Fruit défendu
MontrealFruit défendu
A Montrealer by birth and a globetrotter by profession, Fruit défendu invites us along on a nostalgic trip to the tropics, spinning out hit after hit, and leaves us wanting for more.
Angelo Barsetti
MontrealAngelo Barsetti
Artist and designer Angelo Barsetti is an essential part of Montreal’s arts scene.
Nadia Beugré
Abidjan + MontpellierNadia Beugré
Viewed as a rebel in her own country, Beugré likes to say that being a woman, artist, and lesbian in her society requires three times as much work. She does not seek to provoke but to inform by examining power and dominance relationships.
Dany Boudreault
RobervalDany Boudreault
An actor, writer, and poet, Dany Boudreault has taken part in around thirty theatre productions. In 2012, along with Jérémie Boucher and Maxime Carbonneau, he founded the theatre company La Messe Basse, which favours a queer approach to creation.
Éléonore Brieuc
MontrealÉléonore Brieuc
Éléonore Brieuc completed her academic journey in the playwriting program at the National Theatre School, after previously studying massage therapy, law, and visual arts.
Ali Chahrour
BeirutAli Chahrour
Born in Beirut, Ali Chahrour studied theatre because no dance programs existed. He later learned Western dance conventions, but quickly left these behind. Instead, his reference points and sources of inspiration are the people and culture of his own country, whose forgotten stories he tells.
Rébecca Chaillon
Montreuil + CreilRébecca Chaillon
With a highly personal approach to writing, whose themes are at once intimate, political, and universal, Rébecca Chaillon has created works taking various forms.
Empress Cissy Low
MontrealEmpress Cissy Low
Empress Cissy Low is a Montreal-based DJ with a passion for promoting pan-African culture through sound and movement.
Marilou Craft
MontrealMarilou Craft
Marilou Craft works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang (Montreal) as a word, performance, and undisciplinary artist.
Tamara Cubas
MontevideoTamara Cubas
Born in Montevideo in 1972, Tamara Cubas lived her childhood under the Uruguayan dictatorship. Political power, protest, and personal relationships are at the heart of her work, which is based on activating and empowering bodies.
Philippe Cyr
MontrealPhilippe Cyr
Since 2021, Philippe Cyr has been the artistic director and joint executive director of Théâtre Prospero, where he also cut his teeth as a theatre director.
Catherine Dagenais-Savard
Wendake + MontrealCatherine Dagenais-Savard
Catherine Dagenais-Savard is a Wendat and Québécois artist. Since graduating from EDCM in 2015, she has danced for choreographers such as Marie Chouinard, Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Danièle Desnoyers, and Lara Kramer.
Cédric Delorme-Bouchard
MontrealCédric Delorme-Bouchard
Lighting designer, set designer, and director Cédric Delorme-Bouchard has created over two hundred theatre, dance, and opera designs in fifteen countries across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Faye Driscoll
New York + Los AngelesFaye Driscoll
A singular voice in the contemporary performing arts, Faye Driscoll has been known to unsettle critics and audiences alike with the sensory shock and novel forms of empathy that inform her performance pieces. She works to awaken our senses, seeking to counter the numbness instilled by the various forms of technology that dominate everyday life.
Acauã El Bandide
ParisAcauã El Bandide
Raised in Fortaleza, Brazil, by female teachers and her artisan grandfather, Acauã is an artist supported by La Briqueterie National Centre of Choreographic Development in Val-de-Marne.
Léuli Eshrāghi
MontrealLéuli Eshrāghi
Léuli Eshrāghi, b. 1986 in Yuwi Country, belongs to the Seumanutafa and Tautua clans of the Sāmoan archipelago, and lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang / Montreal.
Lots of Love (LOL) Festival
MontréalLots of Love (LOL) Festival
The Lots of Love (LOL) Festival is an outdoor contemporary performance event that emphasizes a DIY ethos made by and for the community as an alternative to larger festivals.
Abraham Francis
AkwesasneAbraham Francis
Abraham Francis (BSc Microbiology, 2014 and MSc Natural Resources, 2019) is undergoing a Ph.D. at Clarkson University in Environmental Science and Engineering where they wish to create tools to support other Indigenous Communities care for their environments from their biocultural contexts.
Clara Furey
MontrealClara Furey
Earning international recognition since starting out first as an actor and now as a choreographer, Clara Furey has demonstrated a gift for minimalist performances and intimate installations.
Catherine Gaudet
MontrealCatherine Gaudet
A regular FTA collaborator since she created Au sein des plus raides vertus in 2014, Catherine Gaudet has made her mark with sophisticated works whose gestural virtuosity and physical elation immerse the audience in the psychological depths of existence.
Amandine Gay
MontrealAmandine Gay
Amandine works in creation and advocacy. She has been a director/producer (Ouvrir La Voix, 2017; Une Histoire à Soi, 2021), an author (Une Poupée en Chocolat, 2021), and an activist (creation of Adoptee Month in 2018), and defines herself as a political author with a fluid writing style.
