
Jean-François "Paco" Meuwly
NATIONALITY
Swiss-Mexican
Actor - Social Worker
LANGUAGES
Fluent: French, Spanish, English
Basics: German, Italian
Actor-creator with a Master of Arts in Theatre from the Accademia Teatro Dimitri (Verscio) and a Bachelor's degree in Social Education from the HES-SO. He previously trained in Lecoq pedagogy at the Escuela Internacional de Creación y Movimiento Cabuia (Buenos Aires). He has worked in South America and Switzerland on forms linked with the Theatre of the Opressed and Documentary Theatre. A former member of Cie les Joueurs, he has performed as an actor in various productions in French-speaking Switzerland. He co-founded Cie DesAires Teatro (Yverdon-les-Bains) in 2018, creating and directing two plays performed in Switzerland, France and Spain. For a number of years, he has been running workshops with people receiving various social benefits, with whom he creates original plays. In 2024, he directed Shekhina by Cie Porte-Bagages at the Théâtre de l'Oriental (Vevey). He is co-director of the Interstices project, aimed at creating an immersive multidisciplinary play on the Sports 5 industrial wasteland, and is a founding member of the artistic space Le Point de Bascule in Yverdon-les-Bains.