AIRS Live Podcast

This roundtable style podcast hosts four artists in residence in the Department of Theatre. The discussion will focus on the role of research in performance creation and will be moderated by Shauna Janssen, Chair of the Department of Theatre.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Leanna Brodie

Leanna Brodie is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and performer whose work, including the plays The Vic, Schoolhouse, For Home & Country, and The Book of Esther, has been seen across Canada and the US. Salesman in China(co-written with Jovanni Sy) just premiered at the Stratford Festival to great acclaim and will transfer to the NAC in January 2025. In 2015, Brodie collaborated with New Zealand composer Anthony Young on Ulla's Odyssey, the Flourish Prize--winning opera which toured the UK for two years with OperaUpClose. Brodie is also a leading translator of contemporary Québécois and Franco-Canadian playwrights. Recent premieres have included David Paquet's Wildfire (Factory Theatre, Toronto: Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play); Anaïs Pellin's Clementine (Kleine Compagnie/Carousel Theatre/PHT, Vancouver); Fanny Britt's Benevolence (Ruby Slippers Theatre/Pacific Theatre, Vancouver); Rébecca Déraspe's I Am William (Stratford Festival, Théâtre le Clou); and Sébastien Harrisson's From Alaska (Belfry Theatre, Victoria). 

Peter Farbridge

Peter Farbridge is a theatre actor, director, writer, producer and teacher based in Montreal. As a founding member and co-artistic director of Modern Times Stage Company from 1989 to 2022, Peter has appeared in numerous productions, including the title roles in Macbeth and Hamlet. Among these works, Peter has co-translated and adapted the plays of several Iranian artists with Soheil Parsa, and has worked as a co-writer and co-designer for several new theater productions, including Hallaj (2009) and Forgiveness (2014). He recently completed an MFA in Anthropology and Theatre and is currently an artist-in-residence at Concordia University's Department of Theatre, where he is directing an adaptation of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life is a Dream. Peter Farbridge is currently collaborating with Postmarginal, a project he initiated at Modern Times, which seeks to encourage the intersection of creative practices of marginalized and non-marginalized artists

Emma Tibaldo

Emma Tibaldo is a Montreal based Director and Dramaturg. She is the former Artistic and Executive Director of Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, 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 Gail Coles, Instant by Erin Shields, I am Genius, Does Anyone Here Know Me? by Lois Brown, and Behaviour by Darrah Teitel. Emma has directed new Canadian plays across the country, including Grace and Falling Trees by Megan Gail Coles, Okinum by Emilie Monnet (co-director), Refuge by Mary Vingoe, I Don’t Even Miss You by Elena Belyea, The Baklawa Recipe by Pascale Rafie. She co-founded Talisman Theatre for whom she directed award-winning productions That Woman by Daniel Danis, Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard, and The Medea Effect by Suzie Bastien, among others. 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.  She is a graduate of Concordia University’s Theatre Department, and NTS’ Directing Program. 

Lara Kramer

Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-cree and settler heritage, raised in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Her choreographic work, research and fieldwork over the last fifteen years have been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada. Kramer’s relationship to experiential practice and the creative process of performance, sonic development and visual design is anchored in the embodiment of experiences such as dreams, memories, knowledge, and reclamation.  Her creations in the form of dance, performance and installation have been presented across Canada and Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, Norway, Vienna, the US and the UK.

She has received multiple awards, acknowledgments, and prizes for her work both as an emerging and established artist. In 2018, Lara received the Jacqueline-Lemieux Prize for recognition of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement in dance.