Barbara Mélois was born on June the 24th 1967 in Château-Thierry (France).

She is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Reims (Art Academy of Reims) and of the ESNAM, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette of Charleville-Mézières (National Higher School of Puppetry/France).

She develops in her work those two jointed and connected experiences. She thus associates in her shows Theater with Plastic Arts and she weaves an imaginary web, in which the mundane becomes a fairy tale, and the most prosaic materials change into chimera, monsters and marvels.

Barbara Mélois has presented her shows in France and elsewhere (Germany, Austria, Africa, Belgium, China, Canada, Korea, Croatia, Spain, Finland, Greece, Italy, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, the UK, Rumania, Slovenia, Serbia, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the USA). Her performances are in four languages, with many bilingual versions.

“Barbara Mélois, in love with substances” –

LIBERATION

“Barbara Melois is an explorer”

LA SCENE

“a moment of incredible grace, gripping the heart as it does with a magma of emotions from which it is impossible to break free, and which haunts the brain for a very, very long time, with persistent and uncontrollable echoes, as if inhabited by a force which refuses to close the door on enchantment.”

L’HUMANITÉ

“Her shows are rich with invention, poetry and humour, each featuring one material”

L’UNION

“In the little world of the puppet, she has managed to build a very personal universe. Each of her shows is a jewel presented in its precious case”

L’EXPRESS

L’EXPRESS