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From the Forest of Arden to the Argentina of Eva Perón, A stellar company of artists, including old friends making from Prospero’s enchanted to the Never Land their welcome returns, is here to bring these dramatic of Peter Pan, the productions of our 2010 season will worlds to glorious life. The standards of excellence at transport you to the realms of memory and magic, Stratford can be met by very few in the world. So revenge and reconciliation – where the potent art of come take your seat with us, and give us the opportunity theatre is bound to capture your heart, your mind and not only to entertain you, but also to inspire. your imagination.

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Below | Director Des McAnuff (left) and Christopher Plummer (Prospero) in rehearsal; (stephano). Facing page, from top | (from left) Amanda Lisman (Iris), Sophia Walker (Juno), Claire Lautier (Ceres), composer Brave New Michael Roth and Choreographer Nicola Pantin; (from left) Dion Johnstone (), Geraint Wyn Davies and (Trinculo); Trish LindstrÖm () and Gareth Potter (). Worlds Following page | Christopher Plummer and Des McAnuff; (from left) James Blendick (), Peter Hutt (Alonso), Robert Persichini (Adrian), Timothy D. Stickney (Sebastian) and John Vickery (Antonio). Photography by Erin Samuell. by Robert Blacker

An English fleet set sail for Virginia in 1609, but the flagship carrying the new governor of the colony was wrecked in a violent storm off the . The survivors were stranded for ten months on an uninhabited island, where they built a new ship and set sail again for their destination. The news of the storm and their sudden reappearance – in Virginia – caused a sensation in England and found its way into The Tempest in ’s reference to the “still-vexed Bermoothes.” Reports of the shipwreck may have inspired the tempest that opens Shakespeare’s play. The Tempest is infused throughout with references to the New World and dreams of its possibilities and meaning. In 1578, Montaigne argued in his essay “Of the Cannibals” that the native tribes he read about in Brazil might, in their uncivilized innocence, provide a better model for society than the old corrupt civilization of Europe. Given his treatment back in Italy, Prospero might agree. Montaigne’s words literally find their way into Gonzalo’s mouth in the speech that begins: “Had I plantation of this isle, [I would allow no] “riches, poverty / And use of [servants], none.” Montaigne and Gonzalo’s socialist utopias level the classes. By contrast, the conflict between master and servant and the elusive vision of freedom resound throughout The Tempest right down to the last word of the play: “free.” We hear it right from the opening scenes. The Boatswain orders Alonso and his court to get out of his way: “What cares these roarers [the crashing waves] for the name of King?” Prospero himself sets up a hierarchy on his island, and both of his servants bristle. Even Ariel complains. It is Caliban of course who rebels. Caliban’s name is a near anagram for cannibal, an accusation that was made against native Americans. Shakespeare refers to them explicitly in Trinculo’s remark that the English “will not give a [penny] to relieve a lame beggar [but are willing to] lay out ten to see a dead Indian.” He reminds us of the then current practice of exhibiting aboriginal Americans, dead or alive, in Europe. An Inuit man, one of four forcibly brought to England from Canada in 1576, died soon after

2 his arrival. His image was preserved in paintings and in a wax cast made of his head. In recent decades, The Tempest has often been used to illustrate the evils of such colonialism, with Caliban as the chief victim. That view, however, diminishes the complexity of Shakespeare’s play. We feel sympathy for Caliban, but Shakespeare describes a creature who is eager to trade one master for another. The uncomfortable sight of him eagerly licking Stephano’s foot is a reminder of the complicity frequently contained in master/servant relationships. For his part Stephano is comfortable with the idea of murdering Prospero in order to become king of the island, and the three servants – Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban – sing memorably about freedom. In a parallel scene that borrows imagery from , Antonio persuades Sebastian to murder his brother in order to become King of Naples. The brilliant concision of The Tempest is achieved by the way its multiple plots mirror each other, and by the way the past mirrors the present. To reinforce his rumination on old worlds and new, Shakespeare reaches as far into the past as the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem from the first century BC. Aeneas was the Trojan prince who, like Odysseus, wandered the Mediterranean after the fall of Troy and went on to found his new world in Italy. References to the Aeneid pepper The Tempest, and Alonso and his court duplicate part of Aeneas’s journey as they return to Italy from his daughter’s wedding in Africa, just before the play begins. Where is Prospero’s island? Neither Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden in As You Like It nor Prospero’s island can be pinned down to one location. Jan Kott writes that it “is simultaneously a Mediterranean island . . . and a plantation on the coast of America,” and he quotes Melville about an island in Moby Dick: “It is not on any map. . . true places never are.” What is important, Kott tells us, is that in both ancient and Renaissance myths, “The new world represents renewal.” Whether Prospero, his island or Shakespeare’s play offer renewal must be judged individually by members of our audience. The Tempest is full of ironies and, as it draws to a close, a series of dizzying contradictions. Miranda and Ferdinand represent something positive in this bleak world, but in their last dialogue together Miranda catches him cheating in a game of chess. She is dazzled

3 by Alonso and his court in the play’s most famous line: “O brave new world / That has such people in’t.” But it is said to a group of would-be murderers and thieves. That is why Prospero replies, “’Tis new to thee.” He knows what the King and his court represent: he has suffered at their hands. Prospero struggles with the idea of forgiving them. At first it is conditional: “They being penitent, / The sole drift of my purpose doth extend / Not a frown further.” Alonso has been changed by the events of the play, but Antonio and Sebastian have not. Yet Prospero decides to return to their world. Why? Shakespeare leaves it for us to decide. Kott sums up this remarkable play in this way: “In none of the other Shakespearean masterpieces – except – has the divergence between the greatness of the human mind on the one hand, and the ruthlessness of history and frailty of the moral order on the other, been shown with as much passion. . . . Like all great Shakespearean dramas, it is a passionate reckoning with the real world. . . a drama of lost illusions, bitter wisdom, and of fragile – though stubborn – hope.” In The Tempest Shakespeare shows us that a brave new world does exist – in the potential of the human mind and heart – but sadly its frontiers are constantly shifting.

Robert Blacker is Dramaturge for As You Like It and The Tempest and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. The Oxford edition of The Tempest, edited by Stephen Orgel, that was used for this production is on sale at the Festival’s Theatre Store, as is Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary, one of his books quoted above.

Prospero’s Art Magic was considered a legitimate scientific Shakespeare provide as much opportunity study by some Renaissance intellectuals, and for spectacle. This was driven in part by his music and visions were two of a magus’s tools. audience’s growing taste for the new court Music was used to create charms. That is why entertainments called masques. The vision of Iris, Ariel so often sings, and few of Shakespeare’s Ceres and Juno that Prospero serves up to bless plays have as many references to sound. “Be not Ferdinand and Miranda’s betrothal is an example afeard, the isle is full of noises,” Caliban tells his of one. Though these spirits, Prospero conjures fellow conspirators. up a world in which there is no winter, no death – Producing visions was another part of a a vision that is shattered by his recollection of the magus’s art, and in few of his plays does murder plot against him.

