Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, son of Portuguese actress Teresa Mota and French director and playwright Richard Demarcy, founded Compagnie des Millefontaines in 1988 and was director of La Comédie de Reims, Centre dramatique national from 2002 to 2008. He has directed Théâtre de la Ville since 2008, and has served as general director of the Festival d’Automne in Paris since 2011. Among the many works Demarcy-Mota has directed for the stage are “The Story of the Soldier by Ramuz” (Théâtre de la Commune Aubervilliers, 1993); “Leonce and Lena” by Büchner (1995); “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by Shakespeare (Théâtre de la Ville, 1999); “Six Characters in Search of an Author” by Pirandello (2001), “Le Diable en partage, L’Inattendu” (2002) by Fabrice Melquiot; “Rhinoceros” by Ionesco (Théâtre de la Ville, 2004); “Casimir and Caroline” by Horváth (Théâtre de la Ville, 2009); “Wanted Petula and Bouli année zero”, both by Melquiot (2009-2010); “Rhinoceros” by Ionesco (restaging, 2011); “Victor or Power to the Children” by Vitrac (Théâtre de la Ville, 2012); “Le Faiseur” by Balzac (Théâtre de la Ville, 2014) and “Six Characters in Search of an Author” by Pirandello (restaging, Théâtre de la Ville, 2015).