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THE INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS

BY ALEXANDER LEGGATT

Returning from victory in battle, the Scottish scene they refer cryptically to “our masters.” generals Macbeth and Banquo encounter Do they serve a higher power, and if so a trio of strange women who hail Macbeth what is that power? As to their purpose, as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and Banquo warns Macbeth, “to win us to our king hereafter. Who are they, what are they, harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us how do they know what they know, and truths” only to betray us in the end. why are they greeting Macbeth this way? This seems clear enough; but when in a We think of them as witches, but the word later scene Macbeth orders the witches TAP INTO THE LATEST FROM ACROSS witch occurs only once in the dialogue, to tell his future, he gets two riddling THE CITY AND AROUND THE WORLD. and they never use it themselves. They call prophecies that offer false hope and one themselves “the weird sisters,” and weird perfectly clear, valid warning: “Beware DAILY ON YOUR TABLET. is a word for fate, as though they are the Macduff.” If they are trying to lure Macbeth fates who control human lives. Yet in a later to his doom, why the warning? The

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StarTouch_Stratford Program Ad_5.375" x 8.375".indd 1 16-03-11 4:39 PM prophecies echo through the rest of the But the horror of the deed remains, and play, but the witches themselves disappear, once again language comes into the leaving the questions they provoke service of evil by concealing that horror. unanswered. In the lead-in to the murder, Macbeth and The instruments of darkness are Lady Macbeth find ways of not saying what They are just the most conspicuous they are going to do. Not “We’re going to embodiment of an uncanny atmosphere not just something out there in the kill Duncan” but “He that’s coming / Must that haunts the drama. Something is out be provided for.” When Macbeth says, “If it there, something that lives in darkness and night; they are also the workings were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well thunder and screams in the night. Whatever / It were done quickly,” we know what “it” is it is, it does not just affect Macbeth; it of the human mind and who will do it; but the words hide that attacks him. When the witches trigger the knowledge. Language has its own darkness. thought of murdering Duncan to become “king hereafter,” he feels his hair rising Once the murder is done, and discovered, and his heart pounding. Just before the there is no more hiding. The horror of it murder he has a vision of a bloodstained is no longer confined to the imaginations the partnership breaks, as though that one the depths of his being she still matters. dagger pointing at Duncan’s bedchamber. of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; it spreads deed was what their marriage was about, His despair in the final scenes goes from Having done the deed, he hears a voice out into the world. Other characters report and now the deed is done the marriage is complaints that his own life is ruined from nowhere that cries, “Sleep no uncanny portents: wind, earthquake, over. He plans the murder of Banquo on to the bleak vision of “Tomorrow and more.” Whatever is at work, it comes to screams in the night, horses running mad his own: “Be innocent of the knowledge, tomorrow and tomorrow,” in which all life is him unbidden, invading his body and his and eating each other. Macbeth feared dearest chuck / Till thou applaud the meaningless. The difference is that he has imagination. that when the deed was done it would not deed” – a far cry from “dearest partner just heard of the death of Lady Macbeth. be done, and he was right. The witches But the power that terrifies Macbeth is a of greatness.” The last time we see them They were the instruments of darkness, prophesied