Johanne Haberlin

Johanne Haberlin has been adding to her career as an actress since leaving the National Theater School of Canada 20 years ago, in addition to working as a director, artistic advisor and teacher.

With nearly fifty theater productions to her credit, she stands out for leading roles under the direction of Claude Poissant, Marie Brassard, Olivier Choinière, Alice Ronfard, Geoffrey Gaquère, Frédéric Dubois, Daniel Brière, Simon Boudreault ( …). Particularly fond of creative theater, it is through decisive artistic encounters with certain authors that she stands out, whether under the pens of Olivier Choinière (Venise-en-Québec, Chante avec moi! Jean dit), by Olivier Kemeid (Bacchanale, L’Énéide and Furieux et désespérés), or by Fanny Britt (Honey Pie, Hôtel Pacifique, Enquête sur le pire). For these latest productions, she was nominated and won the acting prize at the Gala Cochon d’or twice.

On the big screen, she collaborated on six films by Denis Côté, including Curling and the very last film by Nicolas Krief, Opération Carcajou. On television, some episodic roles (Victor Lessard, Ruptures…), she plays in the television adaptation of the plays La nuit du 4 au 5 by Rachel Graton and the document on Nelly Arcan, directed by Rafaël Ouellet (Télé-Québec). She regularly lends her voice to narration, advertising and post-sync, including Série Plus, where she was the official voice for 3 seasons.

In her more recent work, we could see her in La nuit du 4 au 5 by Rachel Graton, Centre d’achats by Emmanuelle Jimenez, Pièce de résistance by Fanny Britt presented at the CTD’A. At the Quat’sous, in Éclipse autour des poétesses de la Beat Generation with Marie Brassard. She is Virginia Woolf in Un petit trottoir sur l’abîme by Robert Lalonde, performs Albertine in the 10-hour River-show,  La traversée du siècle by Michel Tremblay and through a major tour in 8 theatrical institutions. Occasionally, for 10 years, she has reprized her role in the highly acclaimed show La fureur de ce que je pense around the writings of Nelly Arcan and directed by Marie Brassard (Espace Go, Diamant, FTA, Carrefour, CNA, and in Europe). For the 24-25 season, a tour is being prepared in Canada and Asia, notably in Macau.

Also invited to take part in the direction, she co-signed Akuteu by Soleil Launière at CTD’A. She is invited by the Théâtre à tour de rôle to direct Trees Arbres debout sur nos paupières by the poet France Cayouette and  La conquête du béluga by the multidisciplinary artist Maryse Gaudreau for seasons 22/23 (Carleton, FTA and at Zones Théâtrales).

A jack of all trades, she founded and worked on the development of the OFFTA Festival and her company Théâtre Debout for 10 years, and today shares all this expertise as an advisor to the artistic direction of the CTD'A and a teacher at ENTC for 6 years now.