Comedian
Trained at ENMAD in Noisiel (94), Tiphaine Raffier joined the second graduating class of the École du Nord in 2006. There, she studied under Stuart Seide. In 2010–2011, she worked with Bruno Buffoli and Laurent Hatat, then at the Théâtre du Prato with Gilles Defacque. She has appeared alongside Julien Gosselin and the collective Si vous pouviez lécher mon coeur. She also performed under the direction of Frank Castorf in Cologne in The Adolescent (F. Dostoevsky, 2019) and with Jacques Vincey in Les serpents (M.NDiaye-2020).
Writer and director
In 2012, at the Théâtre du Nord, Tiphaine Raffier wrote, directed, and starred in her first play, La Chanson (The Song). The production premiered at the 1st Festival Prémices in Lille. In 2014, as part of the third edition of the same festival, she premiered her second play, Dans le nom (In the name). In 2017, she created play France-Fantôme (France-Phantom). The show is still on tour in 2026. She directed a medium-length film based on her first play, La chanson (The song), a project supported by the CNC and presented in 2018 at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. Selected for approximately thirty festivals, it has won numerous awards. In 2020, Tiphaine Raffier wrote and directed La réponse des Hommes (The response of Men), whose first tour was postponed to the 21-22 season due to the pandemic. The show was still on tour in 2025 with more than 75 performance dates. In 2021, Tiphaine Raffier restaged La Chanson [reboot] (The song [reboot]) with a new cast. She then created Nemesis, based on the novel by Philip Roth, at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe in march 2023. This is her first adaptation of a novel for the stage, combined with an ambitious educational project featuring a different children’s choir in each city on the tour. In 2025, she directed her first opera, Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites), at the Rouen Opera and premiered the 2026 Avignon Festival with her latest work L’hors-présence (Off-presence).
At the same time, Tiphaine Raffier is working with Apaches Films and Tripode Productions on a feature-length film adaptation of her second play, Dans le nom (In the name).
The texts of her first three plays are published by La fontaine, the text of La réponse des Hommes (The response of Men) is published by l’Avant-scène théâtre and the one from L’hors-présence (Off-presence) is published by Actes Sud-Papiers.
© photo credit : Jean Picon
