After studying at the Conservatoire of Art Dramatique in Lyon from 1982 to 1984, Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian continued his training in Israel, Japan, Ukraine and France.

In 1985, he founded the Premier Acte Company with Michel Touitou, Catherine Vial and Patrick Auzet-Magri, and became its playwright and director. In 2000, he launched the Ecole Premier Acte, devoted to theatrical research and education. He has directed more than thirty-five shows since 1985, all of which he either wrote or adapted for the stage, consistently favouring contemporary writing and plays, original or unpublished texts.

His most recent productions have been Don Quixote - Episode 2 based on the Cervantes novel in 2008; Claude Gueux based on Victor Hugo's story in 2007; Macondo and Erendira, a diptych based on the world of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which has been touring in France and abroad since 2005. He has also directed Moli�re's Tartuffe in Vietnamese at the Hanoi Opera, with students from the Ecole Nationale de Théâtre et de Cinéma du Vietnam, and this production has been on tour since 2004.

Sarkis Tcheumlekdjian is driven by the desire and the need to communicate and keeps moving forward with a committed team, running artistic and educational projects around the world, in particular in Ukraine, Vietnam, Israel, Morocco, Armenia, Poland and the United Arab Emirates. He has been a fellow of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT) Theatre School since 2005 and President of Zartong, a traditional Armenian Music School since October 2007.

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