Official website of Geoffray Tranber, playwright

I. Artistic Approach

Full-time professional playwright (since 2022). A former information systems engineer, I combine a practical knowledge of theatre (conservatory training, company experience, café-theatre management) with a distinctive understanding of today’s social and digital issues. My writing aims to dismantle through laughter the threatening systems of our contemporary world.

II. Recent Works and Recognition

Submitted to reading committees: ALPHA TANGO (Satirical comedy)

Theme: Through absurdity and biting satire, the play dissects masculinism, its conspiracy theories and its survivalist drifts.

Work in progress: THE MASTER AND HIS ISLAND (Tragicomedy)

Theme: How can a man who is neither mad nor sadistic knowingly decide to poison the land on which his own children are growing up? The action takes place on an unspecified Caribbean island.

2025: THE GRAND LODGE OF AMBASSADORS (Comedy of manners)

Theme: A humorous and philosophical comedy about the resilience and survival of Western civilization when faced with cultural shock and the ecological threat.

2024: THREE DAYS IN THE LIFE OF VITALY LAĂŹZENCO (Political comedy / thriller)

Theme: A plunge into the heart of a troll factory. Behind the heavy suspense and black humor, the activities of information warfare targeting our democracies are methodically dissected.

2023: BREAKING NEWS FROM AZERBALISTAN (Media comedy)

Theme: A satire of the drift of 24-hour news channels, through a race for a tainted scoop.

Selected by the reading committee “L’écritoire”. Public reading at Théâtre Darius Milhaud, Paris.

III. Stage Experience and Productions

2012: Writing, production and performance: THE MEANING OF LIFE: FINALLY, THE ANSWERS! (Philosophical comedy)

Original French title: Le sens de la Vie, enfin les réponses ! A full-length stage comedy written and performed by Geoffray Tranber, who plays all ten characters. (Video with English subtitles) independently created and produced at the Festival Off d’Avignon. With the participation of well-known European voice talents: (Victoria Abril, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Romain Bouteille).

1980s/1990s

Artistic direction of the café-theatre “La Mandarine” (Arpajon); actor with the “Marie Poussepin” company (with a repertoire ranging from Pinter and Dario Fo to classical theatre); Conservatoire d’Arpajon (teacher: Claude Damonnay).

Contact: geoffray.tranber@gmail.com

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