Mathieu Leroux

Mathieu Leroux is a writer, performer, stage director, and dance dramaturg. He holds a degree from Université du Québec à Montréal (Acting and directing), a masters from Université de Montréal (French literature), and received the Geneviève-De-La-Tour-Fondue scholarship for excellence in his master’s thesis. His novel Dans la cage (Héliotrope) was pre-selected for the Chambéry First Novel Prize in France. In 2013–14, he was a writer-in-residence at the Goethe Institute in Montreal and Berlin. Leroux is the creator of a solo show (La naissance de Superman, TSF), a group piece (Scrap, Espace Libre), and a choreographic duet with Sébastien Provencher (Bones & Wires, Tangente). He has published several works (novels, essays, short stories). As a performer, he has danced/acted in works by Helen Simard, Louis-Karl Tremblay, Morena Prats, and Alexandre Morin. As a dramaturg, he has collaborated for many years with artists such as Victor Quijada, Dorotea Saykaly, and Catherine Gaudet. He has also been part of the creative team on productions for tanzmainz (Mainz, Germany) and Ballet BC (Vancouver, Canada).