Annabel Soutar

Annabel Soutar is a Montreal-based playwright and theatre producer. In 2000 she co-founded the theatre company Porte Parole Productions whose mission is to produce entertaining documentary plays that create a transformational sense of
civic engagement in its audiences.
Annabel studied English and Theatre at Princeton University where she learned about the documentary approach to theatre. Since 1998 she has written 8 plays Novembre, 2000 Questions, Import/Export, Sexy beton, Seeds, The Watershed, Fredy and The Assembly - that have been mounted in Montreal and across Canada. Her acclaimed plays Seeds and The Watershed have both been published by Talon Books. Seeds has toured to over a dozen theatres across the country, including to the National Arts Centre of Canada in 2014. In 2020 Seeds will tour in the US. Seeds was named the best English production of the year by Montreal’s Association of French theatre critics and was nominated for Best New Text and Best English Production by the Academie quebecoise du theatre; and Annabel’s play Sexy beton was a finalist for the prestigious Quebec playwriting award Le prix Michel-Tremblay. In December 2015, Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper named Soutar to its list of
Artists of the Year.
Soutar’s recent collaboration with co-writers Alex Ivanovici and Brett Watson, The Assembly, was performed at Crow’s Theatre in Toronto in 2018. In 2019-20 it will be adapted for television and will tour in the US, Europe and South America.

Source: Pants Theatre Production