Chantal Forde
is a writer and director with a passion for creating new works and taking on theatrical opportunities that challenge and inspire.
Chantal is a writer, director, educator and performer in the GTA with a passion for new works and theatrical opportunities that challenge and inspire.
Chantal’s most recent plays include Lacuna, Table 7, Grey, and Perceptions of Love in the Pursuit of Happiness.
Recent directing and choreography credits include Disenchanted - At Home! (director, Poison Apple Productions), Statue of Limitations (director, Kingston Fringe), Monkey Wrench (director, Ergo Arts Pink Fest), And Then … She Did! (director, Goldenberg Productions), Little Shop of Horrors (choreography, BOTG), and Shrek the Musical (choreography, BOTG).
Chantal and her husband, Tim Cadeny, are the creative team behind Oakville’s Holiday Pantomime for the last eight years, where they have created hilariously twisted up versions of Aladdin, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, and more.
As an educator Chantal has had the opportunity to work with performers as young as 8 and as old as 94. She is on the faculty at Sheridan College, works at Centre Stage Theatre School and is a workshop instructor for Shadowpath Theatre Productions.