Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

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The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards were a Canadian literary award, given to Canadian plays produced by any professional Canadian theatre company, and having at least ten performances in the Toronto area.

The prize had a monetary value of $25,000, and was named for benefactor Floyd Chalmers, an editor and publisher.

From the award's inception until 1980, one play was named the winner of the award, except for a tie in 1977. In 1980, the award began honouring multiple plays. That year, five winners were named. Since then, four plays normally won the award each year.

The award was one of several arts awards created by the Chalmers family of Toronto. In 2001 the award was discontinued, and the Chalmers family endowed an Ontario Arts Council fund for arts grants.

[edit] Winners

Eve, Larry Fineburg
Jitters, David French
Billy Bishop Goes to War, John Gray
La Sagouine, Antonine Maillet
Waiting for the Parade, John Murrell
F C U, Neil Munro
Mac Paps, George Luscombe, Mac Reynolds and Larry Cox
Ain't Lookin', John Craig and George Luscombe
Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers, Charles Tidler
Theatre of the Film Noir, George F. Walker
  • 1983 - Quiet in the Land, Anne Chislett
Dreaming and Dueling, John Lazarus and Joa Lazarus
White Boys, Tom Walmsley
  • 1984 - Talking Dirty, Sherman Snukal
Brew, Claude Meunier
Jennie's Story, Jean-Pierre Plante, Francine Ruel, Louis Sala, Michel Coté, Marcel Gauthier, Marc Messier and Betty Lambert
Ever Loving, Margaret Hollingsworth
Salt Water Moon, David French
Prague, John Krizanc
Doc, Sharon Pollock
History of the Village of Small Huts: New France, Michael Hollingsworth
Goodnight Disgrace, Michael Mercer
Papers, Allan Stratton
Jessica, Linda Griffiths
The Wedding Script, Don Hannah
The Rez Sisters, Tomson Highway
Detaining Mr. Trotsky, Robert Fothergill
I Am Yours, Judith Thompson
Tête-à-Tête, Ralph Burdman
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Ann-Marie MacDonald
Le vrai monde?, Michel Tremblay
Nothing Sacred, George F. Walker
  • 1990 - Moo, Sally Clark
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Tomson Highway
The Half of It, John Krizanc
Love and Anger, George F. Walker
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Brad Fraser
Lion in the Streets, Judith Thompson
La maison suspendue, Michel Tremblay
The Noam Chomsky Lectures, Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia
House, Daniel MacIvor
A Short History of Night, John Mighton
The Hope Slide, Joan MacLeod
The League of Nathans, Jason Sherman
Escape from Happiness, George F. Walker
  • 1994 - The Life and Times of Mackenzie King, Michael Hollingsworth
The Last Supper, Hillar Liitoja
A Play About the Mothers de Mayo, Alisa Palmer
Fronteras Americanas, Guillermo Verdecchia
Ditch, Geoff Kavanagh
Pants on Fire, Ken Garnhum
The Alistair Trilogy, Diane Cave and Nadia Ross
Poor Super Man, Brad Fraser
Riot, Andrew Moodie
The Faraway Nearby, John Murrell
  • 1997 - Where is Kabuki?, Don Druick
2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt
Here Lies Henry, Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks
A Line in the Sand, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef
Harlem Duet, Djanet Sears
The Four Lives of Marie, Carole Fréchette
Stuck, David Rubinoff
The Betrayal, Leah Cherniak, Oliver Dennis, Maggie Huculak, Robert Morgan, Martha Ross and Michael Simpson
The Orphan Muses, Michel Marc Bouchard
Patience, Jason Sherman
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Michel Tremblay (writer) and Linda Gaboriau (translator)
Street of Blood, Ronnie Burkett
The Drawer Boy, Michael Healey
  • 2001 - Belle, Florence Gibson
Radio:30, Chris Earle
Building Jerusalem, Michael Redhill and Ross Manson
Heaven, George F. Walker

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