The Living and the Dead Ensemble (Léonard Jean Baptiste, Mackenson Bijou, Rossi Jacques Casimir, Dieuvela Cherestal, James Desiris, James Fleurissaint, Louis Henderson, Cynthia Maignan, Olivier Marboeuf, and Mimétik Nèg) is a group of artists from Haiti, France, and the UK. They first gathered in July 2017 for the Monsieur Toussaint Sessions workshop at the Centre d’art in Port-au-Prince, where they were working together on translating Monsieur Toussaint (originally written as a radio play in 1959 by Édouard Glissant, who rewrote it again in 1978 as a play for theatre) from French to Haitian Creole. Focusing on theatre, cinema, poetry, song, slam, and rap, they performed the Kreyòl version of the play in the cemetery of Port-au-Prince as part of the 2017 Ghetto Biennale. Currently they are working on their first feature film.