Nathalie Boisvert earned a Master’s degree in theatre at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her first work, L’histoire sordide de Conrad B, produced in 1997 at the Festival international de Spa, in Belgium. The play was produced a second time in Brussels and won a prize. She wrote L’été des Martiens, simultaneously produced at Théâtre Périscope in Québec and in Montauban, France, as well as in Charleroi, Belgium, and at Théâtre de Poche de Bruxelles in 2000. An English translation of the play was also produced in 2002 by Theatre Direct Canada at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto (English translation by Bobby Theodore). The play has been translated in German by Frank Heibert and was presented at the Landestheatre in Germany in March 2006. Her play, La deuxième vie de Raymond Blanchard, was read in 2000 during CEAD's Semaine de la dramaturgie, in Montreal. Pourquoi moi?, a short play, was presented in 2001 at the Festival de théâtre des Amériques, and Théâtre La Licorne as part of a collective named "4x4". In 2002, Nathalie received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to work on a theatrical trilogy named Vie et mort d’un village. In 2006, her play Vie et mort d'un village recipient of Journées de Lyon, is published at Éditions Comp'Act. Later that same year, it is read during CEAD's semaine de la dramaturgie. She also received the prix Gratien-Gélinas 2007& for Buffet chinois. – 2009-01-13
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