The World Remembers

R.H. Thomson, one of Canada’s foremost actors and directors, includes among his accolades the Toronto Drama Bench Award for “outstanding body of work” spanning thirty years and covering theatre, film and television and the Gascon-Thomas Award recognizing his career in the arts. On stage, his theatre roles have ranged from Marc Antony in Julius Caesar at Canada’s Stratford Festival to Glenn Gould in the plan Glenn. R.H. Thomson was Artistic Director for the 1991/1992 Season of Toronto’s World Stage Theatre Festival as well as the Co-Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Works until 2006. He hosted Man Alive on the CBC for three seasons.

In 2001 he wrote and performed a solo show called The Lost Boys based on 750 letters from his great uncles who served in World War I, ultimately planting the seed of the Vigil Project. The play’s CBC television version delivered R.H. Thomson his second Gemini Award. Among his other performances are included his role as Dr. Banting in the award-winning Glory Enough for All, the long-running series The Road to Avonlea and the film Ticket to Heaven.

In 2007 he co-created and produced Vimy Vigil in Ottawa for Veterans Affairs in Canada and in 2010 he co-created he produced the Vigil event from Ypres in schools across Canada as a special remembrance of Canada’s war heroes with the support of Veterans Affairs and the Churchill Society.

He currently lives in Toronto with his wife and two sons.

Today he describes his remarkable and ambitious new project, The World Remembers, 1914-1918.