Larry Tremblay is a writer, director, actor and specialist in Kathakali, an elaborate dance theatre form which he has studied on numerous trips to India. He has published more than twenty books as a playwright, poet, novelist, and essayist, and he is one of Quebec's most-produced and translated playwrights (his plays have been translated into twelve languages). Tremblay's plays, premiered for the most part in Montreal, have been produced, often in translation, in Italy, France, Belgium, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina, and Scotland. Tremblay collaborated with Welsh Canadian composer John Metcalf on a new opera: A Chair in Love, a concert version of which premiered in Montreal in April 2005. The following year he was awarded the Canada Council Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for his contribution to the theatre. He was a finalist in 2008 and 2011 for the Siminovitch Prize. One of Quebec's most versatile writers, Tremblay currently teaches acting at the Ecole superieure de theatre of Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
