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In 2017 we celebrate both ’s 150th birthday and our 65th Festival season – a season that explores identity. Both personal and collective, identity can lend comfort or give pain. It can be used, as by Joseph Surface and , as a mask to deceive others – or, unconsciously, as by Timon, to deceive ourselves. But false identity, like Viola’s gender deception, can also lead to happy discoveries. Identity can both unite and divide. How can I be myself yet belong to a greater whole? Am I Romeo first? Or am I first a Montague? In an age of anxiety over immigration, globalization and Brexit, is identity at odds with diversity? In 1914, clinging to a particular definition of Canadian identity, our country betrayed the Sikh passengers of the Komagata Maru – most of whom had served in the British Army and were thus entitled to residency here – by denying them entry. The Breathing Hole and The Madwoman of Chaillot suggest a profound question: if our sense of identity can stretch to encompass not only other peoples but future generations and perhaps even the land itself, might we discover a deeper sense of what it means to be Canadian? One, perhaps, informed by the spirit of the original and sovereign caretakers of this land: our First Nations. Finally, as we celebrate our national identity, we might do well to remember that, no matter how we name ourselves, actions, not words, will define us. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

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2 3 AN EXTREME MAN FOR EXTREME TIMES

BY MARTIN MORROW

“The middle of humanity thou never and Cleopatra. The playwright may also knewest, but the extremity of both ends,” have been acquainted with Timon, or The Apemantus the philosopher famously tells Misanthrope, a dialogue by the satirist Timon, the prodigal-turned-misanthrope, Lucian that contains other elements found in ’s . in the play. Apemantus, as they say, nails it: Timon is a Timon of Athens first appeared in 1623, man of extremes, a man of excesses, who in the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s can’t find the equilibrium that allows others works. We have no record of its to live in a corrupt and dishonest world. performance during his lifetime and, given Even if he doesn’t actually lose his sanity the patchy quality of the text, it has often – like , the other Shakespearean been regarded as an unfinished and character he most closely resembles – possibly abandoned work. Historically, there’s no disputing that Timon undergoes scholars have treated it harshly, contending a startling personality change in the course that some of it was written by others of the play. When we first meet him, he’s (Thomas Middleton is a favourite candidate) WANT a carefree rich man whose compulsive and dismissing it as inferior, both in style LL TO and in substance, to Shakespeare’s great OU’ STA generosity draws friends to him like flies to Y Y honey. But after his lavish spending leaves tragedies. FOR A him deeply in debt and in need of a bailout, Certainly, in conventional terms, the story those same “friends” suddenly prove is lacking: Timon shifts from philanthropy to scarce. Their betrayal causes the naïve misanthropy so profoundly and irretrievably Timon to become bitterly disillusioned. So that the drama has nowhere to go. As ! bitterly, in fact, that he furiously repudiates immoderate in his hatred as he was in his not just them but all of humankind, retiring liberality, he spends the latter part of the to the woods to live the life of a root- play simply raining curses on anyone and Make The Parlour Inn home base while you take in the Stratford Festival. Full of digging hermit. everyone. It’s as if King Lear had ended charm and character this historic boutique hotel is a local landmark. You’ll love Apparently a real Athenian who lived in with Lear raging on the heath. our modern amenities, delicious menu, outdoor patio and convenient location. the fifth century BCE, Timon was already Such flaws meant that Timon of Athens a legendary misanthrope in classical was largely neglected by the theatre until Experience Stratford and book your stay in one antiquity. Aristophanes mentioned him. the late twentieth century, when a string of our 28 unique guestrooms today! So did Plutarch. Shakespeare may of revelatory productions proved that it have stumbled upon him while reading could be far more compelling on the stage Thomas North’s English translation of than on the page. The great ’s | theparlour.ca 1-877-728-4036 Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, where Timon’s performance as a youthful, vital Timon | 101 Wellington Street Stratford, ON tale is embedded in the biography of Mark at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1965 forced a Antony – Shakespeare’s source for Antony reassessment of the character. Among

4 5 those it inspired was Peter Brook, who This time it boasted an astonishing Timon in Although traditionally categorized as a two men: Apemantus, for all his asperity, launched his seminal Bouffes du Nord – a performance hailed as a tragedy, Timon of Athens is just as much a sees clearly; Timon is blinded with hatred. theatre in Paris in 1974 with a stunning “landmark” by The New York Times when, lacerating satire – as critics have pointed He refuses Apemantus’s friendship even international production. under the aegis of Tony Randall’s National out, the play anticipates Jonathan Swift’s as he rejects an alliance with Alcibiades, “savage indignation,” certainly in the In Canada, Timon already had a defender Actors Theatre, the show later played who, wronged by the senators of Athens, later scenes where Shakespeare gives in Michael Langham. During his tenure as Broadway to acclaim. (Two other Stratford is preparing to attack the city. Alcibiades Timon a litany of blistering tirades that Artistic Director at the Stratford Festival, legends, and , also (also a historical figure lifted from Plutarch) are entertaining in their mad extremism. Langham staged a 1963 production starring tackled Timon in a much-talked-about but provides the play with its subplot. He, like Connoisseurs of the creative curse will John Colicos, set in the 1920s and ’30s and little-seen production that was part of Phillips’s Timon, has taken his grievance against a find his sweeping denunciation of Athens featuring an original jazz score by Duke financially disastrous 1983–84 season at the group of citizens to the extreme and plans outdoes in all but poetry any of the blights Ellington. Although it divided the critics (who Grand Theatre in London, .) to bring down all of Athens, but finally is that Lear wishes upon his heartless made to listen to reason and seek a more bridled at the then-novel idea of setting More recently, Stephen Ouimette reiterated daughters. moderate revenge. Shakespeare in the Jazz Age), Langham Timon’s dramatic power when he directed would come back to the play and direct it a 2004 Stratford revival, staged in modern As for poetry and rhetoric, there is Timon’s Timon’s own rage might have proven for Stratford again in 1991. dress and featuring a mighty Peter scathing lecture directed at a gang of cathartic – as perhaps it was to Donaldson. Now, like Langham before him, bandits, in which he finds a model for their Shakespeare, who, it has been suggested, Ouimette is revisiting the play and once larceny in nature itself. (It includes that may have written those tirades to work again unearthing its hidden riches. His wonderful line “The moon’s an arrant thief, out some anger of his own. The tragedy Timon for this production is a particularly sly / And her pale fire she snatches from the is that it doesn’t; Timon’s misanthropy is and apt choice: Joseph Ziegler, the subtle, sun,” which provided the title for Vladimir a dead end that finds solace only in the sympathetic actor known to audiences of Nabokov’s dazzling novel Pale Fire, whose grave. Unrelenting hatred merely ends up ’s Soulpepper Theatre for his annual antihero may be as deluded as Timon.) consuming the hater. We are reminded that portrayal of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol – Then there is Timon’s urging of Phrynia the only sane path, for ourselves and the a character whose own transformation from and Timandra, the courtesans of the world, is one that tempers anger, however man-hater to altruist is the mirror opposite general Alcibiades, to infect men with justified, with reason. Timon is like those of Timon’s. syphilis – a feast of comically disgusting fanatics, whether they be religious zealots or political demagogues, raging futilely There could be no better time for a Timon imagery that remains toe-curling even in the at a world that doesn’t – and will never – revival. We are now in an age where extreme era of penicillin. conform to their ideals. contrasts and extreme viewpoints have Most amusing, however, is Timon’s peppery gained an alarming amount of ground. exchange with his self-appointed gadfly, Society is increasingly divided between Apemantus, a cynic who finds kinship with the rich and powerful “one percent” and Timon’s jaundiced view of humanity even Martin Morrow is a Toronto-based everyone else. We are beset by religious as the two of them hurl insults at each arts journalist and the president of the terrorists and fear-mongering politicians who other. But there is a difference between the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. see no middle way, while social media is polluted by the rantings of hate-filled trolls. If Timon were alive today, he might be spewing his misanthropic invective on . Then there is the early Timon, blithely unconcerned that his profligate behaviour is plunging him deep into debt, who reminds us of our consumer society in which many people now spend beyond their means THE STORY and, like Timon, are encouraged to do so by those who benefit from it. When Nicholas Renowned for his extreme generosity, the Athenian nobleman Timon has fallen prey to Hytner directed an up-to-the-minute version flatterers and false friends, on whom he showers lavish gifts and extravagant hospitality. of the play at Britain’s National Theatre in His loyal steward, Flavius, tries to warn him of the financial consequences of such reckless 2012, Guardian critic Michael Billington saw expenditure, while the cynical philosopher Apemantus mocks his naivety, but Timon in it “a bitter fable about the precariousness ignores them both. When his money runs out and his creditors demand payment, Timon of a credit culture and the insulating effect sends confidently to his “friends” for help. When all refuse him, he throws one last party – of wealth.” one that heralds a dramatic change in his attitude to the world.

