Jeannette Lambermont-Morey has directed major productions in theatres across Canada and the United States, from the Stratford Festival, to the Virginia Stage Company; including such theatres as The Sudbury Theatre Centre (Sudbury), The Citadel (Edmonton), The Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa), Atlantic Theatre Festival (Nova Scotia), Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg), Theatre Aquarius (Hamilton) the Thousand Islands Playhouse (Gananoque), Talk is Free Theatre (Barrie), Theatre By the Bay (Barrie), and the New World Theatre Project (St. John’s, NFLD); and Toronto theatres, Factory Theatre, Canadian Stage, Harbourfront Centre, and The Toronto International Fringe Festival, etc. 

 

Jeannette directed the World Leaders Tributes to Harold Pinter and Robert Rauschenberg as part of the internationally acclaimed Series produced by Harbourfront at the Liberty Grand in the fall of 2001.  That year also marked her 8th season with the Stratford Festival in Ontario, where she directed Henry V. Other significant Stratford Festival productions include As You Like It (2000), Pride and Prejudice (1999) and The Miracle Worker (1998). In earlier years at the Festival she directed Titus Andronicus, The Grand Inquisitor and Swan Song (1989 and 1990), as well as serving as collaborating director on The Comedy of Errors and The Relapse (1989) and assisting Richard Monette on The Taming of the Shrew (1988) and John Neville on Othello (1987).  

 

Her hit production of The Syringa Tree (The Citadel) won a Sterling Award for Liisa Repo-Martell; and her productions of Twelfth Night in High Park (Canadian Stage) and Digging For Fire (Paramour Productions) were both nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore awards for Outstanding Production.  

 

Favourite projects have included The Beloved and Crones for the Highland Arts Theatre in Cape Breton, NS, The Tempest, and The Merchant of Venice for the New World Theatre Project in St. John’s, Newfoundland, As You Like It for BlueBridge Rep Theatre in Victoria, Private Lives at the Atlantic Theatre Festival, The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Virginia Stage Company with Eileen Brennan, and also at the Manitoba Theatre Centre with Rosemary Dunsmore, Doc (Great Canadian Theatre Co., Ottawa), Moving Day by Cathy Elliott (TIFT), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Juilliard School , N.Y.), to name only a few. 

 

She also produced and directed the CBC's live show Get Set for Life for a cross-Canada tour and the Milk International Children's Festival of the Arts at Harbourfront. Jeannette works extensively in college and university theatre programs as a director and instructor. Among them are George Brown College, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Grenfell Campus), York University, the Juilliard School (NY), the University of Alberta, Ryerson University, Dartmouth College (NH), and the University of Victoria. At George Brown College Jeannette has directed Engaged, Mary Stuart, War and Peace, The Beau Stratagem, Lion in the Streets, Rites, Wild Honey, and Bon Ton & The Lying Valet. In addition, Jeannette helmed the Annual Period Study exercise for over twenty-five years.  

 

Jeannette is passionately devoted to the development and dramaturgy of new work and is currently working on several new musicals and plays.  In the summer of 2016 she directed her musical version of Faust (music by Leslie Arden) for Theatre By the Bay in Barrie, followed by The Libertine, for Talk is Free Theatre. Her production of My Child (Haus of Casati Collective) won the 2016 My Theatre Award for Outstanding Production in the small theatre category.

 

In the summer of 2017 Jeannette directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mary’s Wedding, for Graham Abbey’s Festival Players, Prince Edward County; Leslie Arden’s Harvest Moon Rising, for the Women of Musical Theatre Festival, Toronto; and Hamlet at Memorial University (Grenfell). 

 

In 2018 she directed Pygmalion for the Guild Festival, and in 2019 Robert Chafe’s Tempting Providence for Theatre on the Ridge. 

 

During the Covid pandemic, Jeannette formed the online cold-reading group Quaranteam Readers, and the online acting intensive, Quaranteam Studies, with Stephan Ermel, and taught online classes for Ghost Light.

 

In the fall (2023) Jeannette directed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time at the Sudbury Theatre Centre (Yes Theatre), starring Colton Gobbo (of Son of a Critch).

 

In (2024) Jeannette directed The River by Jez Butterworth for Double Sure Theatre in St., John’s, and Every Brilliant Thing, starring Alessandro Costantini for YES Theatre in Sudbury, followed by Crones, by Anju Virick for The Highland Arts Theatre in Cape Breton.

 

Jeannette was Artistic Director of the New World Theatre Project in Newfoundland in 2012/13 and in 2015 directed Much Ado About Nothing for them under their new name, Perchance Theatre. She was also Executive Director of the Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada from 2000 to 2015. Jeannette was Artistic and Managing Director of Xchange Theatre Works from 2020-2023 and lives in St. John’s, NL with her husband, fiction writer and computer special effects compositor Mike Morey.