Julie Duclos

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Julie Duclos is a French actress and director. She founded the theater company L'In-quarto and is the daughter of actor Philippe Duclos. She studied at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Paris (CNSAD) in the 2010 class, with Dominique Valadié and Alain Françon. She created her first show in 2009, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, based on Roland Barthes, which was performed at La Loge in 2011 and at the MESS Festival in Sarajevo in 2012.

With the same CNSAD group, she created Masculin/Féminin in 2012, a creative workshop blending reality and fiction, and Nos Serments at the Théâtre national de la Colline, with Guy-Patrick Sainderichin, inspired by Jean Eustache’s film The Mother and the Whore. Nos Serments was later adapted into a radio fiction for France Culture called A force de rêve tout bas. She also worked with the Colline on MayDay, a play by Dorothée Zumstein inspired by the Mary Bell case.

In Avignon Festival 2019, she staged Pelléas et Mélisande by Maeterlinck at La Fabrica, praised for its modern set design and video, with Alix Riemer, Matthew Sampeur, Philippe Duclos and Vincent Dissez. She is currently linked to the National Theater of Brittany (TNB) under Arthur Nauzyciel and teaches at the TNB school. She acts in theater and film, including By the Grace of God by François Ozon.