Jonathan Capdevielle

Having studied puppetry at the École supérieure nationale des arts de la marionnette, Jonathan Capdevielle is a stage director, actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist, dancer, and singer. He works alongside Gisèle Vienne and has appeared in many of her plays. He has also worked in film, with Patric Chiha (Boys like us, 2014), Safia Benhaïm (Le Sang noir, 2018) and Sébastien Betbeder (Tout fout le camp, 2022). Jonathan Capdevielle created the solo performance Adishatz/Adieu in 2010. Saga (2015) is another chapter in his autobiographical story. In 2017, he penned À nous deux maintenant, adaptation of the novel Un crime by Georges Bernanos; in 2019 he wrote Rémi, a play for 8+ year olds, adapted from Hector Malot’s much-loved novel Sans famille; and in 2021, Music All, with cowriters Marco Berrettini and Jérôme Marin. He is currently working on a production of Caligula by Albert Camus at the T2G Théâtre de Gennevillers, to open this year. Jonathan Capdevielle became an associate of the T2G in 2021 and is also a member of the associate ensemble at the Théâtre des 13 vents in Montpellier.

In 2024, he was invited by Camille Cottin: together they adapted Katarina Volkner’s The Jewish Cock for a one-woman show performed by Camille Cottin and directed by him. This show, entitled Le Rendez-vous, was produced by Les Visiteurs du soir, and presented at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris in January 2025.

He is en 2025 preparing his next creation, Latvian Boy, an autofictional solo for the actor Dimitri Doré, which is to be presented for the first time at the Arsenic in Lausanne in September 2025.