French actress, director, screenwriter and dialogue writer.

Élisabeth Perceval was born in France but moved to Quebec at the age of 12. She studied at the National Theatre School in Montreal. In 1970, she returned to France where she met Bruno Bayen with whom she shared her personal and professional life. Together they founded the company La Fabrique de Théâtre, with whom she performed under the pseudonym Elsa Pierce. The shows follow one another: L'Intervention by V Hugo performed at the Avignon Festival, Madame Hardie, La Danse Macabre by Frank Wedekind, La Mort de Danton by G. Büchner, Torquato Tasso by J. W. Goethe, etc.

In 1988, Elisabeth Perceval played in La Nuit bengali, a show by Nicolas Klotz. This artistic encounter led to a love affair and a professional collaboration. Élisabeth Perceval put her acting career on the back burner to devote herself to writing. She wrote an adaptation of Albert Cohen's Belle du Seigneur and played the role of Ariadne. The show was performed more than a hundred times at the Avignon Festival, in France and throughout Europe.

Touched by social causes, she worked for a year with the undocumented immigrants who were featured in Klotz' film La Blessure in 2005. She became the regular scriptwriter for her partner and director Nicolas Klotz with La Nuit sacrée (1993), Paria (2001), Nus (2005), La Question humaine (2007) and Le Festin des chiens in 2009. In 2004, they set up the production company Pierre et Grands Oiseaux and the Compagnie des Inde together. In 2007, they wrote and directed together the short film La Consolation, followed by the feature film Low Life (2012), a love story between Carmen and Hussain, a young Afghan poet, which turns into a drama.

In 2013, as part of the 67th Festival d'Avignon, they presented Le vent souffle dans la cour d'honneur, a film starring two great figures of the cinema: Juliette Binoche and Jeanne Moreau.

(Source: Lefigaro.fr)