that Banquo would be father power that Lady Macbeth deliberately calls together on stage is in the banquet where drawing each other into an evil that ruined to a line of kings; he tries to stymie that on: “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal she tries and fails to control his panic at the their lives and the world around them. But prophecy by killing Banquo and his son thoughts, unsex me here.” She wants her sight of Banquo’s ghost. But it is not the they were also human, and in the glimpse Fleance – in effect, killing the future. But body invaded, filled with cruelty, her blood last time they are together. Sleepwalking, of the bond between them, even as he Fleance escapes, and the murdered thickened, her milk turned to gall; she wants she talks to him compulsively as though becomes a tyrant and she becomes a Banquo won’t stay dead; he haunts the man to be made inhuman to do the work she he were there with her, re-living everything restless living ghost, something of that who had him killed, and we begin to share has to do. She remembers the tenderness they have been through. Seemingly broken, humanity remains. Macbeth’s terror. No one else on stage of breastfeeding an infant; then imagines the bond between them is for her as sees Banquo’s ghost; but we see it. As part herself tearing it from her breast and powerful as ever. of the spread of horror, we know what it is Alexander Leggatt is Professor Emeritus dashing its brains out. like to be Macbeth. And while he seems to leave her behind of English at University College, University That horrific image is part of an argument: as he goes to war, there is a sign that in of Toronto. The man who will kill him, Macduff, is in his people should keep their promises. If own way as haunted as the tyrant. Fleeing she had promised to do such a thing, she to England, he deserted his family, and would do it. In her confrontation with her Macbeth has them massacred. In the final husband we realize that the instruments of battle, Macduff declares that if anyone else darkness are not just something out there kills Macbeth, “My wife and children’s ghosts WHEN THE PLAY BEGINS in the night; they are also the workings will haunt me still.” One haunted, guilty man of the human mind. Macbeth and Lady is killed by another. Evil has spread from Macbeth, Thane of Glamis and a general in the army of his kinsman, King Duncan of Macbeth are not just puppets operated Macbeth’s mind into his actions, and into the Scotland, has played a decisive role in defeating a Norwegian invasion abetted by by forces. She reminds him world around him; even the man who rids treasonous Scots. Macbeth has personally slain Macdonwald, one of the Scottish that even before he met the witches they the world of him is tainted. rebels, and defeated a renewed assault by the King of Norway and another rebel, were planning to murder Duncan. They the Thane of Cawdor, earning himself honour, glory and the gratitude of his king. work themselves up to the deed by twisting Lady Macbeth is part of the wreckage. In But on their way back from the battlefield, the victorious Macbeth and his comrade language. Murder is a sign of manliness. the early scenes, she and her husband Banquo encounter three mysterious “weird sisters,” who address Macbeth as When Macbeth protests, “I dare do all that were closely bonded. Her first entrance was Thane of Cawdor and foretell that one day he will become king. When Duncan may become a man; / Who dares do more reading his letter describing his encounter subsequently rewards Macbeth with the executed Cawdor’s title, Macbeth begins is none” Lady Macbeth retorts, “When you with the witches: his words, read in her to contemplate fulfilling the second part of the sisters’ prophecy by taking his durst do it, then you were a man.” It is right voice. He calls her “my dearest partner of destiny into his own murderous hands. to be a man; men kill; then killing is right. greatness.” But once he has killed Duncan