4 William Shakespeare Playwright

Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a glover and tanner who rose to become an alderman and bailiff of the town, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a wealthy farmer. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but there is a record of his baptism on April 26. Since an interval of two or three days between birth and baptism would have been quite common, tradition has it that he was born on April 23 – the same date as his death 52 years later. The young Shakespeare is assumed to have attended what is now the Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford, where he would have studied ancient Roman literature in its original Latin. In 1582, when he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter who was eight years his senior. Anne was pregnant at the time, and the couple’s first daughter, Susanna, was born a few months The Story afterwards in 1583. Twins followed two years later: a son, Hamnet, who died at the age of 11, and a A violent storm at sea threatens to destroy a second daughter, Judith. ship bearing Alonso, King of Naples, his son Nothing further is known of Shakespeare’s Ferdinand, and his ally Antonio, Duke of Milan, life until 1592, by which time he was sufficiently along with other members of their party. This established as an and writer in London to be is no natural tempest, however; it has been the target of a literary attack by a jealous fellow magically raised by Antonio’s elder brother, playwright, Robert Greene. Soon afterwards, an Prospero, who for the past twelve years has outbreak of plague forced the temporary closure of been marooned with his daughter, Miranda, on a remote island. the theatres, and Shakespeare turned his attention As the storm subsides, Prospero explains instead to his long narrative poems Venus and to Miranda that he is the rightful Duke of Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He also began Milan, having been deposed by Antonio, writing the Sonnets, a series of 154 love poems that who cast him and Miranda – an infant at many believe to be at least partly autobiographical. the time – out to sea in a derelict boat. By 1594, Shakespeare was back in the theatre, They found refuge on the island, where writing and acting for the Lord Chamberlain’s Prospero has spent his exile cultivating his Men. His income as one of the country’s most magical arts and establishing dominion over successful dramatists enabled him, in 1597, to buy a the inhabitants of the island, including the mansion back in Stratford, and in 1599 he became a spirit Ariel and the half-human Caliban. shareholder in London’s newly built . Now, by raising this tempest, Prospero has In 1603, Shakespeare’s company was awarded a brought his old enemies within his grasp – but royal patent, becoming known as the King’s Men. what vengeance does he mean to take? Possibly as early as 1610, the playwright retired to his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, living there until his death on April 23, 1616. He is buried in the town’s Holy Trinity Church.

5 Ideas and Insights ArcelorMittal Dofasco applauds the artists, artisans and sta behind every outstanding experience at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

him with an opportunity to further his ambition by A Mirror for the Human Soul assassinating Alonso. For Ferdinand it is the place Prospero’s island is a locale laden with meaning. where, bereft of his princely status, he can express In the fi rst place, the island is an archetype of his pure love for Miranda. The island can thus be the exotic: from the Mediterranean stopovers of seen as a kind of purgatory, extracting from each character the soul’s true essence. the Odyssey and the Aeneid to the Never Land of Refl ections abound in this magic mirror. Antonio’s Peter Pan, the idea of the remote and often magical overthrow of Prospero in Milan is refl ected both in island recurs throughout myth, fairy tale and fantasy. his thwarted assassination attempt on Alonso and By making specifi c reference in his play to what in the abortive coup mounted by Stephano, Trinculo we now call , Shakespeare also invites us and Caliban. Alonso’s loss of his child, Ferdinand, to consider this particular island as an emblem of inversely mirrors the loss he infl icted on Prospero the New World, with Ariel and Caliban as aboriginal (the loss of everything but his child) and is mirrored peoples and Prospero as colonizer – a dimension again in Prospero’s “loss” of Miranda to Ferdinand. of meaning that holds a powerful resonance for us Prospero’s role as colonizer of the island mirrors here in North America. the state of aff airs in Milan, which Alonso has This island also serves as a potent metaphor for eff ectively colonized by installing Antonio as the the stage. When Prospero speaks of “the great head of a puppet regime. globe itself,” he simultaneously evokes both the Shakespeare orchestrates all these refl ected Earth and the theatre in which Shakespeare was a chains of imagery as if they were leitmotifs in a shareholder. In this sense, the island is the sphere great symphony or – and perhaps it is no of the magus, the magician, the musician, the maker coincidence that Monteverdi was creating the of theatre – and Prospero is all of those things. He opera form around the same time this play was written. With the masque becoming the favoured is an artist, and the island is his canvas. form of court entertainment, the appetites of What is most intriguing, though, about Prospero’s audiences were changing. This was a brave new island is its function as a mirror for the human soul. world indeed – and had Shakespeare lived another The island seems to tailor itself to each individual two decades, heaven only knows where he might character, inviting each to act on his (or her) have taken us. impulses. Gonzalo sees it as green and lush; for him, it conjures up images of Utopia. For Antonio Des McAnuff it is a physical and moral wilderness that presents Director

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6 The Tempest The Cast by William Shakespeare Prospero, the right Duke of Milan christopher plummer Miranda, his daughter trish lindström This production is dedicated to the memory of Ariel, a spirit Julyana soelistyo , a member of our inaugural Caliban, a slave Dion Johnstone company in 1953. Ferdinand, King Alonso’s son Gareth potter

Director Des McAnuff Alonso, King of Naples peter hutt his brother Set Designer robert brill Sebastian, timothy D. stickney Costume Designer paul tazewell Antonio, Prospero’s brother, Lighting Designer Michael Walton the usurping Duke of Milan John vickery Composer Michael roth Gonzalo, an old councillor James blendick Sound Designer peter Mcboyle Adrian, a lord robert persichini Dramaturge robert blacker Francisco, a lord David collins Choreographer nicola pantin Movement lisa shriver Trinculo, a jester bruce Dow Fight Director simon fon Stephano, a butler Geraint Wyn Davies Magic Coach Greg kramer Master of the Ship stephen russell Assistant Director lee Wilson

Assistant Designer katherine lubienski Boatswain Wayne best Assistant Costume Designer A. W. nadine Grant Ian and Molly Lindsay Young Design Fellow Spirits: Assistant Lighting Designer siobhán sleath Iris, Juno’s messenger Amanda lisman Assistant Sound Designer verne Good Ceres, goddess of earth Assistant Dramaturge Jacob Gallagher ross and harvest claire lautier Assistant Fight Director casey hudecki Juno, queen of the sky sophia Walker Fight Captain Wayne best Mariners and Islanders: Andrew Gillies, luke humphrey, Stage Manager Michael hart chris karczmar, claire lautier, Amanda lisman, Assistant Stage Managers Meghan callan, brian scott Apprentice Stage Manager suzanne McArthur sophia Walker Production Assistant loreen Gibson Production Stage Manager Margaret palmer Understudies: Wayne best (Antonio), David collins (Sebastian), Andrew Gillies (Stephano, Gonzalo, Alonso), Interval luke humphrey (Ferdinand, Adrian, Master), chris karczmar (Caliban, Francisco, Boatswain), there will be one interval of 20 minutes. Amanda lisman (Miranda), robert persichini (Trinculo), suzanne roberts smith (Ceres, Iris, Juno), Audience Alert stephen russell (Prospero), sophia Walker (Ariel) this production uses haze, smoke eff ects, strobes and ultra-violet light.

