David Laurin

A graduate from the professional theatre School of the Lionel-Groulx College, David Laurin is a comedian, actor, translator and co-artistic director of the Duceppe Theatre in Montreal.

On stage, he has played in more than thirty productions, notably Antoine et Cléopâtre (TNM), L’obsession de la beauté (La Licorne), Le Cid (Théâtre Denise-Pelletier), Les Misérables (Capitole de Québec), Le Blues d’la métropole (Théâtre St-Denis), Chante avec moi (Usine C) et Tribus (La Licorne). At Duceppe, he embodied Gabriel Law in the play Quand la pluie s’arrêtera and Curley in the classic Des souris et des hommes. Alongside, he collaborated on the productions Un peu de tendresse, bordel de merde! and La pornographie des âmes, from the choreographer Dave St-Pierre. Among his more prominent roles on television, we cannot forget the young Duceppe in the series of the same name, Steve Girard in Toute la vérité and Marc Lemire in District 31. On the big screen, he also played William Therrien in À vos marques, Party! 2.

David has translated more than thirty plays, namely Les marches du pouvoir, by Beau Willimon (La Bordée), L’obsession de la beauté, by Neil LaBute (La Licorne), L’absence de guerre, by David Hare (Théâtre du Trident), Les flâneurs célestes by Annie Baker (Théâtre Prospero), and Constellations, by Nick Payne (La Licorne). For Duceppe he translated the plays Ils étaient tous mes fils, by Arthur Miller, Oslo, by J.T. Rogers, Salle de nouvelles, by Lee Hall and Les gens, les lieux, les choses, by Duncan Macmillan, in addition to signing the theatrical adaptation of the movie Gaz Bar Blues by Louis Bélanger, which will be published at the Hamac Editions in 2024.