[1] To date she has written more than a dozen plays including The Four Lives of Marie, The Seven Days of Simon Labrosse, Helen's Necklace, John and Beatrice, The Little Room at the Top of the Stairs, and most recently: Thinking of Yu.

The Kitchen Theatre experiment came to an end in the early 1980s and Fréchette undertook graduate studies in dramatic arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

It was there that she wrote her first single-authored play:Baby Blues which was staged in 1989 at the Theatre d'Aujourd'hui (principal playhouse for contemporary Quebec writers in Montreal).

Her second play, The Four Lives of Marie, translated by John Murrell and published by Playwrights Canada Press, won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama in 1995.

From 1994 to 1999, she was president of the "Centre des auteurs dramatiques", a professional association of playwrights devoted to promoting French language Quebec theatre.