Olivier Martin-Salvan
Olivier Martin-Salvan joins in 2001 the école Claude Mathieu and begins his career as an actor. He soon begins working with Benjamin Lazar (Molière's The Bourgeois Gentleman), Jean Bellorini and Marie Ballet (Joseph Stein's Fiddler on the Roof, Valère Novarina's The Imaginary Operetta). With Valère Novarina, he appears in The Unknown Act in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des papes in 2007, then in The True Blood and The Flying Workshop. In 2008, Olivier Martin-Salvan meets director and playwright Pierre Guillois, with whom he begins collaborating on a number of plays, notably Le gros, la vache et le mainate (The Fat Man, the Cow, and the Mynah Bird). Recently, he co-wrote and played in Bigre, a burlesque melodrama, which was created at the Quartz in Brest. A catalyst for the teams he works with, Olivier Martin-Salvan remains first and foremost an actor, even when he takes part in the conception of a show, such as with Ô Carmen, a comic opera directed by Nicolas Vial, Benjamin Lazar's Pantagruel, or Strawberry Cream Puff, presented with Kaori Ito in last year's Sujets à vif. Since September 2014, he has been a partner of the Quartz, Brest's national theatre.
