Olivier Choinière

Olivier Choinière (born July 10, 1973) is a Canadian playwright from Granby, Quebec.

[4] A 1996 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, he wrote and staged his first theatrical play, Autodafé, in 1997.

[1] His subsequent plays have included La légende du Manuel Sacré (1998), Les trains (1999), Soldats de bois (1999), Tsé-Tsé (2000), Agromorphobia (2001), Jocelyne est en dépression (2002), Beauté intérieure (2003), Félicité (2004), Chante avec moi (2010), Ennemi public (2015) and Zoé (2020).

[1] Félicité has been translated into English by Caryl Churchill as Bliss,[5] and Jocelyne est en dépression has been translated by Paula Wing as Jocelyne Is Under a Cloud Today.

[6] Choinière has also translated a number of English language plays into French, including Darrell Dennis's Tales of an Urban Indian,[7] Joan MacLeod's The Shape of a Girl,[8] and Mark O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie.