Current
Recipients
Image: Ann-Marie Kerr, production meeting
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Meet this year’s winner and finalists of the Siminovitch Prize, Canada’s highest valued theatre award.
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2025 Siminovitch Prize Finalists
Ravi Jain
A visionary maker whose practice collides movement, music, realism, devised methods, and social practice, Ravi Jain is the founder and co-artistic director of Why Not Theatre.
Anne-Marie Olivier
Anne-Marie Olivier blends documentary and fiction through a methodology of gathering true stories, crafting works that hold social reality and poetic language in the same breath—Venir au monde (Governor General’s Literary Award), Faire l’amour, Annette, Maurice.
Estelle Shook
A national leader in large-scale outdoor, site-specific, land-based theatre, Estelle Shook has built an internationally watched model at Caravan Farm Theatre, where story, environment and community are inseparable—often including human and equine performers, and programming year-round on eighty acres of Secwepemc and Syilx territories.
Adrienne Wong
For two decades, Adrienne Wong has pioneered participatory and live-digital performance—“podplays,” locative audio works, platform-native theatre, and national knowledge-sharing through FOLDA.
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