PHILIPPE NADOUCE

Author, Poet, Playwright, and Independent Journalist

Born on the Île de Ré, France, in 1965. He spent his childhood in Saint-Martin-de-Ré and completed his secondary studies in La Rochelle. At 18, he began studying Economics at the University of Poitiers. In 1986, his life took a decisive turn—he left university and moved to Paris to study acting at the prestigious drama school Le Cours Florent, a formative period marked by both hardship and growth.

In 1987, he moved to Madrid, where he met his mentor, actor and director Ángel Gutiérrez. Philippe trained with him for four years and worked in his company, El Teatro de Cámara. Seeking a producer in Madrid, he met his second mentor, Cristina Rota, actress and director. Together with Juan Diego Botto, Gustavo Salmerón, Guillermo Toledo, Aitor Merino, Velilla Valbuena, and others, Philippe co-founded La Sala del Mirador and the theatre company Nuevo Repertorio. This was a period of intense creative activity.

Philippe wrote and produced several plays. In 1993, he received the French Arts and Letters Award for his play Les rivières, which premiered the following year at La Sala del Mirador. In 1994, he was again recognized in France for La ferraille. The following year he wrote the children’s play La Revolution de Doña Pistilo. In 1998, he was awarded once more for la confession du guide de musée, Pierre Lamek, which premiered in 1999 at Théâtre de la Lucarne in Bordeaux.

In 1999, he collaborated with playwright & director María Fernández Ache on several projects (Medea, Woyzeck, etc.), touring with her to Egypt and Venezuela. Gradually, he moved away from theatre production to focus on writing novels and poetry.

In 2001, he published his first novel, Cahiers madrilènes (Éditions Le Manuscrit, Paris), and decided to dedicate himself fully to literature.

In 2002, he relocated to London, where he collaborated with theatre director Sacha Wares on the stage adaptation of Michel Houellebecq’s Plateforme, performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA). He also led theatre workshops at the National Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith (La Casa de Bernarda Alba). That same year, he directed Molière’s Tartuffe at the Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke.

From 2005, Philippe began his academic career, teaching at London South Bank University, London Metropolitan University, University of East London, and University of Westminster. He developed a strong interest in bio-linguistic and Chomskyan generative grammar theories, later earning an MA in Biolinguistics from the University of Greenwich (2011–2013).

Since 2005, he has continued to write and publish prolifically in literary journals such as Diagonal, Le Grand Soir, Agoravox, Altermonde, Cent-papiers, Fractal, and Hermaphrodite.

In 2017, he completed a second master’s degree in Digital Currency and Blockchain at the University of Nicosia, collaborating with ESCP Europe and University College London (UCL).

In 2009, he worked as assistant director to Will Keen and María Fernández Ache on Romeo and Juliet (produced by Alejandro Tous and Ruth Núñez). That same year, he directed his first short film, Nothing, which won an award at the Accolade International Film Festival (California, 2009).

In 2018, his second novel Louisiana was published by Les Deux Crânes. In 2021, his academic essay Enseigner le subjonctif français avec C.A.L.L. (Teaching the French Subjunctive with C.A.L.L.) was published by Éditions Notre Savoir and translated into several languages. In 2023, he worked again as assistant director to María Fernández Ache, co-producing with her and the Teatro Español (Madrid) Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts. The following year, they co-founded the production company Pollo y Vaca Producciones in Madrid.

In 2024, he co-founded the literary magazine Mazout in France with poet Nicolas Fraignaud. In 2025, his fourth book, Fatberg, contes cruels du néolibéralisme, was published by Éditions Librinova (Paris). During the summer of 2025, he collaborated with the New York Film Academy (NYFA), from which his second short film Inner Beauty was born.