MARIE
ALFREDINE CORMIER----Biography
Cormier, of Acadian heritage, was born on Lameque, a small
fishing island at the northeastern most tip of New
Brunswick. The twelfth of thirteen children. Educated by
nuns of the order of the Daughters of Jesus and Mary.
CORMIER moved to Massachusetts
in 1962 and to Maine in 1970.
She has done theater in France, Russia, Louisiana, Ontario,
Montreal, Quebec, New Brunswick, and throughout New
England. She has also done live modeling and advertisement
for print.
Cormier performs theater in French and English. She is a
founding member of “Du Monde d’a Cote,” a Franco-American
repertory theater company which interprets the works of
Gregoire Chabot and Paul Paré.
Cormier has done “Shirley Valentine”—a one-woman show-- in
English and French for the past twelve years. Will do the
role in English on April 25th, 2008 in Lewiston at the Ste.
Mary’s Franco-American Center.
She presented at FAHC in May 2007 the premiere of Norman
Beaupre’s one-woman show “La Souillonne,” and the Canadian
premiere on Lameque in August, 2007.
SOME PLAYS IN
WHICH SHE HAS APPEARED:
Othello
Coming Down
Arsenic And Old Lace
Don’t Drink The Water
Harvey
Talking With
The Gingerbread Lady
Fools
You Can’t Take It With You
Steel Magnolias
Nurse Jane Goes To Hawaii
A Christmas Carol
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
Drop Dead
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
Baby With The Bathwater
The Odd Couple
Sabrina Fair
Encore Une Fois Si Vous Permettez
For The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again (English version)
Light Up The Sky
Plaza Suite
Marie Monologues And a Meal
‘night, Mother
The Gin Game
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest