CREATORS

Andri Snær Magnason was born in Reykjavik in 1973. As a poet, dramaturg, essayist and short story writer he soon caught the public’s attention. He is the author of the children’s book The Story of the Blue Planet, which was published in 30 countries. Lovestar, his first novel, was chosen “Novel of the Year” by Icelandic booksellers and won the Grand Prize of Fantasy as well as the DV Literary Award. In 2016 he officially ran for President of Iceland.

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.

Actress, puppeteer and director José Babin is the Théâtre Incliné’s artistic director.
She loves going off the beaten track, searching the roots and conventions of theatre as an alchemist would bend the laws of nature to achieve something entirely new and unexpected.
Her specialty is creating unusual juxtapositions of techniques and schools of thought with great results: applying Decroux’s corporeal mime to puppetry, writing dramatic narratives for the stage with lighting design in mind, melding both actor and puppet into a single acting entity, etc. Her groundbreaking work stands out in the midst of all the new trends in puppet theatre for adults in Quebec. Her strongest asset is her sensitive approach to serious themes, playing with them and transforming them in her unique way. Her most recent shows are: Threads and La morsure de l’ange.

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.

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.

Guido is a well-known artist of the Quebec musical scene. He is a member of the music groups Rouge Ciel, Rodéoscopique and Ratchet Orchestra. Regularly, he works as a music compositor for the contemporary dance company Les Sœurs Schmutt. Guido has also collaborated as a musician, sound mixer and director of many artist albums such as Philippe B, Groenland, Forêt, Les Soeurs Boulay, Beast, Mara Tremblay, Philémon Cimon, Jérôme Minière, Fanfare Pourpour and Pierre Lapointe. Two of his solo projects have been edited on the label Ambiances Magnétiques, Carré de sable (2003), Agrégats (2007) and Ctenophora (2012) on &records. He has been the invited compositor at Pointe-à-Callière for the Port Symphony in 2014. Guido is currently doing his third collaboration with the Théâtre Incliné. He did create the musical ambiance in two previous shows, Le fil blanc and La morsure de l’Ange. For Nordicité, walking on the circle, he will be present during repetitions since the beginning of work. He will create the musical ambiance during the residency at the NVT, and will also be a music-performer on stage.

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.

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.

Actress, puppeteer and director José Babin is the Théâtre Incliné’s artistic director.
She loves going off the beaten track, searching the roots and conventions of theatre as an alchemist would bend the laws of nature to achieve something entirely new and unexpected.
Her specialty is creating unusual juxtapositions of techniques and schools of thought with great results: applying Decroux’s corporeal mime to puppetry, writing dramatic narratives for the stage with lighting design in mind, melding both actor and puppet into a single acting entity, etc. Her groundbreaking work stands out in the midst of all the new trends in puppet theatre for adults in Quebec. Her strongest asset is her sensitive approach to serious themes, playing with them and transforming them in her unique way. Her most recent shows are: Threads and La morsure de l’ange.

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.

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.

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.

Actress, puppeteer and director José Babin is the Théâtre Incliné’s artistic director.
She loves going off the beaten track, searching the roots and conventions of theatre as an alchemist would bend the laws of nature to achieve something entirely new and unexpected.
Her specialty is creating unusual juxtapositions of techniques and schools of thought with great results: applying Decroux’s corporeal mime to puppetry, writing dramatic narratives for the stage with lighting design in mind, melding both actor and puppet into a single acting entity, etc. Her groundbreaking work stands out in the midst of all the new trends in puppet theatre for adults in Quebec. Her strongest asset is her sensitive approach to serious themes, playing with them and transforming them in her unique way. Her most recent shows are: Threads and La morsure de l’ange.

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.

Anatolii Gushchin is a puppeteer from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from the State Academy of Theatre Arts as actor of puppet theatre, but a few years ago he started working as director, puppet builder, set and sound designer designer. In this capacity he created two performances for little children with the Bolshoy Puppet Theater of Saint Petersburg. He also teaches acting to two groups of students in the Academy. Anatolii is a good husband, father and friend. People who worked with him are convinced that he never sleeps.

Anatoly's primary place of employment is in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works in theaters, cinema production, music bands. He has taken part in the creation of more than 60 performances as the sound designer, composer and music director. In Russia, he mainly works with the directors Ruslan Kudashov and Yana Tumina. Anatoly has made a show-concert-performance  named Nirvanapathy in Saint Petersburg’s Bolshoy Puppet Theater in which he is the frontman. Besides working in different russian сities, Anatoly has released several performances as a composer in Europe. He received the St. Petersburg award "Harlequin" for the best musical design for a performance Far away that makes guest appearances all over the world. One of his favorite tours was with the performance "Kholstomer" based on the story by Leo Tolstoy and which was presented in the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York city.

Handyman at the Nordland Visual Theatre, Jack is as multi-talented as multi-tasking. He is a set builder, a costume maker, and even puppeteer! For Fish Hole, he has built the sets and props.