Co-director of the Theatre Incline since 1997, Alain takes part in many of the company’s productions as lighting designer and creator of shadows and puppets.

After following shadow theater masters classes in Teatro Gioco Vita and Cie Amoros et Augustin in Charleville- Mézières (France) in the early 2000, he develops an interest for precise lightings and the use of projections, so specific to the ‘”theatre d’images”. Alain carries his research on shadows live and filmed through his work onstage and directing short-movies.

Theatre director, actor and professor, Francine Alepin has been working on physical theatre for four decades. After working with Paul Buissonneau at La Roulote, she has completed her training at the Montreal School of Mime where she taught until 2007. In 1981, she initiated a long artistic adventure with among others the Omnibus Company, and took on over sixty roles ranging from classical to contemporary. She staged texts from Larry Tremblay, Michael Mackenzie and Emma Haché. She created and directed physical theatre pieces, notably Transeuntes (Barcelona), Latitudes croisées (Mexico-France-Quebec), Les Zérocrate, and traveled with the two soli La Glaneuse de gestes and Éphémérides, LKC.

She has been the companion of creators from various artistic fields and participated in creating multidisciplinary performances that intend to question the common forms of theater and its potential interbreeding. Parallel to her career as creator and actor, she graduated with a university degree in theatre (UQÀM) and analysis of the movement (Laban/ Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies de New York). She has been a professor at the École supérieure de théâtre de l’UQAM since 2005 and is currently the director of Graduate Studies of the Theatre Program.

Handy artist, Simon Beaupré likes to explore all kinds of cinema making. After graduating with a cinema degree from Université de Montréal, he starts working on his own fiction and stop motion projects. Attracted to this new medium, he goes on studying animation at Concordia University before working for various animation and after effects studios. Parallel to this, he directs several independent movies, in animation as well as fiction. Since 2009 he is an active member of the Montreal Kino movement, where he often presents his movies. He has a very independent style and enjoys using different techniques and artistic influences to give birth to his creations. In 2013, he wins the best movie award from Fidena (Germany) and Cinemagine (Calgary) with his short-movie Drenica, a docu-fiction mixing puppetry, animation and shadows and the first collaboration with Théâtre Incliné.

Jacques Laroche has been at the heart of theatre creation in Quebec for many years. After completing his training at the Conservatoire des arts dramatiques in Quebec City in 1993, he moved to London to study clown and buffoon with Philippe Gaulier. Jacques Laroche is the artistic director of Théâtre de la Petite Marée since 2008 and was among the organization’s very first collaborators. Author, director, actor and accomplished puppeteer, he regularly works with various companies in Quebec and in Europe (Belgium, France, Romania). He is one of the main actors of the « Le sous-marin jaune » theatre. He has directed, among other pieces, Petite Rochelle, Le merveilleux voyage de Réal de Montréal, La mère Troll, and Otomonogatari - L'éveil d'une oreille. He teaches at the National Theater School of Canada.

Magali Chouinard is a multidisciplinary artist. The female body, movement, presence and interiority lie at the heart of her poetic and visual research. Thirty years of exploration – drawing, sculpture, installation art, performance and writing – have been converging since 2008 towards the art of puppetry and its ability to bring movement to her visual landscape.

Linda Brunelle is a graduate of Collège Lionel-Groulx in Ste-Thérèse. It is with the directors Claude Poissant and Martin Faucher that she creates her unique signature. Her creations have been seen on several stages in Quebec, but also in Canada and abroad. In particular, the "Nebbia" and "ID" shows of Cirque Éloize. In addition to her work in theater and circus, she has collaborated on various dance, film and opera projects with Quebec, Canadian and European directors and choreographers. : Lorraine Pintal, Alice Ronfard, Gervais Gaudreault, Éric Jean, Matthew Jocelyn, Alexia Bürger, Ginette Laurin, Pierre-Paul Savoie, Hélène Langevin, Keith Turnbull and Vincent Goethals among others. Her most recent achievements include her participation in the creation of Sylvain Scott's show (Je suis William, Théâtre du Clou), Denis Marleau’s (Le Tigre bleu de l’Euphrate, Théâtre de Quat'sous), Gervais Gaudreault’s (Gretel et Hansel, Théâtre du Carrousel), and Frédéric Dubois’s (Les Chaises, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde). In June 2015, she represented Québec at the "Costume at the Turn of the Century 1990-2015" exhibition at the A.A Bakhrushin State Central Theater in Moscow, Russia. Since 2004, she teaches costume design as a visiting professor at the National Theater School of Canada and at the University of Quebec in Montreal.

After completing a training in aviation, Guy obtained an interdisciplinary degree from the Université du Québec in Chicoutimi. He has since been navigating between the two worlds, combining his artistic passion with the design of complex mechanical systems. He has worked as a graphic designer, sculptor, designer and animator and contributed his expertise and imagination to the Robert Lepage, Les Deux Mondes and the Cirque du Soleil companies. With the Théâtre Incliné, he conceived the scenography for the show Threads in 2012 and created the puppet of the old man in La morsure de l'ange in 2015.

