Anja Hilling
Writer

Born in Lingen in 1975, Anja Hilling is one of the most brilliant German playwrights of her generation. Her work, translated into several languages, has enjoyed international public and critical success. After studying literature and theater, she was accepted at Berlin's University of the Arts, where from 2002 to 2006 she pursued a course in stage writing, while working in a bar. Her first play, "Sterne" ("Stars", 2003), earned her an invitation to the Theatertreffen, Berlin's theater festival, and the Dresdner Bank Prize for the most promising playwright. The same year, she took up a writing residency at London's Royal Court Theatre. Her next play, the tragi-comedy "Mein junges idiotisches Herz" ("My heart so young so mad"), was invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage in 2005, in a production by the Kammerspiele Munich.
In the same year, Anja Hilling was named Young Playwright of the Year by the critics in Theater heute magazine.

Núria Giménez-Comas
Composer

Núria Giménez-Comas studied piano, then mathematics, before turning to composition at Esmuc (Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona) in 2006. She trained with Christophe Havel, who immediately introduced her to pure electroacoustics and the importance of working with timbre, whether in terms of timbral and harmonic expansion, timbre/harmony cohesion or the interaction between computer and instrumentalist. During this period, she also attended composition seminars with Helmut Lachenmann, Michaël Levinas and Klaus Huber. As part of her Master's thesis, she became interested in research into sound perception, and developed a reflection on the concepts of sound image and masking. Attracted by working with images and multidisciplinarity, in 2012 she took part in the ManiFeste Academy's In Vivo-Video workshop. From 2012 to 2014, she attended the Ircam Composition Course. In this framework, she carries out projects on synthesis using physical models and a project on sound scenes with the Ambisonics 3D spatialization system. In 2017 and 2018, she joined Ircam's artistic research residency program in collaboration with ZKM, this collaborative research project led with Marlon Schumacher explores and develops the notion of 3D spatial sculpture with work on texture synthesis.

Anne Monfort
Stage director

After studying literature (École Normale Supérieure, doctorate), Anne Monfort decided to turn to directing, training with Thomas Ostermeier in particular. She staged her first shows, based on texts by the German author Falk Richter, whom she also translated: she directed "Dieu est un DJ" in 2002, "Tout. En une nuit" in 2005, "Sous la glace" in 2007 and "Nothing hurts" in 2008. She has worked to make this playwright better known in France, and continues to accompany him on his French-language productions ("Jeunesse blessée" at the Théâtre National de Bruxelles, "My secret garden", in collaboration with Stanislas Nordey) and translates his entire body of work. She also works on text montages, such as "Laure", after Colette Peignot (Granit, Paris Villette), which allow her to question a dramaturgy very much in touch with the stage, close to performance art. From 2007 to 2011, she was an associate artist at the Granit-Scène nationale de Belfort, enabling her to combine in-depth work with audiences, knowledge of the structure and its workings, and a space to create and develop her artistic line. Anne Monfort then began to work on her own writing, in conjunction with plastic forms.
Next Door" was born, a form involving empty apartments based on the principles of Godard's films, and freely adapting texts by Balzac and Ulrike Meinhof.
Based on this work, Anne Monfort continues her research into multi-disciplinary forms of expression of the intimate and the political, writing specific texts for her scenic forms.