Playwrights' Workshop Montréal


	The Team at Playwrights'

Emma Tibaldo – Artistic and Executive Director

Emma Tibaldo is a graduate of Concordia’s Theatre Department and the National Theatre School’s Directing program, where she continues to be a guest artist. She was the dramaturg in residence of Playwrights' Workshop Montreal for three seasons.

Most recently she has directed The Flood Thereafter by Sarah Berthiaume, and Rock, Paper, Jacknife, by Marilyn Perreault (both translated by Nadine Desrochers), and Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard (translated by Linda Gaboriau), all for Talisman Theatre. Other directing credits include Lifedream by Herménégilde Chiasson, translated by Jo-Anne Elder for the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival in New Brunswick, The Queens by Normand Chaurette, translated by Linda Gaboriau for Concordia University, That Woman by Daniel Danis, translated by Linda Gaboriau for Talisman Theatre, Lutz by Ryan Griffith for the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival, Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey for Sour Brides Theatre in Whitehorse and Home and Beauty by Somerset Maugham for Theatre Lac Brome.

She has been assistant director for Joseph Ziegler’s Soulpepper production of A Winter’s Tale, for Sarah Stanley’s Inflagrante and directing intern at the Stratford Festival for Peter Hinton’s The Swanne Part II. She has been dramaturg and director for staged readings at various festivals across the country including: Michael Redhill’s Goodness at Teesri Duniya’s Fireworks Festival; Martha Ross’ And Up They Flew at Alberta Theatre Project’s Platform Plays; Brian Drader’s Crack at the NAC’s On the Verge; Beatriz Pizano’s Madre at Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell Festival.

June Park - General Manager

June Park has a B.A. from the University of Calgary, and M.A. from the University of Toronto with a concentration in Canadian literature & drama. An alumni of the University of Waterloo Centre for Cultural Management, Income Managers Program (Genovese Vanderhoof & Associates, and the Careers Council of Ontario) June has worked at the Royal Ontario Museum, and was the Director of Marketing for Opera Ontario. She also sits on the Board of the Quebec Drama Federation.

Lois Brown - Artist in Residence, 2011/2012

I am a seventh generation Newfoundlander. I graduated from The University of Alberta in 1977 with an undergrad degree in Drama. I returned to St. John’s, where I have maintained a cross-disciplinary practice, working mostly in theatre, but also in dance and film. I have worked with artists as diverse as Andy Jones, Rick Mercer, Ruth Lawrence, Pam Hall, Mary Walsh, Anne Troake, Sarah Stoker, Sherry White and Peter Trosztmer – to name a few. In 2004, I was short-listed for the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize and I received The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from The Canada Council for achievement by an outstanding mid-career Canadian theatre artist. I have also received an Artist Achievement Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.

Awards do point out the large amount of important work that goes under-recognized all over the country. Unfortunately they point that out most sharply to those whose work IS under-recognized. Once I received an award the idea of awards seemed more palatable. They came with money and I found having money that was not attached to a specific project, but instead attached me as an artist helped me to deepen my process through reflection. In 2005, award money allowed me to move from home for about six months and the place I chose to reflect on my practice was at Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (PWM.) (Actually, PWM chose me, but then I stayed for an extra four months with my award money.) I think all artists arrive at a place in their work where they need some money to buy them some time and a place to reflect on themselves and their work. (I have argued that to many arts funders.) And PWM is a remarkable place to do this, because of its structure, its team, its membership, and its location in the middle of the country.

In 2008, following an accident in Vancouver while attending the Magnetic North Theatre Festival I once again had the time –in fact, forced by my injuries - to think about my approach to creation and teaching. I have thought about the changes in the Canadian theatre landscape in relationship to my own life. In particular, I have - for reasons that I continue to explore– re-committed myself to my own writing and to dramaturgy of plays, theatre and dance.

Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal is a place where artists are encouraged to stop and consider, to deepen their course or change directions. It is committed to supporting strong work, work that we need to see. I am excited and honoured to be here.

I will be working on a couple of plays of my own. One is about the connection of trauma to knowledge and another is about my experiences with pain.

I will assist in the dramaturgy of playwrights working with PWM and am available for all manner of chats about dramaturgy and creation.
Lois Brown, September 2011, Montréal
lois@playwrights.ca

Christine Cucciniello - Administrative Assistant Winter/Spring 2011-2012

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