Emmanuelle Gingras

Emmanuelle Gingras is an illustrator, writer and co-director of the emerging collective Les Frivoles. A graduate of the Centre d’excellence artistique de l’Ontario (CEAO) in theatre and creative writing, she went on to win the Théâtre Action and CEAO scholarships (third place and audience choice award). She is currently studying theatre at the University of Ottawa with a minor in French literature. In 2020, she was seen in Un conte de l’apocalypse, a Théâtre de la Vieille 17 / NAC French Theatre coproduction directed by André Perrier and presented at La Nouvelle-Scène Gilles Desjardins. She is interested in acting, but also in directing and writing: in 2018, she won a competition organized by the newspaper LIAISON for her review “M.I.L.F.: aigre revendication de la beauté maternelle”; and in 2019, her play Tortue, orgasmes et fin du monde won the Best Production Award at the Youth Infringement Festival.