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Guila Clara Kessous is a French human rights artist and academic. She was nominatedUNESCO Artist for Peace for her dedication in the arts and human rights andKnight of Arts & Letters by theFrench Ministry of Culture for her work on the influence of French culture overseas.[1]
Kessous has a PhD in French literature from Boston University and another in Ethics andAesthetics, an MBA in Cultural Business and aMA in ComparativeDramaturgy,Cinema, andPedagogy.[1]
She created the "Theatre and Human Rights" curriculum at theParis Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and taught the program at theCarr Center of theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government atHarvard University. She has also taught at other institutions includingBoston University,Oxford University,University of Geneva,Ecole Normale Supérieure, Alliances Françaises, Wiesel Institute andSt Petersburg Conservatory.[1]
At Harvard University, she was nominated "Fashion Ambassador" and has received two awards for teaching excellence from the Harvard'sDerek Bok Center.[1]
She is an associate researcher at theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research ARIAS laboratory and has a post-doctorate scholarship from theFoundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue at the University of Geneva.[1]
She conceives drama as a socially conscious reflection pervading multiple aspects of society and culture. Her approach to theater as a cultural marker is multifaceted. She has benefited from her American and European theatrical approaches as an artist, actress, researcher, and teacher by collaborating with other directors and film makers includingJohn Malkovich, Jim Spruill, Labid Aziz, Michael Marmarinos, Patrick Jérôme,Daniel Mesguich, Laurent Laffargue and Jean Pierre Vincent. She has co-produced and directed over 20 shows, with a specific emphasis on costumes (meeting withJean Paul Gaultier at theFestival d'Avignon in 2006).[1]
She had the opportunity to work with numerous artists and authors on theatrical works that primarily deal with humanitarian and social issues includingElie Wiesel,Marie NDiaye,Theodore Bikel,Marisa Berenson, James Taylor,Marie-Christine Barrault,Jean Claude Grumberg, Enzo Cormann and Jean Paul Wenzel.[1]
Transposing analysis techniques to the cinema, she made a series of short movies presented at theCannes Festival entitled "Private Conversation" and "Glassy Reality".[1][2]
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