Nicolas Billon
Canadian writer
Nicolas Billon (born March 22, 1978) is a Canadian writer. He is best known for his plays The Elephant Song , Iceland , and Butcher .
Biography
Nicolas Billon was born in Ottawa , Ontario and grew up in Montreal , Quebec . He is the son of Johanne Archambault and writer Pierre Billon .
The Elephant Song , his first play, premiered at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2004.[ 1] His second play, The Measure of Love , was produced there in 2005.
A member of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy, Nicolas's version of Anton Chekhov 's Three Sisters was produced at Soulpepper in 2007,[ 2] directed by László Marton . He also co-created BLiNK with the other members of the Academy for the Luminato Festival .[ 3]
In 2009, Billon joined the Tarragon Playwrights Unit. That June, his adaptation of Molière 's The Sicilian was one of the hits of the Toronto Fringe Festival .
A few months later, his play Greenland opened at the 2009 SummerWorks Theatre Festival . It was a critical and audience success,[ 4] [ 5] and won both the Now Magazine Audience Choice Award and the SummerWorks Outstanding Production Award.[ 6] Later that year, Billon was voted one of the Top 10 Theatre Artists of 2009 by Toronto's Now Magazine .[ 7]
Billon was a finalist for and won the 2013 Governor General's Award for Drama for Fault Lines .[ 8]
His play The Elephant Song was adapted into the 2014 film Elephant Song , directed by Charles Binamé and starring Bruce Greenwood , Xavier Dolan , and Catherine Keener .[ 9] His screenplay garnered both the 2015 Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the 2015 WGC Screenwriting Award for Features & Mini-Series.
Billon's play, Butcher , premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects in October 2014. The play deals with the theme of justice and features several characters who speak Lavinian , an invented language created by two linguists, Christina Kramer and Dragana Obradović, specifically for the play.[ 10]
Film
Feature films
Short films
Hyperlight (2018)
How Tommy Lemenchick Became a Grade 7 Legend (2016)
A Kindness (2012)
The Exit (2010)
Theatre
Plays
Butcher (2014)
Faroe Islands (2013)
Iceland (2012)
The Safe Word (2011)
Greenland (2009)
The Measure of Love (2005)
The Elephant Song (2004)
Adaptations
Collaborations
I'm So Close (2010)
BLiNK (2008)
References
^ "Stratford Festival – Archives & History" . Stratfordfestival.ca. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ Kaplan, Jon . "Brand new Sister act | NOW Magazine" . Nowtoronto.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ Kustanczy, Catherine (June 9, 2008). "BLiNK and You'll Miss it | news" . Torontoist. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ "NOW // Summerworks 2009 | NOW Magazine" . Nowtoronto.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ "SummerWorks Review: Greenland [The Greenland Collective]" . The Panic Manual. August 18, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ Sumi, Glenn. "SummerWorks standouts | NOW Magazine" . Nowtoronto.com. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ Kaplan, Jon (January 3, 2012). "Jon Kaplan's Top 10 Theatre Artists | NOW Magazine" . Nowtoronto.com. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ "Get ready to read the GGreat books of 2013 | The Canada Council for the Arts" . Canadacouncil.ca. October 2, 2013. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2013 .
^ "TIFF 2014 to screen Xavier Dolan and Denys Arcand films" . CBC News , August 6, 2014.
^ "Learning Lavinian: professors create a new Slavic language"
External links
1980s 1990s
Ann-Marie MacDonald , Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (1990)
Joan MacLeod , Amigo's Blue Guitar (1991)
John Mighton , Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night (1992)
Guillermo Verdecchia , Fronteras Americanas (1993)
Morris Panych , The Ends of the Earth (1994)
Jason Sherman , Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1995)
Colleen Wagner , The Monument (1996)
Ian Ross , fareWel (1997)
Djanet Sears , Harlem Duet (1998)
Michael Healey , The Drawer Boy (1999)
2000s
Timothy Findley , Elizabeth Rex (2000)
Kent Stetson , The Harps of God (2001)
Kevin Kerr , Unity (1918) (2002)
Vern Thiessen , Einstein's Gift (2003)
Morris Panych , Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004)
John Mighton , Half Life (2005)
Daniel MacIvor , I Still Love You (2006)
Colleen Murphy , The December Man (2007)
Catherine Banks , Bone Cage (2008)
Kevin Loring , Where the Blood Mixes (2009)
2010s
Robert Chafe , Afterimage (2010)
Erin Shields , If We Were Birds (2011)
Catherine Banks , It Is Solved by Walking (2012)
Nicolas Billon , Fault Lines: Three Plays (2013)
Jordan Tannahill , Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (2014)
David Yee , carried away on the crest of a wave (2015)
Colleen Murphy , Pig Girl (2016)
Hiro Kanagawa , Indian Arm (2017)
Jordan Tannahill , Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (2018)
Amanda Parris , Other Side of the Game (2019)
2020s
International National Other