Marc Goldberg is a

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

theatre director, playwright, actor, and translator.

Biography

Goldberg studied Philosophy before joining the Compagnie des Théâtrophages and his first play, ''Les Rendez-vous'', was staged in 1993. As a theatre director, Goldberg has staged around 25 shows, including ''Le Bébé'' by

Marie Darrieussecq Marie Darrieussecq (; born 3 January 1969, Bayonne) is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst. Her books explore the unspoken and abandoned territories in literature. Her work is dense, marked by a consta ...

with

pop icon A pop icon is a celebrity, character, or object whose exposure in popular culture is regarded as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era. The usage of the term is largely subjective since there are no definitively object ...

Lio Lio or LIO may refer to: People *Lio (singer) (born 1962), Belgian singer and actress * Leonel Cunha Guerra (born 1987), Portuguese football player known as Lio * Lee Hyung-sang, nickname Lio (1985), South Korean football player * L.I.O. Petrodol ...

, ''A Woman of Mystery'' by

John Cassavetes John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American filmmaker and actor. He began as an actor in film and television before helping to pioneer modern American independent cinema as a writer and director, often self- ...

with

Myriam Boyer Myriam Boyer (born 23 May 1948) is a French actress. She appeared in more than eighty films and television shows since 1970. At the age of 18, she married with whom she had a son, Clovis Cornillac. From 1975 until his death in 1999 she was marr ...

which he translated from English to French, and ''

Anthology of Black Humor The ''Anthology of Black Humor'' () is an anthology of 45 writers edited by André Breton. It was first published in 1940 in Paris by Éditions du Sagittaire and its distribution was immediately banned by the Vichy government. It was reprinted in ...

'' by

André Breton André Robert Breton (; ; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') ...

with

Bernard Menez Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It has West Germanic origin and is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern ...

and Patrick d'Asumçao. His play ''Frickstein's Pillar'' was selected by the

Comédie-Française The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state ...

reading committee. Goldberg has been an assistant professor at ENSATT and

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

before moving to Singapore in 2013, where he has been part-time Lecturer at

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA; zh, 南洋艺术学院; ; ) is a publicly-funded post-secondary arts institution in Singapore, and a constituent college of the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS) from 2024. NAFA offers courses at high-s ...

and Lasalle College of the Arts. He was the first to translate and stage Singapore plays in French, for the Singapore Festival in France 2015: ''Emily of Emerald Hill'' by

Stella Kon Stella Kon (''née'' Lim Sing Po, born 1944) is a Singaporean playwright. She is best known for her play ''Emily of Emerald Hill'', which has been staged internationally. She is a recipient of the SEA Write Award. Biography Kon was born in Ed ...

and ''The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole'' by

Kuo Pao Kun Kuo Pao Kun (193910 September 2002) () was a playwright, theatre director, and arts activistKwok, Kian-Woon. "Remembering Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002)." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4.2 (2003): 193–201. in Singapore who wrote and directed both Ma ...

. Both translations were published in France by Editions Les Cygnes. Since moving to Singapore, he has been working closely with Jean Lambert-wild, creating ''Swamps Clown'' at 72-13 ( TheatreWorks' venue) in 2016 and a poetical karaoke during the 2017 Voilah! festival. His play ''Scents of Josephine'' was staged by Samzy Jo at the Drama Center Black Box in 2017. In 2019, he wrote the dialogues and co-wrote the script of ''The Brook's Clown'', a graphic-photo-novel designed by Koh Hong Teng and published by Achates 360. The album was nominated for Book of the Year and Best Book Cover Design at the 2020 Singapore Book Awards. It won the Publication Gold Medal and the Illustration And Type Gold Medal at the 2020 Hong Kong Design Awards. He has staged ''The Veil of Happiness'' by

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the poli ...

, with incidental music

Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. ...

, at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre in Singapore, with Lim Yu-Beng,

Janice Koh use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordin ...

Hossan Leong Hossan Leong (; born 10 July 1969) is a Singaporean stage and screen actor, television host, radio deejay and comedian. Personal life He was born 10 July 1969 in Singapore, Leong was educated at Anglo-Chinese School and Anglo-Chinese Junior Col ...

and Remesh Panicker in the main roles, for the opening of the 2020 Voilah! Festival.

Main shows

* 1998 : ''Bastien und Bastienne'' by

W. A. Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

* 1999 : ''Delphine et Noémie'' * 2000 : ''Toute seule'' by Delphine Lacouque * 2001 : ''Carmen et Luis'' by Marc Goldberg * 2001 : ''Douce Violence'' by Raphaël Scheer * 2001 : ''Trans-Atlantique'' by

Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalism, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937, ...

* 2002 : ''Dieu me pardonne !'' adapted from medieval Muslim poets * 2002 : ''Le Jeu d'Adam'' and ''La Farce du cuvier'' * 2003 : ''Un caprice de Bonaparte'' by

Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig ( ; ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. Zweig was raised in V ...

