Jean-Michel Ribes
Jean-Michel Ribes during the 2014 Molière Award
Born	Jean-Michel Pierre Fernand Ribes (1946-12-15) 15 December 1946 (age 77) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Playwright, screen writer, film director, theatre director
Years active	1966 - present

Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point.

Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed Merci Bernard and since 1988 works on Palace. In 2008, Ribes had directed Batailles which he co-wrote with Roland Topor and next year became a director of the Un garçon impossible, a play by Petter S. Rosenlund and Roland Dubillard's [es; fr; gl; ht; no]'s Les Diablogues. In 2010, in Théâtre du Rond-Point he directed Les Nouvelles Brèves de Comptoir in which Jean-Marie Gourio had starred. In 2011, he wrote and directed René l’énervé - Opéra bouffe et tumultueux, on the music by Reinhardt Wagner. A year later, he returned to Théâtre du Rond-Point at which he directed play Théâtre sans animaux and Sébastien Thiéry's L’Origine du Monde in 2013.^[1]

Theater

Filmography

• 1978: The Swindle
• 1986: La galette du roi
• 1993: Chacun pour toi
• 2008: A Day at the Museum
• 2014: Brèves de comptoir

Awards

• 2001: Plaisir du Théâtre Award
• 2007: Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur^[2]