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Friday, January 16, 2026

Rhubarb! Festival director Ludmylla Reis wants artists to embrace ‘the detour’

Intermission Magazine: Rhubarb’s current director, Ludmylla Reis, cares deeply about the structure and flavour of every theatrical experience they prepare for others. The multi-hyphenate’s formative years as a director, curator, writer, and dramaturg were shaped by their time in an anarchist theatre troupe in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they grew up and completed their BFA. That experience — a continuous dance between structure and structureless-ness — continued to inform Reis’ practice when they moved to Canada in 2016 to pursue an MFA in directing at the University of Ottawa, and remains relevant in their current role at Buddies.

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