Adrien Barazzone

After studying literature at the University of Geneva, Adrien Barazzone trained at the Haute école des Arts de la scène de Suisse Romande – La Manufacture, in Lausanne.

He is an actor and director. As an actor, he has worked with, amongst others, Tiago Rodrigues, Jonathan Capdevielle, Philippe Saire, Christian Geffroy Schlittler, Oscar Gómez Mata, Barbara Schlittler (who has also been an associate artist of L’Homme de dos for many years), Muriel Imbach, Natacha Koutchoumov, Léa Pohlhammer, Florence Minder, Julien Jaillot, Denis Maillefer, the Théâtre du Loup collective, the Comédie Drôle collective and Anne Bisang.

With his theatre company, L’Homme de dos, he has been creating productions for over ten years. He is currently devising and directing his ‘Trilogy of Systems’, of which La politique du pire is the second instalment, premiered at the Théâtre de l’Orangerie – TO! The first, Toute intention de nuire, has already been performed at the Maison Saint-Gervais, and the third and final instalment, À l’article de la mort, is due to premiere in April 2027 at the Comédie de Genève.

Previously, he directed D’après, inspired by a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, and before that Les Luttes intestines – stage productions that were performed in French-speaking Switzerland and at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, following their selection for the Journées du Théâtre Suisse.

In cinema, he has appeared in Lionel Baier’s latest films, including La Cache, screened at the Berlinale in 2025, and Une main muette, centred on the figure of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, in Lætitia Dosch’s debut feature film, Le Procès du Chien, as well as in Valérie Donzelli’s films, Notre Dame and the recent À pied d’œuvre, starring Bastien Bouillon, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the last Venice Film Festival.

On stage, he recently appeared alongside Jonathan Capdevielle in his production of Camus’s Caligula, which premiered in Paris as part of the Festival d’Automne. He is part of the touring cast of Dans la mesure de l’impossible, written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues, which premiered in 2022 at the Comédie de Genève.