Mark J. Lepage
E-mail: mythlink@ca.inter.net
Career highlights
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Experienced translator (French-English) with vast cultural expertise (see below)
Veteran newspaper and magazine writer with extensive experience analyzing popular
culture, music, film and politics
Expertise in popular music, including interviews with a who’s who of the rock world
(Bono, Madonna, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed)
Experienced interviewer in film (Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep) and literature (Martin
Amis, Norman Mailer)
Published internationally in periodicals ranging from SPIN magazine and Details to the
Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, New York Daily News and The National (Abu Dhabi)
Experienced editor – deadline news, books, websites, names available upon request
Translation
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Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, 2001 to present
Festival Montréal en Lumière, 2004 to present
Les Francofolies de Montréal, 2004 to present
Projects for Délégation générale du Québec à New York
Projects for Ville de Montréal, Tourisme Montréal
Projects for CROP, Cirque du Soleil, MasterCard, Les Éditions Rogers Ltée, East View
Communications, Productions J
Contracts with the Archidiocèse catholique de Montréal and L’Oratoire Saint-Joseph du
Mont-Royal
Newspapers
Montreal Gazette, 1990-1997
Position: Rock and pop music critic and columnist
Role: More than 2,200 published stories on topics ranging from A (ABBA) to Z (ZZ Top), as
well as international features (IRA ceasefire in Belfast)
Montreal Gazette, 2002-present
Position: New York columnist (freelance)
Role: New York from a Montreal point of view, including everything from Barack Obama to
murder on the Lower East Side
Other publications
Freelance work for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Star, The National in
Abu Dhabi and New York Daily News, among others; details upon request.
Magazines
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Contributor to SPIN, En Route, Toro, Strut, Blender, Maclean’s, Mean Magazine
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Strategic Communications/Marketing
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Canadian Consulate Initiative on behalf of Canadian bands attending South By
Southwest Rock Festival, 2004 to present: writing for integrated marketing tools
including Official Catalogue, Website, CD liners
Rebranding of CROP (major market research firm) website alongside CEO Carlo
Bianchini, 2010
Editor/consultant for Cirque du Soleil One Drop worldwide 2009 webcast “Poetic Social
Mission”
Organic Digital Marketing Inc.: creation of Yuri, a rapping taxi driver, for web campaign
for 20th Century Fox film Taxi (Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon), 2004
Film and television
 Writer/editor and consultant on Cirque du Soleil’s Poetic Social Mission, internet initiative
in October 2009 starring U2, Vice President Al Gore, Peter Gabriel and Shakira,
estimated to have reached a worldwide audience of 300 million.
 Consultant/writer on treatment for Bravo! rockumentary Singing in the Shadow (Gemini
nominee)
 Unpublished TV pilot about rock’n’roll singer’s suicide: Five Chambers Deep
Radio
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CBC Radio One Daybreak – daily arts columnist, February 2010
Books
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Contributor to 2000 Reasons to Hate the Millennium (Simon & Schuster New York) –
essay entitled The Rock’n’Roll Millennium
Contributor to Remembering Guy Lafleur (Raincoast Books) – essay entitled Guy
Lafleur: Rock Star
First draft edit: Beyond Gibraltar, memoir by Maristella Lorch
Editing unpublished historical non-fiction, The Ghosts of World War I, with Mark Cahill
Other media
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Critical/cultural commentary appearances and spots written for MSNBC, MTV, CBC-TV
Personal favourites
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Kidnapping For Dummies: crime feature about abduction of Connecticut billionaire
Edward Lampert, Toro Magazine, Summer 2004
The Wayward Seed: feature on male reproductive rights, Toro, Summer 2006
You Talkin’ To Him?: Interview with Robert De Niro, Globe and Mail, 2006
References and clippings
Available upon request.
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