Short Biography

Josette Féral is:

Full-time professor at the Superior school of Drama of the Université du Québec in Montréal where she teaches since 1981.

She has been President of the IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) from 1999 till 2003 and has been previously vice-president of the same Federation from 1995 till 1999.

She has published several books including:

Mise en scène et jeu de l’acteur, volume 3, Voix de femmes (Canada, automne 2007).

Teatralidad in Cuadernos de Teatro XXI (Buenos Aires, april 2003, forthcoming).

Mise en scène et jeu de l’acteur volumes 1 et 2 (Canada/Belgium 1997, 1999, reprinted in 2001) which deals with many European as well as North American stage directors.

Rencontres avec Ariane Mnouchkine (Paris, 1995 reprinted in 2001) and Trajectoires du Soleil (Paris, 1999) on Mnouchkine’s work.

La culture contre l'art: essai d'économie politique du théâtre (Montréal, 1990).

She has edited several books on the theory of the theatre, the most recent ones being:

Acerca de la teatralidad (Buenos Aires, 2003)

Mnouchkine und das Théâtre du Soleil (Berlin, 2003)

L’École du jeu, former ou transmettre (L’Entretemps, France, 2003)

Theatricality (special issue of Substance, Madison, 2002)

Les chemins de l’acteur (Montréal, 2001)

She has also published several articles (more than 100) on the theory of theatre in Canada, the United States and Europe mostly in Théâtre/ Public, The Drama Review, Modern Drama, The French Review, Discourse, Theaterschrift, Poétique, Cahiers de théâtre Jeu, SubStance, Gestos, Teatro del Sur, Western European Stages, Maska, , Du Théâtre, …

She is also on the Editorial Board of Several journals: SubStance (USA), Essays in Theatre (Canada), Performance Research (Great Britain), Investigation teatral (Mexique).

She has organized a number of international conferences, the most recent ones being:

« Effets de présence et effets de réel dans les arts de la scène et les arts médiatiques », UQÀM, 5-6 juin 2008.

« L’acteur comique : tradition et nouvelles manifestations », co-organized with Robert Drouin, Montreal, April 2002.

Conference on "Training or transmission : can acting be taught?" in Paris, April 2001.

Conference on "Actor’s training" in Montreal in October 1998.

IFTR Conference on "The actor on stage" co-organized with Jean-Marc Larrue in Montreal in 1995.

Décembre 2007