Graduate of the École Nationale de Théâtre in 1981, Sylvie Legault is an actress, singer, improviser, teacher, and director. For more than twenty years, she has been with the Ligue Nationale d’Improvisation (LNI), in Québec as well as in Europe. We saw her in different televised series: Omerta, Sous le Signe du Lion, l’Héritage. On the cinema scene, we saw her on Histoire d’Hiver, Louis XIX as well as on many author films. She is also present on the scene, on musicals such as: La Revue de Genève, Folies des Années Folles, J’aime les hommes. She worked on the conception and participated in different homage shows for Monique Leyrac, Julien Clerc, Giguère, Lévesque, Anne Sylvestre. In the last years, she has directed operettas, musicals, creations, in Québec as well as in Switzerland. Multidisciplinary, she also teaches, in between her various actions in the performing arts. This summer, she co-signed a “mise en scene” with Louis Saïa presented at the Corona Theater, entitled: Les funérailles de Jerry and she personified Rita in a play called "La Coupe Stainless".

Improvisation

Generally known for her shingling humour and her sense of repartee, Sylvie has shown us here, the full stature of an artist who carries her improvisation talents in a more dramatic direction. Sylvie even manages to use words to translate her non-verbal thoughts and is able to convey her inner dialogues which are generally unspoken. She allows us, as spectators, to reach a greater intimacy with the character.