Adélaïde Pralon
Adélaïde Pralon is an actress trained at ESAD as well as a theatre director and a dramaturg. For several years, she led the theatre company Tout le désert à boire, where she directed her own plays, including Chacun chez soi and Combinaisons.
She has worked for many years as a dramaturg alongside Valère Novarina. She also collaborates regularly with the Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen, Hungary, where she directed Pour Louis de Funès by Valère Novarina, La vie rêvée, a musical production based on the life of George Sand, and Feydeau, histoire d’une répétition, inspired by the works of Georges Feydeau.
As a literary translator, she has translated more than a dozen novels, including Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne (winner of the Pierre-François Caillé Translation Prize), L’Autre côté des docks by Ivy Pochoda (Page America Prize 2013), as well as the novels of Qiu Xiaolong.
A member of the English-language committee of the Maison Antoine Vitez since 2009, she has translated numerous playwrights, including Alan Bennett, Don DeLillo, Nicola Wilson, Henry Naylor, Adam Brace, Melissa Bubnic, and Evan Placey.
Conor grew up in France in an Irish family. After graduating from high school, he pursued theatre studies in the UK: a BA in theatre from Royal Holloway and acting training at the Drama Centre London. He has performed in theatre, commercials, stand-up comedy, and also written and directed short films.
Alongside his acting career, he trained as a storyteller and educator at Shakespeare's Globe, where he spent 13 years staging one-man shows, leading workshops, directing young people from all countries, creating projects, training his colleagues and introducing Shakespeare to as many people as possible.
Back in France since 2019, he leads weekly workshops at the international high school in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Le Pecq, and Le Vésinet. He regularly works in middle and high schools, leading theater workshops designed to illuminate the dramatic aspects of the plays on the curriculum. With Break an Egg, he aims to reach a diverse audience through workshops, classes, and performances staged with his wife, Adélaïde Pralon.
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Sophie Brech
Márk Fedronic
After an internship at the Théâtre de Complicité in London, Sophie studied under Jacques Lecoq from 1997 to 1999. She was Mario Gonzalez's assistant at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris from 2000 to 2003 and has since led her own clowning workshops worldwide. As an actress, she has performed works by Aristophanes, Kafka, Shakespeare, Wilde, and Orwell, as well as in original productions such as Le Train pour Séoul, which was performed in South Korea.
In 2009, Sophie Brech and Louis Fortier created the company Théâtre Fools and Feathers and the show Le Destin tragicomique de Tubby et Nottubby, which has enjoyed remarkable critical and public success.
For many years, she has directed theatre projects for children and teenagers that allow them, in a few days, to create a show in English, drawing inspiration from Shakespeare's plays, contemporary texts or their own lives.
She has worked for institutions such as The American School of Paris, L'École Internationale Bilingue and Company Act.
Together with Break an Egg, she runs the weekly Drama Club workshops at the British Section of the Lycée International de St Germain en Laye.
Márk Fedronic is a passionate music teacher and professional musician (piano, trombone, vocals) with over ten years of experience teaching children and adults. He teaches various disciplines, including group music, ensemble singing, and composition, and also offers private piano and trombone lessons. Born in France to a French father and a Hungarian mother, Márk grew up in San Francisco and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities from Yale University, focusing on music and literature. After teaching music in the Bay Area and forming an indie rock band, Márk furthered his pedagogical expertise by obtaining a Master of Music Education from the Kodály Institute in Hungary.
Based in Paris since 2023, Márk currently leads music education workshops in France and Hungary, gives private piano lessons, and performs locally with the band Super Cher and the vocal ensemble Bleu Minuit. Outside of France, Márk performs with the international vocal ensemble Sajt. He also continues to write and tour with his band More Fatter.