Brigitte Haentjens, is a Canadian

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director and president of her own company, Sybillines, which she founded in 1997.Jean St-Hilaire
"Brigitte Haentjens reçoit le prestigieux prix Siminovitch"
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'', online posting in Cyberpresse'', October 30, 2007, accessed January 18, 2008. She is currently the Artistic Director at Canada's

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French Theatre in Ottawa.

Biography

Born in

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, she studied theatre in

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before moving to

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in Canada at the age of 25.

Career

From 1982 to 1990, she was artistic director of the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury, turning it into a major venue of Francophone Canadian theatre through her productions of works by playwrights such as Michel Marc Bouchard and Jean-Marc Dalpé. She also cowrote several works with Dalpé, including ''Nickel''.Nickel, Saison 1983–1984
in ''Théâtrographie'' sec., '' Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario'' (official website), accessed January 19, 2008. (Coproduction Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Théâtre français du Centre national des Arts). (In French.) In 1990, she moved to

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, becoming artistic director of the Nouvelle Compagnie Théâtrale, in Montréal, from 1991 to 1994, and as co-director for the Carrefour International de Théâtre de Québec from 1996 to 2006."$100,000 Siminovitch Prize 2007 Awarded to Director, Brigitte Haentjens:
Recipient Selects Quebec City Director and Montreal Ensemble as Protégés", press release, ''Prix Siminovitch'' (official website), October 29, 2007, accessed January 18, 2008. In addition to continuing to direct theatre for several companies in Montreal, she also directed at the

, in Ottawa, founded her own company, Sybillines, in 1997, and, in October 2007, received the prestigious Elinor and Louis Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for her 30-year career in Québec theatre.

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External links

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Prix Siminovitch
' – Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Theatre Prize Official website. Accessed January 19, 2008. rovides links to the press release about the 2007 award to Haentjens (in English), to the text of her acceptance speech (in English), and to a video about her work (in English with French subtitles).br>"Sybillines"
– Official website. Accessed January 18, 2008. (In French; includes biography.)
"Haentjens"
– A part of the Haentjens History Mai 28, 2008. (In French;) Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French Canadian theatre directors Living people French emigrants to Canada 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Canadian women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian women writers Officers of the Order of Canada Year of birth missing (living people) {{Theat-bio-stub Canadian artistic directors