performing arts La Charité-sur-Loire

Sefako AGBOKOU/

Actress and director

Sefako AGBOKOU

Cité du Mot

In March 2025, she completed the first stage of research for her creative project Celle qui passe, based on an unpublished play by Togolese author Jean Kantchébé. The project was awarded the Studio des Arts Vivants - Togo Créatif 2024 prize. In 2023, she co-founded the Compagnie Abra Brigitte and directed Moyenne sexuellement Transmissible by Gustave Akakpo, winner of the Studio des Arts vivants - Togo Créatif 2023. Since then, she has been supporting authors in their immersion in Lomé and organising their residency programmes, notably as part of the Fabrique de fictions and ‘Texte à lire au jeu’ at the AmArou festival for young audiences. In 2022, Sefako Agbokou received a grant from the French Embassy in Togo through the Fabrik-Laboratoire de recherche artistique de Lomé and is currently doing an internship at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques de Théâtre (ENSATT) in Lyon. In 2021, she took part in the ‘Les Fabriqu'actions’ drama training and support programme set up by Elemawusi Agbedjidji and directed by Jan-christoph Gockel, Faustine Nauguès, Haïla Houessou, Gustave Akakpo, Estelle Foli, Stan Sitou and Fati Fousséni.

As an actress, she was cast between 2019 and 2024 by Céline Champinot in Samantha Pardon's Zombi, by Maurin Ollès in David à grande vitesse by Clémence Attar, by Gustave Akakpo in his play Kôdjôkpli in 2022 and in 2024 in his writing and directing project Chez Adélaïde la kouroucienne. It was also distributed by Hanifa Dobila in Shéilla Inangoma's Je me souviens très bien, by Nathalie Hounvo-Yékpé in Faustine Noguès' Impulsion, by Marléne Douti in the adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Bear and A Marriage Proposal, etc.

Residency project :

This is an immersive digital theatre adaptation of Florence Grillot's play Les Enquêtes de l’Inspecteur Farfouille, designed for children aged 5 to 12.
In 45 minutes, this work recounts Sophie's interactive adventure in a magical world, accompanied by Inspector Farfouille.