Lorraine Pintal

Lorraine Pintal OC, (born September 24, 1951) is a Canadian actor, director, producer and playwright.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lorraine-pintal/ |title=Pintal, Lorraine |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia}}

Biography

The daughter of Jean Pintal and Anne-Marie Bélanger, she was born in Plessisville and studied at the {{Interlanguage link|Conservatoire Lassalle|fr}}{{cite book |title=Canadian Who's Who |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianwhoswho00toro |year=2009 |last=Lumley |first=Elizabeth |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0-8020-4092-3}} and the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. She debuted with the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in 1973 in Mistero Buffo. In the same year, she was a co-founder of the Théâtre de La Rallonge. Pintal directed a number of works for the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde as well as for the {{Interlanguage link|Compagnie Jean-Duceppe|fr}}, the Théâtre de Quat'Sous and for the {{Interlanguage link|Théâtre Denise-Pelletier|fr}}. She wrote and acted in the one woman performance Madame Louis 14.

Pintal has been artistic director for the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde since 1992.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Pintal%2C%20Lorraine |title=Pintal, Lorraine |encyclopedia=Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia}}

As a stage director, she was recognized by the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre (AQCT) for HA ha !... in 1990 and Hosanna in 1991. Les oranges sont vertes received a Masque Award in 1998 for best staging and best production. She received a Gascon-Thomas Award in 2001 from the National Theatre School of Canada.

Pintal also produced a number of television series: {{Interlanguage link|Le Grand Remous|fr}} (1988–90) and {{Interlanguage link|Montréal P.Q.|fr}} (1990-92), as well as television plays: Hosanna (1991), Tartuffe (1997) and Bilan (2002).

In 2002, she was named to the Order of Canada.{{cite web |url=http://archive.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=8024 |title=Lorraine Pintal, C.M. |work=Order of Canada |publisher=Governor General of Canada}}

In 2014, she was an unsuccessful Parti Québécois candidate in the Quebec riding of Verdun, losing to Liberal Jacques Daoust.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/elections/quebecvotes2014/ridings/view/riding-122 |title=Verdun |work=Quebec Votes 2014 |publisher=CBC News}}

In 2019, she was the recipient of a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award as part of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/2019/pintal,-lorraine.aspx|title=Award Recipients - Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA)|website=ggpaa.ca|access-date=2019-12-16}}