Frédérick Sigrist is (im)pertinent. Corrosive, funny and committed, he paints a biting portrait of our society. Fed on comics and cinema, stuffed with information, he presents a caustic, vicious, and hilarious assessment of the world and the political scene. He will be at the Théâtre de Verdure in Nice on Saturday, September 5, 2015, during the 2015 edition of the comedy season.
“Like a béchamel sauce gone wrong…” That’s how Frédérick Sigrist describes himself with self-deprecation, referring to his origins (Lorraine from his mother and Caribbean from his father). He will be at the Théâtre de Verdure in Nice on September 5 for the 2015 comedy season.
Born on November 27, 1977, Frédérick Sigrist comes from a modest background, having grown up in the suburbs of Nancy (“a city where the monuments look younger than the elected officials!”) alongside a mother who was a nursing aide and an absent father.
As a teenager, he chose theater as an elective in high school. In 1999, he went to work as an animator at the Club Med in Da Balia before moving to Paris in 2000 to attend Viriot courses while working at Pizza Hut in Neuilly to finance his theater classes.
Naturally altruistic and particularly sensitive to human distress, Frédérick Sigrist worked for several years, at night, at the Samu Social in Paris, where he faced great poverty and often encountered the difficulty of effecting change and helping others.
He titled his first one-man show “The Alphabet of the End of a Century,” but it was starting from 2004 that he began to make a name for himself, first with his autobiographical one-man show “A Chalk Memory” performed at the André Bourvil theater in Paris, then with “Murder Above a Pay Slip” two years later.
In 2007, Frédérick Sigrist participated in the young talents contest at the “Paris Makes Its Comedy” Festival. That same year, his new one-man show “And Then They’re Going to Say I’m Mean” was performed at the Blancs Manteaux, at the Point Virgule theater, earning the SACD Prize at the “Top in Humour” festival and the Jury Prize at the Villeneuve-sur-Lot festival.
It’s in his commentary on political news where Frédérick Sigrist truly excels. A sort of modern-day Guy Bedos, a left-leaning Gaspard Proust, Frédérick Sigrist, who has a real political and social conscience, loves nothing more than reacting quickly to the news, whether national or international. “A sort of Tavern talk but better written and better staged!”
A brilliant and prolific writer, Frédérick Sigrist has written and performed nearly a dozen shows since his beginnings. His talent for ironic and biting commentary and his sharp pen have not escaped the attentive eye of Hugues Leforestier, who invited him to perform at the Caveau de la République. For the past three years, he has been one of the pillars of this temple of Parisian chansonniers.
On the radio, Frédérick Sigrist began by collaborating on the show “Already Awake, Not Yet Asleep” on France Inter before joining Europe1 and the entire “Samedi Roumanoff” team: Willy Rovelli, Chris Deslandes, Shirley Souagnon, Dany Mauro, and Anne Roumanoff. Since 2010, every Saturday morning, he brilliantly revisits the week’s news.
Frédérick Sigrist’s dream? To fill a large performance hall for several months. A wish almost fulfilled when he will have filled the 1,800 seats of the Théâtre de Verdure in Nice for this “Comedy Season.”
