And the winner is…
This year’s awards cover the 18-month period from January 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015. A new policy to evaluate productions by theatrical season (from July to June) rather than by calendar year came into effect on July 1, and the evaluation period was extended to accommodate the transition. During this period, 16 French-language productions and 66 English-language productions were evaluated by two groups of performing arts professionals in the national capital region. The selections were submitted by secret ballot to two independent accountants – the French to Marcil Lavallée and the English to Financial MSH – who were responsible for calculating the results.
A crowd of approximately 175 members of Ottawa-Gatineau’s English and French theatrical circles (the number of reservations confirmed at the time this email was sent) gathered Sunday night in the Maison du Citoyen in Gatineau to see the prizes awarded and to launch the new theatre season.
The Prix Rideau Awards would like to thank its partners:
Mensour Agency
Canadian Actors Equity Association
AOE Arts Council
Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa
Epicuria Catering
Ottawa Fringe Festival
Marcil Lavallée, Chartered Accountants
MSH Financial, Chartered Accountants
City of Ottawa
City of Gatineau
For further information, please contact:
Kyle Ahluwalia (Interim President) – president@prixrideauawards.ca
Joël Beddows (Past President) – jbeddows@rogers.com
ANGLOPHONE
Outstanding Production
Re :Union by Sean Devine (Horseshoes & Hand Grenades)
Outstanding New Work
The Elephant Girls by Margo MacDonald
Outstanding Director
Mary Ellis (The Elephant Girls, Parry Riposte Productions)
Outstanding Performance, Male
Tim Oberholzer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Vanity Project)
Outstanding Performance, Female
Margo MacDonald (The Elephant Girls, Parry Riposte Productions)
Outstanding Designs
Seth Gerry, Lighting (Happiness, May Can Theatre)
John Webber, Set and Lighting Design (Re: Union, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades)
Emerging Artist
Alanna Bale, Actor
Behind the Rideau
Tim Oberholzer
FRANCOPHONE
Production de l’année
À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou, Théâtre de l’île
Nouvelle création de l’année
Fucking Carl de Caroline Yergeau et Louis Philippe Roy
Mise en scène de l’année
Kira Ehlers (À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou, Théâtre de l’île)
Interprétation féminine de l’année
Andrée Rainville (Cinéma, Théâtre la Catapulte et Théâtre Belvédère)
Interprétation masculine de l’année
Richard Bénard (À toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou, Théâtre de l’île)
Conceptions de l’année
Christian Fontaine, décor (Quand la mer, Théâtre de la Vieille 17)
Benoît Brunet-Poirier et Marie Pierre Proulx, scénographie-vidéo (Cinéma, Théâtre la Catapulte et le Théâtre Belvédère)
Prix ‘Artiste en émergence’
Marie-Ève Fontaine, comédienne