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Tel: 514 497 7621
Courriel: promitoplayback@gmail.com
Nadia Cicurel
Nadia discovered Playback Theater in 2008 in South America. Having always dreamed of mixing her passion for theater and her aspirations for a fairer and healthier society, this particular theatrical world has created wings for her. Since 2012, she got involved in Promito Playback and in 2023 she graduated from the international school of Playback Theatre. Nadia is also co-founder and co-director of La Collective, théâtre de l'opprimé. Graduated from Concordia University in theatre and development, she is a multidisciplinary artist including skills like clown, puppetry and poetry. She aims to keep her artistic road to create community and beauty. www.nadiacicurel.com
Laurie Dumont-Bal
Laurie Dumont-Bal is a Montreal-based biracial theatre artist with Indian and French-Canadian settler origins. She works as a playwright, director, playback theatre artist and teacher. She first discovered playback while studying in the Performance Creation program at Concordia University (BFA with distinction). She is also a graduate from John Abbott College’s Professional Acting program (DEC). Laurie completed the Core Training with the New York School for Playback Theatre. She received a fully-funded Canada Council for the Arts grant to participate in Playback Theatre School of Quebec’s Conducting Workshop. Laurie is grateful to have joined Promito Playback in 2021.
Naya Salamé
Caroline Desgagnés
Caroline graduated as a social work technician in 2007. Her experiences lead her to consolidate her skills in individual support, group facilitation and coordination. As a professional social worker for rehabilitation, she brings groups abroad. Caroline confirms what lights her up: supporting people to evolve through mobilizing projects. Passionate about theater since childhood, she enrolled in the bachelor in drama education profile (2014-2018) with the aim of practicing community theater. Since then, she has trained in different practices: Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theater. She joined Promito Playback in 2017.
Aurélia Fleury
Marie-Hélène Hamel
Art-thérapeute et artiste multidisciplinaire, Marie-Hélène utilise le théâtre, l’art clownesque, la marionnette, la danse, la musique et les arts visuels comme outils d’éducation, d’intervention, de communication et de revendication sociale depuis plus de 25 ans. Elle s’est impliquée dans de nombreuses initiatives d’art engagé auprès de populations marginalisées en Amérique latine et au Québec. Elle a été initiée au Théâtre Playback, au Théâtre de l’opprimé et au psychodrame au Chili en 2008.
Kristel De Knibber
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Laurie is a bilingual performer, director, writer and theatre teacher. She is a Performance Creation graduate from Concordia University (Theatre Department, BFA with Distinction) as well as an Acting graduate from John Abbott College’s Professional Theatre program. As an artist with roots from India and Quebec, Laurie was raised by a family of storytellers who deeply value discipline, detail, and colour, which is what Laurie consistently strives to bring to her work. She first discovered Playback Theatre while studying at Concordia and had the pleasure to join Promito Playback in 2021.
Antonia-Judith Hayward
Antonia is a multidisciplinary artist with multiple origins. Born in France into a family of committed artists, she quickly learned music and later on theater.
In 2007 she discovered and trained in the techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed with the Compagnie du Théâtre de l'Opprimé in Paris. She was immediately fascinated by these tools which combined her artistic passion and her social commitment. She joined the company and took part in all of its work for more than 10 years.
When she arrived in Montreal in 2018, she discovered Playback Theater and joined Promito Playback. www.antoniahayward.com
Lydia Desjardins Duchesne
Lydia works in the field of social intervention. Her experiences with various communities have led her to work on the need to combine "social justice" and "healing" using the arts and the narrative approaches. Lydia began her artistic training in the Outaouais region of Quebec at a very young age, and continued with various community-based and semi-professional groups across Canada. In 2019, she became more interested in intervention theater and was introduced to the Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback Theatre. Lydia is currently perfecting her aesthetic by participating in workshops around the world.
Marie Corseri
Marie is trained in France at the conservatory of Fontenay aux roses in classical danceand contemporary and at the conservatory of Bourg la Reine in dramatic art. After university studies in cinema and theater and training as an actress in Paris, she decided to leave in 2008 for Canada in Montreal. She discovers the Théâtre de l'Opprimé there thanks to the Collective, TO and Playback Theater with the troupe Promito Playback. She is overwhelmed by the poetic power and impact of these forms of social theater. Marie is also engaged as a drama teacher with adults living with disabilities and in collective theater projects where pleasure, meaning and commitment coexist. Improvisational theatre, clowning and writing are passions. Every day of her life she tries to make the three coexist.
Mélanie Cullin
Musician and multidisciplinary artist, Mélanie makes creativity the link between the different languages she manipulates. She develops a musical approach based on improvisation and on the encounter between the arts, which she uses within the collective Myriade. Also trained in theatrical acting, clowning and dramaturgical writing, she also collaborates in the creation of several youth shows for which she provides interpretation, sound design, writing or staging. The creation of his Tableaux-Musique show has brought him, since 2018, to children's hospitals, early childhood centers and specialized schools. Of Spanish and French origin, the question of exile is one of the main drivers of his artistic research. It is with joy that she joined the Promito-théâtre team in 2022 and learned about the many riches of social theatre. www.collectifmyriade.com/