Remy Bertrand
Remy Bertrand got his first taste of the stage aged 13 as an extra at his local opera house in Avignon (France), and his first acting contract for theatre aged 15. After acting for French theatre and television and writing and performing stage music and radio adverts in Paris, (France), he re-trained aged 23 to obtain a BTS and become an audio-visual production administrator in Marseilles, (France). He went on teaching communication skills and running audio-visual productions before moving to London (UK) in the 90's where theatrical improvisation rekindled his love for acting.
Running marketing and translation services in the day time, he trained with such groups as Spontaneous Combustion and the Cardboard Citizen before teaching impro at The French Centre, St Mungo's and YCTV in London. He went on to teach impro skills to the cast of the first ever Yemeni feature Film "A New Day in Old Sana'a" (Yemen, 2005) and soft skills to post-graduate student at the East Anglia University (UK).
He wrote the Far Games - an evolving collection of impro games, workshop templates and jam format build around the notion of collective leadership - to help popularise the practice. He is currently facilitating Far Games workshops in London as well as heading the London Acting and Improvising Meetup Group. Remy a co-founding member of the Applied Improvisation Network European branch.
