13 Facts About Ariane Mnouchkine

Ariane Mnouchkine founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Theatre du Soleil in 1964.

Ariane Mnouchkine wrote and directed 1789 and Moliere, and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse.

Ariane Mnouchkine holds a Chair of Artistic Creation at the College de France, an Honorary Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Rome III, awarded in 2005 and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.

Ariane Mnouchkine is the namesake of the production company Ariane Mnouchkine Films that was founded by her father.

Ariane Mnouchkine attended Sorbonne University in Paris, France, where she studied literature.

Ariane Mnouchkine founded the ATEP in 1959 when she returned to the Sorbonne.

Ariane Mnouchkine continued theatre studies at L'Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq, where in 1964 she founded Theatre du Soleil with her fellow students.

In 1971, Ariane Mnouchkine signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly announcing she had an illegal abortion.

Ariane Mnouchkine has developed her own works, like the political-themed 1789, as well as numerous classical texts like Moliere's Don Juan or Tartuffe.

Ariane Mnouchkine shared an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay for L'Homme de Rio.

Ariane Mnouchkine collaborated with Helene Cixous on a number of projects including La Nuit miraculeuse and Tambours sur la digue, two made-for-television movies in 1989 and 2003 respectively.

In 1992, Ariane Mnouchkine criticized the EuroDisney as cultural Chernobyl and was very much against about the decision to open the European branch of the theme park in Paris.

In 2019, Ariane Mnouchkine was awarded the Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy.