The 5th RADAC Society (Recherches sur les Arts Dramatiques Anglophones Contemporains - Research on Contemporary English Dramatic Arts) Master's Prize, awarded for the best M1 or M2 thesis devoted to contemporary English-language theater, was awarded on February 13, 2024 to Agathe Faucourt.

Agathe Faucourt is an alumnus of École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, former "élève-normalienne", Letters competitive exam 2018. She receive the prize for her M2 thesis entitled "Ricochet Theater: The Feminist Response to Trumpism on the American Stage. Halley Feiffer, Aleshea Harris, Emily Mann and Heidi Schreck". Supervised by Julie Vatain-Corfdir (Sorbonne University), the thesis was defended on June 19, 2023.

Who is Agathe Faucourt ?

Alumni "Normalienne-élève" of ENS de Lyon from 2018 to 2023, Agathe Faucourt focused her M1 thesis on the representation of the American city in the theater of Eugene O'Neill, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and John Guare. This first research project was carried out while she was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University. After obtaining her "agrégation" in 2021, she spent a year as a lecturer in the French department at King's College London, then focused on the potential renewal of feminist theater in the Trump era as part of her M2 dissertation. 

In September 2023, she joined the VALE laboratory (Sorbonne University) as a doctoral student and extended the analysis to a set of plays created and/or staged under the Trump presidency as part of her PhD thesis directed by Élisabeth Angel-Perez and Julie Vatain-Corfdir. She is thus attempting to rethink the link between theater and politics.