Stewart Lemoine
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Stewart Lemoine is a Canadian playwright, director, and producer. Lemoine is based in Edmonton, Alberta and from 1982-2007 was the Artistic Director of Teatro la Quindicina, a theatre company which primarily produces his own original works at Old Strathcona's Varscona Theatre.
Lemoine has written over sixty plays in the course of his career, including All These Heels (1982), Cocktails at Pam's (1986), Damp Fury(1988), Two Tall Too Thin (1992), Shockers Delight! (1993), Evelyn Strange (1995), Fall Down Go Boom: A Skater's Tragedy (1996), The Velvet Shock (1996), Pith! (1997), The Subject of My Affections (1998), The Rules of Irene (1998), Skirts on Fire (2000), On the Banks of the Nut (2001), The Exquisite Hour (2002), Vidalia (2002), The Margin of the Sky (2003), The Salon of the Talking Turk (2005), A Grand Time in the Rapids (2005), A Momentary Lapse (2005); and At the Zenith of the Empire (2006).
Lemoine is the winner of four Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards for The Glittering Heart (1990), The Book of Tobit (1993), The Noon Witch (1995), and At the Zenith of the Empire (2006). He received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas (1986). He won the New York International Fringe Festival’s Award for Overall Excellence in Playwriting for the remount of Pith! in 2004.
Lemoine served as the director for the live improvised soap opera Die-Nasty for two seasons (1996-97, 1997-98), and produced the show for several years after that. Since 1999, he has acted as producer of Oh Susanna!, the Varscona Theatre's monthly variety show.
