 In April 2011 the artistic director of Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Lorraine Pintal, announced that Cantat would not be performing in Chœurs in Canada, though he did tour with the production in France, Belgium and Switzerland.Mouawad responded to the controversy by publishing an open letter to his three-year-old daughter Aimee in the newspaper "Le Devoir", arguing for Cantat's right to complete reintegration into society.Since April 2016, Mouawad has been the director of the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris.