Resident

Jean-Yves Ruf
From 19 May to 2 June 2021

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Origine
Switzerland

Biography

Jean-Yves Ruf is a theater director, actor, and educator. After studying literature and music, he enrolled at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Strasbourg. He has staged some forty productions for the theater and the opera, mostly in France and Switzerland, and has written the texts of around ten collective creations. He served as director of La Manufacture, the school for the performing arts in Lausanne, from 2007 to 2010. He is currently teaching at several schools of higher education in Switzerland, France and Norway.