Lib Spry has worked in theatre for over fifty years as a director, writer, producer, educator, performer, popular theatre work, dramaturg, and translator. She chooses to work in an equal mix of professional theatre, community arts and as a teacher as she believes they are mutually inclusive. She is a specialist in non-traditional theatre forms: popular theatre, community arts, site-specific theatre, theatre for young audiences, clown, bouffon, commedia dell’ arte, and other forms of physical theatre. She was an apprentice with August Boal for a year and is a recognized teacher of his Theatre of the Oppressed. She trained with clown master Philippe Gaulier in her early 60s. She has founded and run three theatre companies: Theatre Agile (2011- present), Passionate Balance (1989-96) for which she wrote twenty plus Forum Theatre plays, and with playwright Shirley Barrie co-founded the award-winning Straight Stitching Productions (1986-96). She has worked with Odyssey Theatre as the writer and/or translator on “Turandot”, “The Miser”, “The Raven”, and “Bungsu and the Big Snake” and as an instructor in commedia d’ell arte for their youth volunteers.

Selected work includes: dramaturg for Teesri Duniya’s Fireworks 2021-22 Playwrighting Unit; director of the Theatre Kingston production of Daniel David Moses’ “Almighty Voice and His Wife” and of the world premiere of the same play at GCTC in 1991; director and dramaturg of “Ambigüité” with Ottawa/Munich artist Guy Marsan; director of Anusree Roy’s “Letters to My Grandma” for Teesri Duniya Theatre; writing and performing her solo show “Trance For Matron” – a one-woman show for old woman, objects, memories, desires, anger and walker – at the Montreal Fringe; devised and directed a vaudeville entitled “We Are Old! We are Wonderful!” as artist-in-residence with Ressources Ethnoculturelles Contre l’Abus envers les Aîné(e)s, Respecting Elders Communities against Abuse (RECAA), an organization for seniors dedicated to using theatre to educate communities to recognize the mistreatment and abuse of seniors; director of Teesri Duniya’s production of “Where the Blood Mixes” by Kevin Loring; director and dramaturg of Luna Allison’s prize-winning “Falling Open”.

Elle a enseigné le théâtre en tant que professeur auxiliaire à l'Université Concordia, McGill, Queens et l'Université d'Ottawa, et a travaillé en tant qu'artiste en résidence à Concordia et à l'Université d'Ottawa. Elle possède un MFA en écriture créative du Goddard College et a terminé en 2020 un doctorat de recherche-création en études culturelles à l'Université Queens intitulé "Unsettling Colonial Privilege' Settlers' Through Performance : Mouvement, son, participation, jeu et rire". En utilisant ses compétences et son expérience en matière de performance, elle a construit et testé un jeu de société grandeur nature pour confronter les vérités sur les structures de pouvoir invisibles qui soutiennent le droit à la maîtrise des colons canadiens. Elle est actuellement boursière postdoctorale Horizons en Studio Arts à l'Université de Concordia sous la direction de Nadia Myre, artiste visuelle algonquine et titulaire de la Chaire du Canada en pratique des arts autochtones (https://www.nadiamyre.net), et travaille avec potatoCakes_digital (https://www.potatocakesdigital.ca/) sur une version en ligne du jeu.