Chantal Bilodeau is a New York-based playwright and translator originally from Montreal, Canada. Recent productions include <i>The Motherline</i> (Ibis Theatre Project at the New York Fringe Festival, 2009); <i>Pleasure & Pain</i> (Magic Theatre; Foro La Gruta, Teatro La Capilla and Festival de Teatro Nuevo León in Mexico, 2007); the English translations of <i>Bintou</i> by Koffi Kwahulé (The Movement Theatre Company, 2010) and<i> Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre</i> by Larry Tremblay (Alberta Theatre Projects, 2010). She is an alumna of the Women's Project Playwrights' Lab, the Lark Play Development Center's Playwrights Workshop and the Dramatists Guild Fellowship Program, and has received fellowships from the Arctic Circle, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Banff Centre (Canada), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.<div><br></div><div>Her translations include a dozen of plays by contemporary playwrights Mohamed Kacimi (Algeria), Koffi Kwahulé (Ivory Coast), Étienne Lepage (Quebec) and Larry Tremblay (Quebec).</div><div><br></div><div>She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, NoPassport Theatre Alliance, The Movement Theatre Company, Playwrights' Workshop Montréal and the Centre des auteurs dramatiques (Montreal).</div>