History:
Theatre de la Jeune Lune is a company of theatre artists founded in France in 1978 by Parisians Dominique Serrand and Vincent Gracieux and Minneapolis native Barbra Berlovitz. The three were joined a short while later by Minneapolitan Robert Rosen. All are graduates of the renowned theatre school Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and jointly share the duties of Artistic Director.
Steven Epp joined the company as Artistic Associate in 1983 and was asked to join the founders as co-Artistic Director in 2001.
Jeune Lune settled permanently in Minneapolis in 1985, after seven years of splitting their seasons between France and the United States. In the fall of 1992, after fourteen years of peripatetic performance, the company moved into its permanent home in the renovated Allied Van Lines cold storage building in the Minneapolis warehouse district. From its anchor, Jeune Lune has toured in recent years to such prestigious venues as the Yale Repertory Theater, the La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Its national and international reputation has expanded with such productions as Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, which won the 1993 American Theatre Critic's Association New Play Award. Then adaptations of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird, the play/opera Don Juan Giovanni and the epic Germinal. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame received of an AT&T: OnStage award. Jeune Lune's acclaimed 3 Musketeers was the hit of the 1997 Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Closer to home, the Company was honored in 1998 with a First Bank Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Artistic Vision.
