Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes.

Her plays, Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art, The Unexpected Man, Life x 3 and A Spanish Play, God of Carnage, How You Talk the Game and Bella Figura have been produced worldwide and translated into thirty-five languages.

In 1995, Art premiered in Paris and went on to win the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has been produced world-wide and translated and performed in over 30 languages. The London production received the 1996-97 Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award and the Tony award in 1998 in New York.

Her new play, God of Carnage, opened on 8 December 2006 at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, directed by Jürgen Gosch, received the Viennese Nestroy-Theatreprize for the best German-language performance of the season. In Paris on 25 January 2008 at the Théâtre Antoine, Yasmina Reza directed the play with Isabelle Huppert.

In London, God of Carnage, translated by Christopher Hampton opened on 25 March 2008 with Ralph Finnes, Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott. In New York, the play opened in February 2009, directed either by Matthew Markus with Jeff Daniels, James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis. For the second time, Yasmina Reza won the Tony award. Her adaptation of the play for Roman Polanski movie “Carnage” won the Cesar of best script.

Since she directed How you play the game and Bella Figura and Anne-Marie la Beauté in Paris.

Novels include: Hammerklavier, Une Desolation, Adam Haberberg, Dans la Luge d’Arthur Schopenhauer, Nulle Part and L’Aube le Soir ou la Nuit (This novel Dawn, Dusk and Night, has been translated over 40 countries and was printed in April 2008 in America - Knopps editions.) The novel Happy are the happy has been translated worldwide and won the award Le Monde. The novel Babylone, published in 2016 won the prestigious Renaudot Award. Her last novel Serge, has had a huge success in France.

Yasmina Reza directed her first movie Chicas in 2010.