Winners have been announced for Ottawa's 3rd annual Prix Rideau Awards, which celebrate achievement in English and French professional theatre in Ottawa-Gatineau.  The awards were presented during a celebration at L’École secondaire De La Salle on Sunday, April 18, 2010.

The winners for English-language productions are:

Outstanding Performance – Female
Patricia Fagan, The Syringa Tree, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Outstanding Performance – Male
Paul Rainville, The Drawer Boy, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Outstanding Lighting Design
Jock Munro, The Syringa Tree, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Outstanding Set Design
Ivo Valentik, A Midwinter's Dream Tale, A Company of Fools/Gladstone Productions

Outstanding Costume Design
Louise Hayden, A Midwinter's Dream Tale, A Company of Fools/Gladstone Productions

Outstanding Stage Management / Technical Award
Donna Bourgeault, A View from the Bridge, Ottawa Chamber Theatre

Outstanding Fringe Production
Countries Shaped Like Stars, Mi Casa

Outstanding Director
Lise Ann Johnson, The Syringa Tree, Great Canadian Theatre Company

Emerging Artist Award
Emily Pearlman, Creator/Actor/Writer of Countries Shaped Like Stars, Mi Casa

Outstanding Adaptation
A Midwinter's Dream Tale, A Company of Fools/Gladstone Productions

Outstanding New Creation
Countries Shaped Like Stars, Mi Casa

Outstanding Production
The Syringa Tree, Great Canadian Theatre Company

The winners for French-language productions are:

Interprétation féminine de l'année
Geneviève Couture, L'honnête homme/un one woman show, Poésie électrique

Interprétation masculine de l'année
Pierre Antoine Lafon Simard, L'Illusion comique, Théâtre la Catapulte

Conception de l'année
Guillaume Houët-Brisebois, Éclairages, L'honnête homme/un one woman show, Poésie électrique

Artiste en émergence
Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez , Interprétation, Le bout du monde, Le Théâtre du Trillium

Prix technique / de la regie
Lindsay Tremblay, Le Projet Rideau, Théâtre la Catapulte

Mise en scène de l'année
Marc Lemyre, L'honnête homme/un one woman show, Poésie électrique

Adaptation de l'année
Cyrano Tag, Compagnie Vox Théâtre

Nouvelle création de l'année
L'honnête homme/un one woman show, Poésie électrique

Production de l'année
L'honnête homme/un one woman show, Poésie électrique

Les Prix Rideau Awards celebrate achievement in professional theatre in the region of Ottawa-Gatineau. The peer-juried awards program was initiated in 2006 as a result of discussion at an open meeting of the regional Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. This year for the first time, Les Prix Rideau Awards goes fully bilingual, with a full slate of awards being presented for both English and French-language productions.

For the calendar year 2009, 40 English and 11 French professional theatre productions were juried by two teams of local arts professionals (14 English and 8 French). Nominations were submitted by secret ballot and tallied by local accountants, Chong Pelot and Marcil-Lavallée.