6 JOSEPH ZIEGLER 7 DIRECTOR’S NOTES carry on. This is a chance to watch, from the very moment: how do we proceed, and be safety of our seats, as someone really does honourable and kind to each other? decide he’s done with the world. Ultimately, the message is the same as that of King DP: In that regard, is it significant that some Lear: “Speak what we feel, not what we male roles are being played by women in ought to say.” Be true to your word, be loyal, this production? love other human beings. SO: I do believe – just surmising from his TRUER THAN EVER JS: The extremes to which Timon goes work – that Shakespeare thought highly pose a very contemporary challenge, of women and felt that a maternal society DIRECTOR STEPHEN OUIMETTE AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR also to a younger generation. We may might somehow be a better one. One JONATHAN SEINEN IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID PROSSER consider ourselves politically aware and reason, of course, for the preponderance socially conscious. We keep abreast of of men in his plays is that the society he current affairs, we think we’re engaged. was working in didn’t allow women on And we get a bit cynical about our neo- stage, so female roles had to be played by liberal, globalized world. But Shakespeare boys. This play in particular is populated undercuts that and asks: are you really almost entirely by men. I don’t want to do doing all you can to engage with the world a disservice to the play – but at the same DP: Stephen, all previous Stratford JS: It’s interesting how often the word now as it is? Are you going to change it, or just time, I don’t want to do a disservice to the Festival productions of Timon of Athens, appears in the text. It’s almost a call from be cynical? The play shows us where we’d women of the world. So we’ve made some including your own in 2004, have been in the play to put it in a contemporary setting: actually have to go if we wanted to take a changes: some of the young up-and- modern dress. Does this say something that it’s happening now. real stand outside the world we live in. And coming people in the Senate, for instance, about the play? therein lies a challenge. are women, as are some of the creditors DP: Stephen, you used the word message. and servants who are sent to exact money DP: But Timon doesn’t really change things, SO: I think some plays work best in their Is this a play with a message? from Timon. I think our audiences want to does he? own period, and some just demand to see a world more populated with women, a SO: It has the simplicity of a parable, a be done in a modern setting. I think world more reflective of our society today. morality play – but in that simplicity, there is SO: The play’s not sewn up in a happy this one absolutely does: it speaks to a so much. Ultimately, it’s about friendship: is ending. The question it poses is: What do modern audience, and its message is true friendship possible in a credit society? we do now? How do we proceed from David Prosser is the Stratford Festival’s really important to us today. There’s a little There’s a beautiful club in Timon’s mind here? And that’s what we’re all facing at this Literary and Editorial Director. exchange right at the beginning: “How goes that he thinks everybody belongs to: he the world?” asks the Poet. And the Painter believes in it, and he thinks everybody else believes in it as well. But they don’t.

JS: He has a vision of how the world should operate, how people should treat each “It has the simplicity other. That’s set up beautifully in the first part of the play. It’s exciting to see someone of a parable – but in willing to imagine what the world should be, and believe in it so much that he acts that simplicity, there as generously as he does. That’s why it’s so heartbreaking in the second half, because is so much more” the world doesn’t meet his expectations. SO: And that we think of it as a flaw to have such an open heart. What we see in Timon is a soft, warm and open heart hardening. replies, “It wears, sir, as it grows.” I feel that That’s the tragedy of the play. And based line has become so important to us. Look at on that conflict, it lets us see somebody the wear and tear we’ve been putting poor go to the darkest place in their soul. We all old Mother Earth through. It was true then have days when we’re disheartened, when but it’s even truer now. we just think, “I’m done,” but generally we SEINEN JONATHAN OUIMETTE STEPHEN

8 9 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PLAYWRIGHT

Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, William newly built . Shakespeare was the eldest son of John In 1603, when James I had succeeded Shakespeare, a glover and tanner who rose Elizabeth on the throne, Shakespeare’s to become an alderman and bailiff of the company was awarded a royal patent, town, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a becoming known as the King’s Men. wealthy farmer. The exact date of his birth Meanwhile, the playwright continued is unknown, but there is a record of his his business dealings in Stratford and in baptism at Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church on London, where in 1613 he bought a property April 26. Since an interval of two or three known as the Blackfriars Gatehouse. He is days between birth and baptism would believed to have spent increasing amounts have been quite common, tradition has it of his time in Stratford from around 1609 that he was born on April 23 – the same until his death on April 23, 1616. He is buried date as his death fifty-two years later. in the town’s Holy Trinity Church. The young Shakespeare is assumed to have attended what is now King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford, where he would have studied rhetoric, grammar and ancient Roman literature in its original Latin. In 1582, when he was eighteen, 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 afterwards in 1583. Twins followed two years later: a son, Hamnet, who died at the age of eleven, and a second daughter, Judith. Nothing further is known of Shakespeare’s life until 1592, by which time he was sufficiently established as an actor and writer in London to be the target of a literary attack by a jealous fellow playwright, Robert Greene. Soon afterwards, an outbreak of plague forced the temporary closure of the theatres, and Shakespeare turned his attention instead to his long narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He also began writing the Sonnets, a series of 154 complex and often ambiguous poems on themes of love, jealousy and mortality that have aroused much biographical speculation. By 1595, Shakespeare was back in the theatre, writing and acting for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. His income as one of London’s most successful dramatists enabled him, in 1597, to buy a large house called New Place back in Stratford, and in 1599 he became a shareholder in London’s

