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Founded in 2006 to celebrate, encourage and promote French and English locally produced professional theatre work and its artists, the Prix Rideau Awards is proud to announce the nominees for the period of January 1st 2014 to June 30, 2015.
During the above-mentioned period, two teams of local arts professionals juried 66 English productions and 16 French language productions. Nominations were submitted by secret ballot and tallied by independent accountants.
The Prix Rideau Awards will be handed out on Sunday, September 27, 2015, at la Maison du Citoyen in Gatineau. Tickets are on sale now atwww.prixrideauawards.ca.
The nominees for English-language productions are:
Outstanding Production
Re :Union by Sean Devin (Horseshoes and Hand Grenades)
Happiness by Tony Adams and Cory Thibert (May Can Theatre)
Wolf Child by Emily Pearlman and Nick Di Gaetano (Mi Casa Theatre)
The Elephant Girls by Margo MacDonald (Parry Riposte Productions)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask (Vanity Project)
Outstanding New Work
Corpus by Darrah Teitel
Young Lady in White by Dominick Parenteau-Lebeuf
Wolf Child by Emily Pearlman and Nick Di Gaetano
The Elephant Girls by Margo MacDonald
The Tashme Project by Julie Tamko and Matt Miwa
Outstanding Director
Madeleine Boyes-Manseau (Happiness, May Can Theatre)
Stewart Mathews (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Vanity Project)
Sean Devine (Re:Union, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades)
Mary Ellis (The Elephant Girls, Parry Riposte Productions)
Ian Farthing, Two Gentleman of Verona, St. Lawrence Shakespeare
Outstanding Performance, Male
Paul Rainville (The Burden of Self Awareness, GCTC)
Andrew Wheeler (Re:Union, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades)
Brad Long (Re:Union, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades)
Cory Thibert (Happiness, May Can Theatre)
Tim Oberholzer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Vanity Project)
Outstanding Performance, Female
Alexa Devine (Re:Union, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades)
Chandel Gambles (Venus in Fur, Plosive Productions)
Carolyn Hetherington (Woman Who Shout at the Stars)
Catriona Leger (Young Lady in White, Evolution Theatre)
Margo MacDonald (The Elephant Girls, Parry Riposte Productions)
Oustanding Design
Martin Conboy (Set and Lighting, Burden of Self Awareness, GCTC)
John Doucet (Set Design, Pomme and Restes: Shipwrecked!, Company of Fools)
Seth Gerry, Happiness (Lighting, May Can Theatre)
Vanessa Imeson (Costumes, Two Gentlemen of Verona, St. Lawrence Shakespeare)
John Webber (Set and Lighting Design, Re:Union, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades)
Emerging Artist
Alanna Bale, Actor
Alessia Lupiano, Actor
Alexis Scott, Choreographer
Andrea Steinward, Actor
Alex Zabloski, Musician
The nominees for French-language productions are:
Production de l’année
À toi pour toujours ta Marie-Lou de Michel Tremblay, Théâtre de l’île
Cinéma de Mishka Lavigne, Théâtre la Catapulte
Ciseaux de Lisa L’Heureux, Théâtre Rouge Écarlate
Fucking Carl de Louis-Philippe Roy et Caroline Yergeau, Théâtre 4.669
Quand la mer d’Esther Beauchemin, Théâtre de la Ville 17, Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury) et Sortie de secours (Québec)
Nouvelle création de l’année
Cinéma de Mishka Lavigne
Ciseaux de Lisa L’Heureux
La Fille d’argile de Michel Ouellette
Fucking Carl de Louis-Philippe Roy et Caroline Yergeau,
Pour l’hiver de Lisa L’Heureux
Mise en scène de l’année
Kira Ehlers (À toi pour toujours ta Marie-Lou)
Lisa L’Heureux (Ciseaux)
Kevin Orr (Fucking Carl)
Philippe Soldevila (Quand la mer)
Caroline Yergeau (Cinéma)
Interprétation féminine de l’année
Marie-Ève Fontaine (Ciseaux)
Élise Gauthier (À la recherche des escargots)
Andrée Rainville (Cinéma)
Frédérique Thérrien (À toi pour toujours ta Marie-Lou)
Caroline Yergeau (Fucking Carl)
Interprétation masculine de l’année
Richard Bénard (À toi pour toujours ta Marie-Lou)
Roch Castonguay (Petites bûches)
Roch Castonguay (Quand la mer)
Nicolas Desfossés (Cinéma)
Louis-Philippe Roy (Fucking Carl)
Conception de l’année
Benoît Brunet-Poirier (Vidéo) Cinéma
Mathieu Charette (Éclairages) À toi pour toujours ta Marie-Lou
Christian Fontaine (Décors) Quand la mer
Élise Gauthier (Écriture scénique) L’Araignée
Marianne Thériault (Costumes) Quand la mer
Prix ‘Artiste en émergence’
Jasmine Delage
Marie-Ève Fontaine
Venessa Lachance
Mishka Lavigne
Louis-Philippe Roy
2015-09-01
Ottawa: Nominations announced for the 8th Prix Rideau Awards