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==Marie-Leofeli Romero Barlizo==
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Marie Leofeli Romero Barlizo is a Filipino-Chinese playwright, dramaturg and screenwriter who was born in the Philippines but grew up in Montreal. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's Optional-Residency Creative Writing MFA Program and holds a BFA in Theatre from Concordia University. She is the first visible minority to graduate from the National Theatre School's Playwriting Program. Marie interned at Nightswimming Theatre, courtesy of the Metcalf Foundation Grant for Professional Development (2009) in dramaturgy, where she assisted Brian Quirt on Nightswimming's projects. As a dramaturg, she has also worked at Alberta Theatre Projects (Calgary), fu-Gen Asian Canadian Theatre Company (Toronto), Out Productions and Centaur Theatre (Montreal). Her plays have been showcased at Playwrights Theatre Centre’s New Play Festival in Vancouver, fu-Gen Asian-Canadian Theatre Company’s Annual Potluck Festival (Toronto), Playwrights' Workshop Montreal, Teesri Duniya Theatre (Montreal) and at Factory Theatre's CrossCurrent Festival (Toronto). She was the Artist-in-Residence at Black Theatre Workshop in dramaturgy for the 2015-2016 season and currently mentors their emerging playwrights in their Artist Mentorship Program. She developed her playLucky at Banff Playwrights Retreat last February 2017. Her play, Unang Pasko Sa Montreal(First Christmas in Montreal) was part of Urban Tales Series at the Centaur Theatre this past December (2017). Excerpts of her play Lucky was performed in PlayShed's WRK N PRGRSSMultidisciplinary Showcase (2017) and will be in the Montreal Off-Fringe Festival this summer 2018. She will be directing parts of Lynn Kozak's translation of the Iliad in the spring and will be a Resident Artist at The MAI (Montreal's Intercultural Arts Centre)) in May-June 2018. She is a board member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA). Her article “Diversity in Bloom in Montreal English Theatre” was recently published in the spring edition of TicArtToc No. 10 (Diversite Artistique Montreal).
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