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Jean-Rock Gaudreault

Jean-Rock Gaudreault is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canadaâ??s playwriting section. His first play, La Raccourcie, produced by Théâtre les gens dâ??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 autresâ?¦ 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 autresâ?¦ 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 Generalâ??s Literary Award for Deux pas vers les étoiles, which was produced (in French) in Tokyo, in 2004.

Books by Jean-Rock Gaudreault