Bord de Scène - Rencontre avec Vinora Epp - In French
Paris-based theater artist Vinora Epp grew up in Minneapolis, and is returning home this spring with her directorial debut ORLANDO: A Rhapsody. Ahead of the premiere of her show meet Vinora Epp for conversation on her new play, her acting and directing!
About Orlando:A Rhapsody
Two actors, father and daughter, tell their own story through the words of Virginia Woolf, composing an alternately fanciful, visceral, and vulnerable duet. Like children, they put on a "living-room play." All the while, wrestling existential questions of gender and fiction: or, what it means to be and why we tell stories. ORLANDO: A Rhapsody is a shared reverie, just as much as it is a quarrel, between two generations and two experiences of art, of life.
This production is conceived and performed by Steven Epp (of The Moving Company) and Vinora Epp.
About Vinora Epp
Vinora Epp (Metteuse en scène et comédienne) grandit parmi la compagnie de théâtre franco- américaine le Théâtre de la Jeune Lune à Minneapolis (USA). A l’âge de 18 ans, elle part poursuivre des études de théâtre en France. Elle se forme à l’Université Rennes 2, au Conservatoire Régional de Lyon, puis à l’Ecole de la Comédie de Saint-Etienne. Depuis 2018, elle a eu l’opportunité de travailler dans des théâtres nationaux à Bruxelles, Lausanne, Berlin, et Vienne, et dans des théâtres nationaux, régionaux, ou bien émergeants un peu partout en France. En parallèle de son travail au théâtre, elle joue devant une caméra ou derrière un microphone. Elle est membre du collectif Féministes Révolutionnaires, et de l’ensemble vocal La Schola Saint- Bruno (chant grégorien). Elle pratique la boulangerie au levain naturel assidûment. Avec ORLANDO: A Rhapsody, elle signe sa première mise en scène, et marque un retour artistique aux Etats-Unis.
Vinora Epp (Director/actor) grew up in and around the Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis. At age 18, she moved to France to study acting where she currently resides. She received training at l'Ecole de la Comédie de Saint-Etienne, a national theater school. Since graduation in 2018, she has had the opportunity to freelance in a variety of companies and locations : in national theaters in Brussels, Berlin, Lausanne, Vienna, and in national, regional, and underground theaters all across France. In parallel to her work in theater, she has shot several short films with young directors. She is an active member of Collectif Féministes Revolutionnaires, as well as vocal ensemble La Schola Saint-Bruno. She is an avid sourdough baker. ORLANDO: A Rhapsody is her directorial debut.
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