Nomination
Process
Image: Ann-Marie Kerr, The Best Show
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Eligibility Process
Peers are invited to nominate artists who, through their body of work, have made a significant creative contribution to theatre in Canada and who continue to create innovative work.
The Siminovitch Prize is a mid-career award, not a lifetime achievement award, and is intended to provide an artist who has created remarkable work to date with the freedom to deepen their practice and make an even more significant contribution to the field in the years to come.
- Nominees must have at least 10 years’ experience as professional artists in the discipline for which they are being nominated, and will have developed a marked personal style or artistic approach to their craft, vision, techniques, interests and/or collaborations.
- Eligible artists must be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, and actively working in theatre in Canada.
- Self-nominations will not be considered. Completed nominations should be submitted electronically using the online form.
- Current members of the Board or staff of the Siminovitch Theatre Foundation, and currently contracted workers including the Jury Chair and members of the Jury, are ineligible for Siminovitch Prize in the year in which they serve, nor may they nominate or write a letter of support for a nominee.
Any questions regarding the eligibility of nominees are decided at the jury’s sole discretion.
Selection Process
A national jury of distinguished members of the theatre community is chosen annually to select the finalists and winner. The Jury Chair leads the selection of the jury and presides over deliberations.
The jury will consider the following aspects of the artist’s work:
- Orignality
- Sense of evolution
- Growing maturity
- Continuing experimentation
- Impact upon audiences
- Influence upon emerging artists, colleagues, and peers.
The shortlist is announced in October, and the Laureate and Protégé are announced in December.
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Submit a Nomination
Nominations for the 2023 Siminovitch Prize are currently closed. The online nomination form will open again in April 2024.
Image: Linda Brunelle, costume creation
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