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Assistant Director Stage Manager Jonathan Seinen Michael Hart BACKSTAGE Assistant Designer Assistant Stage Managers Caitlin Luxford Katie Honek Production responsibilities during the performance accomplished by: Assistant Lighting Designer Holly Korhonen Melissa Veal Head Carpenter Head Sound Swing Hilary Pitman Paul Gorman Michael Duncan Luci Pottle Associate Fight Director Production Assistant Alternate Wardrobe Head Anita Nittoly Fran Barker John Lowe Inez Khan Wigs and Makeup Show Fight Captain Production Stage Manager Head Electrician Wardrobe Attendants Head Gareth Potter Janine Ralph Timothy Hanson Jane Mallory Julie Scott Dance Captain Head Property Emma Pawluk Wigs and Makeup Crew Jacklyn Francis Technical Director Steve Gregg Julia Wylie Tracy Frayne Sean Hirtle

UNDERSTUDIES Rodrigo Beilfuss Alcibiades, Third Josh Johnston Third Senator PRODUCTION CREDITS Bandit Omar Alex Khan Old Athenian Mikaela Davies Painter, Timandra Qasim Khan Ventidius, Second Director of Production Design Coordinator Transportation Ijeoma Emesowum Caphis, Senator Simon Marsden Mary-Jo Carter Dodd Charlie Fox Philota, Lucullus’s Friend Robert King Hortensius, Titus Production Administrator Technical Director – Dirk Newbery Josue Laboucane Flavius Jacklyn Francis Lucius’s Servant, Carla Fowler Scenic Construction B.J. Shaver Isidore’s Servant Cyrus Lane Sempronius, Lucius James Thistle Sébastien Heins Second Bandit, Mike Nadajewski Flaminius, Administrative Assistant Andrew Mestern Fourth Senator Lucilius, Servilius Cindy Jordan Scene Shop Manager Electronics Technologist Gareth Potter Apemantus Chris Wheeler Jessica B. Hill Poet, First Senator, Associate Technical Director Robbin Cheesman Cupid Tyrone Savage Lucullus, First Technical Management Zara Jestadt Merchant, Jeweller, Bandit David Campbell Phyrnia, First Stranger, Second Michael Spencer-Davis Timon Assistant Stranger, Third Stranger Rylan Wilkie Varro’s Servants Michael Besworth

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Great RODRIGO BEILFUSS BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2015/16 2017: Jeweller in Timon of Athens, Tomazo de Piracquo in The Changeling and appears in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Second season. Stratford: Young Siward in Macbeth, Frank Lubey in All My Sons, Fellow Countryman in The Aeneid. Elsewhere (selected): (Bravura Theatre), Sea Wall (Theatre by the River), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare in the Ruins), The Winter’s Tale (Tom-Tom), The Merchant of Venice (SIR), Measure for Measure (LAMDA), Six Characters in Search of an Author, Richard III, Dido Queen of Carthage, (BCCT). Director: Lungs, Cock, Generous and Bull (TBTR), (assistant director – theatre RMTC). Training: The University of Winnipeg, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Online: rodrigobeilfuss.com; @RBeilfuss. Et cetera: There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? – Lord Byron.

TIM CAMPBELL 2017: Alcibiades in Timon of Athens, Lollio in The Changeling and The Police Officer in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Ninth season. lives here. Stratford (selected): Chris Keller in All My Sons, Bunny, Macbeth (twice), Hamlet (twice), Julius Caesar, , As You Like It, , Henry IV (1), Henry IV (2), , , Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. Elsewhere: Credits include Venus in Fur (ATP); Twelve Angry Men, Death of a Salesman, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Soulpepper); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Private Lives ( Shakespeare). Film/TV: Reign, Republic of Doyle, Warehouse 13, Nikita, The L.A. Complex, Saving Hope, Deadly Hope, The Firm, Lost Girl, Against the Wall, Combat Hospital, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, Killshot, Hollywoodland. Awards: Dora Award, Best Ensemble (Twelve Angry Men). Past recipient of the Guthrie Award (for outstanding contribution to the Stratford Festival).

BEN CARLSON 2017: Apemantus in Timon of Athens, De Flores in The Changeling and The President in The Madwoman of Chaillot. 10th season. Stratford: Hamlet, Petruchio, Benedick, Leontes, Brutus, Octavius, Fluellen, Feste, Touchstone, Fredrik (A Little Night Music), Beralde (The Hypochondriac), Captain von Trapp (The Sound of Music), Charles (Blithe Spirit), Alceste (), Jack (The Importance of Being Earnest), Chaplain (Mother Courage and Her Children), Burleigh (). Elsewhere: Most recently: The Audience, MTC/Mirvish Productions. Shaw Festival: Tanner, Man and Superman; over 25 productions. Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Hamlet, Macbeth, Pericles. Various favourites: London Road, Canadian Stage; Our Town, Soulpepper Theatre; Berowne, NAC; Biff, Death of a Salesman, Neptune Theatre; Marchbanks, Candida, Theatre Calgary; Private Gar, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia). Film/TV: The Strain, Reign, The Anniversary, Saving Hope, Rookie Blue, Grey Gardens, Slings and Arrows, The 11th Hour. Awards: Joseph Jefferson, Hamlet; Dora, The Doll’s House.

DAVID COLLINS 2017: Old Athenian, Second Senator in Timon of Athens, Vermandero in The Changeling and The Baron in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Ninth season. Stratford: Macbeth, As You Like It, The Hypochondriac, The Adventures of Pericles, The Alchemist, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, , Henry V, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Shakuntala (Premiere Dance Theatre); The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish); The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Donut City (Canadian Stage); Pusha Man, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Passe Muraille); Top Gun the Musical (Factory Theatre/N.Y.C.); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in Action); founding member, Obsidian Theatre Company. Film/TV: Watch Dogs 2, 12 Monkeys, Jean of the Joneses, Saving Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, Nikita, The Firm, ReGenesis, Owning Mahowny, The Incredible Hulk, MVP, Warehouse 13, Nurse.Fighter.Boy, XIII. Training: MFA, York University. Awards: Award. Dora nominations: Twilight Café, The America Play.

