Our teams

Management

Muriel Mayette-Holtz

Director

Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, actress and stage director. The first woman to lead the Comédie-Française as Administrator General, she was elected Director of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild by her peers in October 2022.

A former student of Michel Bouquet, Claude Régy and Bernard Dort, she taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique between 2000 and 2006. She joined the Comédie-Française as an actress in 1985, after training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique, and was appointed its 477th sociétaire in 1988. She has worked notably with Matthias Langhoff and Jacques Lassalle, performed some of the greatest plays of the repertoire and directed more than forty productions. She became the first woman to lead the Comédie-Française company as Administrator General, from August 2006 to July 2014.

She then directed the Villa Medici in Rome, before being appointed Director of the Théâtre National de Nice - CDN Nice Côte d’Azur on 2 August 2019. She was received into the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the seat of Maurice Béjart in May 2017, and was elected Director of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild by her peers in October 2022.

Nathalie Savignard

Administrator
Deputy to the Director

For 22 years, she has actively contributed to the influence of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, a commitment recognised in 2024 with the title of Ambassadeur Côte d’Azur France.

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