Lifetime Achievement Awards and Honorary Memberships

Every year the Association awards honorary memberships and lifetime achievement awards recognizing significant contributions to Canadian theatre. Since 1979, the year the first honorary memberships were given, more than fifty outstanding Canadians have been recognized.

Honorary membership is awarded annually by the Association to a person who has made a significant and sustained contribution to Canadian theatre. Typically, the person selected is affiliated with the city or region where that year’s annual conference is being hosted. A lifetime achievement award is presented on occasion by the Association to honour a member (or former member) of the Association who has made a significant and sustained contribution to the field of theatre research in Canada. Both awards will be presented at the annual Association conference, which will be held online in 2021. Recipients of these awards receive lifetime membership in the Association with all the benefits thereof.

Deadline for 2020 nomination: 15 February 2021. Please send to Shauna Janssen at shauna.janssen@concordia.ca.

Note: The Association reserves the right not to give out the award in a given year.