BMO is proud of its long standing MIKAELA DAVIES 2017: Third Stranger in Timon of Athens, Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling and Irma, the Kitchen Girl, in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Second partnership with the Stratford Festival season. Stratford: Katherine, Dauphin, Young Mowbray, Salisbury, Shadow, Lady Attending the Queen in Breath of Kings: Rebellion and and its season sponsorship of the Redemption. Elsewhere: Leonora in The Libertine (TIFT), Nurse Jane/Faith Matheny in Spoon River, Rossignol in Marat/Sade (Dora nominations for Best Ensemble), Gittel in The Dybbuk, Mary Warren in The Crucible, Flipote in Tartuffe, Mrs. Cherry in Idiot’s Delight, Natasha in The Thirst of Tom Patterson Theatre. Hearts, Molly Ivors in The Dead (Soulpepper Theatre). Other: Canadian Stage RBC Emerging Artist Program: Director Development Residency. Director of Richard the Second (Secret Shakespeare), Seams (SummerWorks). Director and co-developer of How We Are; associate director of Blackbird (Artscape); assistant director of The Dead (Soulpepper). Training: Soulpepper Academy, Dome Theatre. Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award recipient, Brian Cloutte Memorial Bursary. Online: @MikaelaLily. Et cetera: “Whether you think you can or you can’t – you’re right.”

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IJEOMA EMESOWUM JACKLYN FRANCIS SÉBASTIEN HEINS JESSICA B. HILL ZARA JESTADT JOSH JOHNSTON OMAR ALEX KHAN QASIM KHAN ROBERT KING JOSUE LABOUCANE

IJEOMA EMESOWUM BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2015/16 JOSH JOHNSTON BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2014/15 2017: Phrynia, Cupid, Second Stranger in Timon of Athens, Diaphanta in The Changeling and appears in The Madwoman of 2017: Lucillius, Second Bandit in Timon of Athens, Handyman in The Madwoman of Chaillot and appears in The Changeling. Chaillot. Fourth season. Stratford: Gentlewoman in Macbeth, Phebe in As You Like It, Third Doctor, La Troupe de Molière in The Third season. Stratford: Shakespeare in Love, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Hypochondriac, Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever, Hamlet, , Alice Through the Directors’ Workshop Presentation: Coriolanus in Coriolanus. Birmingham Conservatory: Richmond in Richard III, Proteus Looking-Glass, Antony and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Five seasons with the Shaw Festival including Major Barbara, Serious Money, in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Young Shepherd in The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere (selected): Sebastian in Who’s Under Ragtime, The Admirable Crichton, The Women, The Devil’s Disciple, Born Yesterday, Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct); The Aftermath Where? (Lighthouse Festival Theatre); Giri in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (red light district); Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Nightwood Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in High Park, Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Antony and Cleopatra, (Unit 102); Kenzie in Fleeto (Tiny Room). Film: Joey in Chickens (Moir Movies); Stephen in The Silver Chevy (Sheridan Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Stratford Festival HD). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for College). Training: BFA in Acting, York University; Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Michael Mawson Classical Theatre; BFA, University of Windsor. Online: Twitter: @UsoIje. Et cetera: “Love and thanks to my family and Jake.” Award. “Her very silence is the still centre of this turning world.”

JACKLYN FRANCIS OMAR ALEX KHAN 2017: Sempronius in Timon of Athens, Trip in The School for Scandal and William Hopkinson in The Komagata Maru 2017: Timandra, First Stranger in Timon of Athens, The Flower Seller in The Madwoman of Chaillot and appears in The Incident. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Canadian Stage/Shakespeare in High Park); Changeling. Fifth season. Stratford: Past highlights include Celia in As You Like It and Caroline Bingley in Pride and Glengarry Glen Ross, The Seafarer, Romeo and Juliet, Black Coffee (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Kite Runner Prejudice. Elsewhere: Citadel Theatre, Blyth Festival, Shakespeare in the Ruff, Canadian Stage, YPT, Theatre Northwest, (Theatre Calgary/Citadel); Richard III, The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare in the Ruins); Three Sisters, Iceland (Theatre Sudbury Theatre Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Resurgence Theatre, Theatre By the Bay, Brookstone Theatre, Buddies Projects Manitoba); Betrayal (Winnipeg Jewish Theatre); Pygmalion (Montgomery/Watermark); Moonlight and Magnolias in Bad Times, Thought For Food, Pencil Kit Productions, The Troubled Souls Co-op, Equity Showcase Theatre, the Toronto (Prairie Theatre Exchange); The Wanderers (Cahoots). Film/TV: The Strain, Remedy, Killjoys, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Fringe, and SummerWorks. Film and TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Rookie Blue, Flashpoint, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Missing, Less Than Kind, Jack, Wrath of Grapes: Don Cherry II. Online: omaralexkhan.com; @omaralexkhan. Et cetera: Thank you to Train 48, Do No Harm, Starhunter 2300, It’s Always Something, Our Hero, The City, FX: The Series, Falling Fire (feature the Pussycat, for everything. film).Training: George Brown Theatre School, Banff/Citadel Robbins Academy.Awards: Jean A. Chalmers Award.

