Simone Strickner, in the leading role at Cours Florent

This Thursday, Simone Strickner is about to take the stage. And to officially become, at 44, the first woman to direct the Cours Florent, since the creation in 1967 of this famous theater school by the actor François Florent, who died last year.

Boyish cut, wheat hair, careful diction… Simone Strickner will watch over the 1,500 apprentice actors of this institution, bought in 2011 by the Galileo group, and which has seen illustrious names come out of its ranks, including Vincent Lindon, Isabelle Adjani , Pierre Niney or Sandrine Kiberlain…