Florence Bovet is an author, director, and actress. Born in 2000 to a Belgian mother and Italian father, she grew up in the Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in northwestern Italy. She wrote short stories in Italian and French and, in 2015, received an honorable mention from the Prix Interrégional Jeunes Auteurs (CH) for her text “Jigoku Dani,” which was published the same year by Editions de l'Hèbe. In 2017, she was a semi-finalist for the Prix du Jeune Ecrivain (FR) with “Mémoires d'une époque” and in 2019 she won first prize in the Abbé Trèves competition (IT) with “Maman, parle-moi comme ta maman”. In 2019, she moved to Belgium to attend the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. She is pursuing a bachelor's degree in dramatic interpretation and a master's degree in writing and directing, and will graduate in June 2024 with high honors. During her studies, she wrote her first two plays: “Aux Cyprès Heureux – Une histoire de naissance, de mort, de pourboire et de prune” (At the Happy Cypress Trees – A story of birth, death, tips, and plums) and “Les Reconstructrices – Ou de l'épopée où elles redécouvrirent le sens étymologique du mot Apocalypse” (The Reconstructors – Or the epic tale of how they rediscovered the etymological meaning of the word Apocalypse). The first was performed in October 2024 at the Théâtre Blocry in Louvain-la-Neuve (BE) as part of a promotion of young writers organized by the Magasin d'Ecriture Théâtrale in collaboration with the Théâtre Le Vilar in Louvain-la-Neuve (BE). The second will be directed by Florence herself as part of her final year project and will be performed in June 2024 at the Théâtre Le Vilar in Louvain-la-Neuve (BE). Her writing is permeated by recurring themes such as family transmission, dystopia, memory, the construction of new possibilities, and the link to the community.  

Residency project:
Writing a play entitled “La mécanique du deuil” (The Mechanics of Mourning)