Joseph Danan

Joseph Danan

Joseph Danan works in three different roles as a writer, a teacher (at the Theatre Studies Institute, University of Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle) and a playwright (with Alain Bézu, who was director of the Drama Centre of Higher Normandy until 2007). His works have been taken to the stage by Alain Bézu, Jacques Kraemer, Julien Bouffier, Jean-Frédéric Chevallier (Mexico), Joël Jouanneau, Jacques Bonnaffé and Paulo Calatré (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal). They have been published in ACTES SUD – PAPIERS (De la Révolution; and in the collection “HEYOKA JEUNESSE”: Les Aventures d’Auren, le petit serial killer; Jojo le récidiviste; A la poursuite de l’oiseau du sommeil), in LANSAMAN (Cinéma; Sous l’écran silencieux; Enquêtes du désir, trois pièces) and in THÉÂTRE OUVERT (Passage des lys; R. S/Z. Impromptu Spectre). He is also a novelist (Allégeance), poet (A poème) and essayist (Qu’est-ce que la dramaturgie?).