Trilby Jeeves was the first Eng­lish stu­dent to be the­atri­cally trained in her sec­ond lan­guage for 3 years at Le Con­ser­va­toire d’Art Dra­ma­tique in Québec City. She fol­lowed the teach­ings of Marc Doré (who stud­ied at Lecoq in Paris), Paule Savard , Jean Guy, Denise Gagnon, Yves Erik Marier, and Jacques Lessard who cre­ated the “REPERE” method of cre­at­ing the­atri­cal work, with Robert Lepage.

She went on to per­form in both lan­guages, even­tu­ally com­ing back to Van­cou­ver. In BC, she worked with Théâtre La Seiz­ième, The Ray­mond Burr The­atre, First Impres­sions The­atre, and other companies.

In between work­ing as a cos­tumer in the film indus­try, Trilby directed the first French Cana­dian pro­duc­tions in Van­cou­ver of “Les Mono­logues du Vagin” two years run­ning as well as teach­ing impro­vi­sa­tion and buf­foon­ery en Français, through­out var­i­ous schools in B.C., and Prince Edward Island. She taught “Le Bouf­fon” at Tooba Phys­i­cal The­atre Cen­tre, and teaches at VanArts in Van­cou­ver, Canada.

In 2008, she took her work inter­na­tion­ally and taught her Buf­foon­ery Act­ing Work­shop in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Also, with her part­ner, Peter D. Mar­shall, she co-​trained a “Direct­ing the Actor” work­shop in Sin­ga­pore for Media Corp.

Trilby is pas­sion­ate about help­ing peo­ple break through their crit­i­cal and over­worked thoughts to reach the hon­est depths of instinc­tive per­for­mance. Hav­ing been through “Le Bouf­fon” process her­self, she under­stands the release of being com­pletely involved in per­for­mance and not wor­ry­ing about the mil­lion things our minds believe to be impor­tant. It really is a gift!

For more infor­ma­tion and to book a work­shop, please con­tact: Trilby Jeeves 604−922−3744