Author, director, actor and teacher, Christian Lapointe is artistic director for Carte Blanche. He is the author of a cycle of plays grouped under the name Théâtre de la disparition, including the play C.H.S., presented at In Avignon in 2009. For more than 15 years, he has directed authors such as Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Larry Tremblay, Peter Handke, W.B. Yeats , Marguerite Duras and Ivan Viripaev, whose play Oxygène was awarded the AQCT Critic’s Prize in 2014.
Since 2007, his creations have regularly been part of the programming of the Festival TransAmériques, the National Arts Center and the Carrefour international de théâtre de Québec, in addition to having circulated abroad. Christian Lapointe has directed several works by Martin Crimp, presented at Place des arts, at the Grand Théâtre de Québec, at Espace GO and at the legendary Royal Court Theater in London. He also collaborated with the TNM with his famous Pelléas et Mélisande.
As a performer, he’s been under the direction of Brigitte Haentjens in the troubling play by poet Lars Norén, Le 20 novembre. A performance that won him a nomination by the Association québécoise de théâtre, for best male performer prize. 2022 was very profilical for Christian, he plays, directs and writes Titre(s) de travail, on the stage of the Théâtre Périscope. As well as Quand nous nous serons suffisamment torturés presented at the Prospero.
His creations are often unique objects, Tout Artaud?!, an experimental work in which Lapointe undertakes to read Artaud's entire work non-stop at the FTA in 2015, and Constituons!, in which he delivers a fictional constitution, written by 42 random Quebec citizens, presented at the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui in 2019. It is impossible not to mention Not one of these people where he stages, as performer of his own play, the internationally renowned author Martin Crimp in a technological device of deepfake that Lapointe designs himself.
In 2023, he adapted the major work of Hervé Bouchard, Parents et amis sont invités à y assister, for the frantic play of the same name.