QASIM KHAN SÉBASTIEN HEINS 2017: Merchant, Third Bandit in Timon of Athens, Alonzo de Piracquo in The Changeling and Shoelace Peddler in The Madwoman 2017: Servilius in Timon of Athens and Charles Surface in The School for Scandal. Second season. Stratford: Aumerle, of Chaillot. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well, Das Ding (Canadian Stage); Alligator Pie, Animal Farm, The Prince John in Breath of Kings: Rebellion; Prince John, Mouldy, Le Fer in Breath of Kings: Redemption. Elsewhere (selected): Crucible, The Royal Comedians, Dirt (Soulpepper); Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Anne of Green Gables, workshop of A Misfortune Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera (b current/represented by FOX Entertainment Agency); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Outside (Charlottetown Festival); Beneath The Banyan Tree (Theatre Direct); A Craigslist Cantata (Acting Up/ATP/Citadel/NAC); Shannon 10:40 the March/Crow’s/Starvox); Mr. Marmalade (Outside the March); The Lion King (Mirvish). Film/TV: CTV’s The Listener, (Videofag); workshops of Later I Can Tell You About Jesus, United Nathans (Studio 180) and Acha Bacha (Theatre Passe Muraille). Film/TV: SuperChannel’s Darknet, CBC’s Cracked. Training: National Theatre School of Canada. Awards: Tullio Cedraschi Award at NTS, Riftworld Chronicles, Nikita, Saving Hope, Dan for Mayor, Little Mosque. Training: Soulpepper Academy, University of Toronto/Sheridan. Et Toronto Urban Film Festival’s City Stories Award for Her Chance to Dream, Best Emerging Artist Award at United Solo Festival cetera: Dora Award nominee and winner (Banyan Tree); International Actor Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe. Huge thank-you to Robyn and in N.Y.C. Online: @sebastienheins; thehiphopera.com. Et cetera: Sébastien dedicates this season to curiosity. He thanks his the AMI family; Beth, Jackie, Stephen, Donna; Aysha and Family, Matt, friends for their love, and his beautiful Mum. Follow @theqasimkhan. family, friends, colleagues, and incredible partner, Dasha, for making his life as an artist an epic adventure every day. ROBERT KING 2017: Lucius in Timon of Athens, Health Officer Jadin in The Madwoman of Chaillot and appears in The Changeling. 24th season. JESSICA B. HILL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2014/15 Macbeth, All My Sons, Hamlet, Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Three Musketeers, Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Richard 2017: Philota, Lucullus’s Friend in Timon of Athens, Isabella in The Changeling and appears in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Third Stratford: III, Richard II, , King Lear, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Merry Wives of Windsor, Dream, Pericles, Henry V, Henry VI, season. Stratford: Lydia Lubey (All My Sons), Lola (Bunny), Dame Pliant (The Alchemist). Birmingham Conservatory: Duchess of York/ Shoemakers’ Holiday, Treasure Island, Count of Monte Cristo, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Grapes of Wrath, Home, Of Mice and Men, Richard (Richard III), Paulina (The Winter’s Tale). Elsewhere: Ilona in The Play’s the Thing, Petra in An Enemy of the People (Segal The Diary of Anne Frank Ah, Wilderness! Quiet in the Land The Donnellys A Wind in the Willows Christmas The Yalta Centre); Les Zinspirés 2.0 (Théâtre français de Toronto); Lena Horne in Joe Louis: An American Romance (Infinithéâtre); Holly in The , , , . Elsewhere: , Game Afterplay Falling: A Wake Bolsheviki Owen The Melville Boys Lady Smith (Black Theatre Workshop); Scapin, Much Ado About Nothing (Repercussion Theatre); Tamora in Titus Andronicus (Montreal , , (Alternative Theatre Works); (world première, Infinithéâtre/ATW); , (world première, TNB); Blyth Festival, five seasons: I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Garrison’s Garage, Country Hearts. A proud Shakespeare Theatre Company); Jehanne in Jehanne of the Witches (Tableau d’hôte). Film/TV: 30 vies (Radio-Canada); The Battle of Et cetera: “Domie” – Dawson College’s Dome Theatre program. Robert lives in Stratford with his wife, Peggy, and children, Mary and Lawrence. Wills (Informaction). Training: Birmingham Conservatory; McGill University; Dawson College. Awards: Mary Savidge Award (2016); Elsa Bolam Award (2006); Brian Cloutte Award (2005). Online: jessicabhill.com. Et cetera: “Love and gratitude to my family and friends.” JOSUE LABOUCANE BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2012/13 2017: Poet in Timon of Athens, A Nasty Man in The Madwoman of Chaillot and appears in The Changeling. Fifth season. Stratford: ZARA JESTADT BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2016 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Aeneid, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, A Midsummer 2017: Caphis in Timon of Athens and appears in The Changeling and The Madwoman of Chaillot. Stratford debut. Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello. Birmingham Conservatory: Twelfth Night (Robin Elsewhere: Mrs. Erlynne in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Mayor in The Enchanted and Zinka in The Suicide (George Brown Phillips); Private Lives (Christopher Newton); Hamlet (Stephen Ouimette); Love’s Labour’s Lost (). Elsewhere: Henry VI Theatre School); Mary in Lazarus and His Beloved (Broken Hill Theatre). Film/TV: Maggie in The Days of Destitute in Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Timon of Athens (Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach); (Imaginarium Studio Inc.). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, George Brown Theatre School, McGill The East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement); The Exquisite Hour (Relephant); The Wizard of Oz, Seussical (Carousel); The Emperor’s University, Etobicoke School of the Arts. Awards: Dean’s Award, Timsel Challenge Award (George Brown Theatre School). New Threads (Axis). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Studio 58, Canadian National Voice Intensive. Awards: One Jessie Award; Et cetera: Thank you to Mom, Dad, family and friends for your constant support and inspiration. It means the world. Sydney J. Risk Award. Et cetera: Josue also loves teaching, directing and mask-making. Twitter: @josuelaboucane.

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CYRUS LANE MIKE NADAJEWSKI GARETH POTTER TYRONE SAVAGE MICHAEL SPENCER-DAVIS RYLAN WILKIE JOSEPH ZIEGLER

CYRUS LANE RYLAN WILKIE 2017: Ventidius, First Bandit in Timon of Athens, Alsemero in The Changeling and The Sewer-Worker in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Sixth 2017: Lucullus in Timon of Athens, Pedro in The Changeling and The Broker in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Fourth season. season. Stratford: Macbeth, As You Like It, Bunny, The Taming of the Shrew, Possible Worlds, Peter Pan, King of Thieves, Cymbeline, Stratford: Shakespeare in Love, The Hypochondriac, Pericles, The Alchemist, The Physicists, Christina, The Girl King, Alice Wanderlust. Elsewhere: TomorrowLove (Outside the March); Twelve Angry Men (Soulpepper); The De Chardin Project (Passe Muraille); Through the Looking-Glass, . Elsewhere: Lion in Winter (Grand); Am I Not King? (Zone 41); Enron (Theatre Calgary); Tin Drum (UnSpun Theatre); RIFLES (Next Stage Festival); Passion Play (Convergence, Outside the March, Sheep No Wool); Rock ’n’ Roll, Beyond the Farm Show, Having Hope at Home (Blyth); The Story (Theatre Columbus); Blue Planet (YPT); Macbeth, Mother Habeas Corpus, Take Me Out, Sweeney Todd, Amadeus (Canadian Stage); Blood Brothers (Theatre Aquarius); Kiss of the Spider Woman Courage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Caravan Farm); A Doll’s House (Globe); East of Berlin, The December Man, Around (Talk Is Free); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (YPT). TV: Reign, Murdoch Mysteries, Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, The the World in 80 Days, Shakespeare’s Dog, The Blue Light (ATP); Three Tall Women (MTC). Film/TV: Homefront, Blue Smoke, Summit. Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Awards: Two Dora Awards (Ensemble – Passion Play, Twelve Angry Men). The Secret of the Nutcracker, See This Movie. Training: NTS. Awards: Stratford’s 2014 Award; Dora, Betty and Online: Twitter: @CyrusALane. Beethoven Blog: beethovendays.blogspot.ca/. Et cetera: Love to Joanne and Eliza XO. META nominations; Betty Mitchell Award for Vincent in Brixton. Et cetera: “Much love to KP and my family.”

