Born in Rio de Janeiro, Christiane Jatahy is an author, theater director and filmmaker. She is graduated in theater, in journalism and postgraduated in Art and Philosophy.
Since 2003, her works are in dialogue with different artistic areas. In theater, she composed some pieces that question the relationship between reality and fiction, actor and character, theater and audiovisual. There were : Studio, The lack that moves us or All stories are fiction and Cut. She also directed the film The lack that moves us, a feature film, continuously shot for 13 hours by three portable cameras. The material was edited and is today a movie that participated in National and International film festivals. It remained for over 12 weeks in the Brazilian movie theaters. The film's raw material was also shown on 3 movie screens for 13 hours in a film performance at the Parque Lage Art Gallery.
In London, she directed the project In the comfort of your home, a documentary / video installation with performances of 30 Brazilian artists in English houses.
She is currently on tour with the show Julia, based on Strindberg’s work Miss Julia. Julia is a mix between theater and live cinema. The play / film was presented at the major European theater festivals and was shown at CentQuatre in 2012. This work made her win the Shell Award for Best Direction. In 2013, she developed the audiovisual and documentary installation project Utopia.doc, which was performed in Paris, Frankfurt and São Paulo. In 2014, SESC was the place to release the creation What if they went to Moscow? based on Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, a simultaneous play and film piece shown in two different spaces. For this work, she won the Shell Award, Questão de Crítica Award and the APTR Brazil Award. What if they went to Moscow? is still on the road, traveling in festivals in Europe, in the United States and was on display for 3 weeks at La Colline – Théâtre national. In 2016, in order to end the trilogy that started with Julia, Christiane Jatahy created The Walking Forest, a free adaptation of Macbeth that mixes documentary, performance and live cinema. This trilogy met with great success in France, Europe and around the world. In 2017, at the invitation of the Comédie-Française, she created the show The Rule of the Game based on the Jean Renoir’s film at the Salle Richelieu.
Currently, Christiane Jatahy is an associate artist at the Centquatre and the Théâtre National Wallonie – Bruxelles. She is also an associate artist of the Odéon – Théâtre de l'Europe since the appointment of Stéphane Braunschweig in January 2016 and will create her first prodution Ithaca Our Odyssey 1 in March 2018 at the Ateliers Berthier with a Franco-Brazilian cast.
