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SHELLEY TEPPERMAN
Nationality: Canadian
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Literary Agent: Talent House represented by Michael Petrasek
Shelley Tepperman has a long history in Canadian theatre specializing in new play dramaturgy, project development and translation for the stage. Her many translations from French (and occasionally, Spanish and Italian)have been produced at CBC radio and on stages across North America, and two were nominated for the Governor General's Award. Her play translations include SuzAnne Lebeau's A Giant in the Land of Men (Comment vivre avec les hommes quand on est un geant), Michel Monty's Freak Accidents (Accidents de Parcours) and Dominic Champagne's The Forbidden City (La Cite Interdite) and Playing Bare (La Repetition). Tepperman has worked for CBC Radio developing, adapting and directing/producing radio dramas for national broadcast. She also works in documentary film and television as a writer, story editor and director. She holds a Master's Degree in the Dramatic Arts from the Universite du Quebec.
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24 Exposures Alphonse Apocalypse Carousel, The Deliverance Door Of No Return Embedded Fast Lane, The In Vitro Life Savers List, The Moliere Playing Bare Poster, The Resurection Still Lives Tideline Unsettling Accounts Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons' Winners, The24 Exposures
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Richard's family gathers to celebrate his fortieth birthday. Family secrets are uncovered and skeletons rattled
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Original Playwright - Serge Boucher
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Translation
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Top of PageAlphonse
Alphonse has disappeared and everyone is searching for him: his partners, his friends, his teachers, the police. . . meanwhile Alphonse is walking along a country road inventing the extraordinary adventure of Pierre-Paul-Rene, a gentle boy with a one-note voice who is never surprised by anything.
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Original Playwright - Wajdi Mouawad
1st Produced:
Dumaurier Theatre Toronto, Canada
2001
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Contained in: "Alone On Stage: Solo Plays For Men" Playwrights Canada Press (April 1, 2007) 978-0887548789
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Translation
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Top of PageApocalypse
Ludwig arranges a suicide ceremony
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Original Playwright - Louis Patrick Leroux. Translated by Shelley Tepperman and Ellen Warkentin
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Contained in: "Ludwig and Mae Three Plays" published by Talonbooks 2009 978-0889226234
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Top of PageCarousel, The
Synopsis:
Nothing can stop the carousel. While driving to her dying mother's bedside, a woman calls upon the spirit of her dead grandmother. So begins a quest through a labyrinth of memories. The Carousel is a journey that shatters the certainties of a woman marked by a pitiless landscape. Ultimately joy prevails, in a final ride on the carousel. A poignant one-woman play by celebrated Quebec dramatist Jennifer Tremblay, writer of The List, a Fringe sell-out for Stellar Quines, winner of Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards. Directed by Muriel Romanes and starring award-winning actress Maureen Beattie. www.stellarquines.com
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Original Playwright - Jennifer Tremblay. Translated by Shelley Tepperman
1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
31 Jul 2014
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Stellar Quines Theatre Company
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Translation, 1 hour 15 minutes
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Top of PageDeliverance
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The agonising story of a dying mother's wish to see her son who was torn away from her at a young age. Will the young man, separated from his mother by a controlling, manipulative father, come to his dying mother's bedside?
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Original Playwright - Jennifer Tremblay. Translated by Shelley Tepperman
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[Reading] Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
15 Aug 2014
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Stellar Quines Theatre Company
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Translation, 1 hour 15 minutes
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Top of PageDoor Of No Return
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Original Playwright - Phillippe Ducros. Original play title: "La Porte de Non-Retour""
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Top of PageEmbedded
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Original Playwright - Louis Patrick Leroux. Translated by Shelley Tepperman and Ellen Warkentin
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Top of PageFast Lane, The
Synopsis:
Six twenty somethings overindulging in drugs, booze and sex
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Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
1st Produced:
National Arts Centre Atelier, Ottawa
1995
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Translation
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Top of PageIn Vitro
A fugitive breaks into the home of a young couple with a shotgun and a jar containing his son's foetus
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Original Playwright - Yvan BienVenue
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Scirocco Press 1998 978-1896239057
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Translation
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Top of PageLife Savers
Synopsis:
France is in prison for a murder she cannot remember doing
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Original Playwright - Serge Boucher
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Top of PageList, The
Managing lists is a complex activity. Take out garbage. Rake leaves. Cry. Look under D for doctor. Breathe. A woman struggles with the guilt of her neighbor's tragic death. An American premier of an award winning French-Canadian play.
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Original Playwright - Jennifer Tremblay
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Stellar Quines Theatre Company
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Playwrights Canada Press 2012 978-1770910805
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1h 15m Drama Solo Show, translation
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Top of PageMoliere
Synopsis:
Racine is the bitter rival of Moliere and is jealous of his success. He hatches a plot to bring his rival down
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Original Playwright - Sabina Berman
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Top of PagePlaying Bare
the actors are about to start the performance - but suddenly they find they have forgotten not only their words but which play they are in
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Original Playwright - Dominic Champagne
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Talonbooks 978-0889223356
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Top of PagePoster, The
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In Palestine when someone is killed due to enemy action a poster is made of the martyr. Abou Salem prints the posters. He is given the photograph of the latest martyr to print posters - it is of his only son
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Original Playwright - Phillippe Ducros. Original play title: "L'Affiche"
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2011
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Teesri Duniya Theatre
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Top of PageResurection
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Original Playwright - Louis Patrick Leroux. Translated by Shelley Tepperman and Ellen Warkentin
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Contained in: "Ludwig and Mae" published by TalonBooks 2009 978-0889226234
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Top of PageStill Lives
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When he was fifteen Stephane moved in with his neighbour Jean-Guy to escape his violent family. Years later he is still living there when Diane arrives having been abandoned by her boyfriend
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Original Playwright - Serge Boucher
1st Produced:
Factory Theatre, Toronto
1994
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Top of PageTideline
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Original Playwright - Wajdi Mouawad
1st Produced:
Factory Theatre, Toronto
2005
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Playwrights Canada Press 1999 978-0887549878
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Top of PageUnsettling Accounts
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A man confronts skinheads who have desecrated a Jewish cemetery
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Original Playwright - Yvan BienVenue
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Top of PageWedding Day at the Cro-Magnons'
A Lebanese family are preparing for their daughter's wedding. there are problems, however; the bride-to-be is narcoleptic; her elder brother is missing, presumed dead; her Father has had to bring the wedding feast's main course home alive; the bridegroom is conspicuously absent; and a storm has swept in. Adding to the constant threat of sniper fire, a bombing raid has begun. Lebanese playwright Wajdi Mouawad has tried to construct an 'anarchic comedy set in a war zone', presumably to reflect the farcical humour to be found in the horror of conflict.
- Siobhan Murphy, Metro London
- Siobhan Murphy, Metro London
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Original Playwright - Wajdi Mouawad
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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 978-1840028485
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Translation
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Top of PageWinners, The
Synopsis:
Philippe is searching for a job, a girlfriend and the meaning of life.
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Original Playwright - Francois Archambault
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1997
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Ruby Slippers (Vancouver)
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Genre:
Translation
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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