CAMILLE BRUNEL
Actress, author
Camille Brunel earned a BA in Theatrical arts and a diploma from the Académie Supérieure d’Enseignement Théâtral du Centre Dramatique National in Limoges. She performed for ten years for many directors and within numerous companies, as well as in TV films and short feature films.
She performed many years in the Du Zieu dans les bleus group directed by Nathalie Garraud. Thanks to Nathalie Garraud, Camille came to Beirut for the first time. Inspired by the country, she founded a year later the Kahraba Collective, a multidisciplinary theatre group on the move. She also performed at the Théâtre Monot in « Âge tendre et gueule de bois » (Guillaume Hincky: director) and in « Planète Londres » by Vincent Colin at the Théâtre Montaigne for the Albert Londres prize.
In 2008 Camille Brunel settled in Beirut and wrote and directed her first show inspired by her work with Lebanese and Palestinian children: « Arabiyetna » a children play mingling storytelling, puppetry and shadow theatre, with the Kahraba Collective. This play was performed over 200 times between France, Lebanon and Syria.
A year later, she writes and creates « AppleCrumble », a solo mixing cooking and quantum physics. She performed in all French Institutes in Lebanon, the Festival d’Avignon and in Paris at the Théâtre du Lucernaire.
In 2013, Camille Brunel directed Roberto Zucco by B.M. Koltès at the Centre Dramatique National de Limoges with the group L’Abadis and her own group Sans Bagages. The same year, she collaborated with her Lebanese husband Charbel Samuel Aoun to create the Voix des Invisibles, a sound installation telling stories of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. It was presented at the Biennale des artistes Médierranéens in Ancône (Italie) in June 2013 and in May 2014 at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.
