7 November 2025
20 November 2025
Phara Thibault
Bloom: my skin proves no one right if I roar
Literature
Public presentation: Friday 12 December 2025, 5:00 PM
DesPrés — 57 Principale Nord Street, Sutton, QC
Public presentation
We invite you to step into the heart of Phara’s writing process by attending one of the very first readings of her text by the team that will lead it to the stage. You will take a seat at the table with the artists of PàP, serving as precious witnesses to this unique moment where the author hears her words, which have lived on the page for so long.
Biography
Trained in acting at the École de théâtre de Saint-Hyacinthe, Phara Thibault is an emerging actress, author, and screenwriter who stands out for her poetry and social engagement. Questions of identity have always fueled the young creator’s spirit. During her theater training, she fell under the spell of works highlighting feminism and cultural diversity.
In 2020, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, she wrote her first play, the autobiographical text Chokola. In it, she addresses her adoption, the search for her biological mother, and the racial discrimination that can be found everywhere, even in places filled with love. She won the 26th edition of the L’Égrégore intercollegiate playwriting competition with this work, before Chokola was published in 2021 by Éditions Fides. Since 2022, her text Chokola has been in development at KOTV for a potential film adaptation.
As a performer, she appeared in the fall of 2022 on the stage of Théâtre Denise-Pelletier in Si jamais vous nous écoutez by Maxime Carbonneau and Laurence Dauphinais. In 2023, she was noticed in Vous êtes animal by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard at Quat’Sous, as well as in Chokola, her autobiographical play presented at La Licorne. In 2024, she is on the stages of Espace Libre and Théâtre La Bordée in the play Nos Cassandre by Anne-Marie Oliver, as well as at Espace Go in the play Moi, Jeanne produced by Pleurer dans douche. Phara Thibault performed for the first time at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in the play Une fin by Sébastien David, at Théâtre Duceppe in the play Janette by Rebecca Déraspe, and finally in Candide at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier. On television, the actress has distinguished herself in Plan B, Toute la vie, and L’île Kilucru. We have also seen Phara in the web series P.A.M. — Programme d’aspirant-moniteur and in 2024, in Projet innocence, IXE-13, la course à l’uranium, Antigang, Le gouffre Lumineux, and Gâtées pourries.
Approach
In a not-so-distant future, a new technology allows Black women to shift into a parallel dimension where they have never experienced racism or violence; they find a refuge there to breathe, heal, and start over. Back in reality, their growing absence is felt: frontline services diminish, and families crumble. At the center of the turmoil, a politician navigates between her desire for respite and her political duty. Her body becomes a battlefield.
After participating in several PàP productions as a performer (Vous êtes animal, Une fin), Phara Thibault continues her collaboration with the company as an author with Bloom: Ma peau ne donne raison à personne si je rugis (working title). Inspired by her collection Noire fourmi (Éditions de l’Hexagone), she deploys a poetic and assertive language to explore how racial representations and stereotypes are imprinted on the bodies of Black women and influence their self-perception. Recipient of the CTD’A’s Michelle-Rossignol grant, the author is partnering with PàP to develop this theatrical project, from writing and research residencies in the field to its stage production.
