Jean-Marie Serreau_

Jean-Marie Serreau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi seʁo]; 28 April 1915 – 22 May 1973) was a 20th-century French actor, theatre director and a former student of Charles Dullin. Serreau directed the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris during the 1950s-1960s and established the Théâtre de la Tempête at La Cartoucherie in Vincennes in 1970. He created works by avant gardist playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Eugène Ionesco, as well as works by Kateb Yacine and Aimé Césaire. Married to Geneviève Serreau, herself an author and theatre director, he was Dominique Serreau's, Coline Serreau's and Nicolas Serreau's father.