Jean-Michel Ribes

Ribes worked across film director, screenwriter, playwright, actor and director. This article rests on 27 published texts and 2 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Jean-Michel Ribes • Birth Name — Jean-Michel Pierre Fernand Ribes • Born — 15 December 1946 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Occupation — Playwright, screen writer, film director, theatre director • Years Active — 1966–present

• Year — Title — Author — Notes • 1966 — Chez l'illustre écrivain — Octave Mirbeau • Je rêvais peut-être — Luigi Pirandello • 1967 — The Alchemist — Ben Jonson • Herman est de retour — Anonymous • 1969 — Le lai de Barrabas — Fernando Arrabal • 1970 — Les Fraises musclées — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1971 — Il faut que le sycomore coule — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1972 — Rumeurs — Jean-Michel Ribes • Je suis un steak — Jean-Michel Ribes • Par delà les marronniers — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1973 — Les Fraises musclées — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1974 — L'Odyssée pour une tasse de thé — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1975 — Dieu le veut — Jean-Michel Ribes • Omphalos Hôtel — Jean-Michel Ribes • On loge la nuit-café à l'eau — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1976 — Tout contre un petit bois — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1977 — Jacky Parady — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1983 — Batailles — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1984 — True West — Sam Shepard • 1986 — Révoltes — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1987 — Le pont des soupirs — Jacques Offenbach — Nominated – Molière Award for Best Musical • The Birthday Party — Harold Pinter • 1988 — La Cagnotte — Eugène Labiche • 1990 — La Cuisse du steward — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1994 — Brèves de comptoir — Jean-Marie Gourio — Nominated – Molière Award for Best Director Nominated – Molière Award for Best Comedy • Cirque à deux — Barry Creyton • 1997 — Monsieur Monde — Jean-Michel Ribes • 1998 — Rêver peut-être — Jean-Claude Grumberg — Nominated – Molière Award for Best Director Nominated – Molière Award for Best Creation Grand Prix de la critique – Best French Creation • Les Talons devant — Patrick Bosso & Jean-Michel Ribes • 1999 — Les Nouvelles Brèves de comptoir — Jean-Marie Gourio — Nominated – Molière Award for Best Comedy • Teddy — Jean-Louis Bourdon • 2000 — Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell — Keith Waterhouse • Amorphe d'Ottenburg — Jean-Claude Grumberg • 2001 — Théâtre sans animaux — Jean-Michel Ribes — Molière Award for Best Comedy Molière Award for Best Playwright Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française Nominated – Molière Award for Best Creation • 2002 — L'Enfant do — Jean-Claude Grumberg • Le Complexe de Thénardier — José Pliya • La Priapée des écrevisses — Christian Siméon • 2003 — Le professeur Rollin a encore quelque chose à dire — François Rollin • Guy Bedos — Guy Bedos, Nicolas Bedos & Gérard Miller • 2004 — Musée haut, musée bas — Jean-Michel Ribes — Nominated – Molière Award for Best Living Francophone Author Nominated – Molière Award for Best Creation • Le Jardin aux betteraves — Roland Dubillard • 2005 — Merci — Daniel Pennac • Dieu est un steward de bonne composition — Yves Ravey • Sans ascenseur — Sébastien Thiéry • 2006 — Collection particulière — François Morel • 2007 — J'ai tout — Thierry Illouz • 2008 — La Ferme des concombres — Patrick Robine • Batailles — Jean-Michel Ribes • 2009 — En umulig gutt — Petter S. Rosenlund • Les Diablogues — Roland Dubillard • 2010 — Les Nouvelles Brèves de comptoir — Jean-Marie Gourio & Jean-Michel Ribes • 2011 — René l'énervé — Jean-Michel Ribes • 2013 — Théâtre sans animaux — Jean-Michel Ribes • 2016 — Par-delà les marronniers — Jean-Michel Ribes

• 1978: The Swindle • 1986: La galette du roi • 1993: Chacun pour toi • 2008: The Maiden and the Wolves • 2008: A Day at the Museum • 2014: Brèves de comptoir

Jean-Michel Ribes was born on 15 December 1946 in 16th arrondissement of Paris. Ribes held the nationality of France. Married to: Laurence Vincendon. Recorded father: Pierre Ribes. Recorded child: Alexie Ribes. Ribes worked as film director, screenwriter, playwright and actor, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them director. Ribes was active from 1966. Ribes worked in French.

Ribes worked for the screen, as film director and screenwriter. 5 films survive in the institutional catalogues, spanning 1979 to 2014. Among them are Rien ne va plus (1979), La Galette du roi (1986), Musée haut (2008) and Brèves de comptoir (2014).

• 2001: Plaisir du Théâtre Award • 2007: Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur