Nicolas Charaux was born in Lunéville, France, in 1982. Charaux studied literature at the University of Tours and acting at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique there. Since 2009, Charaux has lived in Vienna, where he graduated with distinction in directing from the Max Reinhardt Seminar in 2014.
His graduation production of Eugène Labiche’s 'The Italian Straw Hat' was invited to the 2014 Körber Studio Junge Regie at the Thalia Theater. In the same year, he received the Young Directors Award at the Salzburg Festival for his production of Walter Kappacher’s 'The Farewell'. In 2017, his production of Kafka’s 'The Castle' at the Münchner Volkstheater was invited to Radikal Jung, and he was nominated as Emerging Director of the Year by the magazine Theater heute.
Previous productions have been staged at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Berliner Ensemble, Burgtheater, Luzerner Theater, Münchner Volkstheater and Wuppertaler Bühnen.
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