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7 Music Credits Production Credits Orchestra: Michael Roth, Conductor/Keyboards/ Responsibilities backstage during the performance accomplished by: Percussion; Michele Fox, Violin; Ben Bolt-Martin, Cello; Stage Carpenter Art Fortin Ian Harper, Flute/Bass Flute/Clarinet/Recorders; Master Electrician Alec Cooper Merlin Williams, English Horn/Clarinet/Contrabass Property Master Nick Glenn Clarinet/Bassoon/Recorders; Holly Shephard, Trumpet/ Head of Sound Scott Matthews Piccolo Trumpet/Shofar/Conch; Derek Conrod, Horn; Alternate Michael Walsh Rob Stone, Trombone/Bass Trombone; Graham Crew Simon Aldridge, Hargrove, Percussion; Lindsay Croxall, Josie Marasco, Tim Hartman, Additional Recorded Vocals Alex Kordics, Andrew Mawdsley, Music Preparation John Montgomery, B. J. Shaver, Don Sweete Karl Wylie Wardrobe Master John Bynum Wardrobe Attendants Caroline Broadley, Fanfare Musicians Derek Conrod, Kim Jeffries, Graham Hargrove, Michael Karn, Mary Jay, Sherri Neeb Holly Shephard Swing Margie Bell Bruer (Fanfare Leader), Wigs and Makeup Show Head Gerald Altenburg Rob Stone Wigs and Makeup Crew Dave Kerr Acknowledgements Special thanks to Norman Cruz, MD, Stratford; Jennifer Anderson, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital, ; Brian Hands, MD, FRCS (C), medical voice consultant, Vox Cura, voice care specialists, Toronto; Simon McBride, MCISc, MD, London Health Sciences Centre – Vocal Function Clinic, London, Ont.; John Yoo, MD, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ont.; Cover FX (proud sponsors of the ’ Fund of Canada). Pianos tuned and maintained by Don Stephenson. Shofar courtesy of Bill and Marilyn Weinstein. Special thanks to Mercedes-Benz London for supplying Mr. Plummer’s personal transportation. Front cover image provided by STEAMco., creative advertising agency for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Page 1 and back cover photography by Andrew Eccles. From left: Head Scenic Artist Christopher Klein, Technical Director Jeff Scollon and Set designer Robert Brill

Quincy Armorer 08/09 Keira Loughran 05 (new plays) Dalal Badr 07/08 Kennedy C. MacKinnon 99 (voice coach) The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Skye Brandon 08/09 Paul Nolan 09 From General Director Antoni Cimolino and Artistic Director Des McAnuff Evan Buliung 99 Trent Pardy 07/08 Shane Carty 03 Jennifer Paterson 08/09 Thirty-one members of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2010 company have come out of our Dan Chameroy 03 Gareth Potter 03 professional training program, now known as the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Laura Condlln 04 Christopher Prentice 08/09 Founded in 1998, the Conservatory has helped to launch the careers of some of our leading young Paul deJong 00 (voice coach) Suzanne Roberts Smith 08/09 actors, many of whom we have had the great pleasure of directing. Providing opportunities for young Martha Farrell 04 Andrea Runge 09 Canadian artists is part of our mission at the Festival, and we hope you will find it as satisfying as we Paul Fauteux 02 Stacie Steadman 07 do to watch their growth as they share the stage with some of the finest actors in the world. Bruce Godfree 09 Evan Stillwater 04 (cutter) Alana Hawley 07/08 99 Under the leadership of , the Conservatory is made possible by the support of the Birmingham Dion Johnstone 03 00 family, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Endowment Foundation and the Department of Canadian Heritage. Chilina Kennedy 09 Sophia Walker 05 We thank them for helping us to nurture and support these talented artists in our 2010 company: Ian Lake 07/08 Lee Wilson 04 (assistant director) Amanda Lisman 09

8 Production Wardrobe Director of Production Douglas Lemcke Head of Wardrobe Bradley Dalcourt Production Administrator Cheryl Bender Assistant Head of Wardrobe Elizabeth Copeman Technical Director Jeff Scollon Seasonal Wardrobe Supervisor Linda Sparks Technical Director – Scenic Construction Andrew Mestern Cutters Anna Baines, Wardrobe Manager Anne Moore Johanna Billings, Assistant Technical Director David Campbell Kim Crossley, Technical Management Assistant Michael Besworth Melanie Farrar-Jackson, Administrative Assistant Cindy Jordan Carol A. Miller Design Coordinator Alix Dolgoy First Hands Gina Schellenberg, Director of Music x Rick Fo Patricia Taylor Music Administrator Marilyn Dallman Sewers Caroline Broadley, Electronics Technologist Chris Wheeler Dolores Brodhagen, Transportation Ian A. Fraser, Michael Taylor, Cindy Brown, James Thistle Joanna Conway, Samantha Crossley, Properties Lisa Di Quinzio, Head of Properties Dona Hrabluk Sharon Gashgarian, Lead Hand Jennifer Macdonald June Gunn, Assisted by Eric Ball, Angela Bester, Patricia Hawkins-Russell, Lucas Commerford, Monique Hodder, Ken Dubblestyne, Marian Hughes, Carolyn Horley, C. Arlene Innes, Michelle Jamieson, Olga M. Kouzmina, Shirley Lee, Brian McLeod, Debbie Kschesinski, Dylan Mundy, Anna Lach, Stewart Robertson, Deborah S. Lount, Heather Ruthig, Victoria McCulloch, Lorraine Senécal Amy McIver, Lori McMahon, Properties Apprentice Michael Shears Cynthia E. Rusak, Properties Buyer Tracy Fulton Georgina Schinkel, Assistant Properties Buyer Penelope Schledewitz Catherine Weber, Co-op student Elizabeth Thomas Lindsey Winter, Jennie Wonnacott, Joanne Zegers Scenic Art Bijoux/Decoration Liane Guttadauria Head Scenic Artist Christopher Klein Assisted by kathi Posliff Assistant Head Scenic Artist Daniel McManus Boots and Shoes Connie Puetz Assisted by Kevin Kemp, Lisa Summers, Assisted by Mark Fetter, Michael Karn Laurie Tomé, Blair Yeomans Millinery Helen Flower Dyeing Sylvia Minarcin Assisted by Linda Pinhay Scenic Carpentry Costume Painting Lisa Hughes Wardrobe Buyer Michelle Ashbourne Head Carpenter Neil R. Cheney Assistant Buyer Caitlin Luxford Lead Hands Mark Card, Geoff Taylor, Wardrobe Apprentice Sara Brzozowski Cliff Tipping Warehouse Supervisor Madonna Decker Assisted by Simon Aldridge, Warehouse Assistant Valerie Lariviere James Atwell, Jeff Baici, David Bedford, Jason Blue, David Butler, John Currie, Ryan Flanagan, Craig Geiger, Wigs and Makeup Gary Geiger, Anthony Gentile, Head of Wigs and Makeup Gerald Altenburg Jeffrey Hughes, Paul Hyde, Construction Crew Erica Croft-Fraser, William Malmo, Alan Moffat, Lena Festoso-Richard, Ian Phillips, John Roth, Dave Kerr, Angela Moncur, Joe Saunders, Mark Smith, Barb Newbery, Alana Scheel, Joe Tracey, Byron Williams, Julie Scott, Stanley Wickens Michael Woods Wigs and Makeup Apprentice Tracy Frayne Co-op student Duncan Balmain Matthews Additional Wigs by christine Vaughan

Funding for artisan apprenticeships is provided by the William H. The Michael Langham Workshop Participants in the Somerville Theatre Artisan Apprenticeship Fund, funded by the J. P. 2010 inaugural Bickell Foundation, and by Robert and Jacqueline Sperandio. for Classical Direction workshop: Sharon Bajer “The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction will continue Dian Marie Bridge A member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Michael Langham’s tradition of mentorship in a risk-free environment, Darcy Evans Stratford Shakespeare Festival engages, under the terms of the Canadian allowing directors to develop their craft with the rich history and Ravi Jain Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian evolving artistry of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.” Thomas Morgan Jones Actors’ Equity Association. Stage crew, scenic carpenters, drivers, wigs – Des McAnuff Ken Schwartz and makeup attendants and facilities staff are members of Local 357 Andrew Shaver Rachel Slaven of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). We extend our thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage, Lezlie Wade Wardrobe attendants are members of IATSE Local 924. Scenic artists are the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation, Johanna Metcalf, Aaron Willis members of IATSE Local 828. The Festival acknowledges with thanks the and the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation. Lee Wilson co-operation of the Stratford Musicians’ Association, Local 418 of the American Federation of Musicians.

