Overview
- He died on Friday, January 16, 2026, at the American Hospital of Neuilly, according to confirmation given to AFP by Richard Pierre of his troupe Union des contraires.
- He wrote about fifty plays, many published by P.O.L., crafting dense, genre‑defying texts that treat words as material between poetry and theater.
- His productions appeared frequently at the Festival d’Avignon, though they were not always toured widely as programmers sought more consensual offerings, he said in 2015.
- From 1986 he directed his own shows and integrated drawing and painting into character creation and set design.
- He received the Académie française’s Grand Prix du théâtre in 2007 and the Grand Prix de Littérature Paul Morand in 2020, and in 2023 he staged Les Personnages de la pensée at Paris’s Théâtre de la Colline.