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Nominations for the 2025 Siminovitch Prize are now open
April 2, 2025
The Siminovitch Prize is a celebration of Canadian theatre, honouring excellence and innovation since 2001. Awarded annually to exceptional theatre artists, the Siminovitch Prize encourages artists financially and with national recognition. It helps artists deepen their practice and facilitates their ongoing contributions to theatre in Canada. The Siminovitch Prize is an investment in the future of the art form.
To celebrate a twenty-five-year legacy of fostering excellence and innovation in Canadian theatre, the Siminovitch Theatre Foundation is challenging its conventions by broadening who can be nominated for the Siminovitch Prize in 2025.
This year, we are pausing our traditional three-year rotating cycle of honouring directors, playwrights, and designers to welcome nominations for theatre creators from these three disciplines, as well as from theatre creators whose work does not fall strictly into the three established Siminovitch Prize categories.
2024 Siminovitch Prize Honourees (missing Hina Nishioka)
Peers are invited to nominate an exceptional artist, or group/ensemble, who has developed a marked personal style or approach to their art and has created a high-quality body of work that has made a remarkable contribution and enriched theatre in Canada. This enrichment may occur, for example, through the development of new practices and methods, the rigorous pursuit of new questions and voices, the nurturing of rich collaborations, or any other process that serves the artist’s work.
The Siminovitch Prize is not a lifetime achievement award – it is awarded to a mid-career exceptional artist or group whose practice continues to grow, develop, and expand. Nominees must have at least ten years of experience, and no more than thirty years of experience, as professional artists in the discipline for which they are being nominated.
"The Siminovitch Prize represents the highest level of peer recognition in Canadian theatre. Beyond recognition, its purpose is to support the recipient in furthering their craft. The importance of an award like this in communicating the value of culture to the country cannot be overstated."