9 The Company Wayne Best David Collins 15th season: Boatswain in The Tempest and Antonio in The Two Gentlemen Third season: Francisco in The Tempest and Host in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Stratford: Cornwall (), Bob Ewell (To Kill a Mockingbird), of Verona. Stratford: Recent: Seyton (Macbeth), Publius (), Don John (), Horatio (Hamlet), Caliban (The Tempest), Philostrate (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Apothecary ( and ), Astrov (), Maurice (In the Ring), Macbeth( ), Gratiano Constable Dull (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Theodotus (Caesar and Cleopatra). (), Leontes (The Winter’s Tale), Teddy Lloyd (The Prime Elsewhere: Shakuntala (Premiere Dance Theatre); The Adventures of a Black of Miss Jean Brodie), Ben (Good Mother), Fluellen (), Victor (Private Girl in Search of God (Mirvish); , (CanStage); Lives), (), Grumio (), Enobarbus (Antony and Pusha Man, The Ladysmith, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Theatre Passe Muraille); Bunnicula Cleopatra). Elsewhere: Captain Keller in The Miracle Worker (Theatre Calgary), Carl in Heaven (LKTYP); The Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareWorks); Top Gun the Musical (Factory Theatre/ (CanStage), Abbott in Inexpressible Island (Necessary Angel), Quinn in The Affections of May NYC), El Paso (Factory); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in Action); and The America Play (Dora (TNB), Johnny Regan in Balconville (Theatre Aquarius), Brutus in Julius Caesar (NAC) and Billy nomination, best actor). He is a founding member of Obsidian Theatre Company. Film/TV: in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Saidye Bronfman Centre). Trojan Horse, 11Cameras, Mr. Magorium’s Magic Emporium, ReGenesis, Owning Mahowny, Shoot ’Em Up, The Incredible Hulk, MVP, Fighter Boy. Training: MFA, York University. Awards: Dora nomination for Twilight Café.

Robert Blacker Bruce Dow Third season: Dramaturge for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. 11th season: Trinculo in The Tempest and Speed in The Two Gentlemen Dramaturge for As You Like It and The Tempest. Stratford: Dramaturged of Verona. Stratford (selected): Krupke, ; Pseudolus, A five productions of Shakespeare;Rice Boy and Caesar and Cleopatra. Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Emcee, ; Dromio Elsewhere: Over 50 projects from Robert’s eight years as Artistic Director of Syracuse, The Comedy of Errors; Solanio, The Merchant of Venice; Luther of Sundance Theatre Labs went on to production, including I Am My Own Billis, South Pacific; the Baker, ; Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Guys Wife (Tony, Pulitzer), The Laramie Project, The Light in the Piazza and Spring and Dolls; Sancho Panza, . Elsewhere: Broadway: Jane Awakening (Tonys for latter two). He was interim chair of playwriting at Yale School of Drama; Eyre, , (a benefit for Lincoln Center Theater). Bruce has directed taught playwriting and Shakespeare studies in graduate programs at Columbia, Iowa and professionally in Toronto, and London, , and has taught at colleges and Yale; and dramaturged 14 productions of Shakespeare for Des McAnuff and others. Robert universities across Canada and the U.S., including the National Theatre School of Canada, was McAnuff’s Associate Artistic Director at , where he worked on The Montréal. Film/TV: The Rick Mercer Report, The . Solo Recordings: Keepin’ Who’s Tommy and Steppenwolf’s The Grapes of Wrath (Tonys for both) and participated in Out of Mischief, Lucky to Be Me. Training: BFA Acting, MFA Directing, UBC. Web Site: www. season planning. He was the first dramaturge at ’s Public Theater (New York). brucedow.com. Et cetera: “Thanks to the VON, Perth County Branch.” Training: Cornell.

James Blendick Simon Fon 27th season: Gonzalo in The Tempest. Stratford: Doctor Chebutykin (Three Second season: Fight director of Peter Pan and The Tempest and stunt Sisters), Falstaff Henry( IV, Part 1), Big Daddy (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Honoré coordinator for The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: West Side Story, Macbeth, Forum, (Gigi), Boyet (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Claudius (Hamlet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rice Boy, Zastrozzi, Phèdre, Bartholomew Fair. Sir Toby Belch (Twelfth Night), Matthew Brady (Inherit the Wind), Titus (Titus Elsewhere: CanStage, Soulpepper, Factory Theatre, Tarragon, Passe Andronicus), Orgon (), Epicure Mammon (The Alchemist), Sir Oliver Muraille, National Ballet of Canada. Film/TV: CTV, CBC, Global. Cooper’s Surface (), Lopachin (The Cherry Orchard), Pozzo Camera (stunt coordinator). Radio: CBC. Training: York University, BFA (), “Captain” Jack Boyle (Juno and the Paycock), Menenius (), honours acting; Fight Directors Canada, fight master.Awards: Five awards, AOF Festival Buckingham (Richard III), Harry (Home), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Elsewhere: (California), WorldFest International (). Web Sites: www.simonfon.com and Henry (The Lion in Winter, Citadel Theatre), Cyrano (Cyrano de Bergerac), John Proctor (The www.riotact.ca. Crucible, ), Le Bret (Cyrano, Broadway musical), Falstaff The( Merry Wives of Windsor, San Diego’s Old Globe). New York’s Lincoln Center: Gloucester in Christopher Plummer’s King Lear. Film/TV: Credits in Canada and the U.S. Training: NTS graduate, 1966.

Robert Brill Andrew Gillies Third season: Set designer for The Tempest. Stratford: Macbeth, Caesar Third season: Panthino in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and appears in The and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Broadway: , Assassins (Tony Tempest. Stratford: Orlando in As You Like It, Macduff inMacbeth , Valère in nominations); The Story of My Life, Cabaret, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Tartuffe, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet. Good Body, Laugh Whore, Anna in the Tropics, Design for Living, One Flew Over Elsewhere: Hamlet in Hamlet (Vancouver Playhouse), Cyrano in Cyrano the Cuckoo’s Nest, Buried Child and The Rehearsal. Collaborations with Des (Royal Alex), Tony Blair in Stuff Happens (Studio 180, Royal Alex), General McAnuff includeWozzeck (San Diego Opera), Sinatra (Radio City Music Hall) Burgoyne in The Devil’s Disciple (Neptune). Fourteen seasons in leading and The Wiz (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include On the Record (Disney Theatrical), roles at the Shaw Festival. Appearances with Theatre Calgary, ATP, National Arts Centre, An American in Paris ( Ballet), L’Incoronazione di Poppea ( Opera Theatre), La Tarragon Theatre, Necessary Angel, Canadian Stage. Eleven productions at Manitoba Bohème (Minnesota Opera), A Clockwork Orange (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Laramie Project Theatre Centre, including Frank in Educating Rita, 2010. Film/TV: The Virgin Suicides, Wild (New York, Denver, Berkeley, La Jolla), The House of Martin Guerre (Goodman Theatre/ Girl, That Touch of Pink, The Associates, Paradise Falls, Monk, Flash of Genius. Radio: Many CanStage) and designs for numerous other companies throughout the U.S. Founding plays and documentaries for CBC. Training: Simon Fraser University. Awards: Best-actor member of Sledgehammer Theatre. Awards: 2004 Merritt Award for Excellence in Design nominations: Andrew Allen Award for radio, Dora for theatre. 2009 Merritt Award (best and Collaboration. supporting actor) for The Devil’s Disciple (Neptune).

