Stewart Lemoine
Stewart Lemoine has been writing for Teatro Live (formerly Teatro La Quindicina) in Edmonton since 1982, and is the author of over seventy plays including Cocktails at Pam’s, Pith!, Evelyn Strange and The Exquisite Hour. Since 1994, he and Teatro have been resident at Edmonton’s Varscona Theatre. Teatro productions of his work have also been remounted in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, and Winnipeg, and in New York City. His plays have received productions by professional and community theatres across Canada, and by academic institutions in Canada and the United States. Stewart is a ten-time winner of Edmonton’s Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for his work with Teatro, and won Toronto’s Dora Mavor Moore Award for The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas. He’s received both the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee Medals, the Province of Alberta’s Tommy Banks Award, and in 2010 he was inducted into Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame.