Chantal Bilodeau is a playwright, translator, and research artist whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, culture, and climate change. She is the Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle– an organization created to support the writing, development and production of eight plays that look at the social and environmental changes taking place in the eight countries of the Arctic – and the founder of the blog and international network Artists and Climate Change She was a co-organizer of the Climate Change Theatre Action which presented over a hundred events worldwide in support of the United Nations 2015 Paris Climate Conference.