Grégory Herpe

Born on February 25th 1969 in Paris, Grégory Herpe is a multi-faceted artist. He wrote his first play "Byron" at the age of 17 and to date has written a total of 20 plays, as well as novels, short stories, poems, haiku, in France and Canada. In 1988 he joined the prestigious Ecole Florent (the French equivalent of the US Actors Studio) where he learned acting and directing with Francis Huster. His fellow students included new French talents as Edouard Baer, Jean-Paul Rouve, Eric Ruf, Jeanne Balibar, and Christopher Thompson. Performing roles from Hamlet, through Henry V to Neron, enjoying Shakespeare, Racine, Gogol, Goldoni, Claudel or Musset, played and directed his own plays, always with the same passion, in Europe. Directed about 20 plays (Molière, Patrick Hamilton, Jean Michel Ribes, Agatha Christie), he realized a few short plays and directed different classical music performances and acted in movies directed by Jean Pierre Mocky or André Techiné. At the same time he published his first novel "Le Vieux Bouc" and worked as a journalist for NRJ, with Samuel Zniber, and Fun Radio, conducted many interviews, for radio and newspapers, and worked on the conception of different TV shows for TF1 and Fun TV. In 2006 he developed a new artistic direction with the creation of his "Artistic Pictures", held different exhibitions, and was assistant director on a Franco-American film, "Testudo". Today he is Artistic Director for a large film studio,a recording company (Cat.Studios Prod & Sound), and is part of the Polish Film Festival in Perpignan since 2007, with Joanna Bruzdowicz and Nicole Baron. In 2008, he became a set photographer of feature films, and launched his own production company "The Royal Company of the Poupoupidou Production" with Sylvain Philipo and Alexis Bret, and worked again as an actor on different movies.