| Who is it? | Director, Writer, Music Department |
| Birth Day | January 12, 1963 |
| Birth Place | St-Felicien, Quebec, Canada |
| Age | 61 YEARS OLD |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Occupation | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1990–present |
He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex and Novencento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial, adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh FLIGHT and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed, in Tokyo and Zarkana, which opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011.
In 2013 the Metropolitan Opera in New York opened a new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Girard. The production received near universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike.
