Jean-Marc Dalpé CM (born February 21, 1957) is a Canadian playwright and poet.

[1] He subsequently worked with several Franco-Ontarian theatre companies, including as a co-founder of Ottawa's Théâtre de la Vieille 17 in 1979.

He returned to the University of Ottawa in 1987 as writer in residence, and was a grant adjudicator for the Canada Council the following year.

In 1990, he was writer in residence at the Festival des Francophonies in Limoges, France, and in 1993 at Montreal's Nouvelle Compagnie Théâtrale.

His daughter, Marielle Dalpé, is an animator most noted for her 2023 short film Aphasia (Aphasie).