Valérie Tellos (Interprétation 4) delivering her introductory speech for Gilles Renaud, recipient of the Gascon-Thomas award for Lifetime Achievement
The Gascon-Thomas Award
Created in 1990 by the NTS’s Board of Governors, the award is named in honour of two of the School’s founders: Jean Gascon and Powys Thomas, who are equally among the School’s first great teachers to have made a lasting impression. In the spirit of the School’s co-lingual nature, it is bestowed each year to one Anglophone and one Francophone artist in two categories: Innovation and Career. Those who receive this award have made their mark on today's theatre or who have helped to change tomorrow's theatre.
Weyni Mengesha
THE GASCON-THOMAS AWARD FOR INNOVATION GIVEN TO WEYNI MENGESHA
Read Weyni Mengesha's acceptance speech here!
Watch Weyni Mengesha's interview with Yousef Kadoura (Acting 2017)!
Gilles Renaud

THE GASCON-THOMAS AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GIVEN TO ACTOR GILLES RENAUD (INTERPRÉTATION, 1967)
Read Gilles Renaud's acceptance speech here!
Watch Gilles Renaud's interview with Valérie Tellos (Interprétation 4) IN FRENCHRecipients of the Gascon-Thomas Through the Years
Weyni Mengesha - Innovation Award
Gilles Renaud (Interprétation, 1967) - Lifetime Achievement Award


Martin Faucher and David Fox

Djanet Sears and Monique Miller

Hannah Moscovitch and Olivier Choinière

David Latham and Michel Marc Bouchard

Suzanne Lebeau and Colm Feore

Dominic Champagne and Peter Hinton

Allan Hawco and Claude Poissant

Wajdi Mouawad and Judith Thompson

Sandra Oh and Paul Buissonneau

Sharon Pollock and Monique Mercure

August Schellenberg and Brigitte Haentjens

Herménégilde Chiasson and Gordon Pinsent

Jackie Maxwell and Janine Sutto

Jean-Louis Roux and Christopher Plummer

Tomson Highway and Robert Lepage

George F. Walker and André Brassard


Lorraine Pintal and Ann-Marie Macdonald

Kenneth Welsh and Jean-Pierre Ronfard

Christopher Newton and Michel Tremblay

John Murrell and Hélène Falcon


Paul Hébert and R.H Thomson

Diana Leblanc and Jean-Louis Millette


Mavor Moore and Louisette Dussault


Mallory Gilbert and Jean-Claude Germain


Neil Munro and Marcel Sabourin


Martha Henry and Michelle Rossignol


Herbert Whittaker and Mercedes Palomino

Joy Coghill and Gratien Gélinas

Gascon-Thomas 2019



Current and past instructors at NTS reunited at the Gascon-Thomas award ceremony


Students from the Acting program at the Gascon-Thomas award ceremony

Gideon Arthurs, Valérie Tellos (Interprétation 4), Gilles Renaud, Sadie-Laflamme Snow (Acting 4) and Gil Desautels (Governor)


Gilles Renaud receiving his Gascon-Thomas award for Lifetime Achievement

Weyni Mengesha, Artistic Director of the Soulpepper Theatre Company, receiving her Gascon-Thomas award for Innovation, and Yousef Kadoura (Acting 2017) who presented her the award.


Yousef Kadoura (Acting 2017) in conversation with Weyni Mengesha, recipient of the Gascon-Thomas award for Innovation


Dean Fleming and Catherine Bourgeois receiving the Bernard Amyot prize - handed by Bernard Amyot himself! - for their excellence in teaching


Dean Fleming, Catherine Bourgeois, and Bernard Amyot at the Gascon-Thomas award ceremony


Catherine Gadouas, recipient of the Sims Family award for her excellence in teaching


Actresses Véronique Leflaguais (Interprétation 1968) and Catherine Sénart (Interprétation 1991) the evening of the Gascon-Thomas


Frédéric Dubois, artistic director of the French section at NTS, with Caroline Marcadé and Louise Turcot


Alisa Palmer, Artistic Director of the English section at NTS and the School's CEO Gideon Arthurs


Alisa Palmer, Artistic Director of the English section at NTS, with Carol Serge Robichaud (Interprétation 1973)


Playwright John Lazarus and current NTS students at the Gascon-Thomas


Sadie Laflamme-Snow (Acting 4) introducing Weyni Mengesha, recipient of the Gascon-Thomas award for Innovation


Gilles Renaud, actor and recipient of the Gascon-Thomas award for his Lifetime Achievement, during the award ceremony
