Jean Gillibert is a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, poet, translator, playwright and director born in 1925.

 In 1947, he attended Antonin Artaud's lecture at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, which had a decisive influence on his career, marked by the exploration of madness and theater. He chose to practice as a psychoanalyst to ensure his freedom of choice; he defied the prejudices of his clinical colleagues who neither understood nor accepted this dual activity; he refused positions as directors of cultural centers because he had seen Jean-Louis Barrault become bogged down in administrative bureaucracy and cultural consensus; finally, he preferred university theater to professional theater to escape all constraints and thus create freely.
 Jean Gillibert rubbed shoulders with the greatest figures in theatre: his youth was steeped in encounters with Charles Dullin, Sacha and Ludmilla Pitoëff...