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Caroline Guiela Nguyen, a French director of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg, writer, and producer, subtly blends theatre and collective memory. His dramatic works draw inspiration from real life and personal stories, bringing together actors and actresses from a variety of social, geographical, cultural and spiritual backgrounds. SAIGON was presented in 2017 at the 71st Avignon Festival. FRATERNITÉ, Conte fantastique is the second instalment in the FRATERNITÉ cycle, which currently comprises two other works: the short film Les Engloutis (2021) and the play L’Enfance, la Nuit, created at the Schaubühne in 2022.

Elitza Gueorguieva (1982, Bulgaria) lives near Paris, where she devotes herself to documentary film, literature and stage performance. Her accent, oscillating between a singular gentleness and southern intonations – particularly on the words content and Pantin – permeates her writing, done directly in French. Her books include Odyssée des filles de l’Est (Prix Frontières 2025 ) and Les cosmonautes ne font que passer (Prix SGDL du premier roman / Prix Folio des lycéens de la région Centre/ sur les listes du Prix Flore), both published by Éditions Verticales (2016 and 2024). She directed the films Chaque mur est une porte (Cinéma du réel, 2017) and Notre endroit silencieux (Visions du réel, 2021), produced by Les Films du Bilboquet and widely distributed and awarded at...

Bili Bellegarde is a singer and cabaret artist. She performs at Madame Arthur’s and at La Bouche cabaret, which she co-founded. In 2024, she released Dyke, her first pop and lyrical EP. Her piano-voice solo of the same name, created in 2025, is playing this season at Les Trois Baudets in Paris. Since 2018, she has formed the duo Namoro with Mascare.

Mascare is a multi-faceted artist, an actress who has appeared in plays by Despentes, a member of the self-managed cabaret La Bouche and a DJ. She is the author of a thesis on Didier-Georges Gabily. BELGAZOU is her first book, published by Corti. With Bili Bellegarde, she forms the Namoro duo, which sets minority poetry texts to music.