DIRECTORY

Mishka Lavigne (she/her) is a playwright, screenwriter and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been produced and developed in Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Australia, Haiti and the United States. Her play Havre was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Prize for Drama (French). Her play Copeaux, a movement-based poetic creation piece with director Éric Perron premiered in Ottawa in March 2020 and recently won the Governor General's Literary Prize for Drama (French) in November 2021 and the Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier in February 2021. Albumen, her first play in English received the Prix Rideau Award for Outstanding New Creation in 2019 and the QWF Playwriting Award in 2020.

Mishka is currently working on a bilingual opera libretto with Montreal composer Tim Brady, on two new creations in French, as well as on some translation and screenwriting projects. Mishka is a National New Play Network (USA) alumni playwright as well as a member of the Playwrights’ Guild of Canada and the Centre des auteurs dramatiques.

• Audio Drama – Writing for the Ear with Pippa Johnstone, Tarragon Theatre, April and May 2021;
• Screenwriting with Guy Boutin, University of Moncton, October 2020 to January 2021;
• Production Dramaturgy with Nils Haarmann of the Schaubühne Theatre in Berlin, Dramaturgies en dialogue, Montréal, August 2017;
• “Écriture de plateau” (Stage composition writing) with Arne Sierens and creation workshop with Étienne Lepage and Frédérick Gravel, Dramaturgies en dialogue, Montréal, August 2016;
• Participation in the International Theatre Translation Seminar offered within the Dramaturgies en dialogue Festival, Montréal, August 2015;
• Playwriting Masterclass with Carole Fréchette and “Théâtre paysage”, in situ writing workshop with Alexandre Koutchevsky, Dramaturgies en dialogue, Montréal, August 2014;
• “Tout ce qui nous lie”, Playwriting Masterclass with Pauline Sales, Jamais Lu Festival, Montréal, May 2013;
• “Écriture dramatique et anatomie ludique”, Professional Playwriting Workshop with Larry Tremblay as part of the Zones Théâtrales Festival, September 2011;
• M.A. French Literature, specialization in Playwriting, University of Ottawa, 2008. Title of thesis: Le statut de l’intergénérique chez Réjean Ducharme – Adaptation théâtrale des Enfantômes;
• B.A. Theatre, specialization in acting and stage design, University of Ottawa, 2006;

· Finalist: 2021 Marcel-Dubé Prize for Copeaux;
· Winner: 2021 Governor General’s Literary Awards (Drama – French) for Copeaux;
· Winner: Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier 2021 for Copeaux;
· Winner: 2020 QWF Prize for Playwriting for Albumen;
· Winner: 2019 Governor General’s Literary Awards (Drama – French) for Havre;
· Finalist: Michel-Tremblay Drama Prize 2019 for Havre;
· Winner: Prix Rideau Awards 2018-2019, Best New Work for Albumen;
· Winner: Best Play Award, Havre (translated into German by Frank Weigand), Primeurs Frankophone Gegenwartsdramatik Festival, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2018;
· Winner: Fondation ATFC Ontario Prize, June 2018;
· Winner: Ontario-Québec Literary Prize for Cinéma, November 2017;
· Winner: Jeanne-Sabourin Professional Prize for Cinéma, Théâtre Action, June 2016;
· Winner: Fondation ATFC Ontario Prize, (jointly with artist Éric Perron), September 2015;
· Winner: RBC Emerging Artist National Award (through the Fondation ATFC), 2013.

English -> French
French -> English

• Non fiction
• Children's / YA Literature
• Poetry
• Fiction
• Dubbing or Subtitling
• Theatre

• VOWEL, Chelsea, Écrits autochtones - Comprendre les enjeux des Premières Nations, des Métis et des Inuit au Canada, Éditions Varia, Montréal, 2021 // VOWEL, Chelsea, Indigenous Writes - A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issues in Canada, Highwater Press, Winniped, 2016
• BELCOURT, Billy-Ray, Cette blessure est un territoire, Éditions Triptyque, Montréal, 2019 // BELCOURT, Billy-Ray, This Wound is a World, Frontenac Publishing House, 2017
• DEERCHILD, Rosanna, le nom de mama, Éditions David, Ottawa, 2018 // DEERCHILD, Rosanna, calling down the sky, Bookland Press, 2015
• MORISSEAU, Dominique, Pipeline (v.f.), Black Theatre Workshop / Théâtre la Licorne, Montréal, 2022 // MORISSEAU, Dominique, Pipeline
• HANSBERRY, Lorraine, Héritage, Duceppe, 2019 // HANSBERRY, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun
• GALE, Lorena, Angélique (v.f.), Black Theatre Workshop, Montréal, 2018 // GALE, Lorena, Angélique
• HINES, Karen, Crawlspace (v.f.), Théâtre français de Toronto, 2023-2024 // HINES, Karen, Crawlspace
• HINES, Karen, Tous les petits animaux que j'ai dévorés, Festival du Jamais Lu, Montréal, 2020-2022 // HINES, Karen, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten
• HIGHWAY, Tomson, Chansons du vent du nord (3 albums jeunesse illustrés), Éditions Prise de Parole, Sudbury, 2020 // HIGHWAY, Tomson, Songs Of The North Wind (3 illustrated children's titles), 2010
• ARLUK, Reneltta, Tumit (v.f.), Akipik Theatre, Montréal, 2015 // ARLUK, Reneltta, Tumit