Sylvia Cloutier

Sylvia Cloutier is a performer, actor, musician, playwright, television and theatre producer, director, motivational speaker and mother from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), currently residing in Montreal.
Over the course of her illustrious twenty-five-year career as a singer, she has performed nationally and internationally both as a solo artist and in collaboration with many esteemed artists and ensembles including Tafelmusik, the National Art Center Symphony Orchestra and Madeleine Allakariallak.
A recent graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal as the Indigenous artist-in-residence (2018-2020). Cloutier is the co-founder of the Inuit performing arts company Aqsarniit; served as Artistic Director of Qaggiq theatre company in Iqaluit from 2004-2009; and as theatre project manager in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik (2008-2010).
Building on her talent and expertise in both theatre and music, Cloutier began writing, producing and directing for stage and screen in 1999. She has developed live shows for the 1999 Inauguration of Nunavut in Ottawa and the Arctic Inspiration Prize, and concerts for festivals Alianait (2005-2019) and Toonik Tyme (2003-2018), in Iqaluit. Sylvia has also been a producer for six Inuktitut television series. She also produced and co-created the musical production TULUGAK (2011-2014), collaborating with Inuit artists from Canada and Greenland.