Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

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.

Winners

*1973 - "Creeps", David Freeman
*1974 - "Of the Fields, Lately", David French
*1975 - "Saint Nicholas Hotel", James Reaney
*1976 - "Fortune and Men's Eyes", John Herbert
*1977 - "Back to Beulah", W.O. Mitchell: "Eve", Larry Fineburg
*1978 - "Les Canadiens", Rick Salutin
*1979 - "Le temps d'une vie", Roland Lepage
*1980 - "Balconville", David Fennario: "Jitters", David French: "Billy Bishop Goes to War", John Gray: "La Sagouine", Antonine Maillet: "Waiting for the Parade", John Murrell
*1981 - "Automatic Pilot", Erika Ritter: "F C U", Neil Munro: "Mac Paps", George Luscombe, Mac Reynolds and Larry Cox: "Ain't Lookin'", John Craig and George Luscombe
*1982 - "Rexy!", Allan Stratton: "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
*1985 - "Criminals in Love", George F. Walker: "Salt Water Moon", David French: "Prague", John Krizanc: "Doc", Sharon Pollock
*1986 - "Albertine, in Five Times", Michel Tremblay: "History of the Village of Small Huts: New France", Michael Hollingsworth: "Goodnight Disgrace", Michael Mercer: "Papers", Allan Stratton
*1987 - "Farther West", John Murrell: "Jessica", Linda Griffiths: "The Wedding Script", Don Hannah: "The Rez Sisters", Tomson Highway
*1988 - "B Movie: The Play", Tom Wood: "Detaining Mr. Trotsky", Robert Fothergill: "I Am Yours", Judith Thompson: "Tête-à-Tête", Ralph Burdman
*1989 - "Fire", Paul Ledoux and David Young: "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
*1991 - "Le polygraphe", Marie Brassard and Robert Lepage: "Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love", Brad Fraser: "Lion in the Streets", Judith Thompson: "La maison suspendue", Michel Tremblay
*1992 - "Lilies", Michel Marc Bouchard (writer) and Linda Gaboriau (translator): "The Noam Chomsky Lectures", Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia: "House", Daniel MacIvor: "A Short History of Night", John Mighton
*1993 - "The Queens", Normand Chaurette (writer) and Linda Gaboriau (translator): "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
*1995 - "Needles and Opium", Robert Lepage: "Ditch", Geoff Kavanagh: "Pants on Fire", Ken Garnhum: "The Alistair Trilogy", Diane Cave and Nadia Ross
*1996 - "The Stillborn Lover", Timothy Findley: "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
*1998 - "Problem Child", George F. Walker: "Harlem Duet", Djanet Sears: "The Four Lives of Marie", Carole Fréchette: "Stuck", David Rubinoff
*1999 - "The End of Civilization", George F. Walker:"The Betrayal", Leah Cherniak, Oliver Dennis, Maggie Huculak, Robert Morgan, Martha Ross and Michael Simpson:"The Orphan Muses", Michel Marc Bouchard:"Patience", Jason Sherman
*2000 - "Alien Creatures: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwan", Linda Griffiths:"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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