JD was born into a family that has run a French bakery for four generations. Instead, he majored in history and literature before ‘running away to join the circus,’ where he trained at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London. He’s worked with some of the best modern circus companies in the UK, including Barely Methodical Troupe and Ellie Dubois’ Superfan, as well as Nikki Rummer in the multi-award-winning Knot.

JD traverses acrobatically through a cosmos of bread-making, physical heroics, and growing up queer in strait-laced provincial France in his first solo act. Ursula Martinez, his colleague and director, is a writer and actress who, according to The Daily Telegraph, “will be legally adopted as a national treasure in a few years.”