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AN UNKNOWN FEAR

BY ANTONI CIMOLINO

Even in the brilliant treasury of The play uncovers the murderer to himself; Shakespeare’s work, Macbeth is a dark in a larger sense, it is about the discovery gem that stands alone. It is perhaps his of the soul. It is also a brilliant psychological

IAN LAKE, KRYSTIN PELLERIN IAN LAKE, KRYSTIN greatest love story – one in which a couple study of the effects of traumatic stress – but destroy themselves, each for the sake of it doesn’t stop there. More than any other the other. A love story soaked in blood. Shakespeare play, Macbeth explores a malevolent world of the supernatural. This The setting for this love story is an unlikely is the land of fear. Within this shadow, our DOUBLE, DOUBLE... one – eleventh-century Scotland – harsh, belief in a natural, scientific and humanistic northern and clan-based. Rebellion and world is upended. betrayal begin the play, to be followed by BY DAVID PROSSER regicide, slaughter and tyranny. Nature The modern mind may feel some is at its centre, not only in the rich poetic discomfort with the fact that Shakespeare, imagery of birds, animals, stones and trees. arguably our greatest writer, filled his plays When Macbeth first utters the word murder, with], when ’tis done [i.e., committed].…” The natural rhythm of time is dictated by the with ghosts, evil spirits and magic. “His was giving voice to the deed he has thus far These and countless other antitheses sun’s rise and set; day and night are at the a superstitious age,” we say to reassure ourselves. Yet Shakespeare’s work is only imagined, he admits that the thought of throughout the play reflect the deadly play’s dark heart. assassinating Duncan and taking his crown doubleness of Macbeth’s world. permeated not with credulous belief but We have set our production, as rather with skepticism. And it is this same “shakes so [his] single state of man” that it Under the fracturing pressure of that Shakespeare has, in the eleventh century skepticism that seemed to tell him that has supplanted reality in his mind. “Nothing duality, any singleness, any integrity, that – a time well before electricity. And we human understanding will always have is,” he declares, “but what is not.” Macbeth might once have claimed gives have suggested a natural landscape. In limits. As the Lord Lafeu says in All’s Well way to a relentless disintegration, both for In Shakespeare’s time, single had another such a time and place, dark and light held That Ends Well, in referring to scientists him and his wife, as darkness overwhelms meaning besides “sole”: it could also a power not only over the seasons but (then known as natural philosophers): “They its opposite. The eyes may be open, but mean “weak” or “feeble.” Macbeth may also over people’s lives. Shadows brought say miracles are past, and we have our their moral sense is shut, enabling a lauded be referring in that line to his own human mystery and fear. In Macbeth, Shakespeare philosophical persons, to make modern and hero of the battlefield to turn himself into a frailty and susceptibility, rather than to enters the shadow where “light thickens” familiar, things supernatural and causeless. murderer of women and children. his individuality. Nevertheless, that word and where “the crow makes wing to the Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, single also contrasts ironically with the By the end, Macbeth’s world appears to him rooky wood.” He creates a world where ensconcing ourselves into seeming constant dualities that riddle the play: the to be a kind of waking nightmare, one in values are inverted or confused, in which knowledge, when we should submit ambiguities, the double meanings, the which woods may walk and a sword may be “fair is foul and foul is fair.” In this love ourselves to an unknown fear.” deceptive appearances, the paradoxical wielded by a man unborn. The logic-defying story, “all is the fear and nothing is the Shakespeare’s time, like our own, was filled linking of opposites. duality of his early observation that “nothing love”; fear is mentioned three times more with violence fuelled by religious clashes is / But what is not” now seems all too true, “When the battle’s lost and won.” “Fair is often in Macbeth than in any other of and political ambition. It seems that to as the reality of what is threatens to unravel foul, and foul is fair.” “This supernatural Shakespeare’s plays. When the word love be human is to know violence. Why? It is into what cannot possibly be. soliciting / Cannot be ill; cannot be good.” is spoken, it is usually connected to murder. impossible to know for certain. But I suspect “Look like th’ innocent flower / But be the David Prosser is the Stratford Festival’s In this profoundly ambiguous world, the that Shakespeare’s dark gem will fascinate serpent under’t.” “If it were done [i.e., over Literary and Editorial Director. characters struggle to find their bearings. us for years to come.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, William enabled him, in 1597, to buy a large house Shakespeare was the eldest son of John called New Place back in Stratford, and in Shakespeare, a glover and tanner who rose 1599 he became a shareholder in London’s to become an alderman and bailiff of the newly built Globe Theatre. town, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a In 1603, when James I had succeeded wealthy farmer. The exact date of his birth Elizabeth on the throne, Shakespeare’s is unknown, but there is a record of his company was awarded a royal patent, baptism at Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church on becoming known as the King’s Men. April 26. Since an interval of two or three Meanwhile, the playwright continued days between birth and baptism would his business dealings in Stratford and in have been quite common, tradition has it London, where in 1613 he bought a property that he was born on April 23 – the same known as the Blackfriars Gatehouse. He is date as his death fifty-two years later. believed to have spent increasing amounts The young Shakespeare is assumed to of his time in Stratford from around 1609 have attended what is now King Edward until his death on April 23, 1616. He is buried VI Grammar School in Stratford, where he in the town’s Holy Trinity Church. 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

