Chantal Bilodeau is a Montreal-born, New York-based playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, art, and climate change. She is the Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle, an organization that uses theatre to foster conversation about our global climate crisis, create an empowering vision of the future, and encourage people to take action.
Awards include the Woodward International Playwriting Prize as well as First Prize in the Earth Matters on Stage Ecodrama Festival and the Uprising National Playwriting Competition. Her plays and translations have been presented in a dozen countries around the world.
Her translations include over twenty plays by contemporary playwrights Sébastien David (Quebec), Mohamed Kacimi (Algeria), Koffi Kwahulé (Côte d’Ivoire), Catherine Léger (Quebec), Étienne Lepage (Quebec), David Paquet (Quebec), and Larry Tremblay (Quebec).
She curates the HowlRound series Theatre in the Age of Climate Change, has co-organized several national gatherings focused on theatre and climate change, and has presented on the same subject at conferences and universities in the US and abroad for over a decade.
She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and an artistic collaborator in the Science & Art Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna.
She was recently name one of “8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation” by Audubon Magazine