Herménégilde Chiasson named Lieutenant Governor of NB

[Gregory Reid]

Subscribers to this list will be interested to learn that Herménégilde Chiasson
has been named Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswhich.  Born in St. Simon, New
Brunswick, in 1946, Herménégilde Chiasson has become one of the leading artists
of modern Acadie. He holds several degrees, including a doctorate from the
Sorbonne and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New York. He taught
at the Université de Moncton, and worked as a researcher, journalist and
producer for Radio-Canada before trying his hand at film production in 1985.

In the theatre he is the author of some thirty plays including Cap Enragé (Cape
Enrage), l'Exil d'Alexa, La vie est un rêve, Aliénor, and Laurie, ou la vie de
galerie. His work as a playwright, through which he addresses a wide range of
audiences, has always been closely associated with Théâtre l'Escaouette, the
Moncton-based company that has produced the majority of his plays. Among the
seventeen books he has published as a writer we find Mourir à Scoudouc, Vous,
Miniatures, Climats and Conversations, which won a Governor General's award in
1999. He has directed seventeen films including Toutes les photos finissent par
se ressembler, Le Grand Jack, Robichaud, Épopée, Photographies and Ceux qui
attendent. In the visual arts Herménégilde has put together twenty-five
individual expositions and participated in a hundred other group expositions.
He has also chaired several artistic organizations and participated in setting
up a number of others.

Members of ACTR and others interested in Canadian theatre are likely to be
aware of Chiasson's work through articles by Glen Nichols and his recent
anthology of Acadien drama in translation which includes two of Chiasson's
plays.


Greg