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Chantal Bilodeau

CHANTAL BILODEAU

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Agency for the Performing Arts  represented by Beth Bickers

CHantaL BILODeaU is a playwright and translator originally from Montreal, CanadA. Recent productions include the Motherline (International Fringe Festival, 2009), Pleasure & Pain (Magic Theatre; Foro La Gruta and Teatro La Capilla, Mexico City, 2007), the English translation of abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre by Larry Tremblay (alberta Theatre Projects, 2010) and the English translation of Bintou by Koffi Kwahule (the Movement Theatre Company, 2010). She is an alumna of the Women's Project Playwrights' Lab, the Lark Playwrights Workshop and the Dramatists Guild Fellowship Program; was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Banff Centre (Canada) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and has received grants from the Nea, NYSCa, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Quebec Government House, etant Donnes: the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts and association Beaumarchais (France). Her translations include plays by contemporary playwrights Mohamed Kacimi (algeria), Koffi Kwahule (Cote d'Ivoire), etienne Lepage (Quebec), and Larry Tremblay (Quebec). She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, NoPassport, the Movement Theatre Company and the Centre des auteurs Dramatiques (Montreal).

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Abraham Lincoln Goes To the theatre         Administrative Assistant         Allegiance         Big Shoot         Bintou         Forward         God Bless America         Green Dating         Hunger         Miller's Daughter, The         Motherline, The         Pleasure & Pain         Rose         Sila         Tagged

Abraham Lincoln Goes To the theatre

Abraham Lincoln Goes To the theatre
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Fords theatre in Washington D.C. Inside that theatre today, Ranger Powell of the U.S. Parks Service takes crowds of tourists, the curious and the ghoulish through a step-by-step description of the assassination. Underneath the box where Lincoln was shot, he describes the plot of the comedy Lincoln watched that night, Our American Cousin, as being kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies. Scratch the surface of any story and underneath you will ?nd layer upon layer of ?ction masquerading as fact. the plays main character, Mark Killmana feared but much admired directordraws inspiration from Abraham Lincolns assassination to stage the schizophrenia of America. He hires two actors to play Laurel and Hardy. Both are to re-enact the assassination, while he himself plays the iconic role of Abraham Lincoln as a wax ?gure. the script is frequently self-referential, building on each of these retakes with further allusions to itself, telling the same story many times over in different voices from different points of view. Tremblay quite explicitly stages elements of literary theory with this play, including references to Jean Baudrillards concept of the simulacra and the desert of the real, concepts ?rst popularized by the movie the Matrix - the idea that in our post-modern world, the imitator has become more relevant than the imitated, and that the virtual worlds we construct are becoming more real to us than the real world. Absurd, hilarious and haunting, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the theatre is an unforgettable mystery that asks the question: How can we ever know who we are and what is true when the world we know is shifting beneath us? Its answer is simple: John Wilkes Booth was the ?rst American star - the actor who kidnapped reality to transform it into theatre.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Larry Tremblay

1st Produced:
Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary (Alberta)    12 Feb 2010

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1st Published:
Talonbooks (2010) >>>    978-0889226494

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Administrative Assistant

Synopsis:
Unemployed Rebecca is down to her last dime. Just how far will she go to get a job?

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1st Produced:
Pandora's Box Theatre Company    2003

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Allegiance

Synopsis:
She wont admit it but Chloe is at a crossroad in her life

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1st Produced:
-    2004

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Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Big Shoot

Synopsis:
In a glass cage, surrounded by people who came from the edges of the world to witness this event, an "artist" and his victim prepare for the final confrontation.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Koffi Kwahule

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Organisations:
RPN Globe

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Genre:
Translation

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Bintou

Synopsis:
Bintou is thirteen. the daughter of African immigrants, she doesn't go to school, doesn't listen to her elders, and doesn't wear panties. Instead, she roams the streets of the ghetto where she grew up, leading her gang of Wild Dogs and aggressively asserting her sexuality. In despair, her uncle devises a plan to break her rebellious spirit and save the family's reputation. But can Bintou really be tamed?

Notes:
Original Playwright - Koffi Kwahule

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Movement Theatre Company

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Forward

Synopsis:
Climate change in Norway and an affair between Fridtjof Nansen and Ice

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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God Bless America

Synopsis:
The Americans patent the American Dream

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Green Dating

Synopsis:
A young girl wont date a man unless he meets her high environmental requirements

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1st Produced:
Western Connecticut University    2011

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1st Published:
the Best 10-Minute Plays Of 2012. Published by Smith and Kraus, Inc.    -

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ten min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hunger

Synopsis:
Two women share the same man and a recipe for profiterole

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1st Produced:
-    2011

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Miller's Daughter, The

Synopsis:
adapted from the Girl Without Hands by the Brothers Grimm.?a poor miller is offered wealth by the devil in exchange for what stands behind his mill. Thinking it's an apple tree, the miller agrees to the trade only to discover he has surrendered his daughter. But the daughter is so beautiful and pious, the devil is rendered powerless and must resort to desperate measures to possess her.

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1st Produced:
Met Theatre    2004

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1st Published:
Included in the anthology the Real Stories of the Brothers Grimm, JAC Publishing & Promotions (2009)   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Motherline, The

Synopsis:
Claire, an unborn soul floating in the ether, is anxiously waiting to be born. But not any mother will do - she's determined to be born to Holly, a young lesbian who has no plans of having the necessary heterosexual intercourse to bring Claire into the world. To overcome this problem, Claire strikes a bargain with Holly's Buddhist cat Minou. Grabbing at the chance to build the good karma that will earn him a human rebirth, Minou gives up one of his lives so Claire can come down to earth and win Holly's love.

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1st Produced:
Csv Cultural And Educational Center  Milagro, New York International Fringe Festival    2009

Organisations:
Ibis Theatre Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
1h 30m Drama Comedy

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Pleasure & Pain

Synopsis:
Sexual desire at its most extreme can no longer be contained after Peggy's repressed fantasies spill out into the hands of her boss. But as the line between reality and fantasy starts to blur, Peggy realizes that intensity comes at a cost and that in life as well as in play, there is no pleasure without pain.

Notes:
Translated in Spanish, Italian And French

1st Produced:
Magic Theatre    2007

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Dramatic Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rose

Synopsis:
Jack is mean and Rose is determined to make him behave

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Sila

Sila
Baffin Island. Local Inuits and Canadian climate scientists have different ideas about shaping the future

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1st Produced:
University of New Hampshire    2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Talonbooks 2015   978-0889229563

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Tagged

Synopsis:
Because she's thirty and unmarried, Peggy, like all women in her situation, has become a liability to society. To publicly identify her and protect men from her intoxicating influence, the authorities have attached a metal tag to her ear. Now Peggy has two choices: either she gets married and the tag is removed, or she remains single and ostracized for the rest of her life.

Notes:
Recipient of A Katherine Cornell Award

1st Produced:
Pandora's Box Theatre Company, Buffalo    2004

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1st Published:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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