Mikaël Serre born in 1973 in Nimes, studied at the school of arts and design in Saint-Etienne, was trained at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and participated in the International Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg. His directorial work has been featured at venues like the Theatre La Rose des vents in Lille and Paris' Théâtre de la Bastille, and invited to numerous festivals including the dance theatre festival Fest mit Pina and the FIND Festival at Berlin's Schaubühne. He has also translated texts by Franz Xaver Kroetz and Marius von Mayenburg into French.