Jérôme Deschamps

Jérôme Deschamps born NeuillysurSeine on 5 October 1947 is an actor director and stage author as well as a cinema actor and director associated with the Famille Deschiens troupe founded by Macha Makeïeff in 1978 In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Théâtre national de Nîmes leaving that post for the equivalent at the Théâtre national de lOpéraComique in June 2007 where he remained until 2015 Deschamps is the nephew of Hubert Deschamps and his mother was the distant half cousin to Micheline Winter who married Jacques Tati Upon the release of the animated film The Illusionist this nonbiological relationship to Tati has been openly challenged by the grandchildren of Jacques Tati in a published letter to Roger Ebert He studied at the Lycée LouisleGrand where he met Patrice Chéreau and JeanPierre Vincent with whom he made his first stage appearances before moving toward a professional career in theatre at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre and the Conservatoire national supérieur dart dramatique de Paris He joined the ComédieFrançaise under Antoine Vitez and directed his first play in 1977 In 1979 Jérôme Deschamps was advised by Jacques Tati on Les Oubliettes and created a play Les Deschiens from Antoine Vitezs commission for the Ivry spring In 1981 with Makeieff he founded the Les Deschiens company which in 1993 became a television series on Canal with Yolande Moreau He was the director of the 6th Festival du courtmétrage de Saint Maur in 2008 Source Article Jérôme Deschamps from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30