We recently connected with Lucie Tassel and have shared our conversation below.

Lucie, appreciate you joining us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

I started to work professionally as an artist I was 29, so I did a lot of other thing before. I graduated in Physical and Nutritional rehabilitation, thinking that I would be a personal coach. Before that I studied sciences because I wanted to join the army to become an helicopter pilot. And I finally graduated in education and became an elementary school teacher. All these choices were lead by my fear to get bored in my professional life. I thought that I would need to choose something with « moves»: turn over of clients, missions, students, educational programs… but it didn’t work out. I was a very good teacher, but it wasn’t my path. I have always been an artist, always wanted to be, and now that I jumped in this career I am way more happy ! Physically I can feel that what I am doing fills my heart. I am happy to wake up. It is also an everyday challenge, you go from a project to another, try to find one or create your own. I also take care of myself more since I need my body healthy to be able to work consistently. I am more aware and intuitive. I have the chance to meet new people all the time and to travel depending on the project I am part of. I am living the life I pictured for myself, so I am thrilled.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am an artist with 15 years’ experience, and a completely atypical background.

Being French, I naturally made my debut in Paris, where I am originally from. Under the direction of Ned Grujic, I played the role of Helen Sinclair in Bullets Over Broadway and was part of the On The Town and Godspell ensembles at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. I also played the role of Poncia in Federico García Lorca’s play The House of Bernarda Alba at the Théâtre de La Nouvelle Athènes, directed by Guillaume Bouchède. I was also a member of the chorus of the symphony orchestra accompanying Joe Hisaishi on his last tour of France, and the singers of the Chœur à l’horizon, a Paris-based professional chorus specializing in the musical theatre repertoire, created and directed by Nima Santonja. In 2024, I played the lead role of Della in Sneaky Pete’s Wild West Dinner Show at the Legacy Dinner Theatre in Wisconsin, USA. I am also the producer and artistic director of the Broadway Abroad Cabaret, in collaboration with Kendra McBride as musical director, which opened last November at Green Room 42 in New York City (under the name A-Broad’way Cabaret), and in which she sang alongside other international artists.

I am a graduate of ECM in Paris, a musical comedy school run by Ned Grujic and Véronique Fruchart, where I trained for 3 years in singing (vocal technique, polyphony, musicianship), dance (classical, jazz, tap), theater (classical, contemporary, mime, clowning) and stage combat (swords, batons). I also trained in cartoon voice-over with Edwige Chandelier. To complete my professional training, I moved to New York to study at AMDA, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, where I benefited from American expertise, honing my skills in singing, dancing and acting, and inevitably receiving a Certificate of Musical Theatre.

A sportswoman from an early age, I have a passion for salsa and other Latin dances, and enjoys a wide range of disciplines including tennis (her specialty), climbing, skiing, horse-riding and rollerblading. Trilingual French-Spanish-English, I am also a traveler who, after visiting several countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, fell in love with Venezuela, a country that really helped me grow emotionally and from which I have learned an enormous amount. All these trips, and the people I met along the way, opened my heart and mind, bringing to light what I dared not admit but secretly dreamed of: being an artist.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://lucietassel.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucietassel?igsh=dGZtMG1waG0wN3Rh&utm_source=qr
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@lucietassel2346?si=GaTgFugOUCF25yCk

Image Credits
Stéphane Parphot, Jessica Osber, Arnaud Dufau, Alexis Ventura