hi.

My name is Pauline Mornet. I am an artist and scholar focussed on performance, theatre and theory. My interests circulate around topics of memory and migration, disorientation as a generative force, and the pleasures and entanglements provided by temporary spaces. I love collaborating and using practice-based research methods.

My most recent devised play Wanderers premiered at the Nitery Experimental Theater in Stanford, CA and is a dreamlike and symbolist fable. You can find my earlier directorial projects here, including Titre Provisoire which toured in France in 2019. I originally came to theater as an actor and have worked with various directors including Bay Area-based Erika Shuch Chong with For Now.

I have also worked as a coordinator and project manager for different art projects and artists. This includes my role as locations manager for Julian Juhlin’s New York City edition of the Virgin Tour. I was most recently project manager on the honorarium installation HEARTH at Djerassi Artist Residency Center, CA for Burning Man 2024.  I have also worked in art institutions such as Gagosian Gallery and International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP).

You can find my published works in academic journals and in literary reviews. I recently published in Performance Research Journal with my essay ‘Intimate Archives: Love Letters in Wartime Europe’ exploring an archive of love letters sent during the Second World War and using practice-as-research techniques to engage with post-memory.

I am currently a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies with a PhD minor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University. I hold a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Humanities from Sciences Po Paris. I am a RAISE Fellow at Stanford and co-director of the Nitery Experimental Theater. I was most recently an artist in residence at Kebbel Villa, Germany where I concieved MEMORY HOUSE.