Lisa Rae Vineberg
Playwright, director, actress and artistic director Lisa Rae Vineberg has enjoyed an extremely prolific career over the past nine years. In addition to working in some thirty productions she has also pursued her own personal projects, and her work has proved to be quite popular. Many of her plays have been sold-out on word-of-mouth alone at the Monument National, Espace Tangente and Cinquième salle theatres, including My Business is Words, The Woman’s Project, The Wrecking Ball and Telegraph From Departure Bay (la Création de la preuve). She is also co-founder of the Actors/Directors Club. The work of Lisa Rae Vineberg enjoys the esteem of her peers and the support of both the French and English artistic communities in Montreal.

Mochin de Gadlut Theatre Projects (pronounced Moh-Kheen Deu Gahd-loot), directed by Lisa Rae Vineberg, presents a new work every two years. This Montreal English-language company favours a theatrical approach that combines documentary and fiction whereby theatre becomes a voice that, in bearing witness to everyday realities, reaches its full poetic, social and psychological dimensions. Privileged witnesses, the spectators are plunged into their own private perceptions.

Nouvelles Scènes
In 1997, the Festival de théâtre des Amériques created the Nouvelle Scène series, whose mission four editions later remains the same — to promote young artists in order to actively contribute to the emergence of new voices in the theatre by providing them with conditions that favour their discovery and advancement. In bringing together this year a generation of multidisciplinary artists, Nouvelles Scènes 2003 reasserts the dynamism and plurality of contemporary theatre in Quebec. In choosing unusual performance sites and forms that include performance art, theatrical walkabouts and staged installations, these artists challenge the norms of theatrical representation and the role of the spectator, questioning the social and political role of art and its place in the community.