Renaud Herbin

A puppeteer by trade and a graduate of the École supérieure nationale des arts de la marionnette of Charleville-Mézières, Renaud Herbin long co-directed the company LàOù. He has directed numerous plays, which he sometimes performed, most often based on dramatic and literary works. Renaud Herbin has always liked collaborations that challenge his practice of puppetry. Since 2012, he has been the director of the TJP – CDN d'Alsace-Strasbourg, where he has worked on the relationship between bodies, objects, and images, erasing the divide between matter and puppets, finding inspiration in choreography and visual arts. His project has attracted many artists, including Aurélien Bory and Bérangère Vantusso...

Portrait of Renaud Herbin © Benoît Schupp