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4 days ago · Thomas Jolly, artistic director of all four Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies, in Paris. “I don’t have a model to work from,” he said. “It’s creation in the extreme.”
It's an innovative concept that fits Thomas Jolly’s character. A native of Rouen, Normandy, Jolly has made popular theatre his trademark. Noted for his staging of a play by William Shakespeare at the Festival d'Avignon in 2014, with 18 hours of performances under his belt, the 42-year-old director is not afraid to take risks.
3 days ago · When Thomas Jolly was announced as the director of the opening and closing ceremonies for both the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, the French theatre world had every reason to pop the champagne.
Thomas Jolly (born 1 February 1982 in Rouen) is a French actor and artistic director of La Piccola Familia, a theater company that he founded in Rouen in 2006. Jolly directed the national drama center Le Quai d'Angers from January 1, 2020 until November 2022.
1 day ago · Thomas Jolly’s liberated take on the opening ceremonies was a love letter to France, and a testament to his own ambitions.
May 30, 2024 · Thomas Jolly, actor, theater director, and showman extraordinaire, is worried about fish. For the past 18 months, he has been the man in charge of delivering the opening and closing...
Jul 20, 2024 · Artistic director Thomas Jolly is preparing to share France with the world with the 2024 Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony. The July 26 event is an ambitious project expected to last nearly four hours and be watched by over a billion people.
Jul 20, 2024 · Thomas Jolly, a 40-year-old actor and stage director, was chosen by the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee to helm the artistic direction of the four grand ceremonies. He will be tasked with bringing to life Paris' ambitious plan to hold the July 26, 2024, opening ceremony in the French capital's city center, along the Seine River.
2 days ago · French theater director Thomas Jolly helmed an opening ceremony unlike any the Games had seen before—unfolding along the River Seine with all manner of top-tier performers (Lady Gaga! Aya Nakamura!
Sep 21, 2022 · Paris 2024, in collaboration with its stakeholders, has chosen Thomas Jolly as the artistic director of the four opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024.
