Suzanne Lebeau (born April 28, 1948) is a Quebec actor and writer.The
daughter of Blanche Payette and Paul Lebeau, she was born in Montreal.
Drawn to the theatre, she studied with Jacques Crête and Gilles Maheu
and performed in classical and contemporary works. Lebeau went on to
study with the mime Étienne Decroux in Paris and then studied
pantomime and marionettes in Wroclaw, Poland with the Henryk
Tomaszewski Pantomime Theatre and Puppet Theatre. She was exposed to
children's theatre through a contract with Théâtre La Roulotte in
Longueuil. She has taught writing for young audiences, including at
the National Theatre School of Canada. In 1975, she founded the Le
Carrousel theatre company with Gervais Gaudreault, also serving as
co-director. She wrote her first children's play Ti-Jean voudrait ben
s'marier, mais.... in 1975, gradually focusing more on writing than on
performing.From November 1993 to February 1994, Lebeau was
writer-in-residence at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon in
France. In 1998, she was named a Chevalier in the French Order of La
Pléiade. The Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City asked her to be
artistic adviser for its exhibition "Grandir" and to write the text
for the exposition "De quel droit ?". Lebeau was a finalist for a
Molière Award in 2008. She received the Prix Athanase-David in 2010
and 2013 then being awarded the Prix Rideau Hommage and the
Gascon-Thomas Award from the National Theatre School of Canada. In
June 2016, Lebeau received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award,
Canada's highest honor in the performing arts, for her lifetime
contribution to Canadian theatre.
daughter of Blanche Payette and Paul Lebeau, she was born in Montreal.
Drawn to the theatre, she studied with Jacques Crête and Gilles Maheu
and performed in classical and contemporary works. Lebeau went on to
study with the mime Étienne Decroux in Paris and then studied
pantomime and marionettes in Wroclaw, Poland with the Henryk
Tomaszewski Pantomime Theatre and Puppet Theatre. She was exposed to
children's theatre through a contract with Théâtre La Roulotte in
Longueuil. She has taught writing for young audiences, including at
the National Theatre School of Canada. In 1975, she founded the Le
Carrousel theatre company with Gervais Gaudreault, also serving as
co-director. She wrote her first children's play Ti-Jean voudrait ben
s'marier, mais.... in 1975, gradually focusing more on writing than on
performing.From November 1993 to February 1994, Lebeau was
writer-in-residence at the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon in
France. In 1998, she was named a Chevalier in the French Order of La
Pléiade. The Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City asked her to be
artistic adviser for its exhibition "Grandir" and to write the text
for the exposition "De quel droit ?". Lebeau was a finalist for a
Molière Award in 2008. She received the Prix Athanase-David in 2010
and 2013 then being awarded the Prix Rideau Hommage and the
Gascon-Thomas Award from the National Theatre School of Canada. In
June 2016, Lebeau received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award,
Canada's highest honor in the performing arts, for her lifetime
contribution to Canadian theatre.
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