Company History & Background

The Live Action Theatre Project (LATP) is a Montreal based collective founded in 2014 by Julia Ainsworth & Rosaruby Kagan Glaberman. Our original form of interactive theatre combines improvisation and scripted dialogue within a branching story structure to actively engage audiences with critical subjects. We utilize media technologies and audience interaction to enhance participation and engagement. Inspired by gaming culture, forum theatre and leading research in the field of empathy development, Live Action Theatre is a theatrical form of perspective taking, which activates personal investment in performance and elicits an enhanced capacity for empathy and understanding. Our interactive format makes for a unique, intense and intimately charged experience.

To date we have produced four original work and conducted three artistic research laboratories. We offer interactive workshops to complement our plays, led by our team of professional theatre artists, educators and drama therapists. Our work has been showcases at McGill University (Montreal,QC), Centaur Theatre (Montreal, QC), SpringWorks Festival (Stratford, ON), Ta Da Festival (Wakefield), Hudson Village Theatre (Hudson, QC), Arts Alive Festival (Pointe-Claire, QC), Shortstanding Festival(Montreal, QC) & Lolipop Series (Kirkland, QC).

“True interactive theatre, not just grabbing a front row spectator for a minute or two on the stage. Top notch performances. Lots of spontaneity.”

-       Byron Toben, Quebec Drama Observer

Meet the Team

Rosaruby Kagan Glaberman. M.A. RDT  (she/her) is a Registered Drama Therapist, licensed Psychotherapist,  Actor, Director and Theatre Producer. She holds a BA in theatre from The New School University in New York City and a MA in Drama Therapy from Concordia University in Montreal.  She has been performing, writing and producing independent theatre pieces internationally for over twenty years. Passionately invested in the therapeutic potential of embodied art forms she has her own private practice and facilities specialized therapeutic workshops. She is the co-artistic director of The Live Action Theatre Project.


  • Rosaruby Kagan Glaberman. M.A. RDT, is a Registered Drama Therapist, licensed Psychotherapist,  Actor, Director and Theatre Producer. She holds a BA in theatre from The New School University in New York City and a MA in Drama Therapy from Concordia University in Montreal.  She has been performing, writing and producing independent theatre pieces internationally for over twenty years. Passionately invested in the therapeutic potential of embodied art forms she has her own private practice and facilities specialized therapeutic workshops. She is the co-artistic director of The Live Action Theatre Project .

Julia Ainsworth is a Montreal-based theatre artist and arts educator. She holds a BFA in theatre from York University and B. Ed from Queen's. She is the co-artistic director of the Live Action Theatre Project (2014-current). Past projects include Wake up Sleeping Beauty! (LATP), My Corner (LATP), Unfit for Bears (Zeitgeist Theatre), P4W (Zeitgeist Theatre), Safer Ground (Teesri Duniya Theatre), Savage/Love (Zeitgeist Theatre), The Way (Summerworks Festival) and Vacancy (18 Hands). She has received support for her plays from the Canada Council for the Arts, CALQ, CAM, Quebec Writer’s Federation, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

  • Julia Ainsworth is a Montreal-based theatre artist and arts educator. She holds a BFA in theatre from York University and B. Ed from Queen's. She is the co-artistic director of the Live Action Theatre Project (2014-current). Past projects include Wake up Sleeping Beauty! (LATP), My Corner (LATP), Unfit for Bears (Zeitgeist Theatre), P4W (Zeitgeist Theatre), Safer Ground (Teesri Duniya Theatre), Savage/Love (Zeitgeist Theatre), The Way (Summerworks Festival) and Vacancy (18 Hands). She has received support for her plays from the Canada Council for the Arts, CALQ, CAM, Quebec Writer’s Federation, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Workshop & Production Overview: 

App development and research laboratory- August 2021 (Playwrights Workshop Montreal)

Script Development Workshop - November 2021 (Playwrights Workshop Montreal)

MEET ME- September 2022

Interactive Research Laboratory-July 2014: Developed approaches to creating and performing interactive plays. Theatrical devices/frameworks were applied to test the audience's level of engagement and investment. We worked with a team of actors/improvisers and invited audience members/theatre artists to respond to a detailed questionnaire.

Trust - August 2014: an interactive theatrical gaming experience exploring family dynamics while settling an estate/ trust fund. Performed for an invited audience.

Actors: Jane Gilchrist, Jon Lachlan Stewart, Cristina Cugliandro, Leigh Ann Taylor, Elisabeth Yale, William Ward.

My Corner-February 2015- Shortstanding Festival: a love triangle in which audience members teamed up with characters to help them win the object of their affection.

Actors: Davide Chiazzese, Leigh Ann Taylor, Elisabeth Yale

Video link: http://www.vimeo.com/289214578

Wake Up Sleeping Beauty! 2016-2018: A modern choose your-own-adventure which challenges young audience members to rethink traditional gendered roles and have fun co-constructing alternative narratives.

Actors: Lise Vigneault, Leigh Ann Taylor, William Ward, Elisabeth Yale.

Touring productions presented at the Centaur Theatre (Children’s Series) (Montreal, QC), Springworks Festival (Stratford, ON), Ta Da Festival (Wakefield, QC), Hudson Village Theatre (Hudson, QC), Arts Alive Festival (Pointe-Claire, QC), Shortstanding Festival(Montreal, QC) & Lolipop Series (Kirkland, QC)

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEDsx0HdKw

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