Micheline Rozan

Micheline Rozan (11 September 1928 – 7 September 2018) was a French stage and film producer who co-founded the International Centre for Theatre Research with British director Peter Brook.

[1] Rozan was born into a Jewish family who had converted to Catholicism during World War I; however, her father was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

[1] Rozan began her theatrical career as an agent, including for actors Annie Girardot and Jeanne Moreau.

[1] She first met Brook in the 1950s, and it was later, in the 1970s, that they worked together to transform the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris into a major centre for innovative work.

[2] As a result of these grants, the theatre was able to operate independently without obligation to commercial interests.