Alexis Michalik

Alexis Michalik born 13 December 1982 is a FrancoBritish actor scriptwriter and director He adapted Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet into his play RJ and he has written and staged his own plays including Le Porteur dhistoire Le Cercle des illusionnistes Edmond and Intra Muros He has acted in a number of films including Sagan by Diane Kurys and Le Chant du loup by Abel Lanzac and he has acted in a number of TV series miniseries and TV films including the series Kaboul Kitchen by Allan Mauduit and JeanPatrick Benes He has received various Molière awards for his plays He is the son of a Polish father an artist and a British mother He was raised in the quartier des Abbesses in the 18th arrondissement of Paris He studied at the collège JulesFerry and at the conservatoire in the 19th arrondissement and he passed the entrance examination for the Conservatoire national dart dramatique His first stage role was as Roméo in 2001 in the play Juliette et Roméo directed by Irina Brook at the théâtre de Chaillot In 2003 he was admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur dart dramatique CNSAD in Paris However he gave up his place to stage his first show Une folle journée an adaptation of Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais He created the show in 2005 at the Festival dAvignon Off in the théâtre des Corps Saints playing the role of the Count Michalik used the name of his source material to name his theatre company Los Figaros In 2006 he created La Mégère à peu près apprivoisée at Théâtre La Luna Buffon a musical comedy adaptation of the play by Shakespeare in which he played the role of Petruchio He met Arthur Jugnot who produced the play in Avignon in 2007 et 2008 at the théâtre des Béliers then in 2009 at the Vingtième Théâtre and then in 2010 at Le Splendid The adaption was then put on television on the show Paris Première During this show he met Dominique Besnehard the shows host who would later produce two of Michaliks first short films In 2008 he created RJ an adaptation of Roméo et Juliette by Shakespeare for three actors In this production he played various roles including Romeo The play was done in the théâtre des Béliers in Avignon and then at the Ciné 13 Théâtre and at Studio des ChampsElysées In 2010 he adapted and directed the second act of Carmen by Bizet in a show titled Carmen Rock Soul Opéra The show which was put on at the Festival des Mises en capsules starred the singer Julie Zenatti in the title role and Christophe Mali Tryo playing Don José and 20 other actors singers dancers and musicians The show as done at Ciné 13 Théâtre Then Benjamin Bellecour codirector of Ciné 13 Théâtre invited Michalik to write and direct Michaliks first play Le Porteur dhistoire The play was done in a shortened form at the Festival Faits dHiver In July 2011 the play was done in its current form at Théâtre des Béliers The play came back to Avignon in 2012 and also was done in Paris at Théâtre 13 Jardin where it was received well by the public and critics His play was done again at the Studio des ChampsÉlysées in February 2013 and at Théâtre des Béliers in 2017 Source Article Alexis Michalik from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30