Suzanne Lebeau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Suzanne Lebeau

Canadian actor and writer

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1948

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: actor, writer, playwright, children's writer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Suzanne Lebeau

  • 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.

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