Lise Vaillancourt (born July 5, 1954) is a Quebec writer.[1]

She was born in Montreal and studied philosophy at the Cégep Édouard-Montpetit and theatre and film at the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Université Laval. From 1975 to 1979, she apprenticed as a mime at the Théâtre national du Mime du Québec. From 1982 to 1987, she was an artistic director for the Théâtre expérimental des femmes and a co-founder of Théâtre Espace Go. In 1991, Vaillancourt became artistic director for the Théâtre de la Ville de Longueui. She also wrote for the publications Le Devoir, Jeu and Trois.[1] She has been artist-in-residence at the Art Studio at the Banff Centre, at the Festival des francophonies en Limousin and at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. She has served as president of the Centre des auteurs dramatiques du Québec.[2]

Selected works

Plays for young people[3]

  • Ballade pour trois baleines (1982)
  • Martha Jenkins (1982)
  • Si toi aussi tu m'abandonnes... (1986)
  • Marie-Antoine, Opus 1 (1984), English translation included in Anthology of Québec Plays in English Translation Vol I (1966-1986)
  • Amours imprévues dans la jungle équatoriale (1986)
  • Billy Strauss (1990)
  • Le Petit Dragon (1996), shortlisted for a Governor General's Award in 2000

Novels[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Vaillancourt, Lise" (in French). Infocentre littéraire des écrivains.
  2. ↑ "Lise Vaillancourt" (in French). Centre des auteurs dramatiques du Québec.
  3. ↑ "Vaillancourt, Lise". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.


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