Maëlle Dequiedt

Maëlle Dequiedt is a stage director. She studied cello, literature and performing arts before joining the department stage director of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg in 2013. In 2016, she was director in residence at the Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris.

Her work is at the crossroads of theatre, performance, music, and video. In 2017, she created the company La Phenomena, based in the north of France. The company was in residence at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (2017-2020), was supported by the Pôle européen de Création du Phénix de Valenciennes-Amiens since 2020, and has been associated with the Scène Nationale d’Orléans since 2023.

In theatre, she has directed Penthésilée by Kleist, Trust by Falk Richter, I Wish I Was (collective writing), La Stratégie du choc based on Naomi Klein andTrigger Warning by Marcos Caramés-Blanco.

In opera, she created Shakespeare, fragments nocturnes (Académie de l’Opéra de Paris) and Les Noces, variations (Opéra de Lille). In 2023, she created Stabat Mater, based on the work by Domenico Scarlatti, with conductor Simon-Pierre Bestion and the La Tempête company (Bouffes du Nord, Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Rouen, Quartz de Brest, Manège de Maubeuge, Théâtre de Caen, Cité Bleue de Genève, Théâtre de Charleroi, etc.). In 2022, she was associated with the Performing Utopia programme at King’s College London, for which she co-directed a series of filmed performances, I’m off to work I have posted on the fridge all the instructions on how to make a revolution.

Alongside her creations, she leads a number of transmission workshops, notably for the IOA (Gent) and students at ENSATT (Lyon).

In 2024-2025, she will create Salon Strozzi at the Hessisches Staatsteater in Wiesbaden, Faire le mur at the Comédie de Colmar and L’Enfant et les sortilèges (an empty house) at the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.