Richard Monette

Director | Actor

Date of birth : 06/19/1944

Date of death : 09/09/2008

City of birth : Montréal, Québec, Canada

Richard Monette played in small theatre roles, including the British staging of "Oh, Calcutta" in 1967. Achieved great success as a theatre director, becoming first Canadian-born artistic director of the Stratford Festival (Ontario) in 1993. He retired from that role in 2007. He suffered from vascular disease, and was going into hospital for tests when he suffered a pulmonary embolism.