Mishka Lavigne (she / her) is a playwright, screenwriter, and literary translator. Her plays have been developed and performed in Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, Haiti, and Mexico.

Her play Havre, created at La Troupe du Jour (Saskatoon) received the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2019. Copeaux, produced by Théâtre de Dehors (Ottawa) was awarded the same prize in 2021, as well as the Prix Jacques-Poirier. Murs, initially produced as a podcast by Transistor Médias, Créations In Vivo and the Théâtre Populaire d’Acadie, received rave reviews in France and will be produced for the stage in 2023.

Mishka also writes in English. Her play Albumen, produced by TACTICS in 2019 (Ottawa), received the QWF Playwriting Prize and her play Shorelines was staged (TACTICS) in 2023.

As a translator of both French and English, Mishka has more than twenty credited translations of theatre, prose and poetry.

Originally from the Outaouais region, Lisa L’Heureux holds a bachelor’s degree in theater and history from the University of Ottawa (2005) and a master’s degree in theater research from the University of British Columbia (2008).

A writer and director, she founded Théâtre Rouge Écarlate in 2012, for which she created and directed Ciseaux, Pour l’hiver and Et si un soir, and directed Projet D. Very active in the Ottawa-Gatineau theater community, she has participated in the writing of numerous collective projects, including Love is in the birds: une soirée francophone sans boule disco (Théâtre du Trillium), Comment frencher un fonctionnaire sans le fatiguer (Poids Plumes), and Tapage et autres bruits sourds (Poids Plumes and Théâtre français du Centre National des arts).