Laurène Marx

Born in 1987, Laurène Marx is an author and performer whose work revolves around the themes of gender, normativity, our relationship to reality, neurodiversity, and anti-capitalism.
At the age of sixteen, she left school to write, supporting herself with odd jobs. At the age of twenty-one, she discovered Paris, cinema, and theater, and began directing her own films and staging her own plays. Her relationship to writing and politics changed irrevocably after she attended a performance by Alok Vaid-Menon, a non-binary trans activist: it became clear to her that writing without a cause, without a struggle, was impossible.
She vowed never again to tell harmless stories, but to strive to shed light on the gray areas.
In 2015, she won the La Sorbonne Nouvelle Short Story Prize. In 2018, her play Transe won the National Grant for the Creation of Dramatic Texts—Artcena (in the “plural dramaturgies” category). In 2019, the Lyncéus Collective commissioned her to write a play for the seventh edition of the Lyncéus Festival, which led to Pour un temps sois peu, premiered in June 2021 in Binic.
In 2022, it won the Librairie Théâtrale Special Jury Prize and was directed by Fanny Sintès, starring Laurène Marx, at the Théâtre de Belleville.
That same year, Laurène Marx co-founded the theater company Je t’accapare with Fanny Sintès.
Laurène Marx describes her theatrical style as “sad stand-up.” Her work features the direct engagement with the audience so characteristic of stand-up comedy, thanks to the genre’s signature humor and the use of direct language: the personal pronoun “you” is emphasized to draw the audience into the performance. Laurène Marx draws inspiration for her material from her own life experiences, and her first three stage pieces explore various aspects of her personal journey.