Gascon-Thomas Award

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The Gascon-Thomas Award is a Canadian theatre award created in 1990. It is awarded by the National Theatre School of Canada to two artists, one English-speaking and one French-speaking, and is named after two of the school's founders, Jean Gascon and Powys Thomas. The award was designed by Montreal artist Annie Michaud. [1]

Award winners [1]

YearEnglishFrench
1990 Joy Coghill Gratien Gélinas
1991 Herbert Whittaker Mercedes Palomino
1992 Martha Henry Michelle Rossignol
1993 Neil Munro Marcel Sabourin
1994 Mallory Gilbert Jean-Claude Germain
1995 Mavor Moore Louisette Dussault
1996 Diana Leblanc Jean-Louis Millette
1997 R.H. Thomson Paul Hébert
1998 John Murrell Marie-Hélène Falcon
1999 Christopher Newton Michel Tremblay
2000 Kenneth Welsh Jean-Pierre Ronfard
2001 Ann-Marie MacDonald Lorraine Pintal
2002 George F. Walker André Brassard
2003 Tomson Highway Robert Lepage
2004 Christopher Plummer Jean-Louis Roux
2005 Jackie Maxwell Janine Sutto
2006 Gordon Pinsent Herménégilde Chiasson
2007 August Schellenberg Brigitte Haentjens
2008 Sharon Pollock Monique Mercure
2009 Sandra Oh Paul Buissonneau
2010 Judith Thompson Wajdi Mouawad
2011 Allan Hawco Claude Poissant
2012 Peter Hinton Dominic Champagne
2013 Colm Feore Suzanne Lebeau
2014 David Latham Michel Marc Bouchard

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gascon-Thomas Award". National Theatre School of Canada.