Nathalie Vairac

Nathalie Vairac is an actress and artistic director. Since 1995, she has performed regularly on French and international stages. Of Indian and Guadeloupean descendants, born in Bordeaux, she moved to Paris at an early age to train with great directors such as the late Philippe Adrien (20 years of collaboration) and the late Sotigui Kouyaté (20 years of transmission). Alongside them, but also with other directors, she has performed a variety of repertoires, from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare, from French classics to contemporary theater by French, Caribbean, African and Australian authors... and has continued to train with French, Canadian and American coaches such as Alexandre del Perrugia, Neil Shell, Bernard Hiller, Bob Mac Andrew, and Yves Sioui Durand. In 2019, she will be reading Aimé Césaire's Essais Politiques at the Panthéon at the request of Nouvelles éditions Place, performing in Daniel Keene's play Dernier Rivage directed by Hassane Kassi Kouyaté, for which she will co-produce the Dakar performance with her company La Lune Nouvelle founded in 2018 in Dakar. In 2022, she performs in Guy Régis Jr's play "L'Amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie" at the Zébrures d'automne des Francophonies in Limoges and at the legendary Cartoucherie de Vincennes, a play that receives the Prix du Syndicat de la Critique in 2023. In the same year, she was part of the cast of the film "Sira" by director Apolline Traoré, Best Film at the Berlinale Panorama section, Silver Etalon at FESPACO 2023 and Best Film at World Cinema Amsterdam. She received the Saana Award for Best Actress in Kenya in 2014.