Dedication to artists and to companies has been the signature of his programming. Accompanying international figures such as Christiane Jatahy, Ossama Halal and Jan-Christoph Gockel illustrates his vision of the world and the place that the theatre should hold in it.
Finally, getting us through the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic while preserving the venue and its staff, shaking up the activity to reinvent it, are all testimony to his determination to assure his role right up to the end.

Buoyed by the experience of carrying a 5-year project to term within one of the most prestigious creative institutions, Fabrice Murgia now returns to a personal artistic practice, working on transversal projects, sometimes at theatre’s fringe, with his own company ARTARA.

This decision was taken before the current public health crisis. The pandemic has forced us to delay communicating this news.

To appoint the new manager, a call for candidates will be launched by the Board of Directors at the end of December 2020. Fabrice Murgia will programme the entire 21-22 season. His successor will take office in the summer of 2021. Fabrice Murgia will provide a few months of transition to ensure the stability of our institution.

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«  The team of the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles has allowed me to follow the practitioner’s path that every student-artist should be able to dream of. One day, strengthened by this experience and this learning, I was given the opportunity to lead this incredible institution, by proposing a management model that allowed me to pursue, quite transparently, a company activity at the venue, and to share this experience with others. The Studio creations and "accompanying companies" were the heart and soul of my project. I firmly believe that the captain of such a prestigious house must be a temporary fixture in order to allow constant movement and new projects. My only hope today is that the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles will continue always to foster what its grant allows and what is undeniably its specificity: creation. Creating performances, inventing new scenic grammars to reach new people, choosing to be a history-builder becomes much more than the affirmation of a presence, here and now, in a changing world: it is an act of resistance. » 

— Fabrice Murgia