Laura KREIS
Actress

Laura received a grant to finance her studies at the Théâtre National de Bretagne.

What is your artistic background?
I started out with breakdance, at a neighbourhood association in Vigneux-sur-Seine. Then, as a teenager, I taught myself other movement languages and developed them on my own. At the same time, I began writing: writing gave me a way to make my voice heard and to express myself. That led me to slam poetry, and at 18 I was performing at open mics in Paris and around France. In 2019, meeting a drama teacher made me want to forge my own path in theatre. I then sat the baccalauréat as an independent candidate so that I could return to education. In 2021, I performed in Seventeen by François Stemmer and took part in several podcast recordings for Radio France. That same year, I auditioned for the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, was accepted, and joined the preparatory class for the national drama schools led by Marc Ernotte and Anne-Frédérique Bourget. Alongside this three-year programme, I kept on writing and dancing (contemporary, krump). In 2024, I entered the school of the Théâtre National de Bretagne for a three-year course. As part of this actor training, I will be doing a placement in classical dance, contemporary dance and choreography at the Conservatorio Superior de Danza de Málaga from January to April 2027.

How do you see your profession today ?
With a naive eye, one of hope, anger, bewilderment, questioning, utopia and joy. For me, language is at once a source of anxiety, of questioning, of stammering, and a longing to build connections, to move beyond fear, to stay close to doubt. Language moves me at the point where it meets silence and secrecy. Hidden within spoken language is a universal language: the language of movement. The movement of the man who steps forward, of the man who opens and closes his mouth, of the woman who speaks with her hands, of the man who does not speak with his hands, of the woman who dares to let herself be looked at, of the man who steps forward, trembling, of the woman who laughs, of the man who raises his eyes to the sky, of all those, women and men, who stand still and alone. That moment when we speak the same language and inhabit silence together,  that is what I hold on to and what I want to carry onto the stage. This utopia of a common ground that binds us keeps driving me, again and again, towards encounters and towards stepping outside myself.

How do you see yourself in 5 years ? in 10 years ?
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Interview conducted in 2026
Photographs taken in 2026 by Yama Ndiaye