Jean Bellorini is a director committed to great dramatic and literary texts. His shows closely combine theatre and music. He has directed Tempête sous un crâne based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Paroles gelées based on Rabelais (Molière for Best Direction), Bertolt Brecht's La Bonne Âme du Se-Tchouan (Molière for Best Public Theatre Production), Ferenc Molnár's Liliom and Karamazov based on Dostoyevsky's novel, created for the 2016 Avignon Festival.

Appointed director of the Théâtre Gérard Philipe, the national drama centre in Saint-Denis, in 2014, he created the Troupe éphémère, a group of teenagers with whom he stages a show every season. He has worked for the opera and abroad, collaborating with the Berliner Ensemble, the Théâtre Alexandrinski in St Petersburg and, in spring 2022, the Teatro di Napoli on Il Tartufo.

Director of the TNP in Villeurbanne since 2020, he has created a number of plays in France and abroad, including Valère Novarina's Le Jeu des Ombres; Nicolaï Erdman's Soviet vaudeville Le Suicidé; Les Messagères, based on Sophocles' Antigone, with the Afghan Girls Theater Group; Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David et Jonathas; and Les Misérables, based on Victor Hugo's novel, with Yang Hua Theatre at Beijing's Poly Theatre, among others.