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THE CAST in alphabetical order

SHELDON SOLOMON JAMES SHAPIRO BEVERLEY McLACHLIN Lady Macduff Macbeth Malcolm JUNE 11 JUNE 18 OCTOBER 1 Sarah Afful Ian Lake Antoine Yared Young Siward Porter Duncan Rodrigo Beilfuss Cyrus Lane Joseph Ziegler MACBETH AND THE STROKE OF DEATH Macduff Lenox Studio Theatre, Saturday, June 11, 10:30 a.m.–noon. $22 Michael Blake Jamie Mac Author Sheldon Solomon and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, in conversation with Antoni Angus Young Macduff Cimolino, speak to the effect the fear of death has on human behaviour as evidenced in Macbeth. Tim Campbell Oliver Neudorf Ross Apparition “THE SCOTTISH PLAY”: PALTER WITH US IN A DOUBLE SENSE David Collins Sophie Neudorf Studio Theatre, Saturday, June 18, 10:30 a.m.–noon. $20 Fleance Lady Macbeth UNDERSTUDIES Antoni Cimolino joins pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of The Year of Declan Cooper Krystin Pellerin Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, in conversation about Macbeth and equivocation. Messenger Third Witch Sarah Afful Lady Macbeth Alexei DeLuca Lanise Antoine Shelley Rodrigo Beilfuss Malcolm, Seyton, Donalbain, Menteth UNSEX ME HERE Gentlewoman Seyton Petrina Bromley Second Witch Studio Theatre, Wednesday, June 29, 10:45 a.m.–noon. $22 Ijeoma Emesowum E.B. Smith Tim Campbell Macduff, Old Man Yanna McIntosh, Seana McKenna and Lucy Peacock, all Lady Macbeths of past Stratford Second Witch Menteth Ijeoma Emesowum Lady Macduff Jessica B. Hill Third Witch, productions, join this season’s Lady Macbeth, Krystin Pellerin, to share the inner complexities of Deidre Gillard-Rowlings Sanjay Talwar this mysterious character in a discussion moderated by Morgan Ring. Gentlewoman Lady Macbeth’s Attendant Old Man John Kirkpatrick Ross, Porter Jessica B. Hill Brian Tree Cyrus Lane Macbeth THE MACBETHS’ APPEAL Trish Lindström First Witch, Lady Festival Theatre, Saturday, October 1, 10–11:30 a.m. Free Bloody Sergeant, Second Donalbain Macbeth’s Attendant Murderer, Old Siward Emilio Vieira The infamous couple appeal to the Supreme Court of Stratford (presided over by the Chief Justice E.B. Smith Banquo, Angus Peter Hutt Banquo Sanjay Talwar Duncan, Cathness, of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, joined by her Supreme Court of Canada Bloody Sergeant, First Murderer, colleagues Justices Andromache Karakatsanis and Russell Brown), contending that political First Murderer, Cathness Scott Wentworth Robert King Second Murderer, Old Siward ambitions have rendered them not criminally responsible for the murder of King Duncan. Expert First Witch Brian Tree Messenger witness Bob Rae will address the alleged deleterious effects of political ambition on the workings Doctor Brigit Wilson Emilio Vieira Lenox, Young of the human mind – a novel defence! Famed lawyers Marlys Edwardh (who represented Kenneth John Kirkpatrick Siward, Doctor Parks) and Donald Bayne (who represented Senator Mike Duffy) act as counsel.

