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Marc Goldberg | |
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| Born | 1968 |
| Occupation(s) | theatre director, playwright, and translator |
Marc Goldberg is a French theatre director, playwright, actor, and translator.
Goldberg studied Philosophy before joining the Compagnie des Théâtrophages[1] and his first play, Les Rendez-vous, was staged in 1993.[2]
As a theatre director, Goldberg has staged around 25 shows, including Le Bébé by Marie Darrieussecq with pop icon Lio, A Woman of Mystery by John Cassavetes with Myriam Boyer which he translated from English to French, and Anthology of Black Humor by André Breton with Bernard Menez and Patrick d'Asumçao.
His play Frickstein's Pillar was selected by the Comédie-Française reading committee.[3]
Goldberg has been an assistant professor at ENSATT and Sciences Po before moving to Singapore in 2013, where he has been part-time Lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and Lasalle College of the Arts.[4]
He was the first to translate and stage Singapore plays in French, for the Singapore Festival in France 2015: Emily of Emerald Hill by Stella Kon and The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole by Kuo Pao Kun.[5] Both translations were published in France by Editions Les Cygnes.
Since moving to Singapore, he has been working closely with Jean Lambert-wild, creating Swamps Clown at 72-13 (TheatreWorks' venue) in 2016[6] and a poetical karaoke during the 2017 Voilah! festival.[7][8]
His play Scents of Josephine was staged by Samzy Jo at the Drama Center Black Box in 2017.[9]
In 2019, he wrote the dialogues and co-wrote the script of The Brook's Clown, a graphic-photo-novel designed by Koh Hong Teng and published by Achates 360.[10] The album was nominated for Book of the Year and Best Book Cover Design at the 2020 Singapore Book Awards.[11] It won the Publication Gold Medal and the Illustration And Type Gold Medal at the 2020 Hong Kong Design Awards.[12]
He has staged The Veil of Happiness by Georges Clemenceau, with incidental music Gabriel Fauré, at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre in Singapore, with Lim Yu-Beng, Janice Koh, Hossan Leong and Remesh Panicker in the main roles, for the opening of the 2020 Voilah! Festival.[13]
