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Lib Spry has worked in theatre for over fifty years as a director, writer, producer, educator, performer, popular theatre work, dramaturg, and translator. She chooses to work in an equal mix of professional theatre, community arts and as a teacher as she believes they are mutually inclusive. She is a specialist in non-traditional theatre forms: popular theatre, community arts, site-specific theatre, theatre for young audiences, clown, bouffon, commedia dell\u2019 arte, and other forms of physical theatre. She was an apprentice with August Boal for a year and is a recognized teacher of his Theatre of the Oppressed. She trained with clown master Philippe Gaulier in her early 60s. She has founded and run three theatre companies: Theatre Agile (2011- present), Passionate Balance (1989-96) for which she wrote twenty plus Forum Theatre plays, and with playwright Shirley Barrie co-founded the award-winning Straight Stitching Productions (1986-96). She has worked with Odyssey Theatre as the writer and\/or translator on \u201cTurandot”, “The Miser”, “The Raven”, and “Bungsu and the Big Snake” and as an instructor in commedia d\u2019ell arte for their youth volunteers.

Selected work includes: dramaturg for Teesri Duniya\u2019s Fireworks 2021-22 Playwrighting Unit; director of the Theatre Kingston production of Daniel David Moses\u2019 \u201cAlmighty Voice and His Wife” and of the world premiere of the same play at GCTC in 1991; director and dramaturg of “Ambig\u00fcit\u00e9” with Ottawa\/Munich artist Guy Marsan; director of Anusree Roy\u2019s “Letters to My Grandma” for Teesri Duniya Theatre; writing and performing her solo show \u201cTrance For Matron” \u2013 a one-woman show for old woman, objects, memories, desires, anger and walker – at the Montreal Fringe; devised and directed a vaudeville entitled “We Are Old! We are Wonderful!” as artist-in-residence with Ressources Ethnoculturelles Contre l\u2019Abus envers les A\u00een\u00e9(e)s, Respecting Elders Communities against Abuse (RECAA), an organization for seniors dedicated to using theatre to educate communities to recognize the mistreatment and abuse of seniors; director of Teesri Duniya\u2019s production of “Where the Blood Mixes” by Kevin Loring; director and dramaturg of Luna Allison\u2019s prize-winning “Falling Open”.

Elle a enseign\u00e9 le th\u00e9\u00e2tre en tant que professeur auxiliaire \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 Concordia, McGill, Queens et l'Universit\u00e9 d'Ottawa, et a travaill\u00e9 en tant qu'artiste en r\u00e9sidence \u00e0 Concordia et \u00e0\nl'Universit\u00e9 d'Ottawa. Elle poss\u00e8de un MFA en \u00e9criture cr\u00e9ative du Goddard College et a termin\u00e9 en 2020 un doctorat de recherche-cr\u00e9ation en \u00e9tudes culturelles \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 Queens\nintitul\u00e9 \"Unsettling Colonial Privilege' Settlers' Through Performance : Mouvement, son, participation, jeu et rire\". En utilisant ses comp\u00e9tences et son exp\u00e9rience en mati\u00e8re de performance,\nelle a construit et test\u00e9 un jeu de soci\u00e9t\u00e9 grandeur nature pour confronter les v\u00e9rit\u00e9s sur les structures de pouvoir invisibles qui soutiennent le droit \u00e0 la ma\u00eetrise des colons canadiens. Elle\nest actuellement boursi\u00e8re postdoctorale Horizons en Studio Arts \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Concordia sous la direction de Nadia Myre, artiste visuelle algonquine et titulaire de la Chaire du Canada\nen pratique des arts autochtones (https:\/\/www.nadiamyre.net), et travaille avec potatoCakes_digital (https:\/\/www.potatocakesdigital.ca\/) sur une version en ligne du jeu.
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\u00ab Les mortels les plus dr\u00f4les et les plus gentils sont ceux qui sont les plus conscients de la bataille de l'\u00eatre,
ne vous leurrez pas, nos soins sont consolants, mais croyez qu'un rire est moins sans c\u0153ur que des larmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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