Olivier Kemeid is a writer, director, actor and artistic director of the theatre company Trois Tristes Tigres. A leading figure in Quebec’s theatre scene, he served as artistic director of Espace Libre from 2006 to 2010 and of Théâtre de Quat’Sous from 2016 to 2023. He has written around 15 plays, many of which have been translated and performed internationally. Four of his works have been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Awards: La vengeance et l’oubli (Leméac, 2024), Five Kings (Leméac, 2015), Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle (Leméac, 2013) and L’Énéide (Lansman, 2008 / Leméac, 2019). Translations of L’Énéide have been performed on major international stages, including in Potsdam (Hans Otto Teater), Rome (Teatro di Roma), Canada (Stratford Festival) and New York (Theater at St Clement’s). His play Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle won the 2012 award from the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre for best production in Montreal. Throughout his career, Kemeid has collaborated with some of the most influential voices in contemporary theatre, including Wajdi Mouawad (Nous qui ne rêvions plus), Robert Lepage (Projet Riopelle) and Denis Marleau (Le vieux monde derrière nous).

Guislaine Lemay joined the Museum in 1992, working primarily with the Indigenous Cultures collection. She studied anthropology and archeology and holds a master’s degree in ethnohistory from Université de Montréal. In 2010, she took charge of the Museum’s Decorative Arts collection. In 2016, with funding from Quebec’s digital culture plan, she took part in a major digitization project to photograph pieces of glassware and ceramics from the Museum’s collection. In 2019, she was named Curator of Material Culture, a collection created following the merger of the McCord Museum and the Stewart Museum. This extensive collection consists of artefacts that illustrate domestic interiors, scientific advances, community life and consumption habits. The range of objects includes furniture, items related to food preparation, interior decoration and household management, numismatic materials, terrestrial globes and navigation instruments, hunting, fishing and sporting equipment, weapons and objets d’art.