Find more information about the participants below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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THE PARTICIPANTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nClaudel Doucet<\/h4>\n\n\n\n![\"Claudel](\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/claudel-directing--e1572503391272.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nClaudel is an artist whose career was fostered in the culture of contemporary circus. She researches risk in bodies and presences to weaken facades and explores the forces that stretch, between violence and tenderness. She looks at the ineffable, the delicate and the vertigo which in turn unites us or confines us to solitude. Co-created with Cooper Lee Smith and F\u00e9lix-Antoine Boutin, her latest project “Se prendre<\/em>” is an apartment performance that blurs vertigoes, voluptuousness and bitterness. She collaborates as a director at the National Circus School of Montreal and in various projects including Zip Zap Academy (Cape Town) and Uniarts (Stockholm). In 2017, she created QUE NOUS SOYONS, a collaborative in situ project co-produced by the 7 Fingers and LA SERRE – arts vivants. A graduate of ENC (Montreal, 2004), she is the co-founder of the Cie du Poivre Rose (Brussels).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nBurcu Eme\u00e7<\/h4>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burcu-Emec-Headshot-e1572503173267-683x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nBurcu is a performance maker and live artist. Her approach is discovery-based and sensorial, frequently playing with collage and searching for transdisciplinarity. Her work interacts with fields of social commentary, movement, theatre, installation and active listening, and often uses an image, object or memory as a departure point for creation. Burcu’s collaborative and independent works have been presented in Montreal, Toronto and Germany; at OFFTA, SummerWorks, MAI, Eastern Bloc, Never Apart, Studio 303 and ZH Festival. Recent accolades include the Grolsch Hybridity Award, MainLine Creativity Award, Frankie\u2019s Best English Production nomination, and 5 META nominations. Burcu is also a coordinator at the artist-run centre Articule.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Soleil Launi\u00e8re<\/h4>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/portrait-e1572503071274.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nPekuakamiulnuatsh originaire de Mashteuiatsh sur les rives du lac pekuakami, Soleil Launi\u00e8re vit et \u0153uvre \u00e0 Ti\u00f6hti\u00e0:ke (Montr\u00e9al). Artiste multidisciplinaire alliant le chant, le mouvement et le th\u00e9\u00e2tre tout en passant par l\u2019art performance. Elle entrem\u00eale la pr\u00e9sence du corps bi-spirituel et l\u2019audiovisuel exp\u00e9rimental tout en s\u2019inspirant de la cosmogonie et l\u2019esprit sacr\u00e9 des animaux du monde Innu. Elle exprime en actes une pens\u00e9e sur les silences et les langages universelle. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Clea Minaker<\/h4>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Clea4-e1572502866287-681x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nClea is a performer, director, designer and interdisciplinary artist who trained at the International Institute of Puppetry Arts in Charleville-M\u00e9zi\u00e8res, France (2002-2005). Clea explores an interest for shadow, light, live projections, object creation, as well as the poetics of manipulation, and corporeal gesture. She works in theatre, live music, opera, dance, film, visual art, and community arts. She has created works for the N.A.C Orchestra, The Banff Centre, IF! Istanbul, Festival Casteliers; and collaborated with Feist, Atom Egoyan, So-called, Kid Koala and more. Clea was awarded the 2009 Siminovitch Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Prize for Theatre Design by prize laureate and puppeteer Ronnie Burkett. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Helen Simard<\/h4>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/helensimard2018-e1572502633219-683x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\nHelen Simard is a Montr\u00e9al-based choreographer, rehearsal director, and dance researcher. After working with Solid State Breakdance for 12 years, an artist collective that combined street and contemporary dance, she switched gears in 2012 to lead her own artistic projects. Her current choreographic research explores the codes and aesthetics of rock music, creating lively, interactive, performances that challenge the conventions of stage dance forms: her most recent work, REQUIEM POP, premiered at Agora de la danse in April 2019. She is currently writing her first play When your baby dies<\/em>. Helen holds a BFA (2000) and MA (2014) in contemporary dance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe Lab is led by Fatma Sarah Elkashef<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Sarah](\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/313-x-375_Harris.png\")
<\/figure>\nSarah est artiste de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, principalement en dramaturgie, qui se sp\u00e9cialise en d\u00e9veloppement de nouvelles pi\u00e8ces et en cr\u00e9ation interdisciplinaire. Au sein du PWM, elle pilote le Laboratoire d\u2019\u00e9criture interdisciplinaire<\/a> ainsi que divers autres projets. Elle travaille r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement \u00e0 titre de dramaturge, de cr\u00e9atrice et d\u2019enseignante dans le cadre de diff\u00e9rents programmes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole nationale de th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Canada et a re\u00e7u le prix Bernard Amyot pour l\u2019enseignement en 2016. Sarah a r\u00e9cemment co-cr\u00e9\u00e9 un spectacle de cirque pour public familial intitul\u00e9 Eat Sweet Feet<\/em> et continue de travailler au d\u00e9veloppement de High Z<\/em>, une installation immersive pour plan\u00e9tariums bas\u00e9e sur la d\u00e9couverte de l\u2019expansion acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e de l\u2019univers qui a remport\u00e9 le prix Nobel en 2011. Avant de s\u2019\u00e9tablir au Canada, elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 lectrice principale au Soho Theatre de Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Parmi les nombreux postes qu\u2019elle a occup\u00e9s \u00e0 New York City, Sarah a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alisatrice associ\u00e9e, gestionnaire de compagnie et associ\u00e9e litt\u00e9raire. Elle est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Warwick en litt\u00e9rature anglaise et th\u00e9\u00e2tre (Royaume-Uni) et d\u00e9tient une ma\u00eetrise en th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Hunter College (CUNY, NYC) ainsi qu\u2019un dipl\u00f4me d\u2019\u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures en communications de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Concordia (Montr\u00e9al, Canada).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playwrights’ Workshop Montr\u00e9al is pleased to welcome a new group of artists to the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab. Curated and led by dramaturg Sarah Elkashef, the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab is an opportunity for artists with diverse practices to share processes of creation and development. Aimed at fostering conversation and collaboration across disciplines, the Lab meets every … <\/p>\n
<\/figure>Claudel is an artist whose career was fostered in the culture of contemporary circus. She researches risk in bodies and presences to weaken facades and explores the forces that stretch, between violence and tenderness. She looks at the ineffable, the delicate and the vertigo which in turn unites us or confines us to solitude. Co-created with Cooper Lee Smith and F\u00e9lix-Antoine Boutin, her latest project “Se prendre<\/em>” is an apartment performance that blurs vertigoes, voluptuousness and bitterness. She collaborates as a director at the National Circus School of Montreal and in various projects including Zip Zap Academy (Cape Town) and Uniarts (Stockholm). In 2017, she created QUE NOUS SOYONS, a collaborative in situ project co-produced by the 7 Fingers and LA SERRE – arts vivants. A graduate of ENC (Montreal, 2004), she is the co-founder of the Cie du Poivre Rose (Brussels).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Burcu is a performance maker and live artist. Her approach is discovery-based and sensorial, frequently playing with collage and searching for transdisciplinarity. Her work interacts with fields of social commentary, movement, theatre, installation and active listening, and often uses an image, object or memory as a departure point for creation. Burcu’s collaborative and independent works have been presented in Montreal, Toronto and Germany; at OFFTA, SummerWorks, MAI, Eastern Bloc, Never Apart, Studio 303 and ZH Festival. Recent accolades include the Grolsch Hybridity Award, MainLine Creativity Award, Frankie\u2019s Best English Production nomination, and 5 META nominations. Burcu is also a coordinator at the artist-run centre Articule.