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Emma Tibaldo

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Biography Emma Tibaldo she/her/elle

Emmais Artist in Residence at Concordia University, Theatre Department. She is an Associate Artist with Poverty Cove Theatre in NL, and a freelance Director and Dramaturg. She is the former Artistic and Executive Director of Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (PWM), where for fourteen years, she dramaturgically collaborated on many plays, including Mizushōbai by Julie Tamiko Manning, Thy Woman’s Weeds by Erin Shields, Jabber by Marcus Youssef, Squawk by Megan Coles, Instant by Erin Shields, Refuge by Mary Vingoe, and Behaviour by Darrah Teitel, to name but some.

 

Emma has directed new Canadian plays across the country such as Okinum by Emilie Monnet (co-director), I Don’t Even Miss You by Elena Belyea, SCUM: A Manifesto by S.E. Grummett and Caitlin Zacharias, The Baklawa Recipe by Pascale Rafie, Refuge by Mary Vingoe, Falling Trees by Megan Coles. In 2005, she co-founded Talisman Theatre for whom she directed, among others, the award-winning productions That Woman by Daniel Danis, Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard, and The Medea Effect by Suzie Bastien. She co-created Skin,a performance piece with the interdisciplinary company The Bakery.

 

Emma is a recipient of LMDA’s Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy, and the Conseil Québécois du théâtre Prix Sentinelle.

 

Emma is a graduate of Concordia University’s Theatre Department and the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing Program, where she has been a guest artist. She feeds her inner (and outer) punk rocker by playing in the family bands The Tibaldos and Dépanneurds.


Artistic performances

Artistic Resume

SELECTED DIRECTING

2025

Falling Trees by Megan Gail Coles

Director and Dramaturg

Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador

 

I Don’t Even Miss You by Elena Belyea

Director, Dramaturg

High Performance Rodeo, The Secret Theatre

 

2023-24                             

Grace by Megan Gail Coles, adapted from a novella by Lisa Moore

Director and Dramaturg

Poverty Cove Theatre, NL

Arts and Culture Centre, St. John’s

 

Still Life by Marie-Ève Milot and Marie-Claude St-Laurent, translated by Rhiannon Collett

Director

Wildside Festival, Talisman Theatre and Centaur Theatre

Theatre Lachapelle, Talisman Theatre                        

                            

I Don’t Even Miss You by Elena Belyea

Director and Dramaturg

Undercurrents Festival, Arts Court Ottawa

Factory Theatre, Toronto

 

Concord Floral by JordanTanahill

Director, Professor

Concordia Theatre Department

 

2022-23                             

Okinum(French and English) by Emilie Monnet

Co-Director and Dramaturg

Théâtre Onishka and Théâtre Espace Go (Montreal), Push Festival (Vancouver), Le Diamant (Quebec City)

 

I Dont Even Miss You by Elena Belyea

Director and Dramaturg

Workshop Production

Tiny Bear Jaws, Riser Festival Edmonton

 

The Lost City of Wolves by Louise Bombardier, translation Maureen Labonté

Director English version

Théâtre de l’Oeil, digital production

 

2021                                  

The Ringtone by Audrey Dwyer

(Co-director) Imago Theatre

Podcast, MAI

                                          

Okinum (English) by Emilie Monnet

Co-director/Dramaturg

Imago Theatre and Théâtre Onishka

Centaur Theatre and NAC Indigenous

(Nominated for 5 META Awards)

 

SKIN by Leslie Baker, Joseph Shragge, Emma Tibaldo

Co-creator/performer

The Bakery

Wildside Festival, Centaur Theatre

 

Behaviour by Darrah Teitel

Digital Staged Reading

Segal Centre/PWM

 

2019                                  

Winter’s Daughter by Jesse Stong

Tableau d’hote Theatre

Segal Centre

 

SCUM:A Manifesto by S.E.Grummett and Caitlin Zacharias

Scantily Glad Theatre

Live Five Theatre, Saskatoon

(Nominated6 SATAwards)

 

2018                                  

Okinum by Emilie Monnet

(Co-director)Production Onishka

Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, Salle Jean-Claude Germain

 

The Baklawa Recipe by Pascale Rafie, translation Melissa Bull

Centaur Theatre, Montréal

(META nominated)

 

Miss Katelyn’s Grade Threes Prepare for the Inevitable by Elena Belyea

Downstage Theatre, Calgary

 

2016                                  

Falling Trees by Megan Coles

Poverty Cove and Arts and Culture Centre

Newfoundland tour

 

Montréal en Memoire

4Dart, Montréal

Recording Director English version

 

Reservations by Steven Ratzlaff

Theatre Projects Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

2015                                  

Falling Trees by Megan Coles

Poverty Cove and Arts and Culture Centre St.John’s

St. John’s Newfoundland

 

The Medea Effect by Suzie Bastien, translation Nadine Desrochers

Talisman Theatre and CAM en tournée

Segal Studio

 

2014                                  

Billy (The Days of Howling) by Fabien Cloutier, translation Nadine Desrochers

Talisman Theatre

Théâtre Lachapelle, Montreal

(META Nominated)

 

Model Wanted by Step Taylor

NotaBle Acts Festival

Fredericton, NB

 

2013                                  

Refuge by Mary Vingoe

Eastern Front Theatre and Homefirst Productions

Neptune Studio Theatre

(Finalist for the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award)

 

You Can do Whatever you Want by Jesse Stong

National Theatre School of Canada

Studio Hydro Quebec

 

2012                                  

The Medea Effect by Suzie Bastien, translation Nadine Desrochers

Talisman Theatre

Théâtre Lachapelle

(META Nominated and winner)

 

2011                                  

The Battery by Megan Coles

RCA Theatre and Poverty Cove Theatre

St. John’s, NFLD

 

2010                                  

Hope and Rage by Kenneth J Harvey

Newfoundland artistx Theatre

Rabbittown Theatre, NFLD.

                                          

The Flood Thereafter by Sarah Berthiaume, translation Nadine Desrochers

Talisman Theatre

Théâtre Lachapelle

 

Demolitics by RyanGriffith

NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival (NB)

 

2009                                  

Rock, Paper, Jackknife by MarilynPerreault; translation Nadine Desrochers

Talisman Theatre

Brave New Looks, Centaur Theatre

(Nominated Best English Theatre Production, 2009-10, Le prix de la critique, l’AQCT, Québec)

 

Get Stuffed by Alexis Diamond

Tapestry New Opera

Ontario School Tour (Remount)

 

La Communion by Beatriz Pizano

Groundswell Festival

Nightwood Theatre

                                          

2008                                  

Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard, translation Linda Gaboriau

Talisman Theatre

Théâtre Lachapelle

(Winner, Best English Theatre Production, 2008-09, Prix de la critique, l’AQCT, Québec)

 

Tyland by Greg MacArthur

Playwrights’ Theatre Centre

Magnetic North Festival

                                          

2007                                  

That Woman by Daniel Danis, translation LindaGaboriau

Talisman Theatre and Infinitheatre

Bain St-Michel Theatre

(Nominated Best English Theatre Production, 2007-08, Le prix de la critique, l’AQCT, Québec)

 

Lifedream by Hérménegilde Chiasson

NotaBleActs Theatre Festival

 

2006                                  

The Queens by Normand Chaurette, translation Linda Gaboriau

Le Cazalet, Concordia University

Theatre Department Production

 

Lutz by Ryan Griffith

NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival

Fredericton, NB

 

Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey

Sour Brides Theatre, The Guild

Whitehorse, Yukon

 

2005                                  

Madreby Beatriz Pizano

Groundswell Festival

Nightwood Theatre, Toronto

 

Crack by Brian Drader

On the Verge Festival

NAC, Ottawa

 

And Up They Flew by Martha Ross

Enbridge  playRites Festival, Platform Plays

Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary

 

2004                                  

Home and Beauty by Somerset Maugham

Theatre Lac Brome

 

Wanting by Marie-Barlizo Leofeli

Fringe Festival, Montreal

                                                                                                                                             

2003                                  

Intern Director, The Swanne, Part II. Director Peter Hinton. Stratford Festival 2003


CV Dramaturgy

Dramaturgy Selected

I Don’t Even Miss You by Elena Belyea

Mizushobai by Julie Tamiko Manning
The In-between by Marcus Youssef
Thy Woman’s Weeds by Erin Shields
Behaviour by Darrah Teitel 
I am a Genius: Does Anyone Here Know Me? by Lois Brown
Pinky Swear by Kalale Dalton (META nominated)
Water Weight by Jesse Stong (META nominated)   
Squawk by Megan Coles (META nominated)
Sal Capone: The Tragic Tale of by Omari Newton (META nominated)
Jabber by Marcus Youssef (META Award)
Refuge by Mary Vingoe (GG Award nominated)
Instant by Erin Shields (Dora and META Award)
Strange Land by Alexis Diamond
Falling Trees by Megan Coles (BMO Winterset Award)
In Search of Mrs Pirandello by Michaela Di Cesare
Tartuffe by Andy Jones
Disappeared by Leah Jane Esau (RBC Emerging Playwright winner)
Tyland by Greg MacArthur
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Very Short Plays in the Sand (Robert Chafe, Lois Brown, Sherry White, Kenneth J Harvey)
Bound and The Battery by Megan Coles
Down From Heaven by Colleen Wagner
Madre by Beatriz Pizano (Aluna Theatre)
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