Playwright, director, and actor Julie Vincent received the Golden Plaque Award for Best Actress at the International Film Festival in Chicago for her role in Mourir à tue-tête (A Scream from Silence). She also won the Special Jury Award at Évry, France, for her one-woman show Noir de monde and appeared as Joan of Arc in the oratorio Jeanne au bûcher by Arthur Honegger in Tokyo and New York. She teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada and the École nationale de cirque in Montreal and is director of the theatre company Singulier Pluriel, which presents plays in French and Spanish. Her works are published by les Éditions de la Pleine lune.