Dominique Pitoiset - director & set designer

Theatre and opera stage director Dominique Pitoiset founded his company with Nadia Fabrizio in 1988.

Mr. Pitoiset directed the Dijon National Theatre from 1996 to 2000. In 2000, he was appointed Director of Théâtre National de Chaillot, before becoming, in 2001, associated director at the Teatro Due in Parma and the Teatro Stabile in Turin where he created the trilogy of Shakespeare (Otello, Macbeth and The Tempest).

He taught staging and set design at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice, as well as Milan and Turin.

From 2004 to 2013 he was Director at the Théâtre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. During those years he directed many productions. In 2009, he began a cycle on the North American theaters with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. His last production in Bordeaux was Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand which toured all over France and was presented during a month at Théâtre Odeon in Paris.

In opera he directed Falstaff (Opera de Paris), Didone ed Enea (Atelier Lyrique, Opera de Paris and Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar), L’isola disabitata (Atelier Lyrique, Opera de Paris), Macbeth (Teatro Reggio di Parma), La Boheme (Theatre du Capitole, Toulouse), Salome (Opera de Bordeaux), Orphée et Eurydice (Atelier Lyrique, Opera de Paris), The Turn Of The Screw (Opera de Bordeaux and Tournée), Manon Lescaut (Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb).

In 2014, he moved to Annecy, where he was regularly hosted since 1998, to become an associate artist of Bonlieu Scène Nationale for a period of three years.

Plans include: Brecht’s La Résistible ascension d’Arturo Ui ( Bonlieu-Scène Nationale d'Annecy and Tournée) and revivals of Falstaff at the Opéra de Paris.