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Did you know? – Autumn 2014

Discover new faces in this fall edition of our column, Did you know? At the same time, you’ll also discover a few fascinating projects which will help you happily wile away the hours on rainy nights.

Christine Quintana	Christine Quintana, the author of Selfie, our play for teenagers this season, is an artist with many talents. From October 23 to November 23, she is part of the cast of Saint Joan, an Arts Club Theatre production presented at the Stanley Theatre on Granville.
Julie Trépanier et Gilles Poulin-Denis dans Des fraises en janvier	This fall, actor and author Gilles Poulin-Denis will fly to Belgium to continue his work on the play Après la peur with the Belgian company (e)Utopia. For a year, Gilles has been working with the Belgian director Armel Roussel and the Quebecois author Sarah Berthiaume in order to create an atypical theatre piece where the audience members travel through the city in vans.
Rachel Peake	Just back from an intensive workshop at the prestigious Shaw Festival in Ontario, Rachel Peake is directing Stickboy, a new opera by Vancouver Opera. The production will be performed from October 30 to November 7. Rachel will direct Selfie at Théâtre la Seizième next spring.
Le Banff Centre	Starting on November 17, Gilles Poulin-Denis, Esther Duquette, Cory Haas, Julie Trépanier et Marie Farsi will be participating in a workshop offered by the ATFC, The National Theatre School of Canada and The Banff Centre in Banff.
Emilie Leclerc	Last September, the actress Émilie Leclerc, held a creative workshop for two weeks on her most recent project, Anonyme, a play that explores the sense of anonymity in large cities, based on movement theatre. This workshop was made possible thanks to the Fondation pour l’avancement du theatre francophone au Canada.
Dave Deveau	The writer Dave Deveau (Extra-Céleste) is working on his new play. Dead People’s Things will presented as a reading November 27 and 28, by Zee Zee Theatre, at Playwrights Theatre Centre Test Kitchen.
Metro Theatre	The actor Vincent Leblanc-Beaudoin, who we will see for the first time on stage for Théâtre la Seizième in Selfie, will play the role of Horvath in Parfumerie. This Metro Theatre production will be presented from November 8 to the 29, 2014.