Chantal Bilodeau is a playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of storytelling and the climate crisis. She is the founding artistic director of the Arts & Climate Initiative, where she has spearheaded programs for nearly two decades, getting communities in the U.S. and abroad to engage in climate conversation through live events, talks, publications, workshops, artist convenings, and an award-winning distributed theatre festival.

Playwriting awards include the Woodward International Playwriting Prize as well as First Prize in the Earth Matters on Stage Ecodrama Festival and First Prize in the Uprising National Playwriting Competition.  Her plays have been shown in a dozen countries and translated into Greek, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese. In 2019, she was named one of “8 Trailblazers Who Are Changing the Climate Conversation” by Audubon Magazine.

From 2015 to 2025, she curated the HowlRound Journal’s essay series Theatre in the Age of Climate Change, and she has contributed to several books including Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage (Routledge, 2023). She is the editor of four anthologies of short plays, one of which earned her an Honorable Mention from the Patrick O'Neill Award for Best Edited Collection given by the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. 

Her ongoing project is a series of eight plays – the Arctic Cycle – that look at the social and environmental changes facing the eight Arctic states. She is a Creative Core Member of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University, and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Victoria in BC, Canada, trying to answer the question “What storytelling strategies do we need to create a hopeful climate future?”