Simon Hatab is a dramaturge. He has collaborated with stage directors including Clément Cogitore (Les Indes galantes at the Opéra national de Paris), Silvia Costa (Julie at the Opéra national de Lorraine, L’Arche de Noé at the Opéra national de Lyon, Macbeth at the Comédie-Française), Maëlle Dequiedt (Trust Karaoké Panoramique at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, I Wish I Was at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Le Phénix, Scène nationale de Valenciennes and the Halles de Schaerbeek, Stabat Mater at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord), Salon Strozzi: ein Sit-In at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Faire le mur at the Comédie de Colmar), Lisaboa Houbrechts (Médée at the Comédie-Française), Tiago Rodrigues (Tristan et Isolde at the Opéra national de Lorraine), Émilie Rousset (Playlist politique at the Théâtre de la Bastille), Marie-Ève Signeyrole (Nabucco at the Opéra de Lille, La Damnation de Faust at the Staatsoper Hannover and Don Giovanni at the Opéra national du Rhin). Hatab has also worked with choreographers including Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Idomeneo at the Grand Théâtre de Genève), Bintou Dembélé, Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz (Ruido at the Culturgest Lisboa), Olga Dukhovna (Hopak at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis), as well as the composers and performers Nadia Ratsimandresy and Rangalanga Mboangy (Festival Musica).
As well as working as a dramaturge with La Phenomena, Hatab also collaborates with the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, under the direction of Émilie Delorme and with the Avignon Festival, under the direction of Tiago Rodrigues. He was the co-author of La Quadrature d’une ville (Les Cahiers de Corée) with photographer Elisa Haberer, published in 2017. He has also contributed to reviews, including Europe (L’Opéra aujourd’hui) and Bande à Part, the Roland Barthes Dictionary (Honorary Champion) and the magazine Fumigène- Littérature de rue. Hatab has coordinated an issue of the Théâtre/ Public magazine with Judith le Blanc, devoted to musical theatre and has contributed to the “Opéra et écologies” issue of the Alternatives théâtrales journal. He is an associate of the research group Histoire des Arts et des Représentations at the Université Paris Nanterre, where he gave a series of lectures on dramaturgy. He also participated as an associate artist in the Performing Utopia project at King’s College London.
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