Marine Bachelot Nguyen
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Marine Bachelot Nguyen is a writer and theatre director with the Lumière d’août collective, founded in 2004 in Rennes. In her work, she explores the alliance of fiction and documentary, the intersections of the body and politics, and feminist and postcolonial issues.
She lives and works between Rennes and Lille and is a founding member of HF Bretagne (an association for gender equality in Brittany, France) and Décoloniser les Arts (Decolonize the Arts, a non profit organisation).
She has written and created Courtes pièces politiques /Short Political Pieces (2006), Artemisia Vulgaris (at the Mettre en scène festival 2008), Histoires de femmes et de lessives / Stories of Women and Laundry (2009), « La femme ce continent noir... » / “Woman, this Dark Continent..." (2010), À la racine / At the Root (at the Mettre en scène festival 2011), and La place du chien / The Place of the Dog (2014). Her play Les ombres et les lèvres / Shadows and Lips (LGBT Vietnam) was supported by the Institut Français’s Hors-les-Murs programme and a grant from the CNL (the National Centre for the Book in France). It premiered at the National Theatre of Brittany in 2016.
In 2018, she resided at Villa Saïgon (Vietnam) and in Grenoble (Troisième Bureau/MC2) for her project Circulations Capitales / Capital Circulations, which premiered in September 2019 at the Théâtre du Canal (Redon). In 2021, her play Akila, le tissu d’Antigone / Akira, the Cloth of Antigone premiered at the THV (GO festival, CDN Le Quai), followed by Nos corps empoisonnés / Our Poisoned Bodies in 2023. In 2025, she creates Boat People which premieres at L’Idéal in Tourcoing (Théâtre du Nord). Her plays have also been directed by David Gauchard, Charlie Windelschmidt, Anne Bisang, Alexandre Koutchevsky, Hélène Soulié, and others.
The Son (Sony Labou Tansi Award and the Primeurs Award 2019), Shadows and Lips, The Place of the Dog, Akila the Cloth of Antigone are published by Lansman, Stories of Women and Laundry by Les Deux Corps, Two Sisters at the Avant-scène, and Birth by Théâtrales.