Darragh Mondoux is an actor and writer represented by Haus of Marc. She has performed with Repercussion Theatre, Persephone Productions, and Teesri Duniya, the last of which she was awarded Outstanding Lead Performance in an Independent Production by the Montreal English Theatre English Awards (METAs). Beyond theatre, Mondoux has seen success in voice work and film.
Raised in the borough of NDG, Mondoux’s connection to community and family runs deep. She champions those around her, featuring talent from her own circle in her art, building a tight-knit network of local talent. Most recently, her original work Bud <3 was featured in Centaur Theatre’s Winterworks Festival, which explored themes of loss, grief and horticulture, was born from Mondoux’s experience of going through the COVID lockdown with her sister, months after having lost her mother to cancer. Her award-nominated play Sire: a Father Daughter Vampire Story told the tale of an ageing vampire and his human daughter at the Montreal Fringe 2023, and starred Darragh and her Dad. Her writing is not limited to her personal experiences, as she also draws on her academic passions born from her degrees in Irish Studies and Liberal Arts, and Communications from Concordia University. Burning Bridget Cleary tells the story of the last woman burned for witchcraft in Ireland, exploring contemporary themes of injustice towards women, and the pitfalls of our society at prosecuting men guilty of violence against women.
Her academic pursuits have opened other artistic pursuits, such as her all-female Irish band Gráinne, which celebrates her heritage and her place in a long line of powerful Irish women.
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Which ’hood are you in?
I am a West-End, NDG girl inside and out. My parents met at the Loyola Concordia Campus, got married there, and I eventually found myself waiting for the shuttle bus downtown at Loyola Concordia myself. My burlesque stage name, Votre Dame, is a tribute to this very artistic, anglophone, verdant, semi-residential but also very commercial part of town. In the wintertime, you can find me hosting trivia or playing with my Irish girl-band Gráinne at Honey Martin’s pub, and in summer I’m shredding through the De Maisonneuve bike path or enjoying afternoons turn to nights with my friends in Girouard Park.
What do you do?
I am an actor, and like most actors, I got a few side projects on the go. I recently produced a performance of my pandemic-sisterhood play, “Bud <3” at the Centaur Theatre WinterWorks Festival, and a couple months prior, performed in ‘The Wolves” at the Segal Centre produced by Imago Theatre & Geordie Theatre. When I’m between theatre contracts, the occasional bit part in film and TV, I make a fair amount of my bread and butter doing dubbing voicework for International Netflix productions, commercials, or video games. I’m an alumni of Arabesque Burlesque Academy, where some of my favourite Burlesque performers in Montreal teach progressive classes in a playful performance art that marries my penchant for comedy and costumes with a fearless, freaky stage presence.
What are you currently working on?
I’ve been cast in the upcoming fantasy game being developed by Eidos Games, alongside some of Montreal’s best in video game acting. It’s full performance capture, which means not only is my voice being encoded, but my movements become the movements of my character through the magic of mo-cap. I’ll also be voice-acting in my very first feature-length animated movie, called “The Bottanix”. In October of 2025, if level heads prevail, I’ll be touring five states south of the border with Frankenstein: A Living Comic Book, by Kidoons Theatre!
Where can we find your work?
No two months in my life ever look alike, but I have my usual haunts! I hope to be back on a Montreal stage before 2025 is through, but the seasons bring out different disciplines in me. If my vocation is where my talents meet the needs of the world, then I have a handful of disparate skills and disciplines for the varied needs and wants of the world around me. My band Gráinne has a record of our favourite traditional Irish songs coming out. I love hosting on the vaudevillian stages of St Laurent, and I’ll be hosting “The Slut Show”, a showcase of wild and wonderful pole dancing champions on June 27th at Cafe Cleopatra. I appeared in this year’s Black History Month release of The Draft (2025) in a performance that challenged me hugely but of which I am hugely proud. This summer at the Fantasia Film Festival, will have a very special sci-fi drama called “alt_You” (2025) I would love to share with my city.
