Marianne Badrichani

Marianne Badrichani (Brault-Badrichani) is a Franco-British theatre maker, director, dramatist, producer and acting coach. She is based in London.

Career

With a background in film production in Paris, she trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and with Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre Studio. She began directing and co-producing plays and immersive performances in London in 2000, presenting productions across London, in the Fringe, Off-West End and West End, as well as in unusual venues (Brompton Cemetery, Holland Park, Harrow Train Station, etc..).

She is a member of the Cross Channel Theatre Group, an initiative launched by the Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni which promotes French new writing in the UK - she was also their resident artist between 2014 and 2016. In 2012, she directed shows in China, where she took Cravate Club/Members Only by Fabrice Roger-Lacan then Trois Ruptures/Three Splits by Rémi De Vos in May 2015 after a run at the Coronet Theatre.

She has worked on a trilogy of new adaptations staging French playwrights discussing their work with the characters of their plays (Ionesco/Dinner at the Smiths) or with their muses (Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi). After a run in London in 2018, Sacha Guitry, Ma Fille et Moi returned to the Playground Theatre (Notting Hill, London) in January 2019. In 2022 her production Je t'aime moi non plus/Texts by Moliere was staged in London, in Edinburgh at the French Institute for Scotland, and in Paris at the Théâtre Montparnasse.

She is an associate artist at Elephant and Castle's BOLD Theatre founded by Sarah Davey-Hull since 2020.