Noël, Éric

Éric Noël is a writer, translator, and performer from Montreal. They graduated from the École nationale de théâtre playwriting program in 2009 and have served as president of the Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD) for several years. Their first play, Faire des enfants (2011), premiered at Théâtre de Quat'sous and won the Gratien-Gélinas Award from the CEAD Foundation , and has been translated into several languages. In 2023 , they wrote, directed, and performed alongside ten other LGBTQIA+ artists in their play L'Amoure Looks Something Like You (2022) at the Fred-Barry Hall of Théâtre Denise-Pelletier. Their play Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés (2025) premiered at Théâtre Prospero in April 2025, directed by Philippe Cyr. For young audiences, they wrote La mère, le père, le petit et le grand (2012), Astéroïde B  612 (2021) — an adaptation of The Little Prince produced by Théâtre La Roulotte — as well as Je rappelle à moi tous mes pouvoirs (2024), a play for adolescent audiences built from testimonies of dependent people.