Lib Spry

Lib Spry has been theatre-maker for over sixty years as a director, writer, producer, educator, and translator, specializing in political, non-traditional, clown and physical theatre. She is a recognized teacher of Theatre of the Oppressed. She has founded three theatre companies: Theatre Agile (2011 to present), Passionate Balance (1989-1996) and, with Shirley Barrie, the award-winning Straight Stitching Productions (1986-1993). She has published in Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada, alt.theatre, and has a chapter in the book Playing Boal. She is presently working on a solo show It’s in Our Bones, and ¡Unsettling!, a life-size board-game for settlers to look at their relationships to Indigenous realities.