Often we are fun. Sometimes we are dark. Always we are weird.

Jon is a bilingual actor, director and artistic director of Surreal SoReal Theatre. He is very interested in the possibility of a better exchange between French and English speakers in Canada. He has performed in many productions across Canada with companies such as The Citadel Theatre and L’UniThéâtre (Edmonton), La Seizième and Zee Zee (Vancouver), The Segal Centre and Théâtre Prospero (Montreal).
He has directed Madame Catherine prépare sa classe de troisième à l’irrémédiable (Prospero, Carrefour International, L’Uni Théâtre), Le Petit Prince (Crows’ Theatre), Ruddigore (Lakeshore Light Opera), Macbeth Muet (international tour), TONG (La Fille du Laitier) and Samuel Beckett’s Before Her Time: 3 Plays (National Theatre School), as well as translating Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe (reading, La Licorne).
He has written and performed in his bilingual solo Big Shot since 2008 across Canada and in Montreal. Jon is currently working on a production loosely based on Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which he is creating with dancers and actors living with a physical disability, for the Théâtre Denise-Pelletier in Montreal in 2021.
Jon is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada (directing) and Studio 58 in Vancouver (acting program).

After studying theatre, literature, and cultural management at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 (France), Université Laval (Quebec), and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Czech Republic), Clémentine began her career in the cultural sector working in audience development and cultural outreach for several venues and festivals in France, including the Banlieues Bleues festival, the Maison de la musique de Nanterre, and Le Tarmac – the international Francophone stage.

In 2018, she moved to Quebec and specialized in touring and communications for the performing arts. Following experiences at Festival TransAmériques and the Domaine Forget Academy, she joined the dance company La Otra Orilla, where she deepened her expertise in national and international touring and development.

Since 2022, Clémentine has been the touring manager for Le Carrousel, a theatre company dedicated to young audiences. She works to promote the company’s creations, connecting its works with presenters across North America, Europe, and beyond. Passionate about the circulation of performances and fostering encounters between artists and audiences, she plays an active role in positioning Le Carrousel’s work within an international dialogue.

She has also been in charge of communications for Surreal SoReal Theatre, since 2021.
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Danielle is a theatre artist based in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal involved in many aspects of the industry - Dani is a stage manager, a managing producer, and artist representative. She got her professional start as an assistant costume designer and assistant director while working towards her BFA in Design for the Theatre at Concordia University. She later apprenticed in stage management and theatre design at the Portland Playhouse in Portland, Oregon, where she fell in love with stage management as a craft, and as an approach to life in general. She earned her MFA in Stage Management from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and interned at the Public Theatre in New York, before returning to Canada. She has been working as a stage manager in Montreal since 2017, and has been a member of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association since 2018.

Outside of working to grow and develop Interplay, Dani is also currently the Managing Producer at a professional feminist theatre company called Imago Theatre, and serves on the Montreal English Theatre Awards Committee as a jury liaison. She is so grateful to be a part of the Montreal theatre community, where she has had the pleasure of working with a variety of companies including The Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, Geordie Theatre, Repercussion Theatre, Porte Parole, Centaur Theatre, Imago Theatre, and Tableau D'Hôte.

Dani is honoured to have recently joined the board of AASPAA Canada, a membership-based national organization for artist representatives and agencies within the performing arts sector in Canada.

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Mishka Lavigne (she/her) is a playwright, literary translator and screenwriter based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been developed and produced in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and Haiti. She is a member of the Playwrights' Guild of Canada, of the CEAD and is a NNPN Alumni Playwright (USA).

Author and playwright, member of CEAD, Bibish Marie Louise Mumbu participates in artistic events through popular education and the decolonization of the imaginary.
Bibish is a resilient Afrofeminist from Quebec.

Julie Trépanier is an actress who has been working across the country since she graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada. She has had the opportunity to work with both solitudes on a daily basis, in both French and English, on stage and on screen. She is the recipient of three Jessie Richardson Awards for British-Columbian performing arts and their artisans, including the Best Supporting Actress Award for her role as Carmen in Michel Tremblay's À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou.

Author and translator Olivier Sylvestre holds a bachelor's degree in criminology and a diploma in playwriting from the National Theatre School. With Hamac, he has published the stories NOMS FICTIFS (finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Awards), LE DÉSERT, and two plays, La loi de la gravité (translated into English and German, won numerous awards) and Guide d'éducation sexuelle pour le nouveau millénaire (finalist for the 2020 Michel-Tremblay Award). His plays Dans la forêt disparue and Les Sentinelles are recipients of the ARTCENA (Paris) Creation Grant. He leads writing workshops and provides dramaturgical support.