Learn more about this year’s achievements and gain insight into our future initiatives by reading our annual report.
A WORD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Porte Parole’s 2024-25 season was a busy, transitional year. With only one local feature production — L’Assemblée – Québec, at Théâtre La Bordée in October 2024 — the company focussed on developing new works that entered our development pipeline after winning the 2023 and 2024 Porte Parole Pitch Jury Prize — Club sandwich mayonnaise by Manuelle Légaré and That Which Cannot Be Split by Jesse Freeston.
A new line of activity and impact opened for the company through the successful touring of The Assembly – Energy in Canada to corporate and conference events. In November, we presented an abridged version of the production to a diverse group of energy experts and climate activists at The Calgary Petroleum Club. In February, the play was featured as part of the 2025 GLOBExCHANGE conference in Toronto. With co-creators Alex Ivanovici and Brett Watson, we created a Pop-Up Assembly at the Sustainable Finance Summit in Montreal in May.
The Documentary Hub and its annual Pitch event continued to attract new artists (a record 73 submissions this year), and to widen its reach in regional Quebec. The 2025 Jury Prize-winning project, Sophie Gee’s People Have to Eat, proposes a unique and timely story about a conversation about climate change with her Chinese immigrant father, who worked in Alberta’s oil and gas industry.
The Hub’s training activities ramped up this year with an inaugural edition of The ABCs of Documentary Theatre, given in person and online by Annabel Soutar and Alex Ivanovici to over 50 participants, and a pilot High School Pitch event with Grade 10 students from The Study School.
Although we said a sad goodbye to Executive Director Amandine Gauthier and Administrative Director Saskia Rolland-Bezem, the Porte Parole team ended the year by hiring Managing Director Adele Benoit to start with the team in September 2025.
Porte Parole looks forward to celebrating our 25th anniversary season in 2025–26 with donors, artistic partners and audience members.
— Annabel Soutar