MIKE NADAJEWSKI BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2012 JOSEPH ZIEGLER 2017: Painter in Timon of Athens, Jasperino in The Changeling and A Crank in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Eighth season. 2017: Timon in Timon of Athens and Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal. 10th season. Stratford: Macbeth, All Stratford: Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Shakespeare in Love, The Aeneid, The Physicists, Hamlet, My Sons, John Gabriel Borkman, The Diary of Anne Frank, She Stoops to Conquer and The Last Wife. Joseph was part Peter Sellars’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Romeo and Juliet, Fiddler on of the Stratford company in the 1980s, acting in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry IV, Part 1, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King the Roof, Camelot, (also Broadway), Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, As You Like It, A Lear, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, Pericles, Measure for Measure and many others. In 2000 he directed Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (also Mirvish). Elsewhere: George in Sunday in the Park with George (Talk Is as Hamlet, and in 2009 he appeared in Morris Panych’s The Trespassers. Elsewhere: Founding member of Free Theatre); Emcee in (Manitoba Theatre Centre). Other credits include productions with Canadian Stage, National Soulpepper, where he has directed and acted in many plays: Our Town, Death of a Salesman and A Christmas Carol. Shaw Arts Centre, Western Canada Theatre, Drayton Entertainment, Charlottetown Festival, Talk Is Free Theatre (co-founder), and Festival, as actor and director of plays such as When We Are Married, Harvey, Major Barbara and Widowers’ Houses. three seasons with the Shaw Festival. Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Online: @mikenadajewski.

GARETH POTTER BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2003 2017: First Senator in Timon of Athens, Antonio in The Changeling and Lifeguard in The Madwoman of Chaillot. 14th season. Stratford: Peter (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), Aeneas (The Aeneid), Thom (The Last Wife), Sandy Tyrell (Hay Fever), Lodovico (Othello), Don John (Much Ado About Nothing), Dauphin (Henry V), Richmond (Richard III), Hosanna (Hosanna), Ferdinand (The Tempest), Proteus (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Malcolm (Macbeth) (twice), Romeo (Romeo and Juliet), Nathaniel (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Edgar (King Lear), Gratiano (The Merchant of Venice), Pierrot (Don Juan), Cromwell (Henry VIII). Elsewhere: Thom (The Last Wife) (Soulpepper); Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) (MTC); Clown (The 39 Steps) (Globe); Simon/Wahab (Scorched) (Citadel/Tarragon); Pierrot (Don Juan) (Théâtre du Nouveau Monde); Narrator (The Rape of Lucrece) (Theatre Ste. Catherine); Henry V (Henry V) (Gravy Bath). Training: NTS, John Abbott College, Birmingham Conservatory. Awards: Michael Mawson Award, Chalmers Training Award. Et cetera: “Much love to Sarah and my girls.”

TYRONE SAVAGE BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2010/11 2017: Flaminius in Timon of Athens, Joseph Surface in The School for Scandal and Georg in The Komagata Maru Incident. Sixth DESIRE’S GRIP WILL season. Stratford: George Hastings (She Stoops to Conquer), Simon Bliss (Hay Fever), Lorenzo (The Merchant of Venice), Tybalt LEAVE YOU DANGLING (Romeo and Juliet), Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing), The Diary of Anne Frank, Oedipus Rex, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, CHURILLA. LYNDA BY PHOTOGRAPHY MIKAELA DAVIES. The Three Musketeers, Henry V, The Grapes of Wrath. Elsewhere: Co-creator, director and actor in the Toronto Theatre Critics/ Dora Award-winning Chasse-Galerie, Stag and Doe (Neptune Theatre); Plucked (SummerWorks); Wait Until Dark, Howie the Rookie, The Zoo Story (Storefront/Red One Theatre); The Bear, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Arcadia, A Musical Called Robin Hood. Directing: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Shrew (Red One). Film/TV: Reign, Wind at My Back, Instant Star, , Redwall. Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Circle in the Square. Online: Twitter: @savageuponavon.

MICHAEL SPENCER-DAVIS 2017: Flavius in Timon of Athens, Alibius in The Changeling and The Waiter in The Madwoman of Chaillot. Seventh season. Stratford: Shakespeare Buy Now! in Love, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Aeneid, Taming of the Shrew, Possible Worlds, Beaux’ Stratagem, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Bartholomew Fair, Shakespeare’s Universe. Elsewhere: Art (Grand Theatre); Hound of , Robin Hood (Globe Theatre); The Castle (Storefront); The Pitmen Painters, Boeing Boeing (Theatre Aquarius); Vigil, Lawrence STRATFORDFESTIVAL.CA

and Holloman (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Having Hope at Home (Neptune); Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Hartford Stage); Innocence Lost (Centaur/ THE CHANGELING | BY THOMAS MIDDLETON AND WILLIAM ROWLEY NAC); Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Calgary/NAC); The Lonely Diner (Blyth Festival); Putnam County Spelling Bee (Thousand Islands Playhouse); DIRECTED BY JACKIE MAXWELL WITH BEN CARLSON, MIKAELA DAVIES, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (NAC); Medea (Manitoba Theatre Centre/Mirvish); Macbeth, Othello (NAC/Citadel); , Heaven TIM CAMPBELL, CYRUS LANE (Canadian Stage); The Real Thing, Humble Boy (MTC); As You Like It, Einstein’s Gift (Citadel). Online: michaelspencerdavis.com.

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ANTOINE YARED, SARA FARB. PHOTOGRAPHY BY LYNDA CHURILLA LYNDA BY PHOTOGRAPHY FARB. SARA YARED, ANTOINE BE MOVED BY LOVE ADRIENNE GOULD MICHAEL HART KATIE HONEK HOLLY KORHONEN CAITLIN LUXFORD ADRIENNE GOULD 2017: Movement director of Timon of Athens and professional development program movement coach. 12th season. Stratford (selected): Ophelia in Hamlet (’08/’15), Miranda in The Tempest, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Yasmin in Pentecost, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, Regina in Ghosts, Phebe in As You Like It, Dot in The Swanne (part 3), Jaquenetta in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, Freddy in Tempest-Tost, Margot in The Diary of Anne Frank. Elsewhere: The Matchmaker (director Nicholas Martin), The Rivals (director Roger Rees) (Williamstown Theater Festival); The Butter and Egg Man (American Stage Company); Love’s Labour’s Lost (NAC); Buried Child (NAC/Segal Centre); Einstein’s Gift, Ed’s Garage and Other Desert Cities (Grand Theatre). Film/TV: Hamlet, The Lady in Question and Nikita. Recordings: Timothy Goes to School. Training: North Carolina School of the Arts, Birmingham Conservatory. Awards: Mary Savidge Award. Et cetera: I love you, Jonny G.

