Proje(c)t; Les Bonnes

After completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Interpretation at Concordia University, Roxane Loumède founded the collective Troisièmeespacethéâtre where she wrote, adapted, directed and produced her first works. As a French-speaking Montrealer who has studied and worked in English, she has a desire to multiply projects that allow her to perform in both languages and to distinguish herself through various French and English theatrical productions.   As a multidisciplinary artist, she is also interested in filmmaking, which has led her to direct music videos and now to develop the art of short documentaries. Her latest piece Ensaf attend, a work about the life of the wife of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, Ensaf Haidar, was presented as part of the 21st season of the Jamais lu festival.

Geneviève Gagné holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in theatre from UQAM, receives mime training at Omnibus where she is also a performer. She is a dramaturgical consultant and director, who is very fascinated in the dramaturgy of the body, and in projects that combine dance, theatre and documentary practices. Since 2016, she has been working as an assistant, dramaturgy advisor and movement advisor with various emerging artists. She is currently working as assistant director on Geneviève Labelle and Mélodie Noël Rousseau’s show Ciseaux and on Claire Renaud’s Sportriarcat. As a performer, she will participate in the next production of Les Bénés, presented in December at Prospero. At the same time, she is working on her first choreographic creation, Disparaître, in collaboration with artists from Quebec City.

Originally from Quebec City, Marie-Ève Bérubé graduated from the acting program of l’Écolenationale de théâtre du Canada in 2016. She uncovered a passion for creating plays for young people during the 2017 Petits bonheurs workshop, and the following year she founded Les Petites Géantes, a theatre creation collective for children, and those around them. Among others, she played in Partoutailleurs by Théâtre de l’Avant-Pays and in R’garde-moi ben aller, a TACO creation. On television, she will play the role of Isabelle in the new series Hôtel on TVA. Marie-Ève is currently touring with the play Embrassemoi (situveux) at Théâtre Parminou. She is also the artistic director of the FAR 2022 edition. The question of wonder is at the heart of her practice.

Camila Forteza is an actress and director who graduated from the École supérieure de théâtre. Her practice is based on her mother and father’s native languages, as well as multidisciplinary artistic collaborations that create bridges between the worlds she encounters in South America and Quebec. In 2021, she presented her short film Vecinas, written and directed independently in Buenos Aires, in various international festivals. In collaboration with artist Edson Niebla, their creation Volcán, a video-poem about violence against women, was created for the Latin’Arte events, then presented at the Festival de la Poésie de Montréal in 2021 and at the Mois de la Poésiein Québec, in 2022. Her project Double Expo,a performative installation, based on a series of silver photographs, bi-culturality and movement developed by happenstance,was the subject of an artistic creation residency at Studio Méduse in Quebec City in September 2022.

Alexandra Petrachuk works professionally in film, theatre, TV, voice, puppetry and video games.A graduate of the BFA Theatre Performance program at Concordia University, she was honoured with two Montréal English Theatre Awards (METAs) immediately following her training for Outstanding Supporting Actress and Outstanding Emerging Artist in 2016. Since, her contributions to theatre have been continuously recognized by the English language theatre community.She has worked with Scapegoat Carnivale, CABAL, Centaur, Youtheatre, Imago and Segal Centre, and has performed in acclaimed festivals such as SummerWorks, OUF! Off-Casteliers and Wildside. This is her second time performing on stage at La Chapelle ScènesContemporaines.Petrachuk regularly lends her voice to projects for radio, the NFB, Netflix, Ubisoft and local video game developers.She co-starred in Bruce LaBruce’s Saint-Narcisse which premiered at the Venice Days Section of the Venice Film Festival in 2020, at TIFF, Sitges& Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and will be making her television debut in the upcoming series, Graymail for Netflix.
Other screen credits include: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, Netflix), Best Sellers (Lina Roessler, Berlinale), The Voyeurs (Michael Mohan, Amazon Studios) and Crépuscule Pour Un Tueur (Raymond St-Jean).

Bruno-Pierre Houle is a scenographer and production designer living in Montreal, the unceded traditional territory called Tiohtià:ke by the Kanien’kehà:ka (Mohawk).  With the interest in new work and unconventional storytelling, he is invested in redefining ways various media convey narratives. His exploration of the subject, Of course, what did you expect, my child? Retold the tale of red riding hood by exploring the intertextuality between the form and its content. He co-conceived the concert-theatre experience Tile Loading, featured at the 2017 Fusebox Festival.  His art direction work in cinema as traveled around the world, notably at the Cannes Film Festival with the feature Sarah préfère la course. As a theatre artist, he has collaborated on live performance in Montreal, Austin, New York City, and recently designed the award-winning set for Small Mouth Sounds, at the Segal Centre.

Sophie El Assaad is an award-winning designer, director, and interdisciplinary artist. After spending time in Bahrain, Toronto and Germany she is now based in Montreal. With a background in painting, drawing, and fiber arts, she is currently researching video and sound as integral mediums of her work in generating performance. Using design as means to directing and creating, she is interested in how objects can influence the body, using intuition to create meaning. The themes in her artwork touch on ecofeminism and her heritage, looking to memory, iconographic gestures, and Middle Eastern aesthetics as points of entry. In 2021, she was named a finalist for the prestigious Jovette Marchessault award.

Joseph Browne is a composer, sound designer and audio professional based in Montreal with 8 years of experience composing soundtracks for stage productions, film and interactive installations.With a degree in electroacoustic composition from Concordia University, Joseph has worked on over 30 productions ranging from live theatre to film to interactive installations. In 2015 Joseph was awarded Undergraduate Research Award funding to develop spatial audio methods for performance. His sound design for theatre was nominated for two Montreal English Theatre Awards in 2016 and 2018.  He maintained an active presence at his alma mater, working as associate researcher and technical coordinator of the Matralab until 2020.Joseph continues to actively collaborate on many interesting projects in Montreal and abroad.

Catherine graduated from Cégep du Vieux Montréal in 2012 with a degree in electronics. They are still studying lightingfor live performance at the School of Life, and hopes one day to become an honorary doctor at UQAM’s École Supérieure de théâtre. In their designs, they enjoy creating their own lights, working with DIY electronics and spending hours choosing gelcolours. They have worked with several renowned artists, but prefers not to divulge their names, so as not to make anyone jealous.

Trevor Barrette is a queer performer, director, writer/composer, stage manager and teacher based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). In 2011, he founded the award-winning KaleidoscopeMTL, for which he directed their ten productions, including the Fringe hits: Captain Aurora and its sequel. His work has been presented at the Segal Centre’s Academy, Centaur Theatre’s Wildside Festival, Playshed Theatre’s WRK’N’PRGRSS and the Montreal Fringe Festival. As a stage manager, he has had the pleasure of working with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Kidoons Theatre/WYRD Productions and Harlot X/safeword, as well as with the Segal Centre and Centaur Theatre as an apprentice. He has performed with the National Arts Centre, Segal Centre, Centaur Theatre, Geordie Theatre, Repercussion Theatre, Scapegoat Carnival, among others. He has proudly served his community as President of the Montreal English Theatre Awards and Vice President of the Quebec Drama Federation.