Emma Tibaldo

Bio

Emma is Artist in Residence at Concordia University, and a Director and Dramaturg. She is the former Artistic and Executive Director of Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, where for fourteen years, she dramaturgically collaborated on many plays, including Mizushōbai by Julie Tamiko Manning, Thy Woman’s Weeds by Erin Shields, Jabber by Marcus Youssef, Squawk by Megan Gail Coles, Instant by Erin Shields, I Am A Genius, Does Anyone Here Know Me? by Lois Brown, and Behaviour by Darrah Teitel. Emma has directed new Canadian plays across the country such as Grace and Falling Trees by Megan Gail Coles, Okinum by Emilie Monnet (co-director), and Refuge by Mary Vingoe. She co-founded Talisman Theatre for whom she directed, among others, the award-winning productions That Woman by Daniel

Danis, Down Dangerous Passes Road by Michel Marc Bouchard, and The Medea Effect by Suzie Bastien. She co-created Skin, a performance piece with the interdisciplinary company The Bakery. Emma is a recipient of LMDA’s Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy, and the Conseil Québécois du théâtre Prix Sentinelle.