Théo Casciani

Théo Casciani is an author. Born in 1995, they studied at SciencesPo. and Sorbonne University, in Paris, before joining La Cambre, in Brussels, where they are now teaching. Retina, their first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019. Their fictions have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, including WIELS, Kyoto Art Center, Centre Pompidou, Montez Press, GöteborgOperans, Actoral, Lafayette Anticipations, Palais de Tokyo, Spazio Maiocchi or Musée du Louvre. They have also contributed to publications such as AOC, Kaleidoscope, Alphabet, Mouvement and The Brooklyn Rail. These texts have led to various collaborations and translations.

Insula is a novel by Théo Casciani, to be published in 2025 in France and the UK, which will then be adapted for the stage a few months after publication. Inspired by a personal experience of bereavement, this story is at once a dystopia, an investigation, a love story and a ghost story, but it is above all conceived as a portal between several worlds; between the true and the false, the real and the virtual, life and death. This residency will enable them to finalize the writing of this text and to sketch out a stage version.