MICHAEL HART 2017: Stage manager of Timon of Athens and The Madwoman of Chaillot. 21st season. Stratford: The Adventures of Pericles, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit, The Tempest, starring , The Importance of Being Earnest and King Lear, both starring Brian Bedford, The Taming of the Shrew, 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. Elsewhere: Liv Stein (Canadian Stage); Constellations (Centaur/Canadian Stage); Body Politic (Buddies); The Death of the King (Modern Times); The Winter’s Tale (Groundling 2016); Bombay Black (Factory); Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary (Pleiades); Saint Carmen of The Main (NAC/Canadian Stage); Romeo and Juliet (NAC); Mother Courage and Her Children (NAC/MTC); Wit (Centaur); Real Live Girl (MTC Warehouse); Einstein’s Gift (Grand); Hamlet (Neptune).

KATIE HONEK 2017: Assistant stage manager of Timon of Athens, The Changeling and The Komagata Maru Incident. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of As You Like It and John Gabriel Borkman. Apprentice stage manager of Alice Through the Looking-Glass and A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play. Production assistant of the Avon Theatre and of the 2013 Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction Directors’ Workshop Presentation. Elsewhere: Assistant stage manager: Tafelmusik; Dance Weekend 2013–2015 (Dance Ontario); Treehouse TV’s Big Day Out (Paquin Entertainment). Apprentice stage manager: Wormwood, Sextet (Tarragon Theatre); Pirates of Penzance, Tuesdays with Morrie (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Orpheus & Eurydice (Opera Atelier); Free Outgoing (Nightwood Theatre). Awards: Jean A. Chalmers Apprentice Achievement Award (2014).

HOLLY KORHONEN 2017: Assistant stage manager of Timon of Athens and The Madwoman of Chaillot. 16th season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, A Little Night Music, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Blithe Spirit, Mary Stuart, Charlie Brown, The Pirates of Penzance, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Misanthrope, Kiss Me, Kate, Dangerous Liaisons, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ever Yours, Oscar, Cabaret, My One and Only, The Comedy of Errors, South Pacific, Oliver!, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Edward II, The Count of Monte Cristo, Anything Goes, Henry VI. Stage manager: Birmingham Conservatory, 2006, 2007. Awards: Recipient of the Tanya Award and three Guthrie Awards. Et cetera: Holly would like to thank her partner, Steve, and their children, Jennica and Jackson, for all their love and support.

CAITLIN LUXFORD Buy Now! 2017: Assistant costume designer of HMS Pinafore and assistant designer of Timon of Athens and The Madwoman of Chaillot. 10th season. Stratford: Assistant costume designer of and Breath of Kings (2016), six seasons in the STRATFORDFESTIVAL.CA wardrobe buyer’s office, seamstress (2009), wardrobe apprentice (2008).Elsewhere: Member of IATSE Local 822 working as a dresser, seamstress and craftsperson for the past 11 years. Head of Creative: Canada’s Wonderland Haunt event 2007. Design assistant: Theatre Athena 2006-07. Training: Diploma in Technical Production for Theatrical Arts from Sheridan ROMEO AND JULIET | BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY SCOTT WENTWORTH Institute. Awards: Sheridan Scholar 2006, Fabricland Creative Design Award 2005 and 2006. Et cetera: Caitlin feels WITH SARA FARB, ANTOINE YARED, SEANA McKENNA, blessed to continually develop her professional skills within her many roles at the Stratford Festival. Many thanks to family MARION ADLER, WAYNE BEST, EVAN BULIUNG, RANDY HUGHSON and loved ones for their constant love and support, both here and above. PRODUCTION SUPPORT IS GENEROUSLY PROVIDED BY BARBARA & JOHN SCHUBERT 24 25 ARTISTIC COMPANY ARTISTIC COMPANY

ANITA NITTOLY DANA OSBORNE STEPHEN OUIMETTE THOMAS RYDER PAYNE HILARY PITMAN KIMBERLY PURTELL JANINE RALPH JONATHAN SEINEN JOHN STEAD MELISSA VEAL

ANITA NITTOLY KIMBERLY PURTELL 2017: Associate fight director of Twelfth Night, Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, 2017: Lighting designer of Timon of Athens, The Virgin Trial and The Madwoman of Chaillot. Ninth season. Stratford: Breath Treasure Island, The School for Scandal and The Changeling. Second season. Stratford: Assistant fight director: The Three of Kings: Rebellion, Breath of Kings: Redemption, Bunny, The Taming of the Shrew, Possible Worlds, The Last Wife, Alice Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, , Blithe Spirit, Othello, Measure for Measure, Mary Stuart. Film/TV: Through the Looking-Glass, , Christina, The Girl King, , You’re a Good Man, Charlie Lead stunt double in Dark Matter, stunt actor in KIN; other stunt credits include 12 Monkeys, Ransom, Reign, The Strain. Brown, The Little Years, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead. Elsewhere: The Shaw Festival, Canadian Elsewhere: Fight director and stage combat instructor at the National Theatre School in Montreal. Stage, Soulpepper, Mirvish Productions, National Arts Centre and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Theatre Calgary, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, Necessary Angel, Studio 180, Crow’s Theatre, Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Philadelphia, Edmonton Opera, among many others. Awards: Pauline McGibbon Award, three Dora Mavor Moore Awards and a Montreal English Theatre Award. DANA OSBORNE 2017: Costume designer of Guys and Dolls and designer of Timon of Athens. 17th season. Stratford: Costume designer of JANINE RALPH 18 productions including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Set and costume designer: Henry IV, Part 1. Elsewhere: 2017: Production stage manager of the Tom Patterson Theatre and assistant stage manager of The Changeling. 27th Recent credits: Androcles and the Lion (Shaw); Bed and Breakfast (Centaur); The Barber of Seville (Pacific Opera/Opéra de season. Stratford: Last season Janine was production stage manager of the Tom Patterson Theatre and also stage- Québec); Father Comes Home From the Wars Parts 1, 2 and 3 (Soulpepper); Blithe Spirit, You are Here (Thousand Islands); managed John Gabriel Borkman. Past credits include stage manager of a variety of productions at the Festival, Tom Joni Mitchell – River (Grand). Awards: Two Dora Awards for Costume Design, 2012 recipient of the Virginia and Myrtle Patterson and Avon theatres and the Masonic Hall. Elsewhere: Janine has stage-managed for Talk Is Free Theatre, Barrie. Cooper Award in Costume Design. Online: danaosborne.ca. She stage-managed Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore and production-managed for Singapore Repertory Theatre. She has worked on the Asian Games’ ceremonies in Qatar; in various theatres in Ontario, including Young People’s Theatre; and for CBC TV in Toronto and BBC TV in England.

