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You can pre-order your copy of my new book now! Piecework / Travail à la pièce, a bilingual collection of my two solo plays that explore the Franco American experience and the long, often invisible history of the borderlands between francophone Canada and northern New England. With memorable characters and a variety of voices, these
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[English below] Voilà, la belle couverture de mon livre, Piecework / Travail à la pièce, dessinée par le graphiste Colin Josselyn ! Cette édition entièrement bilingue, préparée avec la collaboration de Grégoire Chabot et d’Agathe Anne (parmi tant d’autres!), et publiée par The University of Maine Press, contient mes deux pièces de théâtre solos, Travail
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I’m thrilled to share that my two plays, Piecework: When We Were French and Les filles du QUOI?, will be published in a bilingual edition from the University of Maine Press in 2025. Long in the making, this volume will make the plays available to a wider audience — in two languages — and hopefully
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This week marks the publication of the latest issue of Résonance, the Franco-American literary journal for which I am honored to serve as Drama & Book Review Editor. Our sixth issue features a wonderful interview with Maine writer Jim Bishop, and beautiful collections of new fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. I worked with a group
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Last summer Leah Souffrant and I started working together on a devised performance project. We’re calling this collaboration the LeAB iteration LAB, to emphasize a shared commitment to the processual — experimentation, risk-taking and mistake-making, and the revelations that emerge from repetition, rehearsal, and revision. Thinking together about routine, duration, narrative, and witness, we created
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As the winter solstice approaches, days are getting short in the place where I live. Nights are already about fifteen hours long, and we’ll lose more daylight in the next couple of weeks. It’s a sacred darkness that reminds me of the vulnerability of people and creatures who live in this part of the world,
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During the pandemic, I had the good fortune to participate in a number of on-line readings of plays in progress. Remember those days of on-line-only theater? I am not nostalgic — except perhaps for the fact that, at the time, lots of people were making new work. And there is something especially exciting about a
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This summer I’ve been privileged to collaborate with my friend Leah Souffrant on a new performance project, combining our forces to create what we’re calling the LeAB Iteration LAB. During two generative, self-directed residencies in July on Leah’s turf in Brooklyn (thank you, BAX!) and in August close to my home in Burlington, VT, we’ve
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I’m delighted to share that the new issue of Résonance is out now! This open-access, online literary journal was the brainchild of, among others, the late Franco-American playwright and elder Grégoire Chabot, who passed away during the pandemic. Greg imagined places, real and virtual, where writers and artists could come together and dream about what
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Merci David Savoie of Radio-Canada for his thoughtful piece on French in Vermont that appeared recently on Désautels le dimanche. I’m proud to be among the Vermonters he spoke to for his piece. I specifically asked David not to use the headline “Les derniers francophones du Vermont” for his piece — in 2021 Radio-Canada did
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