Meghan Callan Verne Good 10th season: Assistant stage manager of The Tempest and The Two Stratford debut: Assistant sound designer of As You Like It, Kiss Me, Kate and Gentlemen of Verona. Stratford: Previously for the Stratford Shakespeare The Tempest. Elsewhere: Sound design: Tarragon Theatre’s Communion, Festival, Meghan was assistant stage manager of West Side Story, Cyrano de Groundwater Productions’ Epic of Gilgamesh, Theatre Awakening’s Buried Bergerac, Oliver!, Fallen Angels, Into the Woods, Guys and Dolls, The Swanne: and In Darfur, Seventh Stage Productions’ The Red Queen Effect. Sound Princess Charlotte (The Acts of Venus), My Fair Lady, Twelfth Night, The Sound and lighting design: Praxis Theatre’s Section 98. Touring production stage of Music, Hamlet, and more. Elsewhere: She has enjoyed manager, Wyrd Productions’ MacHomer. Lighting designer, Buddies in Bad working across Canada in stage management for the Shaw Festival, the Atlantic Theatre Times Hysteria festival 2009. Recipient of Theatre Ontario Professional Theatre Training Festival, Theatre New Brunswick, the National Arts Centre, the Citadel Theatre, the Globe Program grant, under which she assisted Todd Charlton at the Blyth Festival (full season) Theatre and the Lighthouse Festival Theatre, among others. Training: She has a bachelor of and at Stratford on Palmer Park. Training: Verne is a graduate of Bishop’s University and the fine arts degree from York University.Et cetera: Living in her home town of Stratford with her National Theatre School of Canada. husband, Peter, and her beautiful daughters, Ella and Beatrice, is a joy!

10 A.W. Nadine Grant Stratford debut: Assistant costume designer of The Tempest and assistant designer of The Two Gentlemen of Verona and King of Thieves. Elsewhere: Toronto: The Turn of the Screw (DVxT Theatre); Borderlands and Brokeology (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Boesman and Lena, the world première of Quindaro, Man of La Students love Mancha and Tartuffe (UMKC). Training: MFA in costume design and technology, University of Missouri – Kansas City. Awards: Ian and Molly Lindsay Young Design Fellow, USITT Costume Design and Technology Award 2009. Stratford!

Michael Hart 15th season: Stage manager of The Tempest. Stratford: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, A Delicate Balance, The Duchess of Malfi, The Liar, Fallen Angels, The Swanne: George III (The Death of Cupid), The Swanne: Princess Charlotte (The Acts of Venus), The Swanne: Queen Victoria (The Seduction of Nemesis), High-Gravel-Blind, Eternal Hydra, three seasons as the production stage manager of the Studio Theatre and last season as the production stage manager of the Avon Theatre. Elsewhere: Mother Courage and Her Children (NAC/MTC); Trip (GCTC); Wit (Centaur); Pinocchio and The Gin Game (Theatre New Brunswick); Real Live Girl (MTC Warehouse); Schippel the Plumber, Macbeth, Strawberries in January and Einstein’s Gift (Grand); Hamlet (Neptune Theatre). Training: Dalhousie University technical theatre program.

Plays for $25 Luke Humphrey Stratford debut: Appears in The Tempest and The Two Gentleman of Verona. and musicals for only $29* Elsewhere: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Highland Hall Theatre), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stella Adler Studio), Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (Stella Adler Studio). Film/TV: Cruel But Necessary, I Don’t Want to Kill Myself. Plus free chaperone tickets** Training: Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to world-class productions, your students’ theatre experience can include: • Backstage or Costume Warehouse tours • Pre- and post-show chats with company members • Workshops for students or teachers Peter Hutt • Downloadable curriculum-based study 11th season: Alonso in The Tempest. Stratford: Credits include Richard III guides and teaching materials (Buckingham), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chauvelin), The Merchant of Venice, , (portraying William Shakespeare) and • New! Student picnic lunches Macbeth. Elsewhere: Shaw Festival: 20 seasons including An Inspector Calls, Belle Moral: A Natural History, The Philanderer, , and War and Peace. Mr. Hutt’s extensive career has taken him Visit us online or call our Schools across Canada, to the Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Grand Theatre, National Arts Centre and Toronto’s Royal Alexandra. Film/TV: Credits Department for details on booking include The Age of Dorian, Forever Knight, The Taming of the Shrew (CBC), Breaking All the Rules, Echoes in the Darkness and the much-acclaimed CBC television production of Elizabeth a student group today. Rex. Awards: He earned a Dora nomination for Patience (Tarragon Theatre). Et cetera: Mr. Hutt is delighted to return for his 11th Stratford season. stratfordshakespearefestival.com 519.273.1600 or 1.800.567.1600 [email protected] Dion Johnstone Sixth season: Caliban in The Tempest and Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Stratford: Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Macduff Macbeth( ), Octavius Caesar (Julius Caesar), Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird), Edmund (King Lear), Orlando (As You Like It), Iachimo (), Dauphin *Student pricing applies to performances marked (), Lucilius (), Orestes (Electra and The Flies), Mr. SM and SP in our calendar. Stowe (The Swanne, part 2). Elsewhere: Boromir (The Lord of the Rings) **One free chaperone ticket for every 20 tickets (Mirvish Productions; world première); Davey Battle (Take Me Out) (CanStage; Canadian première); (Romeo and Juliet) (Vancouver Playhouse); Octavius (), purchased. Richmond (Richard III) (Bard on the Beach). Film/TV: Guest-star and principal roles include The Guard, Sea Wolf (miniseries), Ice Twisters (TV movie), The Core, Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1. Training: BFA (acting), University of Alberta; Birmingham Conservatory for Classical ANTONI CIMOLINO DES M ANUFF Theatre. Et cetera: Dion would like to thank his family, friends and especially Lisa for their General Director Artistic Director continued love and support.

