Biography

After training at the École nationale supérieure des Arts appliqués et des Métiers d'arts Olivier de Serres and at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'Art dramatique, Éric Ruf joined the Maison de Molière and became its general manager in 2014.

He brings together the great masters of stage direction and emerging talents. He is a director and set designer for theatre, opera and ballet, and remains an actor in theatre and film.

He was awarded the Prix Gérard-Philipe by the City of Paris (1999), and in 2007 he received the Molière awards for set designer and supporting actor for Cyrano de Bergerac, in 2012 the Prix Beaumarchais du Figaro and the Grand Prix du Syndicat de la Critique for the best theatrical production of the year for Peer Gynt, and in 2016 the Molière for visual creation for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea after Jules Verne. As general manager, he has twice been awarded the Molière for Public Theatre.

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, directed by Éric Ruf and conducted by Louis Langrée, received the Grand Prix for Best Lyric Performance in 2017.

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