Robert Lepage studied at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Quebec and with Alain Knapp in Paris and subsequently worked with Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation and Theatre Repere. Actor, director and writer, his international work includes his first solo show Vinci (best production, Festival de Nyon and Prix Coup de Pouce, Festival d'Avignon, 1987), Polygraph (Time Out Award, 1989; Chalmers Award, Toronto, 1991), The Dragons' Trilogy (Grand Prize of the Festival of Amercias, 1987). Tectonic Plates, Needles and Opium (one-man show, Prix de la Critique Francaise, 1991), The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Elsinore (one-man show). He also directed the films Le Confessional (1995) and Polygraph (1996). From 1990 to 1993 he was Artistic Director of the French Theatre at National Arts Center, Ottawa and co-founder of Ex Machina in 1994. He was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and the Governor General's Award for Performing Arts in 1994.
