Mishka Lavigne

Mishka Lavigne (she/her) is a playwright, screenwriter and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been produced and developed in Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Australia, Haiti and the United States. Her play Havre was awarded the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Prize. Her play Copeaux, a movement-based poetic creation piece with director Éric Perron premiered in Ottawa in March 2020 and was also awarded the Governor General’s Literary Prize in 2021 as well as the Prix littéraire Jacques-Poirier. Albumen, her first play written in English received the Prix Rideau Award for Outstanding New Creation in 2019 and the QWF Playwriting Award in 2020. Her play Shorelines was recently produced in Ottawa by TACTICS and directed by Nicholas Leno.
Mishka is currently working on a bilingual opera libretto with Montreal composer Tim Brady and on four new creations in French, as well as on some translation and screenwriting projects.