Sarah Gurcel is a translator from English into French. She translates plays under her acting name, Sarah Vermande.
She occasionally translates from French into English, in collaboration with British playwright Matthew Hurt.

She is a member of the French Association of Literary Translator and part of the editing team of its review TransLittérature.

She is also a member of the Maison Antoine Vitez, international centre for drama translation.

TRAINING

2005 : MA in Literary Translation, Paris VII University
1997-2000 : BA Acting at the Drama Centre London (University of Central Lancashire)
1996-1997 : MA in Legal Sociology, Paris II University
1992-1996 : Double degree in English and French Law, Paris I University – King’s College London
- Maîtrise en droit privé (Mention Assez Bien)
- LLB in English and French Law (Upper Second Class degree)
1990-1992 : Hypokhâgne and khâgne (specializing in English) at the Lycée du Parc, Lyon
1990 : Baccalauréat B (Mention Très Bien)

FICTION

- American Rust, by Philipp Meyer (Simon&Schuster, 2009), translated as Un arrière-goût de rouille (Éditions Denoël, 2010).

- Bearing the body, by Ehud Havazelet (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) translated as De chair et de cendre (Éditions Denoël, 2009).

NON-FICTION

- The Science of Sherlock Holmes, by E. J. Warner (John Wiley & Sons, 2007), translated as La science de Sherlock Holmes (Editions Le Pommier, 2011).

- The Philosophical Baby, by Alison Gopnik (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), translated as Le bébé philosophe (Editions Le Pommier, 2010). To be published.

- Primates and Philosophers. How Morality Evolved, by Frans de Waal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), translated as Primates et philosophes (Editions Le Pommier, 2008).

- The Scientist in the crib, what early learning tells us about the mind, by Alison Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff et Patricia Kuhl (William Morris and Company, 1999), translated as Comment pensent les bébés ? (Editions Le Pommier, 2005).

DRAMA

*FROM ENGLISH INTO FRENCH

- strangers, babies by Linda McLean (play translated with the support of the Maison Antoine Vitez, in collaboration avec Blandine Pélissier)

- The Eleventh Capital by Alexandra Wood (play translated with the support of the Maison Antoine Vitez, awarded a production grant by the French ministry of culture)

- Night of the soul by David Farr (play translated with the support of the Maison Antoine Vitez and of the Paris British Council)

- Dinner by Moira Buffini (in collaboration avec Isabelle Kérisit)

- Handbag by Mark Ravenhill

- Believe by Matthew Hurt

- Singing! Dancing! Acting! by Matthew Hurt

- Mammals by Amelia Bullmore (in collaboration avec Dominique Hollier)

- A Raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry (in collaboration avec Samuel Legitimus)

- The Fools’ opera, book and lyrics by Mike Dineen, music by Robin Bullock

- After Liverpool by James Saunders (in collaboration avec Valérie Da Mota)

*FROM FRENCH INTO ENGLISH (in collaboration with Matthew Hurt)

- Le mardi à Monoprix by Emmanuel Darley (performed by Simon Callow at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winner of a Fringe First and a Herald Angel award )

- Par la nuit by Jean-Luc Raharimanana (surtitles for Laterit Productions / Rotterdam Film Festival)

- Seuls by Wajdi Mouawad (surtitles for the Avignon Festival)

- Les cauchemars du gecko by Jean-Luc Raharimanana (surtitles for the Avignon Festival)

- Les inepties volantes by Dieudonné Niangouna (surtitles for the Avignon Festival)

- Chroniques des jours entiers des nuits entières by Xavier Durringer (for the International Institute of Performing Arts)

- Le pain de ménage et Le plaisir de rompre by Jules Renard (for Concentric Circles)

- Vie et mort d’une parole ordinaire by Laure Salama (for the International Workshop
Festival)