About the show

About Pierre Guillois – Author / Director / Actor

Pierre Guillois was an associate artist at the Théâtre du Rond-Point from 2018 to 2022, where he has presented most of his creations since 2003. From 2011 to 2014, he was an associate artist at Le Quartz, in Brest, at the Centre Dramatique de Colmar from 2001 to 2004, and director of the Théâtre du Peuple in Bussang from 2005 to 2011. He completed his fourth year of residency at Scènes Vosges during the 2024–2025 season.

Creator of original works, his comedies have been performed extensively in France and abroad. Among his creations: Sacrifices, co-written with Nouara Naghouche, Le Gros, la Vache et le Mainate (with music by François Fouqué), and Bigre, written in collaboration with Olivier Martin-Salvan and Agathe L’Huillier, which won the Molière Award for comedy in 2017. Bigre was also presented at the ALMADA Festival in Portugal the same year, where it received the audience award in 2018. The following year, Bigre was presented at Canadianstage, in partnership with the Théâtre français de Toronto, before being renamed Fish Bowl for the Edinburgh Fringe, where it captivated British audiences with more than 16,000 spectators, and at the Brighton Festival in 2024.

Pierre Guillois has also ventured into more dramatic territory on other occasions: Terrible Bivouac, a mountain tale, Grand fracas issu de rien (collective creation), Le Chant des soupirs (by and with Annie Ebrel), Au Galop (by and with Stéphanie Chêne), Le Sale Discours (by and with David Wahl). He has also collaborated with the Akoreacro troupe of acrobats on Dans ton cœur, a production combining circus, theatre and music, created for the big top and then adapted for the theatre.

In the field of music, he directed Weber’s Abu Hassan with the Théâtre musical de Besançon, Verdi’s Rigoletto with the Cie Les Grooms and Claude Terrasse’s La Botte secrète with the Cie Les Brigands, where he met Nicolas Ducloux, with whom he went on to write Opéraporno (2018) and Mars 2037, a Franco-Austrian production.

In 2024, he wrote and directed Dérapage, the new creation by the Sea Girls – Judith Rémy, Prunella Rivière and Delphine Simon – an offbeat and festive journey combining music hall and comedy.

A writing command from the Festival d’Avignon and the SACD for the 2019 edition of Vive le Sujet! led him to meet Rébecca Chaillon, with whom he co-wrote and co-performed Sa Bouche ne connaît pas de dimanche. In 2021, with Olivier Martin-Salvan they created Les Gros patinent bien – cabaret de carton in the gardens of the Rond-Point. Molière of public theater in 2022, this show was performed at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, then revived at the Théâtre Tristan Bernard, the Théâtre Saint-Georges, at La Pépinière Théâtre and throughout France – in indoor and outdoor versions – and has now been performed more than 1,200 times.

In August 2023, the show is renamed The Ice Hole – a cardboard comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe and continued its international tour in Romania at the Sibiu International Theater Festival, in Switzerland, and in Belgium in 2024.

Commissioned by Scènes Vosges, he created a show for middle and high schools, Le Voleur d’animaux (The Animal Thief), written and performed by Hervé Walbecq. In 2024, Pierre Guillois wrote a new farce, Josiane, a Camargue fable, performed at the Pépinière Théâtre. In September 2025, he created Foutue Bergerie, a rural drama inhabited by a few talkative sheep, at the Théâtre de Cornouaille – Scène nationale de Quimper. The show is on tour in 25/26 and will be performed at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in March 2025.

Pierre Guillois is the artistic director of the Compagnie Le Fils du Grand Réseau, subsidized by the Ministry of Culture – DRAC de Bretagne and with the support of the city of Brest.

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