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R O A T N I U H N L I X E published by Riverbank, an imprint of Cormorant Books. director; Olivier: best musical), A Walk in the Woods (1988), Big River (1985, : best S X X L your child’s birthday! S H U P P X I Y I Cousin Bette The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle R R L N T R director and musical). Film: and (director), U S H AY O T I X X E X P E Iron Giant (producer) and Quills (executive producer). Training: Des McAnuff attended Ryerson University. Awards: Two-time Tony, Olivier and Dora award-winning director and the 2005/2006 Claire Lautier recipient of the Drama League’s prestigious Julia Hansen Award for lifetime achievement. Second season: Ceres in The Tempest and Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Stratford: Aricie in Phèdre. Elsewhere: N.Y.C.: Isabella in Edward the Second, Duchess in The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theatre); The Dining Suzanne McArthur Second season: Apprentice stage manager of The Tempest. Stratford: Some conditions apply to all savings programs; Room (Keen Company); Hedda Gabler (Broadway); Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln visit our website or call the Box O ce for details. Production assistant for West Side Story, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac and A Center). Regional/international: Aricie in Phèdre (ACT); Lady Anne in Richard Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elsewhere: Apprentice stage manager for Pride III, Roxane in Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Princess of France and Prejudice and The Wizard of Oz (The Grand Theatre); Beauty and the in Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC and Shakespeare Theatre Company); and many others across stratfordshakespearefestival.com Beast (Silver Mist Productions). Other credits include Seasons of Immigration the U.S. Film: 25/8, Ghost Town, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Elf, House of D, the short film and The Last 15 Seconds (MT Space); Schoolhouse, The Last Green Hill and By Courier (Academy Award nomination, 2001). TV: 3lbs, Grey’s Anatomy, Numb3rs, Law and „. ††.‡ˆ‰.„ˆ†† The Art of Silent Killing (4th Line Theatre); Potato Chips (Theatre Beyond Words); Little Shop Order, All My Children and Guiding Light. Training: Honour graduate, Duke University and of Horrors and The Rocky Horror Show (Theatre in Port). Training: Suzanne McArthur is a Juilliard. Awards: Drama Desk (The Dining Room), William Shakespeare Award (as member of graduate of Brock University, where she earned her BA in dramatic arts. Et cetera: Suzanne Shakespeare Theatre Company), Michel and Suria St. Denis Award, John Houseman Award. is very honoured to be working with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival once again. She thanks her husband, for their continued support.

Trish Lindström Peter McBoyle Third season: Miranda in The Tempest and Lucetta in The Two Gentlemen 15th season: Resident sound designer of the Stratford Shakespeare of Verona. Stratford: Cabaret (Sally Bowles), The Trojan Women, The Miracle Festival. Sound designer of Kiss Me, Kate, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well Worker (Helen Keller), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Elsewhere: Shaw and Living in Paris and The Tempest. Stratford: Favourites include West Side Festival: The Plough and the Stars, Happy End, Nothing Sacred, The Tinker’s Story, Bartholomew Fair, Julius Caesar, Fuente Ovejuna, Krapp’s Last Tape, Wedding, Gypsy (June), Something on the Side, The Crucible (Mary Warren), Oklahoma!, Shakespeare’s Will, Pentecost, Oliver!, King Lear and Fiddler on the The Invisible Man, Hotel Peccadillo and The Cassilis Engagement. Elsewhere: Roof. Elsewhere: Highlights include Come Fly Away (Broadway); High Society, Assassins (TIFT/Birdland), All Shook Up (Theatre North West), Mimi (or a Poisoner’s Comedy) Gypsy (Shaw); Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast, Cabaret, Into the Woods (Citadel); Fire, (Tarragon), The Sicilian (TO Fringe), Bunnicula (Athena), Love’s Labour’s Lost (NAC), The Greatest Little Shop of Horrors, The House of Martin Guerre (CanStage); The Wrong Son, Trying, Mary’s Gift (TIFT) and Dancing in Poppies (Grand). Title roles in Mary’s Wedding (Ship’s Company), Wedding (NAC); Medea, Orpheus Descending (MTC/Mirvish); Robin Hood, Cinderella (Ross Pippi Longstocking (MTYP), Emily (Charlottetown) and That Scatterbrain Booky (YPT). Film/TV: Petty); and Barrymore (Livent). Training: Bachelor of Music and Masters in sound recording, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Face Down and Spoken Art. Training: National Theatre School both from McGill. Et cetera: Peter made his Broadway debut this spring with Twyla Tharp’s of Canada. Et cetera: Trish uses her photography to fund educational sponsorship abroad Come Fly Away. Peter lives in Stratford with his wife, Meghan, and their daughters, Ella and (www.trishlindstrom.com). Beatrice. He would like to thank them for all their love, support and encouragement.

Amanda Lisman Margaret Palmer Second season: Iris in The Tempest. Stratford: Roxane in Cyrano de 27th season: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre. Stratford: Bergerac, Second Sister in Macbeth and Julia in Zastrozzi. Elsewhere: Maggie has been production stage manager at the Avon and Festival Selected credits: Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Citadel Theatre); theatres for 18 seasons. Stage-management credits include Will Power, The Cherry Orchard, Crimes of the Heart, King Lear (Studio Theatre); Unity Henry IV (parts 1 and 2), Iolanthe, The Imaginary Invalid, My Fair Lady, A Man 1918, [sic], Lieutenant Nun (Theatre SKAM); Dancing at Lughnasa, Steel for All Seasons, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, The Government Inspector, Magnolias, Rebecca (Victoria Theatre Guild); Silverwing (Kaleidoscope Coriolanus, The Mikado (national tour, London’s Old Vic) and Twelfth Night Theatre); and cabaret performances with Atomic Vaudeville. Film/TV: Psych (USA Network); (U.S. tour). Elsewhere: Maggie apprenticed at Neptune Theatre (1966/67) and worked The Party Never Stops (Life Network). Training: Birmingham Conservatory 2009/2010; Banff/ at the St. Lawrence Centre (Toronto Arts Productions), MTC and the Grand Theatre. She Citadel Professional Training Theatre Program 2008; BFA, major in acting, University of stage-managed Eugene Onegin (Manitoba Opera), the first Dream in High Park and the first Alberta; and BA, major in anthropology, University of Victoria. Dora Awards. She was publicity director for the NDWT Company, worked for Fountainhead Theatre in London and toured Canada with the Charlottetown Festival. Training: Graduate of the National Theatre School, where she returned to coach last winter.

13 Nicola Pantin Michael Roth Sixth season: Choreographer of As You Like It and The Tempest. Stratford: Third season: Composer and musical director for As You Like It and Credits include The King and I (ensemble) and choreography for Hamlet, composer for The Tempest. Stratford: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. Film/ Fuente Ovejuna, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Liar, The Glass TV: Music director, Disney’s The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman, Menagerie, The Donnellys: Sticks & Stones, Measure for Measure, The Count composer); composer, Jews and Baseball (PBS documentary, theatrical of Monte Cristo and Timon of Athens. Elsewhere: Theatre choreography release); Your Name Here (with Bill Pullman). Theatre: Over 250 productions. includes work at the LKTYP, Expect Theatre, Red Barn Theatre, Victoria Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (Daniel Sullivan, director), A Walk in the Woods (also Playhouse, Shakespeare in the Rough, Humber River Shakespeare, Theaturtle and 3 PBS). Off-Broadway:Dinner With Friends, The Persians, many others. With Tom Stoppard, Degrees Dance and Theatre. Film/TV: Various music videos, Blues Brothers 2000, The Table Carey Perloff, American premières ofIndian Ink, The Invention of Love; with Culture Clash, The Dance, Big Chief Ballet, Stuck, Year of the Lion. Awards: Two Awards for Birds; with Mac Wellman, The Allegory of Whiteness (Humana Festival); resident composer, outstanding choreography. La Jolla Playhouse. Recordings: Their Thought & Back Again (opera) and work-in-progress with Alice Ripley, available via myspace.com/rothmusik and iTunes. Et cetera: With Randy Newman, orchestrating Faust, editing five anthologies; music/sound for the UN’s Landmine Safety DVD. His work at Stratford is dedicated to his old friend Nicholas Pennell.

