Maureen Labonté
Maureen Labonté is a dramaturge,
translator and teacher. She has also coordinated a number of play development
programmes in theatres and playwrights’ centres across the country.
In 2006, she was named Head
of Program for the Banff playRites Colony at the Banff Centre. She was dramaturge at the Colony
from 2003–2005. She was also Literary Manager in charge of play development
at the Shaw
Festival from 2002–2004.
Previous to that, she worked at the National Theatre
School of Canada,
first developing and running a pilot Directing Programme and then coordinating
the Playwrighting Programme and Playwrights’ Residency. She still
teaches at NTSC.
She has translated more than
thirty Quebec plays into English. Recent translations include: The
Bookshop by Marie-Josée Bastien, Everybody’s WELLES pour tous
by Patrice Dubois and Martin Labreque and The Tailor’s Will
by Michel Ouellette. She will soon be starting work on: Wigwam
by Jean-Frédéric Messier and Bienvenue à (une ville dont vous
êtes le touriste) by Olivier Choinière.
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