Performers – present
Stéphanie Colle
A student of theatre and dance at Les Muses: centre des arts de la scène since 2015, Stéphanie already has several professional credits. Since January 2019, she has been working with the contemporary jig company Maï(g)wenn et les Orteils as part of Écoute pour voir, a choreographic concept developed by Emmanuel Jouthe/Danse Carpe Diem. In 2019 she also made her first steps into the world of TV, appearing in Unité 9 and Léo. Stéphanie made her Joe Jack & John début in the VR/theatre hybrid creation, VIOLETTE and is currently collaborating on the creation of Who’s watching when I close my eyes.
(Photo: Charles Lafrance)
Érika Miller
Erika is an emerging theatre artist, who has been studying at les Muses : centre des arts de la scène since 2022. She first caught the acting bug in amateur theatre workshops with the community group Prolongement à la famille in 2015, then with La Gang à Rambrou, with whom she has been acting since 2017. Erika has quickly learned and integrated acting technique and theatre know-how in order to jump into professional training.
Érika has been collaborating with Joe Jack & John since 2024 on the creation of Who’s watching when I close my eyes, dancing, building and pushing her own creative boundaries. Erika is adamant that one should always believe in one’s dreams.
Performers – past
Guy-Philippe Côté
Guy-Philippe began exploring the world of the arts through music in his adolescence. He completed a DEC in film at Cégep Garneau. This training led him to take part in the creation of different short films presented at Le Clap theatre or the the Festival inter-collégial de cinema de Valleyfield. During his undergraduate theatre studies at the University of Laval, he participated in multiple editions of the Festival de theatre de l’université de Laval and was involved in multiple creation projects. After an internship in international solidarity in Ecuador, he obtained his masters in theatre at the University of Ottawa.
Cispersonnages en quête d’auteurice is his first collaboration with Joe Jack & John.
Michael Nimbley
Michael Nimbley has been studying theatre at Les Muses – Centre des arts de la scène since 2004. A bilingual actor (English/French), the extent of his talent was apparent in 2006 and 2008 in Le temps des marguerites, presented at Tangente. Known for his ineffable charisma and singular voice, this veteran actor played the lead role in Joe Jack & John’s Mimi, myself et tous ceux qui me regardent in 2009. In 2010, Michael appeared alongside the actor Frédéric Lavallée in the Cabaret Les Muses at l’Astral, playing a disturbing character in an excerpt from Edward Albee’s Zoo Story directed by Richard Gaulin. After winning Best Actor at the 2012 Gala des Cochons d’Or for his role in Joe Jack & John’s Just fake it, he toured with the show to Rimouski, Laval, Liège, and Berlin. “His onstage presence and his sincerity are disarming,” wrote Suzanne Vallières-Nolet on the website Plein Espace. Michael participated in the creation of AVALe, (Théâtre Aux Écuries, 2014) and Abîmés (Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, 2016). Film credits include Eric Savoie’s Cendres, presented as part of Kino in 2007, as well as Louise Archambault’s most recent film, Gabrielle. Television roles include Annie et ses hommes. From 2018 to 2022, Michael became Joe Jack & John’s first Artist-in-Residence, during which time he developed his play Les Waitress sont tristes, presented in the Fall of 2022 at Espace Libre.
Pénélope Goulet-Simard
Pénélope is a multidisciplinary artist who loves a challenge. After being part of a danse troupe led by choreographer Jane Mappin, presented onstage in several venues in Montreal, she jumped into theatre. In 2017, she began taking workshops with Théâtre Aphasique, where she participated in two plays and trod the boards of the Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde multiple times through a collaboration with Théâtre Aphasique, Les Impatients and the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal. For Pénélope, theatre has been a passion since childhood, despite the fact that memorizing a whole text is a challenge she transforms into a grand accomplishment.
Cispersonnages en quête d’auteurice is her first collaboration with Joe Jack et John.
Marc Barakat
As a student at Les Muses – Centre des arts de la scène, Marc Barakat is known for the quality of his verbal expression and onstage presence. He appeared in Ailleurs, presented by Les Muses at the Maison de la culture Mercier in March 2003, and in Ionesco’s La Leçon, produced the following winter at La Chapelle by Des Pieds et des Mains. For Joe Jack & John he appeared in Ce soir l’Amérique prend son bain, presented at the Bain Mathieu in 2005. Le Devoir critic Hervé Guay wrote of Marc’s performance: “The fiery Marc Barakat plays both the host and the guest with verve.” In Go shopping (et fais le mort) Marc shared the stage with, among others, Élisabeth Chouvalidzé. More recently, he joined the company of Pharmakon, written by Alexis Martin and directed by Menka Nagrani of Des pieds et des mains, presented in 2011 at the Théâtre Gesù and in Maisons de la culture around Montreal. In March 2012, Marc received the Janine-Sutto Prize for his artistic achievements. In 2012 he joined the cast of the Louise Archambault film Gabrielle. In 2018 Marc appeared in Joe Jack & John’s Dis merci at Espace Libre. (Photo: Glauco)
Stephanie Boghen
Stephanie has many facets to her professional life: theatre student at Concordia University in Montreal; bowling champion; and disability advocate. Before Concordia she attended Dawson College and Loyola University. Her presentation at the UN Headquarters in New York in March 2015 as part of the 4th World Down Syndrome Day Congress was entitled “Making Inclusion Work: Encouraging Adults with Down Syndrome Pursuing Higher Education”. Her role in Violette marks her first collaboration with Joe Jack & John, Stephanie is also participating in Les waitress sont tristes, in which she loves line dancing.
(Photo: Charles Lafrance)
Anne Tremblay
Anne Tremblay has been pursuing professional artistic training since 2014 at Les Muses : centre des arts de la scène. Among other things, she has taken intensives with Hugo Bélanger, Roger Sinha, Johanne Blouin, and Annie Gagnon. She was directed by Angela Konrad in the show Fête, petites écorchures et effets presque spéciaux (Place des arts, 2017). Anne made her Joe Jack & John début in VIOLETTE, and was also part of the team who devised Les waitress sont tristes. Most recently, Anne collaborated on the creation of the text for Cispersonnages en quête d’auteurice.
(Photo: Charles Lafrance)