Koffi Kwahulé
Trained at the National Arts Institute in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, then at the École nationale supérieure des arts et des techniques du théâtre in Paris, Koffi Kwahulé holds a doctorate in theatrical studies. The author of about thirty plays (including Jazz and La Mélancolie des barbares [The Melancholy of the Barbarians]), he is the artist associated with the Centre dramatique national in Montluçon, directed by Carole Thibaut.