Residency artists and researchers Literature Alexis Diamond playwright ALEXIS DIAMOND is a Montreal-based playwright, opera librettist, musical lyricist and translator. Recently, Alexis won a Glassco Translation Residency in Tadoussac, Quebec, and an Individual Artist residency at the international Saari Residence, Finland. Her award-winning plays, operas and translations for audiences of all ages have been presented across Canada, in the U.S. and in the U.K. She is co-founder of COMPOSITE THEATRE CO., a long-standing member of the national organizations PLAYWRIGHTS’ WORKSHOP MONTRÉAL and the PLAYWRIGHTS GUILD OF CANADA. Her plans for the Saari Residence include working on a first draft of her play The White Hotel, the sequel to the award-winning Strange Land, a historical epic set in Montreal in 1942, and planning new music theatre projects with acclaimed Canadian composers Abigail Richardson and Stephanie Moore.