# Jean-Michel Ribes

Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point.
Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed Merci Bernard and since 1988 works on Palace. In 2008, Ribes had directed Batailles which he co-wrote with Roland Topor and next year became a director of the Un garçon impossible, a play by Petter S. Rosenlund and Roland Dubillard's [es; fr; gl; ht; no]'s Les Diablogues. In 2010, in Théâtre du Rond-Point he directed Les Nouvelles Brèves de Comptoir in which Jean-Marie Gourio had starred. In 2011, he wrote and directed René l’énervé - Opéra bouffe et tumultueux, on the music by Reinhardt Wagner. A year later, he returned to Théâtre du Rond-Point at which he directed play Théâtre sans animaux and Sébastien Thiéry's L’Origine du Monde in 2013.

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Notes |
| 1966 | Chez l'illustre écrivain | Octave Mirbeau | |
| 1966 | Je rêvais peut-être | Luigi Pirandello | |
| 1967 | The Alchemist | Ben Jonson | |
| 1967 | Herman est de retour | Anonymous | |
| 1969 | Le lai de Barrabas | Fernando Arrabal | |
| 1970 | Les Fraises musclées | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1971 | Il faut que le sycomore coule | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1972 | Rumeurs | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1972 | Je suis un steak | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1972 | Par delà les marronniers | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1973 | Les Fraises musclées | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1974 | L'Odyssée pour une tasse de thé | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1975 | Dieu le veut | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1975 | Omphalos Hôtel | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1975 | On loge la nuit-café à l'eau | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1976 | Tout contre un petit bois | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1977 | Jacky Parady | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1983 | Batailles | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1984 | True West | Sam Shepard | |
| 1986 | Révoltes | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1987 | Le pont des soupirs | Jacques Offenbach | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Musical |
| 1987 | The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter | |
| 1988 | La Cagnotte | Eugène Labiche | |
| 1990 | La Cuisse du steward | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1994 | Brèves de comptoir | Jean-Marie Gourio | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Director Nominated – Molière Award for Best Comedy |
| 1994 | Cirque à deux | Barry Creyton | |
| 1997 | Monsieur Monde | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1998 | Rêver peut-être | Jean-Claude Grumberg | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Director Nominated – Molière Award for Best Creation Grand Prix de la critique – Best French Creation |
| 1998 | Les Talons devant | Patrick Bosso & Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 1999 | Les Nouvelles Brèves de comptoir | Jean-Marie Gourio | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Comedy |
| 1999 | Teddy | Jean-Louis Bourdon | |
| 2000 | Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell | Keith Waterhouse | |
| 2000 | Amorphe d'Ottenburg | Jean-Claude Grumberg | |
| 2001 | Théâtre sans animaux | Jean-Michel Ribes | Molière Award for Best Comedy Molière Award for Best Playwright Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française Nominated – Molière Award for Best Creation |
| 2002 | L'Enfant do | Jean-Claude Grumberg | |
| 2002 | Le Complexe de Thénardier | José Pliya | |
| 2002 | La Priapée des écrevisses | Christian Siméon | |
| 2003 | Le professeur Rollin a encore quelque chose à dire | François Rollin | |
| 2003 | Guy Bedos | Guy Bedos, Nicolas Bedos & Gérard Miller | |
| 2004 | Musée haut, musée bas | Jean-Michel Ribes | Nominated – Molière Award for Best Living Francophone Author Nominated – Molière Award for Best Creation |
| 2004 | Le Jardin aux betteraves | Roland Dubillard [es; fr; gl; ht; no] | |
| 2005 | Merci | Daniel Pennac | |
| 2005 | Dieu est un steward de bonne composition | Yves Ravey | |
| 2005 | Sans ascenseur | Sébastien Thiéry | |
| 2006 | Collection particulière | François Morel | |
| 2007 | J'ai tout | Thierry Illouz | |
| 2008 | La Ferme des concombres | Patrick Robine | |
| 2008 | Batailles | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2009 | En umulig gutt | Petter S. Rosenlund | |
| 2009 | Les Diablogues | Roland Dubillard [es; fr; gl; ht; no] | |
| 2010 | Les Nouvelles Brèves de comptoir | Jean-Marie Gourio & Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2011 | René l'énervé | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2013 | Théâtre sans animaux | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2016 | Par-delà les marronniers | Jean-Michel Ribes | |

## Filmography

* 1978: The Swindle
* 1986: La galette du roi
* 1993: Chacun pour toi
* 2008: The Maiden and the Wolves
* 2008: A Day at the Museum
* 2014: Brèves de comptoir

## Awards

* 2001: Plaisir du Théâtre Award
* 2007: Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur