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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 Don’t 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 ManningThe 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
5 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)