Adjani Poirier (she/they) is a queer Black theatre artist with mixed Haitian and French/English European ancestry who currently lives and creates in her hometown of Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
She is interested in creating work that explores the beauty and the ugly of the human experience, is drawn to stories that reveal the complexity of navigating a world where systemic inequalities oppress, yet love and connection still seep through the cracks, strong and fierce, giving us life. Their writing uses magical realism to explore ideas of home, queer desire and how the subconscious influences our relationships to each other and our physical surroundings.
Adjani is the current Assistant Artistic Director at Black Theatre Workshop and has worked as the Literary/Dramaturgical Associate Artist at Imago Theatre where she was also a mentor with the company’s youth mentorship program ‘ARTISTA’.
She has a DEC in Acting from Dawson College, a BFA in Theatre and Development with a minor in Sexuality Studies from Concordia University and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada where she studied playwriting.
Adjani curated the 2021 edition of QueerCab with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and was on the selection jury for Slut Island, a feminist music and art festival. She has worked with The Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont where she learned how to puppeteer, paper mache, and walk on stilts.
Alongside her theatre practice Adjani is dedicated to grassroots community work and has had the privilege of working with Yukon Girls’s Rock Camp, AIDS Community Care Montreal and Get to the Pointe! an arts based sexual health initiative for marginalized youth in Montreal. She co-hosted and produced the community radio show Sounds Dramatic that spotlights queer and racialized artists and theatre makers.
Plays include: Scorpio Moon (Imago Theatre) , Sinkhole (or six ways to disappear) (Infinitheatre), Celebrity Dogs (Boca del Lupo’s “Plays2Perform @ Home) and flight of fancy, hold me close (New Words Festival).
