Ismene & Nassara

Carole Fréchette was born in Montréal and is a graduate of the National Theatre School. She is the author of seventeen plays, which have been translated into twenty languages and staged all over the world. Fréchette was awarded the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2002, and has received the Governor General's Literary Award for French Language Drama twice, for Le Quatre Morts de Marie in 1995 and for Small Talk in 2014. Her plays are published in French by Leméac/Actes-Sud Papiers. In 2017, les Éditions Nota bene published a book devoted to her playwriting, edited by Gilbert David: Carole Fréchette, dramaturge. Un théâtre sur le qui-vive.

Linda Gaboriau is an award-winning literary translator and dramaturg based in Montreal. She has translated over 150 plays and novels from the French. Her translations of works by Quebec's most prominent playwrights have been published and produced across Canada and abroad. She has directed numerous translation residencies and from 2002-2007 she was the founding director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. Her drama translations have garnered many awards, including three Governor General's Literary Awards for Translation. In 2015, she was named a member of the Order of Canada, and in 2023, an Officer of l'Ordre national du Québec