Theater Director and Translator United States / Europe
The Cherry Orchard, NYU Graduate School, Photo Ella Bromblin
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about lucie
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Lucie Tiberghien is a French and American theater director and translator, based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2018 she founded Molière in the Park, the first non-profit in Brooklyn solely dedicated to bringing free theater to Prospect Park on a yearly basis.
She was raised just outside Geneva where at an early age she began her career as a dancer (Grand Théâtre de Genève). She then moved to Paris after high school to further her training in music and dance, then went back to school to study history and political science. After graduating from Geneva Webster University she moved to New York to pursue a career in directing.
Soon she began associate directing at New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Washington Opera, Florentine Opera, Le Théâtre du Châtelet and worked repeatedly with acclaimed French director Jaques Lassalle, in Paris, Avignon, and Lausanne. She also directed a production of La Bohème for the New Jersey State Repertory Opera and created la Compagnie Charnière, dedicated to building a bridge between French and American theater. She wrote and directed The Quiet Room, a stage adaptation of Howard Buten's classic novel "Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué", produced by Charnière, in New York at Synchronicity Space and in France at Le Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar.
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Specializing in the development of new plays, Lucie has since directed world premieres at Second Stage, MCC, The Cherry Lane Theater, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Rattlestick Theater Company, MaYi Theater Company, The Humana Festival, Labyrinth Theater Company, and Arena Stage. She has also directed at The George Street Playhouse, Kansas City Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Juilliard, and New York University.
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Translations into French include Stephen Belber's plays Match (Le Grand Ecart), produced at Le Théâtre de la Madeleine in Paris, as well as Tape (Mon Ami Jean) and Finally (Finalement). Also, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, (Hedwig et le Centimètre en Colère) by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, and currently, Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced (Déshonneur).
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Translations into English include Jean Luc Lagarce's Juste La Fin Du Monde (Only the end of the World), produced in New York by Company Charnière.
productions include
Pen/Man/Ship
Christina Anderson
The Pavilion
By Craig Wright
Th Invisible Hand
Ayad Akthar
Queens for a Year,
TD Michell
Blueprints to Freedom
By Michael Benjamin Washington
Don't Go Gentle
Stephen Belber
Blood and Gifts
JT Rogers
Love in Aghanistan
Charles Randolph Wright
The Other Thing
Emily Schwend
productions include
Pen/Man/Ship
Christina Anderson
CATF and Portland Playhouse
The Invisible Hand
Ayad Akthar
Milwaukee Rep
The Pavilion
Craig Wright
CATF and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Queens for a Year
TD Michell
Hartford Stage
Blueprints to Freedom
Michael Benjamin Washington
La Jolla Playhouse and KC Rep
Don't Go Gentle
Stephen Belber
MCC
Blood and Gifts
JT Rogers
La Jolla Playhouse
Love in Aghanistan
Charles Randolph Wright
Arena Stage
The Other Thing
Emily Schwend
Second Stage
Terminus
Gabriel Jason Dean
Monk Parrots at NYTW, Next Door
Daybreak
Joyce Van Dyke
Beckett Theater, Pan Asian Rep
IN THE PRESS
in development
Molière in the Park
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A Little Bit of Forever
By Jeanne Dorsey
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Told through an imaginary epistolary relationship between two extraordinary women, Jean Harris, Madeira School headmistress and convicted murderer, and the hard-living American painter, Joan Mitchell, the play is an exploration of class, race, aging, the transcendence of art and hard-earned comradeship between women.
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Tampon, Dead Dogs and Other Disposable Things
Written by Air Force Vet,
Shairi Engle
and winner of the Bridge Award.
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The Misanthrope, Juilliard