Anne-Sara Gendron
MontrealAnne-Sara Gendron
A scriptwriter, lighting designer, stage manager, and creative and tour technical director, Anne-Sara Gendron is passionate about space as a site of representation.
Anaïs Gilles
MontrealAnaïs Gilles
Anaïs Gilles, also known by her stage name RISE, is a Haitian-origin dancer hailing from Montreal’s street dance community.
Mish Grigor
Naarm/MelbourneMish Grigor
Mish Grigor is a maker, writer and performer working across a range of collaborative formats and is the director and co-writer of Rinse by Amrita Hepi.
Mylène Guay
Tio’tià:ke/MooniyangMylène Guay
Based in Tio’tià:ke/Mooniyang, Mylène Guay is a curator, author, and Indigenous arts cultural consultant.
Amrita Hepi
Melbourne + BangkokAmrita Hepi
Amrita Hepi is a rising star in the international contemporary dance scene. Over the past few years, she has been in widespread demand thanks to her talent, rigour, and remarkable ability to make complex choreographic and performative ideas recognisable.
Margarita Herrera Dominguez
MontrealMargarita Herrera Dominguez
Margarita Herrera Dominguez is an actor and a performing arts director, producer, and cultural worker.
Joseph Hillel
MontrealJoseph Hillel
Born in Port-au-Prince, Joseph Hillel currently lives in Montreal. He has written, directed, and produced documentaries about art.
Peng Hsu
Taiwan + MontrealPeng Hsu
Peng Hsu is a Taiwan and Montreal-based theater director, playwright, and researcher. Her works explore excess, bad taste, fast narrating, and Taiwan perspective lesbian/queer camp humor.
Sonia Hughes
ManchesterSonia Hughes
A poet, performer, and activist, Sonia Hughes directly and unceremoniously tackles complex social and political questions with deceptively simple strategies.
Paola Huitrón
MontrealPaola Huitrón
Paola Huitrón graduated in acting in Mexico and has worked with various professional puppet theatre companies as a collaborator and on her own projects as a solo artist.
Wake Island
Montreal + BeirutWake Island
Wake Island (Nadim Madhzal and Philippe Manasseh) is an electronic duo originally from Beirut, now based in Montreal. Their DJ sets are a fresh perspective on Arabic music, with a blend of many genres, both old and new.
Emily Johnson
Lenapehoking/New YorkEmily Johnson
Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty and well-being.
Kevin Kero
AbidjanKevin Kero
Kevin Kero (b. 1996, Côte d’Ivoire) is one of the performers in Nadia Beugré’s Prophétique (on est déjà né.es) (FTA 2024).
Kamissa Ma Koïta
MontrealKamissa Ma Koïta
Kamissa Ma Koïta’s practice incorporates performing the Indigenous West African knowledge of her ancestors; through her performative re-enactments, she seeks to tap into a redemptive power.
Lara Kramer
Montreal/Tio'tià:ke/MooniyaangLara Kramer
Lara Kramer is a choreographer and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-Cree and Mennonite heritage. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal. Her work, which is grounded in intergenerational relations and knowledge and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada, has been presented across North America, Europe, Australia/Oceania and Martinique.
Kama La Mackerel
MontrealKama La Mackerel
Kama La Mackerel is a Mauritian-Canadian multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, educator and literary translator who believes in love, justice and self and collective empowerment.
Marianne Lavoie
MontrealMarianne Lavoie
Marianne Lavoie has worked as an eco-design trainer and facilitator for over four years at the organization Écoscéno.
Valérie Lefebvre-Faucher
MontrealValérie Lefebvre-Faucher
Valérie Lefebvre-Chartier is a writer and editor. She has worked at Écosociété and the Éditions du Remue-ménage and is currently editor-in-chief of La Liberté.
Antonia Leney-Granger
MontrealAntonia Leney-Granger
General and artistic director of the Théâtre du Renard Antonia Leney-Granger is a Montreal artist and teacher specializing in object theatre and transdisciplinary creation, notably in bridging the gap between art and science.
Evelyne Londei-Shortall
MontrealEvelyne Londei-Shortall
A graduate in directing from the National Theatre School of Canada, Evelyne Londei-Shortall is interested in power relations in contemporary drama.
Nasim Lootij
MontrealNasim Lootij
Choreographer and performer Nasim Lootij left Iran in 2006 to study dance in Paris.
Sherecia Mclean-Leslie
MontrealSherecia Mclean-Leslie
Sherecia is a Hip Hop dancer of 7 years. She began dancing at Urban Element Zone in a troupe for 3 years, and then ventured on her own path to self-identity.
Émilie Monnet
Montreal/Tio'tià:ke/MooniyaangÉmilie Monnet
Occupying the intersection of theatre, performance, and media arts, Emilie Monnet presents collaborative works that bring overlooked lives and stories into the spotlight.