Robert Persichini Stephen Russell Eighth season: Adrian in The Tempest and Launce in The Two Gentlemen 28th season: Master in The Tempest and Sir Eglamour in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Stratford (selected): The Importance of Being Earnest, Fuente of Verona. Stratford: Credits include Doc (West Side Story), Brabantio Ovejuna, Timon of Athens, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cherry Orchard, (), Slim (Of Mice and Men), Father Sergei Bojovic (Pentecost), Sergeant Night of the Iguana. Elsewhere: Hamlet (Necessary Angel Theatre); Jitters, Ortuño (Fuente Ovejuna), Cominius (Coriolanus), Mr. Brownlow (Oliver!), The Lonesome West (MTC); Half Life (Necessary Angel; Scottish, Canadian Chorus Leader (Oedipus Rex), Ernst (Cabaret), Cornwall (King Lear) at the and Australian tours); , The Stone Angel, Communicating Doors, Lincoln Center in New York and the title roles in Julius Caesar, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Weir (Canadian Stage Company); Henry VI. Elsewhere: He has appeared in theatres across Canada. Credits include Claudius (Soulpepper); Lion in the Streets, Counter Service, Impromptu on Nuns’ Island (Tarragon in Hamlet, James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night and Inspector Goole in An Inspector Theatre); Lulu, Point Valaine, Drums in the Night (Shaw Festival). Various productions for Calls (MTC); and Find Frank/Nicholas in the première of Nanking Winter (Factory Theatre). Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Grand Theatre (London) and Blyth Festival. Film/TV: His most recent film project is the part of Pontius Pilate inThe Gospel of John. Et Narrator for The Grand Tour (Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra). Radio: Performances for CBC cetera: He lives in Stratford with his wife, Astrid, and son and daughter, Andrew and Isabelle. Radio Drama and Historica.

Christopher Plummer Brian Scott 10th season: Prospero in The Tempest. Nominated this year for an Academy 16th season: Stage manager of As You Like It and assistant stage manager Award, Golden Globe and SAG awards for his Tolstoy in The Last Station, of The Tempest. Stratford: For the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brian has Plummer is a veteran of over 100 films and has spent the better part of stage managed King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth 60 years on stage playing the great warhorses of literature. Beginning Night, The Country Wife, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Waiting in Montreal in French and English, his long and distinguished Broadway for Godot, The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Fitting Confusion, London career has won him much acclaim. A leading member of the Royal Assurance, , , , Into the Woods, Romeo Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, the National Theatre (Sir ) and Juliet and last season’s Macbeth. Elsewhere: Stage management credits include Medea and Canada’s Stratford (Sir and Michael Langham), he last appeared here (MTC/Mirvish Productions); King Lear (Lincoln Center); Don Carlos, The Duchess of Malfi, as Caesar in Des McAnuff’s splendid 2008 production ofCaesar and Cleopatra. Awards: Epicoene and Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre). Et cetera: Brian lives in Stratford with his Britain’s Evening Standard, two Tonys/seven nominations, two Emmys/six nominations, partner, Francesca Callow, and their young sons, Orlando and Inigo. three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie/four nominations, the Edwin Booth, the Sir Quill and the awards. Companion of the Order of Canada (1968), Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2000). Plummer was made an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Juilliard and holds honorary doctorates from six major Canadian universities. He is a member of the American Theatre’s Hall of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame. His self- written memoir, In Spite of Myself, is enjoying much attention from critics and public alike. Lisa Shriver Third season: Movement for The Tempest. Stratford: Caesar and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Julius Caesar. Elsewhere: Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Gareth Potter Ring of Fire, The Story of My Life. Others: Yellow Face (The Public Theatre), Seventh season: Ferdinand in The Tempest and Proteus in The Two After the Ball (Irish Rep), Where’s Charley? (Goodspeed Opera House), Gentlemen of Verona. Stratford: in Macbeth, Romeo in Romeo and Fetch Clay, Make Man (McCarter Theatre), Hot ’n’ Cole (Westport Country Juliet, Nathaniel in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Edgar in King Lear, Gratiano in The Playhouse), The Oldest Profession (Signature Theatre), Stephen Sondheim’s Merchant of Venice, Pierrot in Don Juan, Cromwell in Henry VIII. Elsewhere: 75th birthday celebration. Director/choreographer of An Evening of Guys and Dolls Music with Simon/Wahab in Scorched (Citadel/Tarragon), Pierrot in Don Juan (Théâtre du Tony Bennett, Marisa Tomei and Vanessa Williams. Assistant choreographer of over eight Nouveau Monde), Narrator in The Rape of Lucrece (Théâtre Ste-Catherine), Broadway shows. Film/TV: Film choreography credits include A Beautiful Mind, Hysterical Henry V in Henry V (Gravy Bath). Training: National Theatre School, John Abbott College, Blindness, Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding and House of D and the recent motion-capture version of A Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Michael Mawson Award, Chalmers Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey. Et cetera: “Many thanks to Des McAnuff and to Pamela Training Award. Et cetera: “For my love and hero, Lindsay!” Cooper at The Cooper Company for their support. Love to Brian and Viola.”

Suzanne Roberts Smith Siobhán Sleath Second season: Appears in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and understudy Fourth season: Lighting design execution for Kiss Me, Kate. Assistant in The Tempest. Stratford: Punk Alice/Acrobat/Young Lover (Bartholomew lighting designer of As You Like It, The Tempest and Dangerous Liaisons. Fair), Maid (Three Sisters), Oenone understudy (Phèdre). Elsewhere: Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Trespassers, Marie-Louise (The Thirteen One), Florence (The Ginkgo Tree) (Blyth Festival); Rice Boy, Zastrozzi, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Doris (Same Time Next Year) (Acorn Theatre); For Coloured Girls Who Have Well That Ends Well, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Comedy of Errors and My One Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (choreographer, Coloured and Only. Elsewhere: Lighting design for Back to X (Larchaud Dance Project); Girls Collective); Clown (Half a Tank) (Radix Mobility Theatre); MacHeath (The Beggar’s Opera) Confluence, Tirtha and Frida and Herself (Anandam Performance Group); Les Belles-Soeurs and (NTS); assisted Susanna Hamnet in her stunning Nearly Lear; co-directed Julie Devany in The Killing Game (Randolph Academy); Bluebeard (GromKat Production Ltd.), Fat Pig (Geek Girl the groundbreaking My Leaky Body; worked with Sol Express; drummed with Maracatu Productions); Disciples (DMT Productions); and Anowa (AfriCAN Theatre Ensemble). Associate Nunca Antes. Film: Helen (Mantis) (independent), Mary Shelley (Cine Qua Non Media), lighting design for Anne and Gilbert: The Musical (Campbell Webster Entertainment). Siobhán Janine (Everyday Is Music) (independent). Training: Graduate of National Theatre School also worked on Nuit Blanche 2008, designing the lighting score for Brendan Fernandes’s and Birmingham Conservatory. Et cetera: Suzanne would like to thank ALL of her teachers, installation Future (…---…) Perfect. Training: BFA in theatre production from York University. especially those who continue to inspire and believe in her! “Hao hao hao! Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

