Josée Thibeault
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Josée Thibeault is a Canadian writer, performer, theater director, and filmmaker. She was born in Trois-Rivières but has spent the majority of her artistic career in Edmonton.
Thibeault's father was a postman in Trois-Rivières. Thibeault first moved to Edmonton in 1994 and has spent most of her life there since.[1] As of 2020, she lived with her partner in Old Strathcona.[2]
Career
In the late 1990s, Thibeault's play Ici-ailleurs was performed at the Festival de la dramaturgie des Prairies hosted by L'Unithéâtre in Edmonton.[3] In 2005, Thibeault directed the National Film Board of Canada-produced documentary Le Mall[1] about the people who frequent the Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre.[4] She translated Sheldon Elter's play Métis Mutt into French for performance by L'Unithéâtre.[5]
In 2017, Thibeault began presenting the first fragments of what would eventually become her theatrical work La fille du facteur, which concerns her upbringing in Quebec and her journey to Edmonton.[6] The work was refined over the following years and eventually published in 2023. The following year, it became the first French-language work to win the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at the Alberta Literary Awards.[7]
Thibeault's works have won numerous recognitions from the Regroupement artistique francophone de l'Alberta (RAFA).[1] She has also served as vice president of the RAFA.[8] She is a longtime member of the Franco-Albertan comedy group Collectif RiRe[9] and hosted the podcast Le bocal during the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]
References
- 1 2 3 "Josée Thibeault : Quand le nomadisme s'enracine et se raconte". Radio-Canada (in French). 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
- ↑ "Cher monde..." Radio-Canada (in French). 2020-05-12. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
- ↑ Gaboury-Diallo, Lise (2011). "Théâtre et dramaturgie en français dans l'Ouest canadien: Bilan et perspectives". In Beauchamp, Hélène (ed.). Théâtres québécois et canadiens-français au XXe siècle: Trajectoires et territoires [Québécois and French-Canadian Theatre in the 20th Century: Paths and territories] (in French). Presses de l'Université du Québec. p. 203.
- ↑ "Le Mall". National Film Board of Canada (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-20.
- ↑ Rao, Sathya (2025-07-01). "L'UniThéâtre d'Edmonton sur la voix de l'inclusion? Bilan et perspectives". Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada (in French). 46 (1): 31–53.
- ↑ "La fille du facteur, une nouvelle oeuvre de l'artiste Josée Thibeault". Radio-Canada (in French). 2017-11-23. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
- ↑ "La fille du facteur récompensée par la Writers' Guild of Alberta". Radio-Canada (in French). 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
- ↑ "Le Regroupement artistique francophone de l'Alberta remet ses prix d'excellence". Radio-Canada (in French). 2021-06-17. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
- ↑ Charest, Mélodie (2021-09-23). "Mais où est l'humour francophone en Alberta?". Le Franco (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-10.
- ↑ Potvin, Geneviève (2020-10-13). "Le bocal, une oeuvre hypermédiatique". Radio-Canada OHdio (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-10.