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Director Antoni Cimolino ORIGINAL MUSIC FANFARE MUSICIANS Director of Music Franklin Brasz RECORDED BY Soprano Herald Trumpet/ Designer Julie Fox Fanfare Leader Music Administrator Lighting Designer Michael Walton Conductor/Keyboard/Guitar Larry Larson Marilyn Dallman Composer Steven Page Steven Page Administrative Assistant Sound Designer Thomas Ryder Payne Violin Soprano Herald Trumpet Fight Director John Stead Mel Martin Timothy Lockwood Janice Owens Movement Director Heidi Strauss Oboe Soprano Herald Trumpet Donna-Claire McLeod Steve McDade Producer David Auster Trumpet Bass Herald Trumpet Casting Director Beth Russell Larry Larson Rob Stone Creative Planning Director Jason Miller Trumpet Snare Drum Steve McDade Dale Anne Brendon Percussion Assistant Director Stage Manager Dale Anne Brendon James Wallis Anne Murphy Assistant Set Designer Assistant Stage Managers T. Erin Gruber Julie Miles Assistant Costume Designer Corinne Richards Julia Holbert Apprentice Stage Manager BACKSTAGE Assistant Lighting Designer Katherine Dermott Bryan Kenney Production Assistant Hilary Nichol Associate Fight Director Production responsibilities during the performance accomplished by: Geoff Scovell Production Stage Managers Fight Captain Margaret Palmer Head Stage Carpenter Alternate Swing E.B. Smith Cynthia Toushan Nick Glenn Anthony Gentile Lela Stairs Murphy Technical Director Alternate Crew Jeff Scollon Rory Feore Walter Sugden Wigs and Makeup Show Head Electrician Head Alex Hoch ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Festival Wardrobe Supervisor Dave Kerr Head of Properties John Bynum Wigs and Makeup Crew Special thanks to Hannah Cunningham, Mary-Anne Kennedy and Tanya Ullyatt. Special thanks Tim Hartman Jessica Elsbrie also to Jennifer Anderson, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto; Sean Blaine, MD, Stratford; Wardrobe Attendants Head of Sound Michael Karn Lena G. Festoso Norman Cruz, MD, Stratford; Shawn Edwards, MD, Stratford; Brian Hands, MD, FRCS (C), medical Scott Matthews voice consultant, Vox Cura voice care specialists, Toronto; Simon McBride, MCISc, MD, London Annette Lenze Children’s Supervisor Health Sciences Centre Vocal Function Clinic, London; Laurel Moore, MD, Stratford; Stephanie Head of Automation Jane Mallory Sandy Davis Sischek, MD, Stratford; David Thompson, MD, Stratford; John Yoo, MD, London Health Sciences Craig Geiger Brigitte Nazar Centre, London. Pianos tuned and maintained by Don Stephenson. Cover: Ian Lake. Photography by Don Dixon. Additional photography by Ed Burtynsky and Don Dixon. PRODUCTION CREDITS

Director of Production Design Coordinator Technical Management Simon Marsden Mary-Jo Carter Dodd Assistant Production Administrator Wardrobe Manager Michael Besworth Funding for artisan apprenticeships is provided by the William H. Somerville Theatre Artisan Apprenticeship Fund, funded by the J.P. Bickell Foundation and by Robert and Jacqueline Sperandio. Cheryl Bender Tanya Apostolidis Transportation Administrative Assistant Technical Director – Scenic Charlie Fox A member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Stratford Festival engages, under the terms of the Canadian Cindy Jordan Construction Dirk Newbery Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Stage crew, scenic carpenters, B.J. Shaver Associate Technical Director Andrew Mestern drivers, wigs and makeup attendants, facilities staff and audience development representatives are members of Local 357 of James Thistle the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Wardrobe attendants are members of IATSE Local 924. Scenic David Campbell Scene Shop Manager artists are members of IATSE Local 828. The musicians, musical directors, conductors, and orchestra contractors engaged by the Stratford Festival are members of the Toronto Musicians’ Association, Local 149, of the American Federation of Musicians of the Robbin Cheesman Electronics Technologist United States and Canada. Chris Wheeler

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SARAH AFFUL RODRIGO BEILFUSS MICHAEL BLAKE PETRINA BROMLEY TIM CAMPBELL DAVID COLLINS DECLAN COOPER ALEXEI DELUCA IJEOMA EMESOWUM DEIDRE GILLARD-ROWLINGS

