Stéphane Olry Author

Stéphane Olry is a French writer, director and theatre-maker. His play Hic Sunt Leones is brought to the UK by Theatre of Europe, a new company dedicated to bringing together Europe’s most innovating theatre directors with the best of British theatre talent. Each production is being created for different venues and spaces all over the city in co-production with established London theatres. Neil Bartlett is one of his generation's most respected and innovative theatre directors. His highly individual translations of French and German classical theatre, and characteristically theatrical adaptations of Dickens, most of them originated while he was Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London, have been played around the world. His plays have premiered at the Royal Court, at the Manchester International Festival and at the National Theatre in London.