Gabriel Arcand

Gabriel Arcand is a founding member of la Veillée, a theatre company formed in 1974. He was its executive director until 1982, co-artistic director from 1982 to 1989, and again executive director from 1990 to 1992. He acted in the company's productions and since 1992 has served as an artistic consultant. He has played several landmark film roles for directors such as his brother Denys Arcand (Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe, The Decline of the American Empire), Francis Manckiewicz (Les portes tournantes), Louis Bélanger (Post-Mortem), Manon Briand (La turbulence des Fluides), Philippe Falardeau (Congorama) and, in 2012, Claude Gagnon for Karakara, in which he played the lead role. His television credits include Annie et ses Hommes from 2007 to 2009. Gabriel Arcand has won two Jutra awards, one for Post-Mortem in 2000 and another for Congorama in 2007, as well as Genies for Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe in 1984 and The Decline of the American Empire in 1987. He also won the Gascon-Roux award for his work in the title role of Tartuffe, in a production directed by Lorraine Pintal and staged at tnM.

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