Thomas Dufour
Writer | Screenwriter
Thomas Dufour is a playwright, screenwriter and director from Lac-Saint-Jean, now living in Montreal. His play Maison seule won the Prix Gratien-Gélinas 2023 and was performed at Monument-National, directed by Philippe Boutin. In 2024, he won the grand prize in the Cours écrire ton court competition for his screenplay Garage double. The film is currently in production.
He has written the libretto for an augmented reality opera for the Opéra de Montréal, to be presented in 2025, and is currently working on the script for his first TV series, Payés. For the past year, he has been co-writing a series with playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.
Alongside his writing career, he produces podcasts for Radio-Canada (Sais-tu quoi?, On s’appelle et on déjeune). With a B.A. in journalism (2019) from UQAM, he explores ways of transforming reality into fiction, and of telling the stories of others to bring out the laughter and poetry.
Thomas is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Playwriting program (2022).
TV | Theatre | Cinema | Podcast
Garage Double
2024
Cinema | Screenwriter and director
Film financed by SODEC
Maison seule
2023
Theatre | Writer
Play presented at Monument-National in November 2022 directed by Philippe Boutin.
Winner of the award Gratien-Gélinas 2023
Azur, 2040
In development
TV Series | Coscreenwriter with Michel Marc Bouchard
Duo Productions
Le Club Vidéo
2025
Teen novel | Writer
La courte échelle
Crier aux loups
2025
Theatre | Writer and stage director
Play presented at Centre de la nature de Laval in the summer of 2025
Une maison dans la main
2024
Augmented reality opera | Librettist
Opéra de Montréal
Surveillance
2024
Theatre | Writer
Short play translated in Catalan and English
Sala Beckett, Barcelone
Sais-tu quoi?, On s’appelle et on déjeune
2022
Podcast | Director
OHdio! Radio-Canada
Les voix
2021
Theatre | Writer
Play presented at Monument-National in March 2021 directed by Marie-Ève Milot.
José-Marie marie Marie-Josée
2021
Theatre | Writer
Play cowritten with Tina-Ève Provost and presented at National Theatre School of Canada.
La grandeur relative des objets
2020
Theatre | Writer
Play produced in podcast by Porte-Voix (in partnership with Théâtre La Licorne)
Experience
Radio-Canada
August 2020 to present
Director
Urbania
2018
Director
Le Quotidien
May 2020 to August 2020
Journalist
La Presse
May 2019 to March 2020
Journalist
Distinctions
Writing seminar at the Sala Beckett, Barcelona, 2024
Prix Tulio Cedraschi (théâtre) | Pour l'excellence du parcours académique, 2022
Porte-Voix | Prix d’écriture dramatique (en partenariat avec le Théâtre la Licorne), 2021
Nomination au concours canadien de journalisme | Nouvelles de dernière heure, 2020
Prix Lizette-Gervais | Reportage multimédia, 2019
Bourse René Payot | Pour la création d’un reportage, 2019
Bourse CDPQ en journalisme économique | Stage de 16 semaines à La Presse, 2019
Premier prix du concours de nouvelles intercollégial Critère | Pour le texte Jamais vu, 2016
Premier prix du concours de nouvelles Les courants du fjord | Pour le texte La gravité de la situation, 2015
Premier prix du concours de nouvelles Damase Potvin| Pour le texte Bribes, 2015
Formation
École nationale de théâtre du Canada | Écriture dramatique | Septembre 2019 à mai 2022
Université du Québec à Montréal | Baccalauréat en journalisme | Septembre 2016 à mai 2019
Compétences
Théâtre | Balado | Cinéma | Télé | Journalisme
LANGUES Français, Anglais.