THE PEOPLE
Theatre de la Jeune Lune is a company of theatre artists founded in France in 1978 by Parisians Dominique Serrand and Vincent Gracieux and Minneapolis native Barbra Berlovitz. The three were joined a short while later by Minneapolitan Robert Rosen. All are graduates of the renowned theatre school Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, and jointly share the duties of Artistic Director.

Steven Epp joined the company as Artistic Associate in 1983 and was asked to join the founders as co-Artistic Director in 2001.

THE WORK
Jeune Lune settled permanently in Minneapolis in 1985, after seven years of splitting their seasons between France and the United States. In the fall of 1992, after fourteen years of peripatetic performance, the company moved into its permanent home in the renovated Allied Van Lines cold storage building in the Minneapolis warehouse district. From its anchor, Jeune Lune has toured in recent years to such prestigious venues as the Yale Repertory Theater, the La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Theatre, and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Its national and international reputation has expanded with such productions as Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream, which won the 1993 American Theatre Critic's Association New Play Award. Then adaptations of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird, the play/opera Don Juan Giovanni and the epic Germinal. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame received of an AT&T: OnStage award. Jeune Lune's acclaimed 3 Musketeers was the hit of the 1997 Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Closer to home, the Company was honored in 1998 with a First Bank Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Artistic Vision.

	2001 - Guest director Paddy Hayter leads the Company in Shakespeare's Hamlet; original adaptation of Gulliver's Travels.
	2000 - Extraordinary blending of opera and theatre in The Magic Flute breaks box- office records; company co-produces The Green Bird with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
	1999 - Theatre de la Jeune Lune celebrates 20 years. The four founding Artistic Directors continue to lead the Company.
	1998 - Theatre de la Jeune Lune is honored with the First Bank Sally Ordway Irvine Award for Artistic Vision.
	1997 - Jeune Lune's acclaimed 3 Musketeers is the hit of the Spoleto USA Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.
	1995 - The epic Hunchback of Notre-Dame is the recipient of an AT&T: OnStage award.
	1995 - Luverne Seifert joins the Company as an Artistic Associate; Sarah Agnew and Joel Spence join the company as Artistic Company Members.
	1994 - The play/opera Don Juan Giovanni tours to the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
	1993 - The Green Bird tours to the Yale Repertory Theatre.
	1992 - Children of Paradise: Shooting a Dream is the Company's first production in the new space. It goes on to tour at the Yale Repertory Theatre and the La Jolla Playhouse, receives the American Theatre Critics' Association New Play Award, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
	1992 - After fourteen years of peripatetic performance, performing in over twenty venues between Paris and Minneapolis, the Company moves into its permanent home in the renovated Allied Van Lines cold storage building in the Minneapolis warehouse district.
	1989 - Theatre de la Jeune Lune show its epic capabilities with the hit 1789 : The French Revolution.
	1985 - Theatre de la Jeune Lune settles in the Twin Cities after splitting its seasons between Paris and Minneapolis for seven years. That same year, the Company opens Yang Zen Froggs, a triumphant, comedic hit.
	1983 - Steven Epp joins the company as an Artistic Associate.
	1980 - 1929, an original show by the Company, is a great success on both sides of the Atlantic, and is invited to the International Theatre Festival in Nancy, France.
	1979 - Theatre de la Jeune Lune opens its first show in the Minneapolis with the Company-created Cirque de Moliere.
	1978 - Theatre de la Jeune Lune opens its first show A Midsummer Night's Dream and tours throughout France at various chateaux gardens.
	1971 through 1979 - Barbra Berlovitz, Vincent Gracieux, Robert Rosen, and Dominique Serrand are enrolled in the Ecole Jacque Lecoq various years in Paris, France.
	1970's - Barbra Berlovitz and Dominique Serrand tour with a two-person show throughout France, as well as the United States, for the Guthrie Theatre.