About

Chris Dupuis



Chris Dupuis is a former champion equestrian, ballet school dropout, and mildly successful catalogue model. His video and performance works have been presented at galleries, theatres, and festivals, across North America and Europe. He has held resident artist positions at Harbourfront Centre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and The Canadian Stage Company (Toronto), Studio 303 and OUT Productions (Montreal), the Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff), and the Poortgebouw (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

He spent four years as an associate artist with the New York/Toronto-based interdisciplinary performance collective bluemouth inc. and in 2004 received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Production with the company for their five hour multi-location epic Something About a River.

He also works as an independent arts writer contributing to a variety of publications as well as editing the online performance criticism magazine Time and Space.

He has an apartment in Toronto, where he sleeps, whenever possible.

You can contact Chris at chris [at] chrisdupuis [dot] com.