Philippine Lazare
Special skills
First language: French (bilingual French and English)
Languages: Spanish (conversational)
Accents: Standard American, French
Singing: alto
Physical performance skills: contemporary, modern and jazz dance
Sports: boxing, swimming, surfing, horse riding, gymnastics, skiing
Other skills: devising experience, including co-creating original work with her own theatre company Mad Bad Productions; movement direction and choreography within devised performance; professional voice-over experience for French television documentaries
Previous experience
Theatre
Léonie (lead), Léonie est en avance, by Georges Feydeau, dir. René Loyon, Compagnie RL (classical theatre production, Paris)
Lady Caroline Lamb (lead), Little Beast, dir. Gina McTeague, devised by Mad Bad Productions (devised contemporary theatre production, Edinburgh)
Josthinkel, Mephisto, by Klaus Mann, dir. Jean-Pierre Garnier, TTE (ensemble political theatre production, Paris)
Film and television
Fran (lead), Exit the Rabbit Hole, dir. Jonty Toosey, Mabaste Productions
L'americaine (supporting role), Quelqu'un devrait interdire les dimanches après-midi, dir. Isabel Coixet, ARTE
Céline, Root (mid-length film), dir. Jonty Toosey. Winner – Best Medium-Length Film (Lonely Wolf Film Festival); Best Film (Area 51 Film Festival).
Voice-over
Voice-over artist (French), Bacon Freud: Face à Face, dir. Catherine Aventurier, France Télévisions
Education and training
Thélème Théâtre Ecole - 100ECS (2023-2025) Professional Actor Training
Fontainebleau School of Acting [FONACT] (2021-2023), two-year professional conservatoire training
BA (Hons) Drama, University of Exeter, (2018-2021)