Emma Tibaldo

Theatre

From 2004 to 2006, Emma Tibaldo was was dramaturg-in-residence for Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, a national script development house and Montreal cultural institution since 1968. She became PWM's Artistic and Executive Director in 2007. Tibaldo is also a founding member of Talisman Theatre, a company dedicated to the production of Quebec plays in translation. For Talisman, she has directed Rock, Paper, Jackknife... by Marilyn Perreault (translated by Nadine Desrochers), as well as Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard (translated by Linda Gaboriau), which won the 2008–09 Best English Theatre Production from the Association québécoise des critiques de théatre. She says bringing francophone writers to anglophone audiences can help chip away at the barrier separating the two traditions. Fluent in English, French, and Italian, she is a graduate of Concordia’s Theatre Department and the National Theatre School’s directing program. (PF)