STEPHEN OUIMETTE 2017: Director of Timon of Athens. Director: Birmingham Conservatory. 23rd season. Stratford: Shakespeare in Love, The JONATHAN SEINEN 2017: Assistant director of Timon of Athens. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Directing: Black Boys (Saga Collectif/Buddies in Bad Hypochondriac, The Alchemist, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Waiting for Godot, Twelfth Night, The Homecoming, The Times/tour); Oblique Strategies (Studio 58 Theatre School); Charisma Furs (SummerWorks/tour); Unknown Soldier (SummerWorks, Importance of Being Earnest, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, King John, No Exit, Hamlet, Richard III, Amadeus, Julius also playwright); This Must Be the Place (Theatre Passe Muraille/Architect); Deathwatch (lemonTree). Acting: Body Politic Caesar. Director: Timon of Athens (2004). Elsewhere: The Iceman Cometh, directed by Robert Falls (Goodman Theatre, 2012; (lemonTree/Buddies); Liberation Days (Theatre Calgary); A God In Need of Help (Tarragon); As You Like It (Citadel); Highway 63: The BAM, 2015); The Alchemist (Yale Rep); Endgame (NAC); Troilus and Cressida, The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare); La Fort Mac Show (Architect/TPM/tour). Training: Citadel Theatre/Banff Centre, National Theatre School, University of Alberta. Online: Bête, directed by Matthew Warchus (Broadway/West End); leading roles across Canada. Film/TV: Mentors, I Was a Rat, After Alice, jonathanseinen.com; @JonathanSeinen. Et cetera: Jonathan is Co-Artistic Producer of Architect Theatre, Artistic Associate with Conspiracy of Silence, The Adjuster, Firing Squad. Awards: Gemini (Slings and Arrows), Blizzard (Heater), Doras (Danny and the lemonTree creations, and founding member of Saga Collectif. He was Artist-In-Residence with the frank theatre company in 2016 Deep Blue Sea, Seven Stories, B Movie: The Play), Ottawa Critics Circle (I Am My Own Wife), Sterling (La Bête). and is currently a participant in the Canadian Stage RBC Emerging Artist Program: Director Development Residency.

JOHN STEAD THOMAS RYDER PAYNE 2017: Head of Stage Combat. Fight director of Twelfth Night, Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, 2017: Sound designer of Timon of Athens, The School for Scandal and Tartuffe. Ninth season. Stratford: Macbeth, The Treasure Island, The School for Scandal and The Changeling. 24th season. Stratford: Fight director, 200+ productions. Elsewhere: Hypochondriac, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Alchemist, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ 500+ productions, including 16 seasons with Shaw Festival. Film Director: Cyborg Soldier, Troubled Waters, Good Morning Tomorrow, Stratagem, Othello, The Matchmaker, The Little Years. Elsewhere: Designs for BIBT, Soulpepper, Shaw, Canadian Stage, The Waking, The Hot Flash, End Game, Charon’s Obal. TV Director: Dark Matter, Bitten, The Bobby Buck Show, XIII, Lost Girl, Earth: Tarragon, Factory, Theatre Passe Muraille, NAC, Blyth Festival, RMTC, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, Volcano, Nightwood, Modern Final Conflict, Tracker, Mutant X, The Dresden Files, The Adventures of Sinbad. 400+ film/TV credits as stunt coordinator/action Times, Aluna, Crow’s and many others. Film: Blood Harvest, Hero.Traitor.Patriot, Alegra & Jim, Robert’s Circle. Training: director. Awards: Award of Excellence (Canadian International Film Festival); Genre Award for Best Suspense (BNFF); Derek F. Mitchell Studied composition with James Tenney, Honours BA, York University. Awards: 17 nominations and two Dora Awards Artistic Director’s Award, Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford); Judges’ Choice Award (15 Minutes of Fame International Film Festival); Best for Sound Design and Composition. Et cetera: Started as a songwriter with a four-track tape machine and still endlessly Short Award nominee (Directors’ Guild of Canada). Online: johnstead.com; IMDB: imdb.com/name/nm0824093/. fascinated with the storytelling possibilities of layered sound. MELISSA VEAL 2017: Assistant stage manager of Timon of Athens. 12th season. Stratford: After spending many years as a stage manager and assistant stage manager, Melissa spent 10 seasons in the wig department at the Festival. This past winter she had HILARY PITMAN the honour to serve as the coordinator of the 2016-2017 Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre under directors 2017: Assistant lighting designer of Timon of Athens, The Changeling, Bakkhai and The Madwoman of Chaillot. Second Stephen Ouimette and Martha Henry. Thank you to all the teachers and coaches, and especially the acting company. season. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and A Little Night Music. Elsewhere: Elsewhere: For the past 11 years, she has been the wig and makeup designer at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where Assistant lighting designer: Sleeping Beauty in Dreamland (Ross Petty Productions); production electrician: Sherlock she garnered two Jeff Awards for Artistic Specialization and Wig and Makeup Design.Awards: She is the recipient of four Holmes U.S./Canadian tour (Starvox Entertainment); production assistant: Drayton Entertainment (2013-2016), IMPACT Guthrie Awards including the Jack Hutt Humanitarian Award. Et cetera: Melissa dedicates this season to Winston Morgan. Theatre Festival 2015 (MT Space). Training: University of Waterloo. Love and gratitude for all her family.

26 27 The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre

Stephen Ouimette leads this intensive professional training program that nurtures talented young actors for a future in classical theatre. Proudly keeping the arts in the spotlight. Selected by audition, participants are usually graduates of an accredited theatre training program who have at least two years’ professional experience. Upon completion of the program – which includes, among other activities, classes in voice, movement and text with Festival coaches and distinguished guest instructors – participants are offered places in the following season’s acting company. Thirty-two members of this season’s company are past participants. The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre is made possible by the support of the Birmingham family, the Stratford Festival Endowment Foundation and the Department of Canadian Heritage. Support for the 2017 in-season work of Conservatory participants is generously provided by the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Fund, by the Chicago Associates of the Stratford Festival, by John & Therese Gardner and by the Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation.

The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction

Overseen by Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director, and Martha Henry, Director of the Michael Langham Workshop, this program offers an unparalleled opportunity for directors in the early or mid-stages of their careers to develop their craft within the rich artistry of the Stratford Festival. Participants work as the assistant director on one production in the season as well as being offered classes focused on the classics. In the fall, selected participants direct a short piece of classical theatre performed for an invited audience. Participants and alumni this season: , Michelle Boulet, Mitchell Cushman, Alan Dilworth, Charlotte Gowdy, Sarah Kitz, Peter Pasyk, Zack Russell, Jonathan Seinen, Lezlie Wade, James Wallis Pleased to support the Stratford Festival. We extend our thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage, Johanna Metcalf and the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation and the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation. globeandmail.com/arts The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction is sponsored by

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