Marie Brassard

Marie Brassard is a Canadian actress, theatrical writer and director. She is known for her work with playwright and actor Robert Lepage and later for her own French and English theatrical pieces, which have been presented in many countries in the Americas, Europe and in Australia. Career Marie Brassard performed and co-created with Robert Lepage between the years 1985 and 2000 in theatre (The Dragons' Trilogy, Polygraph, The Seven Streams of the River Ota, The Shakespeare Trilogy: Coriolanus, The Tempest and Macbeth), Geometry of Miracles, and in films ( Polygraph, NÔ ). In 2001, she created her first solo play, Jimmy, within the framework of the Festival TransAmériques (although it appears it must have first been presented at Montreal's Edgy Women festival a couple of months prior). The success of the play led Brassard to found her own production company, Infrarouge, and to begin to work solo. Since then, in collaboration with guest artists from different disciplines and origins, she has created surreal theatre with innovative video, light and sound installations, including The Darkness (2003), Peepshow (2005), The Glass Eye (2007), The Invisible (2008), Me Talking to Myself in the Future (2010), The Fury of my Thoughts (Nelly Arcan), Trieste (2013), Peepshow (version 2016), La vie utile (Évelyne de la Chenelière), Introduction to Violence (2019), Eclipse (2020) and Violence (2021). Brassard's plays have been performed in numerous countries in the Americas, Australia and Europe, among other places at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris, The Studio at the Sydney Opera in Australia, the Barbican Centre in London UK, the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Sophiensaele in Berlin, the Halle G im Museums Quartier and Brut im Künstlerhaus in Vienna, the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, The Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre in Melbourne and the Teatro Espanol in Madrid.