* 2003 : ''Le Café des roses'' by Carine Lacroix * 2004 : ''Le Bébé'' by

* 2006 : ''Le Roux dans la bergerie'' by Raphaël Scheer * 2006 : ''A Woman of Mystery'' by

* 2007 : ''Hors forfait'' by Delphine Lacouque et Noémie and Lattre * 2008 : ''Anthologie de l'humour noir'' d'

* 2014 : ''Le fils de mon père est le père de mon fils, ou Mais que faisais-tu ?'' by Bertrand Marie Flourez * 2015 : ''Emilie d'Emerald Hill'' by

and ''Le cercueil est trop grand pour la fosse'' by

* 2015 : ''Lower Depths'' by

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an aut ...

* 2016 : ''Le Clown des Marais'' by Jean Lambert-wild (co-created with Jean Lambert-wild) * 2016 : ''In the Company of Women'' by Verena Tay * 2017 : ''Chalk Circle ', adapted from ''

Chalk Circle ''The Chalk Circle'' (sometimes translated ''The Circle of Chalk''), by Li Qianfu, is a Yuan dynasty (1259–1368) Chinese classical zaju verse play and gong'an crime drama, in four acts with a prologue.Li Qianfu Li Qianfu (), courtesy name Xingdao (行道), was a 14th-century Chinese playwright of the Yuan dynasty. His works include ''The Chalk Circle'' () which was used as the basis for Bertolt Brecht's play ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' (1948). He nota ...

and ''

The Caucasian Chalk Circle ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' () is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than the baby's wealthy b ...

'' by

Bertold Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a ...

, in Mandarin and English * 2017 : ''Further North, Deepest South'' by

Chong Tze Chien Chong may refer to: * Emperor Chong of Han, emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty and the ninth emperor of the Eastern Han period (143-145) * Chong (surname) As a surname, Chong may refer to: * Hakka Chinese, Hakka romanization of Chinese, romanizat ...

*2020 : ''The Veil of Happiness'' by Georges Clemenceau *2020 : ''La Chanson de Roland'', with Jean Lambert-wild and Lorenzo Malaguerra

Main texts

* 1992 : ''Les Rendez-vous'' staged by Fabrice de la Patellière and Alexandre de la Patellière * 2003 : ''Avec douleur, s'il vous plaît !'' staged by Marc Goldberg * 2009 : ''La Colonne de Frickstein'', published by Éditions Les Cygnes * 2017 : ''Scents of Josephine'' staged by Samzy Jo *2019 : ''The Brook's Clown'', with Koh Hong Teng and Jean Lambert-wild, published by Achates 360 *2019 : ''Les Cocottes en Sucettes'', staged by Lorenzo Malaguerra

Main translations

* 1996 : ''Cahier Bleu'' and ''Cahier Brun'' by Ludwig Wittgenstein, with Jérôme Sackur, published by Gallimard * 2006 : ''A Woman of Mystery'' by John Cassavetes, with Louise Vincent * 2014 : ''Les Troyennes'' by Mark Ravenhill, published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs * 2015 : ''Deux Monologues Singapouriens'', ''Emilie d'Emerald Hill'' by Stella Kon and ''Le cercueil est trop grand pour la fosse'' by Kuo Pao Kun, published by Éditions Les Cygnes * 2017 : ''Aegri Somnia'' by Jean Lambert-wild * 2017 : ''Hors du Sommeil et de l'Ombre'' and ''La Nuit de Simhat Torah'' by Peter Barnes, with Gisèle Joly, public reading at Théâtre Nouvelle Génération in Lyon * 2017 : ''The Reunification of the two Koreas'' by Joël Pommerat, staged reading by Jacques Vincey at 72-13 for the 2017 Voilah! festival *2020 : ''La Chanson de Roland'', with Jean Lambert-wild, published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs

Main roles

* 2012 : The Professor in ''Un destin résolument moderne'' by David Ajchenbaum (theatre) * 2014 : William Farquhar in ''Lines Divide'' by Kent Chan (art video) * 2014 : D^r Barak Al Hadad in ''Firasat'', season 1 et 2, on

Mediacorp Suria Suria () is a Malay-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp. The channel broadcasts general entertainment and news programming in the Malay language, including original pr ...

(TV series) * 2015: William in ''Selfie'' de Mikael Teo (feature movie) * 2016 : Smusse in ''Swamps Clown'' (theatre) * 2016 : Mr Boyce in ''Crimewatch'', episode 3 on

Mediacorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is the state media, state-owned media conglomerate of Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the investment arm of the Government of Singapore—it owns and operates television channels, radio, and digital media properties. ...

(TV series) * 2017 : Emilio in ''Menantu International'', season 2, episode 8 and 9, on Mediacorp Suria (TV series) *2019 : Doktor Graff in ''Les Cocottes en Sucettes'', Théâtre du Crochetan in Switzerland

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldberg, Marc Writers from Paris 1968 births Living people French theatre directors 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights