The Team

Les ombres portées is a company with a revolving configuration, in which around twenty members can be involved in any given project.

The company is currently led by Erol Gülgönen, Séline Gülgönen, Florence Kormann and Claire Van Zande.

Susanna Hsing and Christelle Lechat look after production, distribution and administration.

Depending on the project, they are joined by:
Nicolas Dalban-Moreynas (lights), Fabien Guyot (music), Frédéric Laügt (sound, manipulation), Marion Lefebvre (construction, manipulation), Donatien Letort (general management), Jean Lucas (music), Yaniz Mango (son), Cécile Mazelin (general management), Thibault Moutin (lights), Christophe Pagnon (manipulation), Simon Plane (music), Lionel Riou (music), Corentin Vigot (sound).

Team members who chose different paths in life:
Guillaume André (production, administration), Margot Chamberlin (construction, manipulation), Louise Champiré (production, administration), Damien Daufresne (construction, manipulation), Sarah Eliot (production, administration), Catherine Launay (distribution), Jérôme Mathieu (lights), Cyril Ollivier (music).

The website was designed by Emmanuel Kormann and the translation into English made by Susanna Hsing.

Our dear friend Olivier Cueto, a member of the company, passed away on Saturday, 28 March 2020. Even at the very end, he never gave up hope that he would win against his illness.

One month prior, to the day, on Friday, 28 February, we performed our latest show Natchav together on the stage at Garges-lès-Gonesse. They were two magnificent performances. He was there — we were together — bringing this show to life, this story of escape and freedom — themes that were so dear to him — that we had created and dreamed up together for three long and beautiful years. For this last creation, right to the end, he carried the show, performing on stage with steadfast and boundless courage.

Olivier’s shadow and light continue to watch over the town of Les somnambules and hide in the warmth of the belly of the whale in Pekee-nuee-nuee.

So many tours and theatres where we gathered to play together and share ideas and emotions with an audience. So many residencies, so much time spent thinking, writing, shaping, trying things out collectively, and all this in the joy and good humour that he knew all too well how to share!

We will miss him terribly, but he will always be with us when we perform the shows we have created together.

On behalf of the entire team of Les ombres portées, here’s to you Oliv!