, waiter...