Robert Lepage

The multidisciplinary artist Robert Lepage is all at once an actor, a director, a playwright, and a stage director.

Hailed by international critics, his original, contemporary, and unique works (inspired by recent history) transcend borders and challenge the standards of scenic writing, particularly through the use of new technologies.

From a very early age, Lepage took a keen interest in geography, but his growing passion for theater dictates his choice of career, inspiring him to enroll at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec in 1975. After an internship with Alain Knapp in Paris in 1978, he returned to his hometown, where he developed the great artistic versatility for which he is known.

The year 1994 marked an important step in Lepage’s career: he founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary creation company of which he is the artistic director. Also under his leadership, the multidisciplinary production center La Caserne was created in June 1997, in Quebec City. This new creative space saw the birth of almost all of Ex Machina’s productions until 2019. Lepage’s vision and dedication to create also led him to promote and implement the construction of the Le Diamant theater in the heart of Quebec City. Inaugurated in August 2019, this unique cultural venue is intended to be an anchor point for the public, emerging artists, and creators from all horizons.

Lepage’s most significant works include the plays The Seven Streams of the River Ota and The Dragons’ Trilogy; his solos The Far Side of the Moon and 887; the operas The Damnation of Faust and Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle; his multimedia works The Image Mill and The Library at Night; Peter Gabriel’s shows, The Secret World Tour and The Growing Up Tour; and with Cirque du Soleil, KÀ and TOTEM.