BIO
Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey was classically trained at Ecole Superieur d’Art Dramatique de la ville de Paris, and studied physical theatre at Ecole Jacques Lecoq. Besides her current U.S. work with Pig Iron Theatre Company (www.pigiron.org), Emmanuelle has performed in Paris and throughout Europe in such productions as Lettres a Stalingrad (dir. by Laurent Terzieff). A former member of Pig Iron Theatre Company for eight years, Emmanuelle has been a performer and co-creator of such critically acclaimed productions as Gentlemen Volunteers, Flop!, Hell Meets Henry Halfway (Barrymore nomination for best supporting actress) and James Joyce is Dead and So Is Paris, for which she won a Barrymore Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. She performed in Interact Theatre’s world premier of Feast of the Flying Cow and other Stories of War and co-created and performed Madame Douce-Amere, a wordless duet at the 2005 Lives Arts festival (for which she received an Independent Foundation grant), which has been produced by 1812Productions at the Walnut street theatre in October 2006.
Emmanuelle is currently working on her new piece “The Oedipus skate complex”, an urban adaptation of Sophocles Greek tragedy, Oedipus at Colonus, at the FDR Skate park in Philadelphia, which will be presented by the 2008 Live Arts festival and for which she received a grant from the Haas trust Foundation and the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.
Emmanuelle has taught Clown at University of the Arts, Moliere and Racine at Swarthmore College and organizes clown workshops in Philadelphia for professional or non-professional actors. She currently teaches a 2 semester-Lecoq-Techniques-Class at Temple University for undergraduate and graduate students.
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