Robert Lepage was born on December 12,1957 and is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director.
24 Facts About Robert Lepage
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Robert Lepage struggled with clinical depression in his teens as he came to terms with being gay.
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Robert Lepage subsequently participated in workshops at Alain Knapp's theatre school in Paris, France.
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Robert Lepage was the artistic director of the National Arts Centre's Theatre francais in Ottawa from 1989 to 1993, and continued to stage plays.
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In 1994, Robert Lepage founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary production company, for which he is artistic director.
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Robert Lepage was invited in 1994 to direct August Strindberg's A Dream Play at Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Robert Lepage has directed five other feature films: The Confessional, Polygraph, No, Possible Worlds and Triptych , and has acted in films by other directors, including Jesus of Montreal and Stardom by Denys Arcand.
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Robert Lepage directed a number of operas, including Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung at the Canadian Opera Company, The Damnation of Faust in Japan and Paris, and Lorin Maazel's 1984 at the Royal Opera House in London in 2005.
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Robert Lepage staged Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, which was presented in Brussels' Opera de la Monnaie in April 2007 and San Francisco War Memorial Opera House in November 2007.
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In November 2008, Robert Lepage directed a staged version of Hector Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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In February, 2009, Robert Lepage premiered a new work entitled Eonnagata at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, UK.
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In spring 2009, Robert Lepage presented The Blue Dragon, a sequel to his Dragons' Trilogy, in which he reprised the role of Pierre Lamontagne, a Quebecois artist who lives in China.
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In fall 2009, Robert Lepage directed The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, an operatic staging of short works by Stravinsky blending hand shadow puppetry, Kabuki theatre, Chinese opera and Vietnamese Water puppetry.
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Robert Lepage then wrote and directed Totem, Cirque du Soleil's next touring show, and began work on a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner for the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
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Robert Lepage was featured in a 2012 documentary about the Met Ring production, Wagner's Dream.
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In 2012, Robert Lepage appeared as a hologram in Martin Villeneuve's Mars et Avril, a science fiction film based on the graphic novels of the same name.
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In 2018, Robert Lepage launched SLAV at the Montreal Jazz Festival; Betty Bonifassi's creation was so controversial that it was cancelled due to public protest - with the charge that white people singing the songs of black 19th-century slaves constituted cultural appropriation.
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In 2022, Robert Lepage came back to the big screen in Martin Villeneuve's The 12 Tasks of Imelda, co-starring Ginette Reno and Michel Barrette, in which he plays Martin and Denis Villeneuve's father Jean, a notary.
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In 1994, Robert Lepage was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his particularly imaginative and innovative work".
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Robert Lepage was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in 2009 "for his international contributions to the performing arts, particularly in film, theatre and opera, as an actor, producer and director".
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In 2009, Robert Lepage received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
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Robert Lepage has been nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for his films Polygraph, Possible Worlds, and Far Side of the Moon.
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Robert Lepage won the award for his film The Confessional.
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Robert Lepage was nominated for the Jutra Award for Best Direction for his film No Robert Lepage won the Special Jutra Award for his film Possible Worlds.