Simone Toendury

Member of the jury since 2022, President since 2024

Simone Toendury (b. 1972) is the head of Prospecting and Development at the Comédie de Genève. Unil the end of 2025, she was the artistic director of the event La Chaux-de-Fonds, Swiss Capital of Culture 2027. Between 2022 and 2024, she was jointly responsible for the performing arts programme at the La Bâtie festival in Geneva, along with Claude Ratzé. From 2014 to 2021 she was head of programming and production director for the performing arts, street arts, performance and installations at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne. Simone Toendury was born in Bern and completed a BA in political science at the University of Lausanne. Her first involvement in culture came in 1998 as part of Expo.02. In 2007 she co-founded Tutu Production, a production and distribution agency for the performing arts that supports artists including Cindy Van Acker, Marco Berrettini and Massimo Furlan.