Emma Tibaldo

Biography Emma Tibaldo she/her/elle

Emmais Artist in Residence at Concordia University, Theatre Department. She isAssociate Artist with Poverty Cove Theatre in NL, and a freelance Director andDramaturg. 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 TamikoManning, Thy Woman’s Weeds by ErinShields, Jabber by Marcus Youssef, Squawk by Megan Coles, Instant by Erin Shields, Refuge by Mary Vingoe, and Behaviour by Darrah Teitel, to name butsome.

 

Emma has directed new Canadian plays across the country such as Okinum by Emilie Monnet (co-director), I Don’tEven Miss You by Elena Belyea, SCUM: AManifesto by S.E. Grummett and Caitlin Zacharias, The BaklawaRecipe by Pascale Rafie, Refuge by MaryVingoe, FallingTrees by Megan Coles. In 2005, she co-founded Talisman Theatrefor whom she directed, among others, the award-winning productions That Woman byDaniel Danis, Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel MarcBouchard, and The Medea Effect by Suzie Bastien. Sheco-created Skin,a new performance piece with the interdisciplinary company The Bakery.

 

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

 

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

Directing Resume

ARTIST RESUMÉ


SELECTED DIRECTING

2022           Okinum by Emilie Monnet
                  Co-Director and Dramaturg
                  Onishka and Espace Go

                  I Don’t Even Miss You by Elena Belyea
                  Director and Dramaturg
                  Tiny Bear Jaws, Riser Festival Edmonton

2021          Ringtone by Audrey Dwyer
                 (Co-director) Imago Theatre
                  MAI
 
                  Okinum by Emilie Monnet
                  (Co-director) English translation
                  Centaur Theatre and NAC Indigenous (pending)

                  SKIN by Leslie Baker, Joseph Shragge, Emma Tibaldo
                  Co-creator/performer
                  The Bakery
                  Wildside Festival, Centaur Theatre

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

2018           Okinum by Emilie Monnet
                  (Co-director) Production Onishka
                  Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, Salle Jean-Claude Germain

                  The Baklawa Recipe by Pascale Rafie, translated by Melissa Bull
                  Centaur Theatre, Montréal

                  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 Histoire
                  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, translated by Nadine                   Desrochers
                  Talisman Theatre and CAM en tournée
                  Segal Studio

2014          Billy (The Days of Howling) by Fabien Cloutier, translated by                   Nadine Desrochers
                  Talisman Theatre
                  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 (short-listed 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, translated by 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
                  Newfoundlandartistx Theatre
                  Rabbittown Theatre, NFLD.
 
                The Flood Thereafter by Sarah Berthiaume, translated by
                Nadine Desrochers
                Talisman Theatre
                Théâtre Lachapelle

                 Demolitics by Ryan Griffith
                 NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival (NB)

2009          Rock, Paper, Jackknife by Marilyn Perreault; translated
                 by Nadine Desrochers
                 Talisman Theatre
                 Brave New Looks, Centaur Theatre

                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
                 Talisman Theatre
                 Theatre 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
                  Talisman Theatre and Infinitheatre
                  Bain St-Michel Theatre
                 (Nominated Best English Theatre Production, 2008-08,
                 Le prix de la critique, l’AQCT, Québec)

                  Lifedream by Hérménegilde Chiasson
                  NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival


2006           The Queens by Normand Chaurette
                  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           Madre by 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

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
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)