Micheline Rozan

Micheline Rozan (11 September 1928 – 7 September 2018) was a French stage and film producer who co-founded the International Centre for Theatre Research with British director Peter Brook.^[1]

Micheline Rozan
Born	11 September 1928
Died	7 September 2018 (aged 89)
Nationality	French
Occupation	Producer

Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

Early life

Rozan was born into a Jewish family who had converted to Catholicism during World War I; however, her father was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.^[1]

Career

Rozan began her theatrical career as an agent, including for actors Annie Girardot and Jeanne Moreau.^[1] She first met Brook in the 1950s, and it was later, in the 1970s, that they worked together to transform the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris into a major centre for innovative work. A significant part of Rozan's role at the theatre was to secure funding, which she achieved through approaches to the Ford Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation and Anderson Foundation, UNESCO, the David Merrick Arts Foundation and the JDR III Foundation.^[2] As a result of these grants, the theatre was able to operate independently without obligation to commercial interests.^[2]

Rozan was also instrumental in providing Brook with introductions to key people in the Parisian theatre world; in 1960, she introduced Brook to Marguerite Duras. Brook and Duras adapted Duras' novel Moderato cantabile to a screenplay and Rozan produced the film with them.^[3]

Rozan retired from the theatre in the late 1990s.^[2] In 2006 she was appointed a Commander of the National Order of Merit.^[4]

Productions

• The Immortal Story (feature film, 1968, Criterion Collection)^[5]
• La tragédie de Carmen (feature film, 1983, National Video Corporation)^[6]
• The Mahabharata (stage play, 1987, Brooklyn Academy of Music)^[7]

Later life

Rozan died on 10 September 2018, a day before her 90th birthday.^[1]