Marie-Claire Marcotte

Marie-Claire is a playwright, director and actor originally from Treaty 4 Territories, Saskatchewan. She is based in Tkarón:to/Toronto and wherever life takes her. She has taken part in residencies in Canada (Banff Centre - Leighton Studios), Belgium (Centre des écritures dramatiques W-B), France (La Chartreuse) and more recently in Martinique (ETC Caraïbes, Zones Théâtrales, CEAD). Her plays Flush and Peau, published by Éditions L'Interligne, have received awards and nominations in Canada and France. She also continues to contribute to the ideation and co-writing of several stage and television texts. Her screenwriting has been recognized at the Los Angeles Film Awards, the Canadian Screen Awards and the Webfest Berlin. She is currently writing her next play Forèsse-noire/Déliquescence and is preparing to direct her first movie, Rêver en néon, which she also wrote. She is a graduate of the International School of Acting in Reggio Emilia, Italy and George Brown College theatre program, in Toronto.