Rebecca Deraspe graduated from the playwriting programme of the National Theatre School of Canada in May 2010. She is the author of a number of internationally produced and translated plays, including Deux ans de votre vie (You Are Happy), Plus que toi, Peau d'ours, Gametes (Gametes), Nino, Je suis William (I Am William), Le merveilleux voyage de Real de Montreal, Partout ailleurs, Nos petits doigts, Faire la lecon (The Lessons), and Ceux qui se sont evapores.
She has adapted several classics, including Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night and Ibsen's A Doll's House. Her plays Les filles du Saint-Laurent, Fanny, and Faire crier les murs were recently produced in France and Quebec, and she is now developing her play Les glaces at Theatre la Licorne, where she has been a playwright-in-residence since 2018. Deraspe won the Prix Michel-Tremblay and the 2020 Montreal Critics' Prize for Best New Play for Ceux qui se sont evapores; the 2018 Montreal Critic's Prize for Best Play for Young Audiences and the Prix Louise-Lahaye for Je suis William; the 2017 Montreal Critics' Prize for Best New Play for Gametes, which toured throughout Quebec and across Canada; and the 2010 BMO Financial Group Playwright's Prize for Deux ans de votre vie.
She writes and hosts the web series Le lexique de la polemique for Savoir Media. Leanna Brodie's plays and libretti have been performed from Halifax to Vancouver, London to Auckland. The Vic, For Home and Country, The Book of Esther, and Schoolhouse are published by Talonbooks. She is also a noted translator of Quebecois and Franco-Canadian drama whose recent productions include Hélène Ducharme's internationally acclaimed Baobab; David Paquet's award-winning The Shoe (The Cherry Artspace, Ithaca NY) and Wildfire (Upstream Theater, St.
Louis MO and Factory Theatre, Toronto ON); Joe Jack et John's Violette (Espace Libre, Montréal PQ); Catherine Léger's I Lost My Husband! (Ruby Slippers Theatre/Gateway Theatre, Vancouver BC and Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon SK); Mohsen El Gharbi's Omi Mouna (Impact Festival, Kitchener ON and Infinithéâtre, Montréal QC) and Rébecca Déraspe's You Are Happy (GCTC and Red Theater Chicago). Three of her translations have been nominated for Tom Hendry Awards.
She is currently translating new works by Fanny Britt, Rébecca Déraspe, Sébastien Harrisson, and Olivier Sylvestre; completing her MFA at the University of Calgary; teaching playwrighting at UBC; and co-writing Salesman in China (a commission from the Stratford Festival) with Jovanni Sy.
She has adapted several classics, including Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night and Ibsen's A Doll's House. Her plays Les filles du Saint-Laurent, Fanny, and Faire crier les murs were recently produced in France and Quebec, and she is now developing her play Les glaces at Theatre la Licorne, where she has been a playwright-in-residence since 2018. Deraspe won the Prix Michel-Tremblay and the 2020 Montreal Critics' Prize for Best New Play for Ceux qui se sont evapores; the 2018 Montreal Critic's Prize for Best Play for Young Audiences and the Prix Louise-Lahaye for Je suis William; the 2017 Montreal Critics' Prize for Best New Play for Gametes, which toured throughout Quebec and across Canada; and the 2010 BMO Financial Group Playwright's Prize for Deux ans de votre vie.
She writes and hosts the web series Le lexique de la polemique for Savoir Media. Leanna Brodie's plays and libretti have been performed from Halifax to Vancouver, London to Auckland. The Vic, For Home and Country, The Book of Esther, and Schoolhouse are published by Talonbooks. She is also a noted translator of Quebecois and Franco-Canadian drama whose recent productions include Hélène Ducharme's internationally acclaimed Baobab; David Paquet's award-winning The Shoe (The Cherry Artspace, Ithaca NY) and Wildfire (Upstream Theater, St.
Louis MO and Factory Theatre, Toronto ON); Joe Jack et John's Violette (Espace Libre, Montréal PQ); Catherine Léger's I Lost My Husband! (Ruby Slippers Theatre/Gateway Theatre, Vancouver BC and Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon SK); Mohsen El Gharbi's Omi Mouna (Impact Festival, Kitchener ON and Infinithéâtre, Montréal QC) and Rébecca Déraspe's You Are Happy (GCTC and Red Theater Chicago). Three of her translations have been nominated for Tom Hendry Awards.
She is currently translating new works by Fanny Britt, Rébecca Déraspe, Sébastien Harrisson, and Olivier Sylvestre; completing her MFA at the University of Calgary; teaching playwrighting at UBC; and co-writing Salesman in China (a commission from the Stratford Festival) with Jovanni Sy.