Mossy Mugler
Montreal + New YorkMossy Mugler
Mossy Mugler, is an esteemed DJ, producer, and artist hailing from Qatar with Palestinian roots. Their diverse musical background is influenced by Top 40 pop hits, vogue beats, underground electronic music, middle-eastern ballads and samples.
Nayla Naoufal
Tio’tià:ke/Mooniyaang/MontrealNayla Naoufal
Born in Beirut, Nayla Naoufal (elle, she, her) is the artistic director of Festival Accès Asie in Tio’tià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal.
Jérémie Niel
MontrealJérémie Niel
Fascinated by the cruel beauty of human finitude, Niel embraces the vertigo of existence and its elusive truths, from which he derives his unique aesthetic approach
Waira Nina
YurayakoWaira Nina
A performer, multidisciplinary artist, and storyteller, Waira Nina Jacanamijoy is an influential political and cultural leader for the Inga Nation.
Safia Nolin
MontrealSafia Nolin
Appreciated both for her many covers of Quebec hits and her own folk compositions, she has appeared on stages in Quebec, Canada, and France.
Zoé Ntumba
MontrealZoé Ntumba
Born in Kinshasa, Zoé Ntumba is a passionate young artist. She was a Hnatyshyn Foundation grant recipient for dramatic interpretation (2023).
Philippe Néméh-Nombré
MontrealPhilippe Néméh-Nombré
Philippe Néméh-Nombré is an assistant professor at the Saint-Paul University Élisabeth Bruyère School of Social Innovation.
Nubian Néné
New YorkNubian Néné
Nubian Néné is a Montreal-born, New York-based dancer/choreographer who blends Street & Club dances to create her own unique, captivating style.
Hala Omran
MarseilleHala Omran
Franco-Syrian Actress and singer Hala Omran graduated in 1994 from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus. She then refined her skills in Europe alongside renowned mentors such as Eugenio Barba, Ariane Mnouchkine, and Matthias Langhoff.
Jimmy Trieu Phong Chung
MontrealJimmy Trieu Phong Chung
Of Vietnamese and French-Canadian origin, Jimmy Trieu Phong Chung is a professional contemporary dance artist and interdisciplinary choreographer.
Sébastien Provencher
MontrealSébastien Provencher
Sébastien Provencher focuses his choreographic explorations on gender identity, homosexual orientation, and power dynamics. Eager to move beyond hierarchies, he relies on collaborative and democratic work in his creative processes and sees the performing arts as an act of resistance and object of sociopolitical engagement.
Tiago Rodrigues
Lisbon + AvignonTiago Rodrigues
After his tenure as artistic director of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Lisbon from 2015 to 2021, Rodrigues took over the reins of the Festival d’Avignon in September 2022, becoming the first foreign artist to helm the prestigious French institution.
Guy Régis Jr.
Port-au-Prince + ParisGuy Régis Jr.
Born in April 1974 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Guy Régis Jr. is a writer and director, and artistic director of the Festival 4 Chemins, one of the most high-profile artistic events in the French-speaking Caribbean and a highlight of the Port-au-Prince cultural calendar.
Jossua Satinée
MontrealJossua Satinée
As an artist in the realm of Montreal’s contemporary dance scene, Jossua Satinée aims to journey through the universe to share moments of joy, beauty, reflection, and diversity.
Gurshad Shaheman
TehranGurshad Shaheman
Gurshad Shaheman has been writing and performing his own works since 2012. His work draws on life stories, both his own and, as in Il pourra toujours dire que c’est pour l’amour du prophète, those of LGBTQ+ refugees from the Middle East.
Elena Stoodley
MontrealElena Stoodley
Elena Stoodley is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes singing, sound art, and writing. She has performed her music for international audiences, notably in Cameroon and the Congo.
Andrew Tay
TorontoAndrew Tay
Andrew Tay is a dancer, curator, choreographer and DJ. He is the Artistic Director of Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) and previously was the inaugural Artistic Curator of the Centre de Creation O Vertigo (CCOV).
Alexia Vinci
MontrealAlexia Vinci
Two-spirit artist Alexia Vinci plays with interdisciplinarity in performing arts, exploring the notion of land in every form. She was recently selected to take part in Pitch Porte Parole 2024.
Amel Zaazaa
Tio’tià:keAmel Zaazaa
A decolonial feminist activist, author, and speaker, Amel Zaazaa is the co-founder of the Observatoire pour la justice migrante, whose mission is to promote the rights of migrants in Quebec and Canada, and the founder of the Decolonial Love Circle.
Paule Mackrous aka Pattie O’Green
MontrealPaule Mackrous aka Pattie O’Green
Paule Mackrous, aka Pattie O’Green, is an art historian, horticulturist-arboriculturist, urban forester, and yogini.
Karla Étienne
Tio’tià:ke/MontrealKarla Étienne
A dance artist of Haitian origin who now lives in Tio’tià:ke/Montreal, Karla Etienne is the executive director of the Canadian Dance Assembly and co-curator of the FURIES Festival.
