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Alex Tétreault
Canadian writer and activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alex Tétreault (born 1994) is a Canadian writer and activist from Greater Sudbury, Ontario,[1] who has been the city's poet laureate since 2024.[2]
He attended high school at École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier, where he was associated with the Les Draveurs theatre troupe, and later studied in the theatre program at Laurentian University.[1] He was subsequently a communications and marketing manager for the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, who awarded him a $2,500 grant in 2019 toward the creation of his first original stage play.[3] During this era, he also served as chair of Sudbury Pride until 2021.[4]
His play, Nickel City Fifs : Une épopée queer sudburoise sur fond de trous, premiered in 2023 with a performance at Zig's, the city's gay bar.[5] An English version of the play, Sudbury Saturgay Night, also received a reading at the 2023 PlaySmelter festival.[6]
It undertook a wider tour of markets throughout Ontario in 2025,[7] and its print publication received a Trillium Book Award nomination for French Prose in 2025.[8]
His second stage play, Avert Your Gays, debuted at the 2024 PlaySmelter festival.[9]
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