Édith Patenaude

After graduating in 2006 from the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec, Édith Patenaude immediately launched herself into creating new work. With Les Écornifleuses theatre company, where she is the artistic director, she performed in Cinq filles avec la même robe, Les Reines, and the Le Désordre station of the ambulatory performance piece Où tu vas quand tu dors en marchant…? — the latter two were presented at the Carrefour international de théâtre in Québec; wrote and performed in Barbe Bleue; co-wrote (with Jocelyn Pelletier) Disparaître Ici, loosely based on the works of Bret Easton Ellis, presented at Théâtre Périscope and La Chapelle; and wrote, directed and performed in Le monde sera meilleur at Périscope. She also directed David Hare’s L’Absence de guerre (The Absence of War), which was remounted by Théâtre du Trident and La Licorne and won the Quebec Ministry of Arts and Culture award for Best Direction. She has performed in numerous productions by other companies (Trident, Bordée, Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, Espace Libre, etc.), notably in Thérèse et Pierrette à l’école des Saints-Anges, Inès Pérée et Inat Tendu, Selfie, Tout ce qui tombe and Scalpés. She also participated in the creation of iShow, winner of the Critics’ Choice award for Best Production – Montreal and widely presented in Canada and France. From 2012 to 2015, she was the artistic director of the Québec edition of the Jamais Lu new play festival. She directed the remount of Mes enfants n’ont pas peur du noir at Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, and the stage adaptation of the cult novel 1984, coproduced by Théâtre du Trident and Théâtre Denise-Pelletier. At Zones Théâtrales 2017, she is directing Far Away.