Éric Ruf – Comédie-Française

Director, scenographer, and actor Éric Ruf has been an honorary member and general administrator of the Comédie-Française since 2014. He has directed and designed the scenography for Romeo and Juliet in 2015, Bajazet in 2017, and Life of Galileo in 2019. His Peer Gynt, presented in 2012 at the Grand Palais in a bifrontal staging, won the Grand prix du syndicat de la critique. Also active in opera, he has directed and designed productions of La Bohème and Pelléas et Mélisande at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. 

Founded in 1680, the Comédie-Française brings together 450 people across some eighty professions dedicated to the theatre, including a troupe of about sixty actors who perform at three Parisian venues and on tour across France and around the world. 

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