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gabrielle chapdelaine

playwriter | autor | screenwriter | translator

gabrielle chapdelaine is a playwriter, autor, screenwriter and translator who lives in montreal. her play a day received the 2018 gratien-gélinas prize, was performed in its english version in two different productions in the united states in 2020-2021 and being programmed at the quat’sous theater in montreal in 2022. she was recently given her first big set by the denise-pelletier theater to adapt the play the doer (le faiseur), a comedy by honoré de balzac, which was presented in montreal in january 2023. she also participated in various theater projects in martinique, france and germany. in television, she collaborated on the quebec adaptation of the french series ten per cent in addition to participating in the writing of other programs. she is currently working on her first feature film, which received development support from sodec. she also translates plays from english to french. she was trained in playwriting at the national theater school of Canada.

filmographie | television

les midinettes

in development

feature film
screenwriter
amérique films
*SODEC funding

us (nous)

2020

script editor
direction yannick savard
duo productions | TVA

the invisible (les invisibles)

2019

coscreenwriter | participates in the adaptation of the screenplay with Catherine Léger and Pier-Luc Lasalle
direction alexis durand brault
production also et forum films | diffusion québécor contenu et TVA

theater

the doer (le faiseur)

2023

adaptation of honoré de balzac's
staging alice ronfard | denise pelletier theatre

a day (une journée)

2022

olivia palacci | à tour de rôle theatre, tableau noir & quai des arts, théâtre de quat'sous

a day (une journée)

2021

staging anne cecelia demelo | carnegie mellon university school of drama | usa

entends-tu ce que je te dis ? kouté mwen titak!

2020

co-writer | staging daniel brière | new experimental theater | tropiques atrium

a day

2020

live video performance in theater "the cherry arts of new york"
adaptation in english trranslate by josephine george | director wendy dann | staging samuel buggeln, artistic director the cherry arts
collaboration with "the cultural service of the québec governement office in new york"

the house (la maison)

2019

cowriter | staging sébastien gauthier | e petit théâtre du nord | city of Blainville QC

how to have a successful evening (comment réussir sa soirée)

2018

david strasbourg | theater alfa | bar le zaricot, brewery dunham, les brasseurs du moulin

the retreat (la retraite)

2018

staging philippe cyr | national theater school of canada

une journée (a day)

2018

staging philippe cyr | national theater school of canada

Awards

laureate of the gratien gelinas prize from the center for dramatic authors 2018

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2018 & 2016

staging marie-ève groulx | university of montréal (2018)
jean-philippe lehoux | national theater school of canada (2016)

make friendship (faire l’amitié)

2017

collective creation | vous êtes ici/you are here | la serre_arts vivants, theater at the écuries

monica + julie

2017

diptychs
staging michel-maxime legault | national theater school of canada

worcestershire - municipal tragedy

2015

staging gabrielle chapdelaine | festival zone homa | maison de la culture maisonneuve

winner of the gratien-gélinas prize from the center for dramatic authors for the play a day

2018

the doer (le faiseur)

2023

Theater | lemeac

a day (une journée)

2022

poetry | lemeac

the plants are fine (les plantes vont bien)

2019

editor beside média, écrans verts, notebooks

bagages

2021

sarah segal-lazar / festival du jamais lu montréal

chattermarks

2020

written by joseph shragge | cabal theatre production, theater la chapelle

the long spin

gabriel schultz | 3trd space theatre, zh festival

the neighbors (les voisines)

2019

arianna bardesono | imago theatre

zahgidiwin | love

2019

frances koncan | festival du jamais lu

l’entrepôt

2021

jean-françois auguste / théâtre ouvert, paris / jamais lu

monica, followed by julie

2020

staging jean-françois auguste | studio-theater of asnières-sur-seine | festival du jamais lu paris

the retreat

2019

rose plotek | playwrights workshop montreal

a day

2019

josephine george | ALTA42 | the american literary translation association conference

a day (une journée)

2018

philippe cyr | dramaturgies in dialogue | center of today's theater

the retreat (la retraite)

2019

english | david gagnon walker

a day (une journée)

2019

english | josephine goerge

2021 invited to a two-month writing residency by the jamais lu paris
2021 closing cabaret of the festival of jamais lu paris: l'abc du recommencement
2020 "artificial paradises: the oxymoron cabaret" produced by the festival of jamais lu
2020 to today - board member of directors of the center for dramatic authors (cead)
2020 jury member and writing godmother, le scriptarium 2020, theater le clou
2019 columnist for les ficelles, a feminist podcast on the reality tv occupation double
2019 writing residency at montréal in collaboration with tropiques atrium and the new experimental theatre
2019 writing residency at fort-de-france (martinique) in collaboration with tropiques atrium and the new experimental theatre
2019 speaker at the cegep du vieux montréal about the play a day

national theater school of canada

2017

playwriting