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• Alice Zeniter

  

  Alice Zeniter was born in 1986. After extensive studies in literature and theater, she left college to devote herself to writing. She has published several novels, including *Sombre dimanche* (Prix du Livre Inter, 2013), *Juste avant l’Oubli* (Renaudot High School Students’ Prize, 2015), *L’Art de perdre* (Goncourt High School Students’ Prize, 2017), and *Frapper l’épopée*.

  Alice Zeniter is an author and theater director with her company, L’Entente Cordiale. Her work includes two children’s plays, *Un Ours of course* and *Hansel and Gretel: The Beginning of Hunger*, as well as several musical readings.

  In 2020, she created a one-woman show, *Je suis une fille sans histoire*, which she performed for three years. Her plays are published by Actes Sud and l’Arche.

• Alice Carré

  

  Alice Carré, an author and director, was born and raised in the Paris suburbs. She began writing while working on a thesis in Theater Studies focused on contemporary set design and empty spaces, and while teaching for several years.

  She explores French colonial amnesia, focusing first on the African riflemen who fought alongside France in 1939–45—a subject that led to the writing of *Brazza – Ouidah* – Saint-Denis, which she staged in 2021 with her theater company, Eia!

  Together with Margaux Eskenazi and the Nova theater company, she conceived and co-wrote *Nous sommes de ceux qui disent non à l’ombre* (2017) and *Et le cœur fume encore*, a play dedicated to memories of the Algerian War (2020). In 2022, she wrote the play *1983*, about activism in working-class neighborhoods and the economic and societal upheaval of the 1980s in France, which Margaux directed and which premiered at the TNP in Villeurbanne.

  She co-wrote *Kap o’ mond* with Haitian researcher Carlo Handy Charles, a play about the friendship between two young men—a Frenchman and a Haitian—who explore Haiti’s past and present together; the play was directed by Olivier Coulon-Jablonka (2022). She also worked alongside Coulon-Jablonka and Sima Khatami on *La Trêve*, the No. 15 most-watched play of 2021, at the Théâtre de la Commune.

  She is co-writing a six-episode animated series with Alice Zeniter, *Petite Casbah* (France TV and Okoo, 2024), the feature-length version of which will be released in theaters on October 14 (2026).
  She wrote and directed *Écorces*, a forest-set crime thriller that delves into the world of logging and monoculture forests through a police investigation; the play premiered in January 2026 at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale.