Jérôme Kircher
Jérôme Kircher studied at the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique, where his teachers included Michel Bouquet. He graduated in 1988. In the same year he performed in Patrice Chéreau’s highly-regarded production of Hamlet, which toured throughout Europe. In 2000 he appeared at the Festival d’Avignon in the title role of Alfred de Musset and George Sand’s Lorenzaccio in a production by Jean-Pierre Vincent staged in the main courtyard of the Papal Palace.
Jérôme Kircher has worked with renowned theatre directors such as André Engle, Bernard Sobel, Luc Bondy, Irina Brook, Joël Jouanneau and Denis Podalydès. In 2009 he had a great success as Lopakhin in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in Alain Françon’s production at the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris. He has been nominated three times for the prestigious Molière Award for his work in theatre.
Since the 2010s he has taken part in a large number of world premieres of works by distinguished authors and directors such as Wajdi Mouawad, Emmanuel Meirieu, Guy Cassiers, Nicolas Bedos, Amos Gitaï and Frédéric Bélier-Garcia.
Jérôme Kircher has also directed several of his own works, including Je sais qu’il existe aussi des amours réciproques (mais je ne pretends pas au luxe) – an adaptation of Romain Gary’s novel Gros-Câlin – with Irène Jacob und Benoît Delbecq at the Théâtre National de Bretagne, and Le Sourire d’Audrey Hepburn – based on Clémence Boulouque’s novel Un instant de grâce – with Isabelle Carré at Paris’s Théâtre de l’Œuvre.
From 2017 to 2018 he gave almost 300 performances of the monodrama Le Monde d’hier (The World of Yesterday), based on Stefan Zweig’s memoir, in a production directed by Patrick Pineau at the Théâtre des Mathurins in Paris.
He regularly records radio plays for the station France Culture, among them Un cheval entre dans un bar (A Horse Walks Into a Bar), based on the novel by David Grossman.
Jérôme Kircher has appeared in several cinema and television films, such as the Oscar-nominated film Un long dimanche de fiançailles (directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Couple in a Hole (directed by Tom Geens), La Famille Bélier (directed by Éric Lartigau), Chevrotine (directed by Laetitia Masson) and several television films by Josée Dayan.