At the intersection of theater, performance, and media arts, Émilie Monnet’s work is most often presented in the form of interdisciplinary theater or performative installations. Her artistic approach emphasizes collaborative and multilingual creative processes and explores themes of memory, history, and transmission. A committed author, actress, and director, she founded Onishka Productions in 2011 to forge connections between artists from different Indigenous peoples, across all disciplines. Her works Okinum and Marguerite: The Fire have been published by Éditions Les Herbes Rouges and translated into German, English, Romanian, and Spanish. Her works have been presented at numerous festivals around the world, including the Avignon Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Madrid Autumn Festival, the Transamériques Festival, and Luminato. She regularly collaborates with other Indigenous artists, such as on the staging of the show Uvattini by Inuk singer Elisapie, as well as on the theatrical adaptation of the novel Kukum by Innu author Michel Jean. Of Anishinaabe and French descent, Émilie lives in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang, a city better known as Montreal.
