Jean-Noël Fenwick (6 December 1950 – 3 May 2024) was a French dramatist, screenwriter, director, and actor known for works such as Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz, for which he won the Molière Award for Best Author in 1990.

[citation needed] In 1988, he decided to fully dedicate himself to dramatic writing and, within a few weeks, wrote Palmes de M. Schutz, a "cheerful, tender, and scientific" play that traces, in the form of a comedy, the discovery of radioactivity and later radium by Pierre and Marie Curie, for the Théâtre des Mathurins, directed by Gérard Caillaud.

After a difficult start, with active support from both the theater profession and the scientific community, including Pierre Joliot, Georges Charpak, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, the performance began to achieve moderate success.

Then, in March 1990, it received an avalanche of eleven nominations for the Molière Awards, followed by four trophies a few weeks later (Best Author, Best Director, Best Set and Costume Design, Best Private Theater Show of the Year).

[5] He participated in several television series, adapted Palmes de M. Schutz for the screen, and made some appearances as an actor in films written and directed by his friends, such as Pierre Salvadori, Diane Kurys, and Claude Pinoteau.