Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau

Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau was born in Paris. He is an actor and a director trained at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York. He pursues an acting and a directing career in theatre and film, while at the same time doing some scholarly research on both. On stage, among many roles, he appeared as The Professor in The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco, which he also directed, and also played the five male roles in The Blue Room by David Hare. Among his many directing credits, he directed a stage version of First Love, a novel by Samuel Beckett, which was a benefit for the non-for-profit organization funding the research on bone marrow, as well as for the institute for the young blind people. He also directed in New York a collection of original short plays as a benefit for the victims of the terror attacks of November 2015 in Paris. On screen, he has been portraying many leading and supporting roles in short films. Some of those films have been quite successful in festivals, including a few he directed himself (for instance Party Time! or King Cake).