Trained in the art of puppetry at Le Théâtre aux Mains Nues (2011), Lucile completed her studies with a Specialized Studies Degree in Contemporary Puppet Theater from University du Québec à Montréal (2013). She worked as a hand puppeteer with Alain and Eloi Recoing, Pierre Blaise and Nicolas Gousseff. Lucile learned various types of puppetry with Johanny Bert, Marthe Adam and Johanne Rodrigue, as well as other types of performing arts such as street theatre, clown and dance. Lucile is working on the stage/audience proximity relationship through puppetry off the beaten track. Passionate about movement and masks, she explores and mixes genre and spaces to encounter audiences through her travels.

After a college’s degree in photography and a bachelor's degree in Visual and Media Arts at UQÀM, Geneviève turned to cultural management and completed a DESS at HEC Montreal. She has been working in the performing arts scene for about fifteen years. Administrative Director at Théâtre Incliné for the past 4 years, she has been supporting the company in the development of the Nordic cycle from the beginning. Since 2013, she has also held the position of Co-Director General within Projet MÛ.

Anne Lalancette discovered puppetry in the spring of 2004, when she completed a certificate in cinema script writing at UQAM. In 2007, Anne co-realized her first show Le grand cirque minuscule. She was later hired by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop company for the creation of The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan. In 2012, she joined Théâtre de l'Oeil for the show Corbeau and that same year, as she develops a profound friendship with the creators of Théâtre de la Pire Espèce, she coproduced an object theatre show, Le déchiqueteur. In 2015, Anne co-founded La ruée vers l'or, the company with which she created the show for adults Pommes de route. Anne also appeared on television (Prière de ne pas envoyer de fleurs, Les Hipaloulas, Robax, Bye Bye 2017) and in films (Riddick, Sale Gueule, From Naughty to Nice). In the fall of 2017, Anne wrote and directed her first short-movie: Desmaraisville. The script-writing of SILENCE is her first collaboration with Théâtre Incliné.

Caroline is an animation artist with a multidisciplinary background. She started studying fine arts at Collège de Valleyfield and continued into theatre at UQAM, graduating with a Masters’ degree. She is very inspired by Kandinsky’s theories, which she explored in her Masters’ thesis, transposing shape, colour and sound into the narrative and characters. She thereafter trained in 2D and 3D animation at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal and Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne. She has worked as an illustrator on various animation television series and directs her own independent animation movies presented in various festivals around the world.

Félix Boisvert studied composition at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal. His approach is based on the desire to express music as an artistic form that is not limited to sounds. As a multidisciplinary artist (puppetry, music, digital arts, dance) he conceived shows such as Concerto au sol, Lune et l'autre, Pas à pas and Manu danse. He co-managed a space dedicated to the creation and experimentation of multidisciplinary projects. He collaborated with numerous artists and companies from all artistic fields: Kid Koala, Festival Montréal Complètement Cirque, Les sept doigts de la main, Nicolas Cantin, Karina, Antonin Monmart, Guillaume Saladin to name a few. He also teaches music in schools in Quebec with the Fonofone, a music instrument he developed.

Bryan Morneau is a graduate student from École Supérieure de l’UQÀM (University of Quebec in Montreal). In theatre, he has played in seven Omnibus productions. He also collaborated with Theatre de la Vieille 17 as an actor and puppeteer on two of their productions. He played on various stages such as the NAC in Ottawa and Salle Fred-Barry in Montreal. He took part in two productions of the Theatre de l’Avant-Pays presented at Maison Theatre and on tour in the province of Quebec. On TV, you might have seen him in the hit kid show Kaboum on Télé-Québec, in Virginie, Apparence, Les Rescapés, Toute la Vérité, 30 Vies, Jean Béliveau and District 31. For the cinema he starred in 3 Saisons from Jim Donovan, Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau’s Hier, aujourd’hui, hier and in the short-movie Rôle de soutien. He is also a mediator, a theater instructor and works in advertising and voicing over, particularly on World of Dance.

Cyril Bussy was born in 1973 in St-Germain-en-Laye in France. He moved to New Richmond with his family in July 2010. Since his childhood he has been a passionate comic book reader and lights and shadows player. In 1993, he entered studies in lighting. He started his career as a stage electrician in several Parisian theaters followed by five years in a row at the Festival d’Avignon. As a lighting technician for over 22 years now, he has set light on multiple shows in various disciplines going from theaters and outdoor performances to hip-hop shows, concerts and musicals. He collaborates with Théâtre de la Petite Marée, Théâtre des Bouches Décousues, Théâtre du Gros Mécano, Guillaume Arsenault, Festival en Chanson de Petite Vallée, Théâtre des Grands Vents.