Background
Nicolas Billon was born in Ottawa but grew up in Montréal. He is the son of Johanne Archambault and writer Pierre Billon.
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Dr. Greenberg, the hospital director, is determined to question Michael, ignoring the head nurse's cryptic warnings. Michael speaks of elephants and opera—with the occasional hint of murder and foul play. Fraught with mind games and verbal tugs-of-war, The Elephant Song is a cat-and-mouse game that will keep you guessing until its haunting conclusion.
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Winner of the 2013 Governor General's Award for Drama "Iceland is a beautifully structured and extremely powerful play that haunts the mind. Billon is an original and exciting voice."—Atom Egoyan Nicolas Billon's acclaimed trilogy of plays tackles, with wit and dark humor, the banking crisis, the whale hunt, and a real estate deal gone horribly awry. Told through interwoven monologues, the plays in Fault Lines are a surprising hybrid of Wallace Shawn and Neil Labute. Nicolas Billon's plays and translations have been produced at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Soulpepper Theatre, and the Canadian Stage.
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Nicolas Billon was born in Ottawa but grew up in Montréal. He is the son of Johanne Archambault and writer Pierre Billon.
He is best known for his plays The Elephant Song, Iceland, and Butcher. The Elephant Song, his first play, premiered at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2004. His second play, The Measure of Love, was produced there in 2005.
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 Festival.
Later that year, Billon was voted one of the Top 10 Artists of 2009 by Toronto"s Now Magazine. 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.
Billon"s newest play, Butcher, premiered at Alberta 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.
( Winner of the 2013 Governor General's Award for Drama ...)
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A member of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy, Nicolas"s version of Anton Chekhov"s Three Sisters was produced at Soulpepper in 2007, directed by László Marton. He also co-created BLiNK with the other members of the Academy for the Luminato Festival.