Séverine Coulon

 
Séverine Coulon is the founder and artistic director of Cie Les Bas-bleus, is an associate artist with the ARC (Scène Nationale Le Creusot) and the Théâtre à la Coque (National Puppet Center) in Hennebont. She was also an associate artist with the Grand Bleu (concerted scene for young audiences) in Lille from 2019 to 2021. A lifelong lover of the stage, she is an actress, puppeteer, director and author and has collaborated with numerous companies including Cie Tro-Héol and Bouffou Théâtre.
She has often devoted herself to creations aimed at children and young people, most notably with La mer en dottillés (S. Boulier), which won the Molière for Young Audiences in 2007. In 2019, she took advantage of the great success of her first production Filles & Soie (of 300 performances to date) to found her own company (Cie Les Bas-bleus). She has since written and directed La Vie Animée de Nina W. in October 2020 and La petite histoire de La Vie Animée de Nina W. in January 2021 and most recently, Gourmandise ou il faut beaucoup aimer la vie in January 2023. She is also a very committed activist on the issues of live performance for children and youth and serves on the board of the association Scènes d’enfance/ASSITEJ France and is former co-president of platO – a platform for young audiences in the Loire countries.