Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza

Born 05/01/1959 (65 years old)
Paris, Île de France, France

Biography

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multiaward- winning, critical and popular international successes. Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3, and A Spanish Play, have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages.

Her play, Le Dieu du Carnage (God of Carnage), opened on December 8, 2006 at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, directed by Jurgen Gosch, and in Paris on January 25, 2008 at the Theatre Antoine, directed by the author, with Isabelle Huppert. She is a two-time Tony® Award winner for God of Carnage (2009) and Art (1998) which also won the Laurence Oliver Award (U.K.). God of Carnage has been performed around the world.

Her novels include: Hammerklavier, Une Desolation, Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d’Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L’Aube le Soir ou la Nuit. Her latest play How you Talk the Game was published earlier this year. Her play Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz was also made into a film, directed by Didier Martiny. In 2009, Reza directed her first film, Chicas, with Emmanuelle Seigner, Carmen Maura, and André Dussolier.

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Screenwriter

Movies
2011

Carnage - screenplay, theater play

2010

Chicas - screenplay, theater play

2003

Art (TV movie) - theater play

2001

Dreimal Leben (TV movie) - theater play

1999

Art (TV movie) - theater play

 

Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz

1992

See You Tomorrow

1983

Jusqu'ŕ la nuit

Actress

Guest

Director

Movies
2010

Chicas