Born and raised in Montreal, and graduate in 1975 of the National Theatre School of Canada where hehad Francis Reid as lighting design teacher. Guy Simard has been teaching lighting design at the NationalTheater School for almost 30 years. He has also taught at the different schools in Belgium and France.As lighting designer, he is considered to be a leader in his field, in the last 45 years he has participated inover 500 stage productions.