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Pekuakamiulnuatsh originaire de Mashteuiatsh sur les rives du lac pekuakami, Soleil Launi\u00e8re vit et \u0153uvre \u00e0 Ti\u00f6hti\u00e0:ke (Montr\u00e9al). Artiste multidisciplinaire alliant le chant, le mouvement et le th\u00e9\u00e2tre tout en passant par l\u2019art performance. Elle entrem\u00eale la pr\u00e9sence du corps bi-spirituel et l\u2019audiovisuel exp\u00e9rimental tout en s\u2019inspirant de la cosmogonie et l\u2019esprit sacr\u00e9 des animaux du monde Innu. Elle exprime en actes une pens\u00e9e sur les silences et les langages universelle. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Clea is a performer, director, designer and interdisciplinary artist who trained at the International Institute of Puppetry Arts in Charleville-M\u00e9zi\u00e8res, France (2002-2005). Clea explores an interest for shadow, light, live projections, object creation, as well as the poetics of manipulation, and corporeal gesture. She works in theatre, live music, opera, dance, film, visual art, and community arts. She has created works for the N.A.C Orchestra, The Banff Centre, IF! Istanbul, Festival Casteliers; and collaborated with Feist, Atom Egoyan, So-called, Kid Koala and more. Clea was awarded the 2009 Siminovitch Prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Prize for Theatre Design by prize laureate and puppeteer Ronnie Burkett. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Helen Simard is a Montr\u00e9al-based choreographer, rehearsal director, and dance researcher. After working with Solid State Breakdance for 12 years, an artist collective that combined street and contemporary dance, she switched gears in 2012 to lead her own artistic projects. Her current choreographic research explores the codes and aesthetics of rock music, creating lively, interactive, performances that challenge the conventions of stage dance forms: her most recent work, REQUIEM POP, premiered at Agora de la danse in April 2019. She is currently writing her first play When your baby dies<\/em>. Helen holds a BFA (2000) and MA (2014) in contemporary dance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Sarah est artiste de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, principalement en dramaturgie, qui se sp\u00e9cialise en d\u00e9veloppement de nouvelles pi\u00e8ces et en cr\u00e9ation interdisciplinaire. Au sein du PWM, elle pilote le Laboratoire d\u2019\u00e9criture interdisciplinaire<\/a> ainsi que divers autres projets. Elle travaille r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement \u00e0 titre de dramaturge, de cr\u00e9atrice et d\u2019enseignante dans le cadre de diff\u00e9rents programmes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole nationale de th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Canada et a re\u00e7u le prix Bernard Amyot pour l\u2019enseignement en 2016. Sarah a r\u00e9cemment co-cr\u00e9\u00e9 un spectacle de cirque pour public familial intitul\u00e9 Eat Sweet Feet<\/em> et continue de travailler au d\u00e9veloppement de High Z<\/em>, une installation immersive pour plan\u00e9tariums bas\u00e9e sur la d\u00e9couverte de l\u2019expansion acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e de l\u2019univers qui a remport\u00e9 le prix Nobel en 2011. Avant de s\u2019\u00e9tablir au Canada, elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 lectrice principale au Soho Theatre de Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Parmi les nombreux postes qu\u2019elle a occup\u00e9s \u00e0 New York City, Sarah a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alisatrice associ\u00e9e, gestionnaire de compagnie et associ\u00e9e litt\u00e9raire. Elle est dipl\u00f4m\u00e9e de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Warwick en litt\u00e9rature anglaise et th\u00e9\u00e2tre (Royaume-Uni) et d\u00e9tient une ma\u00eetrise en th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Hunter College (CUNY, NYC) ainsi qu\u2019un dipl\u00f4me d\u2019\u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures en communications de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Concordia (Montr\u00e9al, Canada).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Playwrights’ Workshop Montr\u00e9al is pleased to welcome a new group of artists to the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab. Curated and led by dramaturg Sarah Elkashef, the Interdisciplinary Writers’ Lab is an opportunity for artists with diverse practices to share processes of creation and development. Aimed at fostering conversation and collaboration across disciplines, the Lab meets every … <\/p>\nBurcu Eme\u00e7<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>Soleil Launi\u00e8re<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>Clea Minaker<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>Helen Simard<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nThe Lab is led by Fatma Sarah Elkashef<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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