Biography
Nicolas Billon was born in Ottawa but grew up in Montréal.
The Elephant Song, his first play, premiered at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2004. His second play, The Measure of Love, was produced there in 2005.
A member of the inaugural Soulpepper Academy, Nicolas's version of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters was produced at Soulpepper in 2007, directed by László Marton. He also co-created BLiNK with the other members of the Academy for the Luminato Festival.
In 2009, Nicolas joined the Tarragon Playwrights Unit. That June, Nicolas's adaptation of Molière's The Sicilian was one of the hits of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
A few months later, his play Greenland opened at the 2009 SummerWorks Theatre Festival. It was a critical and audience success, and won both the Now Magazine Audience Choice Award and the SummerWorks Outstanding Production Award. Later that year, Nicolas was voted one of the Top 10 Theatre Artists of 2009 by Toronto's Now Magazine.
Nicolas Billon is the son of writer Pierre Billon.
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