BIOGRAPHY

For the past twenty years, Nicolas Berzi has been developing a collective, hybrid, and technological stage writing practice. Over this artistic journey, he has directed around ten productions, six of which he also signed as dramaturg, while also dedicating himself to a research practice in aesthetics and methodology.

After completing a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Modern Art (UdeM, 2011), he founded the creation company Artiste Inconnu (Montreal, 2013), where he still serves as General and Artistic Director. The company and its co-creators quickly gained media recognition with a distinctive aesthetic that merges dramaturgy, choreography, music, electroacoustics, and video mapping into a unified stage language.

In December 2018, with the support of the Hexagram network, the School of Theatre and the Department of Dance at UQAM, he presented his doctoral creation at the Agora Hydro-Québec. This large-scale work, featuring fifteen stage artists and trainees, marked the first Montreal staging of Cleansed (1999) by Sarah Kane.

In September 2020, he successfully defended a doctoral thesis-creation, where he proposed a new methodology for interdisciplinary stage composition, integrating digitization technologies into traditional models of dramaturgical writing.

Right after graduating from UQAM in 2020, he co-founded, together with Armando Menicacci (artist, professor, and international specialist in dance and computing), the organization SIT – Scènes Interactives Technologiques, which soon received major support from Quebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communications.

SIT develops research-creation projects in telepresence, interactivity, and the integration of capture and streaming systems for the performing arts. Already, SIT has brought together numerous creation companies, presenters, and technological partners to develop training workshops, creative and dissemination solutions, and a knowledge-transfer plan to support the performing arts sector in its digital transition.