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Jean-Rock Gaudreault
Jean-Rock Gaudreault is a graduate
of the National Theatre School of Canada’s playwriting section. His
first play, La Raccourcie, produced by Théâtre les gens d’en
bas in 1997, was remounted and performed during the Festival de Théâtre
des Amériques in Montreal and was nominated for a Masque for best regional
production in the same year.
His play for young audiences,
Mathieu trop court, François trop long was nominated for a Masque
for best script in 1999. Mathieu François et les autres… presented
the play more than 250 times in Quebec and Europe. The English-language
production, Matthew and Stephen, was produced in Canada and the
United States in 2002.
His second play for young audiences,
Deux pas vers les étoiles, first produced by Mathieu François
et les autres… in 2002, has been performed almost 300 times in Quebec
and France. It won the Rideau Vox Pares award and a Masque for best
play for young audiences in 2003. Jean-Rock Gaudreault won the 2003
Governor General’s Literary Award for Deux pas vers les étoiles,
which was produced (in French) in Tokyo, in 2004.
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