Célie Pauthe has always been interested in modern and contemporary writing: her career as a director began with Ponge, Müller, Bergman, and Bernhard. She subsequently staged O'Neill's Long Journey from Day to Night, James and Duras' The Beast in the Jungle and The Sickness of Death, and adapted Christine Angot's Un amour impossible (2017), which was presented at the Ateliers Berthier, where she also directed Racine's Bérénice (2018) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (2022). In opera, she is directing Strauss's The Bat, and in 2022, Philippe Leroux's L'Annonce faite à Marie after Claudel. Since 2013, she has directed the Centre dramatique national de Besançon.
Claude Duparfait has performed in shows by Jacques Nichet, François Rancillac, Bernard Sobel, Anne-Laure Liégeois, Michael Thalheimer, Stanislas Nordey and Pascal Rambert. Since their joint beginnings at the École de Chaillot, he has developed a long-term artistic partnership with Stéphane Braunschweig, who has often directed him, notably at the Odéon, in L'École des femmes and Comme tu me veux by Pirandello. He has published and staged Idylle à Oklahoma after Franz Kafka. He is the author of La Fonction Ravel, co-directed with Célie Pauthe, with whom he also wrote Des arbres à abattre (Trees to cut down) after Bernhard, which won him the Syndicat de la critique's interpretation prize.