Johanne HABERLIN – actress

Johanne Haberlin has been an actress since graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada 20 years ago, in addition to working as a director, artistic advisor and teacher.

With nearly fifty theatrical productions to her credit, she has distinguished herself by playing leading roles under the direction of Claude Poissant, Marie Brassard, Olivier Choinière, Alice Ronfard, Geoffrey Gaquère, Frédéric Dubois, Daniel Brière and Simon Boudreault, among others.

With a particular affinity for creative theater, it was through decisive artistic encounters with certain authors that she made her mark, whether under the pen of Olivier Choinière (Venise-en-Québec, Chante avec moi! Jean dit), Olivier Kemeid (Bacchanale, L’Énéide and Furieux et désespérés), or Fanny Britt (Honey Pie, Hôtel Pacifique, Enquête sur le pire). For these latter productions, she has twice been nominated and won an acting award at the Gala Cochon d’or.Her film credits include six Denis Côté films, including Curling, and Nicolas Krief’s latest, Opération Carcajou. On television, she has played a number of episodic roles (Victor Lessard, Ruptures…), and regularly lends her voice to narration, advertising and post-synchro, including Série Plus, where she was the official voice for three seasons.

In the theater, she was Virginia Woolf in Robert Lalonde’s Un petit trottoir sur l’abîme, performed Albertine in Michel Tremblay’s 10-hour spectacle-fleuve La traversée du siècle and toured 8 theatrical institutions. For the past 10 years, she has been repeatedly playing her role in the highly acclaimed show La fureur de ce que je pense, based on the writings of Nelly Arcan and directed by Marie Brassard (Espace Go, Diamant, FTA, Carrefour, NAC, and in Europe).

As a multi-talented artist, she has been the founder and driving force behind the OFFTA Festival and her company Théâtre Debout for the past 10 years and now shares her expertise as advisor to the artistic direction of CTD’A and as a teacher at ÉNTC for the past 6 years.