“At L’Oréal, I always managed to put myself on stage”

My life change was born out of a failure: I was working as a marketing manager at L’Oréal and I burned out. I came to this company because I was worth it and I left because I was worth nothing! I was out of place in this office universe. It corresponded neither to who I was nor to my values. I left L’Oréal in January 2010. I was 35 years old. When I started to emerge from my burnout, I asked myself: what, day after day, did I want to live? I felt the need to renew myself to survive. I dropped the economic issue and said to myself: try to do what you love, if it’s the right way, you’ll live off it.

At L’Oréal, I always managed to put myself on stage, animating everything that it was possible to animate (meetings, training, group of consumers). I was also very good at the leaving speech! I made people laugh. In the past, I had done theater and singing as an amateur. As for law, my original training is a sector that ultimately leads quite well to a career as a comedian, because everything is there: writing and orality. I also took theater lessons from Jacqueline Duc. She had registered and prepared me for the competition for the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. On D-Day, I gave up. When I saw the line of candidates, I did not believe it, convinced that they all had more talent than me.

Methodically, I wrote a list of my desires, including being an actress and writing a show. I signed up for the One Man Show School, to learn a bit about the codes of the trade. Then I started to write, with the support of the actor Lauri Lupi, and I went on stage for the first time in March 2011, in a small theater in Pigalle, Le Bout. It’s really the day I became an artist: being on a stage with my own text for an hour was initiatory. I was totally dissociated, convinced that I was going to die before the end of the show!

feminist consciousness

Then, for two years, I did the open stages of the Parisian comedy club Le Paname. There we become invincible. I learned the trade there. The interaction with the public has nourished me a lot. Then I went on tour with unworthy mother, my first self-produced one-woman-show. And, in 2013, I played at the Comédie des boulevards, in Paris, and everything really took off.

My two shows unworthy mother then Self-centered, clearly come from a discourse of emancipation, from a feminist conscience that imposed itself on me. This liberation of women’s speech on the comedy scene, I experience it as part of a great breath. I feed on it and try to feed it.

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