14 Julyana Soelistyo Michael Walton Stratford debut: Ariel in The Tempest. Elsewhere: New York: Originated title Sixth season: Lighting designer of As You Like It, The Tempest and King of role of Golden Child by David Henry Hwang, on and off-Broadway (Clarence Thieves. Stratford: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet. Assistant Derwent Award, Drama League Award, Tony nomination); originated designer of nine productions including Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, Armanda Ragusa in The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center); On the Town (City Orpheus Descending, King John and Timon of Athens. Elsewhere: Mimi (or Center); Marina in Pericles (BAM; director Bartlett Sher). Others include a Poisoner’s Comedy), East of Berlin, Generous (Tarragon Theatre); The Year Macaria and Alcmene in The Children of Heracles (director Peter Sellars, of Magical Thinking (Belfry Theatre); The Last Five Years, The Drawer Boy, playing in Bottrop, Rome and Paris); Princess Imogen in Cymbeline; Fool and Cordelia in King Sexy Laundry, Moonlight and Magnolias, Over the River and Through the Woods (Grand); White Lear; Iphigenia at Aulis (Yale Rep); title roles of Naomi’s Road, Alice in Wonderland, Still Life with Christmas, Oliver!, Blood Brothers (Theatre Aquarius); ’Night Mother (Soulpepper); A New Brain Iris (director Linda Hartzell, Children’s Theatre). Film: Earthly Possessions (director (Acting Up Stage); Offensive Shadows (Studio 180); Norway.Today, Tiny Dynamite (Theatre James Lapine), Sister Fetus in Bringing Out the Dead (director Martin Scorsese). Training: Smash); Oliver!, This Is How It Goes (Neptune); The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, The Last Five Years American Conservatory Theater, MFA. Et cetera: Julyana lives in Brooklyn with her husband, (MTC); The Vertical Hour (PTE); associate special effects designer,The Lord of the Rings (Kevin Tim Barrett, and their children, Clio and Leon. Wallace Inc.; London and Toronto).

Timothy D. Stickney Lee Wilson Third season: Sebastian in The Tempest and Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Second season: Assistant director of The Tempest. Stratford: Assistant Verona. Stratford: 2009: (Macbeth), Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s director of Measure for Measure and As You Like It. Elsewhere: Picnic Dream). 2008: Pothinus (Caesar and Cleopatra, with Christopher Plummer); (University of Windsor); Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (Resurgence years after his debut with the National Shakespeare Company, reprised Theatre); As You Like It (Grand Theatre, London); The Sicilian (Toronto Fringe); Tybalt in Stratford. Elsewhere: 2008: Stickney was Macbeth (New York A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre by the Bay); assistant director of Arms State Theatre Institute). In 2007: Hamlet (AUDELCO-nominated, Take Wing and the Man, The Magic Fire, Rosmersholm (Shaw Festival); The Valiant (Shaw and Soar), Oswald (Public Theater’s King Lear with ) and Escalus (Romeo and Juliet, Festival). Training: Apprentice Artistic Director/Artistic Associate (Grand Theatre, London); Central Park’s Delacorte). Timothy’s led award-nominated productions of Othello (Africa directing workshop, Peter Hall Company (); Shaw Festival Directors Project Arts) and Richard III for TWAS. Previous: The Taming of the Shrew (Public Theater); Achilles, (2005/2006); Birmingham Conservatory resident director (Stratford 2004/2005); (Shakespeare Theatre); Orsino, Twelfth Night (Seattle Rep.); Lorenzo, The Grant for Artistic Direction/Directing (Tarragon Theatre); inaugural Soulpepper Academy with Merchant of Venice (Hartford Stage). In 2009, directed King Lear with Trezana Beverly for (Soulpepper Theatre); Ryerson Theatre School. Et cetera: Founding Artistic TWAS (associate artistic director.) Film/TV: Timothy is best known as One Life to Live’s R.J. Director/Resident Director of Resurgence Theatre. “To Mom (June), Dad (Sam), Angela.” Gannon. Training: Graduate: American Academy of Dramatic Arts/Company. Upcoming: Hamlet (Resurgence Theatre).

Paul Tazewell Geraint Wyn Davies Third season: Costume designer of The Tempest. Stratford: Macbeth, Seventh season: Stephano in The Tempest and in Do Not Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Broadway: , Go Gentle. Stratford (selected): Duncan (Macbeth), Julius Caesar, Bottom The Miracle Worker, Guys and Dolls, , The Color Purple (Tony (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Polonius (Hamlet), King Ferdinand (Fuente nomination), Caroline, or Change, A Raisin in the Sun, Drowning Crow, Bring Ovejuna), Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady), Henry V, Bassanio (The Merchant in ’da Noise… (Tony nomination), Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, On the Town, of Venice), Young Fashion (The Relapse), D’Artagnan (Three Musketeers), Fascinating Rhythm, Def Poetry Jam. Off-Broadway:Ruined , McReele, Flesh Hortensio (The Taming of the Shrew), Antipholus S (), and Blood, Fame, Boston Marriage, Harlem Song. Regional theatre: Guthrie, New York Pericles (Pericles). Elsewhere: CanStage’s The Elephant Man; Shaw Festival, five seasons; Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, , Shakespeare Theater, King Lear (Lincoln Center); Women Beware Women (Redbull Theatre); Do Not Go Gentle Oregon Shakespeare, Alliance, Pasadena Playhouse. Opera: Porgy and Bess (Chicago Lyric, (ArcLight, N.Y.C.); Richard III, Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Opera, L.A. Opera, Washington Opera), Little Women (New York City Opera, Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC); Hamlet, Henry VIII (Chichester Festival); An Enemy of the People Glimmerglass Opera), Treemonisha (St. Louis Opera). Awards: Three Awards (Lyric Hammersmith, London); two seasons as Theatr Clwyd’s artistic associate (The Welsh plus Lucille Lortel, Jefferson, Princess Grace and Irene Sharaff awards. National Performing Arts Company). Film/TV (selected): ReGenesis, Murdoch Mysteries, 24, Slings and Arrows, Black Harbour, Tracker, Airwolf, Forever Knight, American Psycho II, Ghost Mom, Post Mortem, Nancy Drew, Hypercube.

John Vickery Third season: Antonio in The Tempest and Duke in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Stratford: 2009: Ross (Macbeth), Comte de Guiche (Cyrano), Victor (Zastrozzi). 2008: Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Holofernes (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Lucius Septimius (Caesar and Cleopatra). Elsewhere: Broadway: original Scar in The Lion King (also in L.A.), The Real Thing, The Sisters Rosensweig, Macbeth. He recently worked with Robert Wilson on The Black Rider and on Stuff Happens. Other roles include Romeo, Laertes, Hamlet, Benedict, Dr. Caius, Gower, Pericles, Prince Hal, Richard II, Bolingbroke, Richard III, Cassius, Brutus, Autolycus, Edgar, Edmund, Malcolm, Macbeth, Don Juan, Tartuffe, Alceste, Trofimov, Lopahin, Trigorin, Delio and Bosola (twice) in The Duchess of Malfi. Film/TV: Murder by Numbers, Big Business, Dr. Giggles, Patriot Games, Rapid Fire, Without a Trace, NCIS, , NYPD Blue and all of Star Trek (except Voyager).

Sophia Walker Fifth season: Juno in The Tempest and Julia in The Two Gentleman of Verona. Stratford: Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, inMacbeth , Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Charmian in Caesar and Cleopatra, Luciana in The Comedy of Errors, Nausicaa in The Odyssey, Helen Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, Amah in Harlem Duet. Elsewhere: Pope Clement VI in Red Noses, Mrs. Mi Tzu in The Good Woman of Setzuan and Mary Donovan in St. Nicholas Hotel (Ryerson Theatre). Much Ado About Nothing (Ursula) for CanStage’s Dream in High Park and touring the musical Orchids (Marquis Entertainment), as well as projects for the Groundswell Festival (Nightwood Theatre). Training: Ryerson University, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Mary Savidge and Michael Mawson awards. Et cetera: “Love you, Mom and Dad.”

Julyana Soelistyo (Ariel)

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