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Caroline Guiela Nguyen

Caroline Guiela Nguyen is a writer and director of theatre and cinema. After starting out as a sociology student, she enrolled in the TNS theatre school. In 2009, she created her own theatre company, Les Hommes Approximatifs.

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Her work, based on her own life stories, highlights the people and stories that theatre has largely ignored. Her shows include: Se souvenir de Violetta (2011), Ses Mains, Le bal d’Emma (2012), Elle brûle (2013), Le chagrin (2015), Mon grand amour (2016), SAIGON (2017). SAIGON was nominated at the Molière awards, the main French theatre awards ceremony, in three different categories, and it received the Georges Lherminier Prize from the Association Professionnelle de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse (Best production outside Paris). In 2019, the theatre company Les Hommes Approximatifs embarked on a new research cycle around the issue of FRATERNITY that would give rise to several new productions: Les Engloutis, a film shot with inmates at the Maison Centrale d’Arles prison, FRATERNITÉ, Conte fantastique and L’Enfance, la Nuit, which was shown in Schaubühne in Berlin in 2022.