Bouche Theatre Collective

Mishka Lavigne (she, her, hers) is a playwright and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her translation work for theatre has been seen in Ottawa, Montreal, and France. Héritage, her translation of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun opened the 2019-2020 season at Duceppe in Montreal. She is currently working on two French translations of plays by Karen Hines (All The Little Animals I Have Eaten and Crawlspace). Her translations of poetry were published in Ontario and Québec, including Cette blessure est un territoire, a French translation of Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize winning collection This Wound is a World. Her own works include Cinéma (Théâtre la Catapulte and Théâtre Belvédère), Vigile (Théâtre Rouge Écarlate), Albumen (TACTICS Ottawa) and Copeaux (Théâtre de Dehors). Her play Havre won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama (French) and was shortlisted for the Prix Michel-Tremblay.