Impetuous, committed, and passionate about movement and ideas, Étienne Lepage quickly made a name for himself as a playwright after graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada (playwriting, 2007). He co-wrote, directed, and performed in Théâtre Catastrophe with the Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental, then in 2008, his play Le mariage de Francis Camélias won the Centre national du théâtre’s Aide à la création award in Paris. In 2009, his translation of David Harrower’s play Blackbird was presented at the Théâtre Prospero. The same year, audiences discovered his play Rouge gueule, staged by the Théâtre PàP and directed by Claude Poissant. Several powerful texts followed: Éclats et autres libertés (Louise-LaHaye Prize 2010), L’Enclos de l’éléphant (finalist for the Governor General’s Award 2011), Robin et Marion (2012). He also successfully devoted himself to theater for young audiences, notably with Histoires pour faire des cauchemars, a play created in Brussels and presented at Coups de théâtre (2012). More recently, at the Maison Théâtre, he reinvented the fairy tale “The Snow Queen” for puppets, which became Le cœur en hiver (Louise-LaHaye Prize 2016). Also a screenwriter, translator, and transdisciplinary creator, he has produced Ainsi parlait… (Thus Spoke…; FTA, 2013) and Logique du pire (Logic of the Worst; FTA, 2016) with choreographer Frédérick Gravel, two radical and committed works that have been presented across Canada and Europe.