TALIESIN McENANEY works in English and French as a director, producer, performer, writer/translator, and arts educator. Much of her career has been devoted to creating new works with an approach informed by object theatre, clown, corporal mime and ensemble devising with her company Lucid Ludic. Her work has toured internationally in Europe, Mexico, the US and Canada. In Las Vegas, she was Producing Director at Cockroach Theatre, where she directed The Lyons and Stage Kiss. In Toronto, she wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning Fringe hit Brain Storm, directed a reading of the Franco-Ontarian play, Toile, at Summerworks, and was producer for Shakespeare in the Ruff's A Midsummer Night's Dream. As Dramaturg and Associate Artist at Canadian Stage, she helped program the 18-19 season and co-ordinated and mentored the RBC Emerging Artist program. She is a graduate of Generators' Artist-Producer Program, the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre and she has her MFA in Directing/Creation from York University. Currently she is Associate Producer at Pleiades Theatre, who commissioned her translation of Emma Haché's Exercice de l'oublie.

New Play Creation, Devising Theatre, Canadian Theatre, Quebecois Theatre

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English, French, Spanish