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Yanik Comeau

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Born

in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada

June 01, 1968

Website

http://www.comunikmedia.com

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Young Adult, Fantasy, Children's

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August 2010

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Author, director, actor, teacher, screenwriter, journalist, translator as well as host of radio and television shows, Yanik Comeau is passionate about theatre, writing and language. He envisions his career as a multi-faceted and multicoloured kaleidoscope of discoveries.

As well as studying acting at Cégep Lionel-Groulx, Yanik participate in acting workshops directed by Jean-Marie da Silva, and John Barton of London’s Royal Shakes-peare Company before entering the bachelor’s degree program in teaching drama at Université du Québec à Montréal. During his acting studies, he worked on plays by Michel Tremblay, Moliere, Marivaux, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Carlo Goldoni, Eugene Ionesco, Marcel Dube, and William Shakespeare, to name a Author, director, actor, teacher, screenwriter, journalist, translator as well as host of radio and television shows, Yanik Comeau is passionate about theatre, writing and language. He envisions his career as a multi-faceted and multicoloured kaleidoscope of discoveries.

As well as studying acting at Cégep Lionel-Groulx, Yanik participate in acting workshops directed by Jean-Marie da Silva, and John Barton of London’s Royal Shakes-peare Company before entering the bachelor’s degree program in teaching drama at Université du Québec à Montréal. During his acting studies, he worked on plays by Michel Tremblay, Moliere, Marivaux, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett, Carlo Goldoni, Eugene Ionesco, Marcel Dube, and William Shakespeare, to name a few.

As an actor, he’s done stage work in Quebec (Goglu by Jean Barbeau in March 1987, La Duchesse de Langeais by Michel Tremblay in Octobre 1987, and the three male parts in the musical Détachez vos ceintures ! présented in the summer of 1990), plus small parts and extra work on numerous Quebec TV series and films including children’s shows Les Chatouilles and Bouledogue Bazar. He also co-wrote Les Chatouilles for two years, scripting 111 episodes of the popular series.

Author of novels and short stories for children and teenagers, Yanik won Les éditions Héritage’s 1993 Libellule Award with his first novel, L'arme secrète de Frédéric (published in 1994) and has since published four other novel, five short stories for teens and a Christmas story in a anthology of short stories created for Les éditions MILAN in Toulouse, France.

Yanik has also written over twenty full-length plays for the theatre (for adult and young audiences) including Jour 7 (produced in 1990 by the Creations Etc. Festival), La Grande Aventure de la Famille Flip / The Flip Family’s Great Adventure (a bilingual ice show which he also directed in both French and English for a Canadian tour in 1992-93) and five plays for teens about love and social issues.

As a journalist, Yanik has worked for regional newspapers (ten years as a reporter and editor-in-chief) and popular magazines in Quebec such as Le Lundi, 7 Jours and TV Hebdo, TV Guide’s French counterpart in Quebec. He also co-created Journal La Tirelire, a children’s newspaper which was distributed in 34 public schools for two years. He also hosted the Saturday morning show on radio station CHAI-MF 103,1 in Chateau¬guay, Quebec, and the college sports reporter for Hebdo Sports on Radio-Canada’s Première Chaîne radio station as well as host of the entertainment magazine show Impressions on Télévision de la Rive-Sud for two years.

Yanik is also a walking encyclopedia of american soap operas. His passion for the medium even drew him to New York City where he registered for a TV writing workshop given by Rosemarie Santini, who used to write for All My Children. Yanik still dreams of writing for one of his favorite soaps someday, may it by All My Children, As The World Turns or Guiding Light.

As well as touring schools and public librairies to speak to children, teens and adults, Yanik has also worked as a substitute teacher in French, English (ELA and ESL) and Drama (both at the elementary, junior and high school levels). Past member of board of directors of l'Association Québécoise des Professeurs d'Art Dramatique (Quebec Association of Drama Teachers) and current President of l’Association des Écrivains Québécois pour la Jeunesse (Quebec association of writers of books for youth), Yanik has been teaching for more than fifteen years.

Yanik Comeau is also the Artistic Director of Atelier-Théâtre Côté Jardin, a theatre school which offers drama classes during the school year and offered Summer camps in June and July until 2010. ...more

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	Les enfants de la nuit (Les enfants Dracula, #1) 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La résurrection de la chair (Les enfants Dracula, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le sang de l'alliance (Les enfants Dracula, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La fête des morts (Les enfants Dracula, #4) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ombres et lumières (Les enfants Dracula, #5) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les eaux troubles du lac bleu 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Canadiens de l'enfer 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jupiter en hélicoptère 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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