Vincent de Tourdonnet

De Tourdonnet’s epic musical Pélagie,[2] co-written with Allen Cole, premiered at CanStage[3] in Toronto and The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and was broadcast on CBC radio.

De Tourdonnet directed an Eastern Canada touring production of Pélagie,[4] produced by Two Planks and a Passion with a bilingual cast alternating performances in French and English.

Starring Québec chanteuse Marie Denise Pelletier, and Canadian actor Rejean Cournoyer, it was translated by Antonine Maillet, author of the Prix Goncourt-winning novel Pélagie-la-charrette, on which the musical is based.

His first production of Snappy Tales, Short Satirical Musicals,[5] (book, lyrics & direction) at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, was nominated for 7 Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

It premiered to strong critical acclaim in 1995 in Montreal at the Saidye Bronfman Theatre, (co-directed by de Tourdonnet) and then went on to large-scale, $4.5 million production at the Place des Arts and La Capitole in Quebec City in 1997, and was seen by over 100,000 people.