Pauline Mornet
(US/FR)

Pauline Mornet (1999) lives and works in the Bay Area, California. She is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Stanford University. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Humanities from Sciences Po Paris. Her main focus is live performance, including sound, movement and poetry. She is interested in the political implications of disorienting the senses through performance.

She has 10 years of experience in performance-making, across Australia, France, Mexico and the US. Her award-winning devised play Titre Provisoire has toured and played at La Comedie de Reims, Festival de Theatre des Bourbons, Palais du Tau, among other venues across France. She has worked with various performance artists and makers including Julian Juhlin for the NYC edition of the Virgin Tour (2023), as well as Anna Schimkat and Felix Kindermann. She was most recently project manager on the honorarium-winning installation HEARTH at Djerassi Artist Residency Center, CA. Pauline has published in Performance Research Journal with her essay ‘Intimate Archives: Love Letters in Wartime Europe’ exploring an archive of love letters sent during the Second World War and using practice-as-research techniques to engage with post-memory. She is currently co-artistic director of the Nitery Experimental Theater in Stanford, California.

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