SARAH AFFUL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2011/12 DAVID COLLINS 2016: Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Ann Deever in All My Sons and Mrs. Fanny Wilton in John Gabriel Borkman. Fifth season. Stratford: Player Queen, 2016: Ross in Macbeth, Corin in As You Like It and Monsieur Purgon in The Hypochondriac. Eighth season. Stratford: The Adventures Hamlet; Bianca, The Taming of the Shrew; Rosaline, Love’s Labour’s Lost; Tiger Lily, Through the Looking-Glass; A Midsummer Night’s of Pericles (Cerimon), The Alchemist (Lovewit), King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Richard Dream: A Chamber Play; Mariana, Measure for Measure; Mary Stuart; Elektra; The Pirates of Penzance. Birmingham Conservatory: Viola, Twelfth III (Rivers), Titus Andronicus, The Tempest (Francisco), Macbeth (Seyton), Caesar and Cleopatra (Theodotus). Elsewhere: Shakuntala Night; Hermione, The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere: Small Axe (Project Humanity/The Theatre Centre); Margaret, Much Ado About Nothing; Octavia/, (Premiere Dance Theatre); The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish); The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Donut City Antony and Cleopatra (Bard on the Beach); Macbeth: nach Shakespeare (Conspiracy/Gas Heart); Saint Monica, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Canadian Stage); Pusha Man, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Passe Muraille); Top Gun the Musical (Factory Theatre/N.Y.C.); Romeo and Juliet (Pound of Flesh/Pacific Theatre); The Eighth Land (PI Theatre). Film/TV: iZombie, Smallville, , Eureka, The Perfect Score, American Dreams. (Shakespeare in Action); Walls (VECC). Founding member of Obsidian Theatre Company. Film/TV: Ubisoft, 12 Monkeys, Jean of the Jones, Recordings: Days of Old (Neworld Theatre/CBC). Training: Birmingham Conservatory; BFA Acting, UBC; Lyric School of Acting. Awards: Mary Saving Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, Nikita, The Firm, 11 Cameras, ReGenesis, Owning Mahowny, The Incredible Hulk, MVP, , Savidge Award, Artistic Director’s Award (Stratford). Online: @SarahAfful1.Et cetera: “Thanks and respect to Dru, Esi Edugyan and Steve Price.” Nurse.Fighter.Boy, Rookie Blue, XIII. Training: MFA, York University. Awards: Dora nominations: Twilight Café, The America Play.

RODRIGO BEILFUSS BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2015 DECLAN COOPER 2016: Young Siward in Macbeth, Frank Lubey in All My Sons and Fellow Countryman in The Aeneid. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: 2016: Fleance in Macbeth. Stratford debut. Drayton Entertainment: Winthrop Paroo in The Music Man; Lost Boy in Peter Recent credits: Hamlet (Bravura Theatre), Sea Wall (Theatre by the River), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare in the Ruins). Additional Pan: The Panto; member of the children’s chorus in Aladdin: The Panto, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White: The Panto. Training: Shakespeare credits: King Lear (University of Winnipeg), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (TBTR), The Winter’s Tale (Tom-Tom), The Triple Threat with Basic Attitude Dance Company, Cambridge, Ontario; The Acting Centre, Guelph, Ontario; Theatre Merchant of Venice (SIR), Richard III, Measure for Measure (LAMDA). Credits as a director include the Canadian premières of Lungs, Troupers with the Cambridge Community Players. Et cetera: Declan thanks Daniel at the Talent House and his family for Bull, Generous and Cock (TBTR) and Private Lives (assistant director – Royal MTC). Training: The University of Winnipeg, London supporting his continued love for the stage. He is excited about the opportunity to be part of the 2016 Stratford Festival Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Online: rodrigobeilfuss.com; @RBeilfuss. Et season. cetera: Originally from Brazil, Rod moved to Winnipeg at age 18, where he discovered that Shakespeare made him feel tremendously giddy. He eventually moved to England in order to pursue classical training and now it feels good to call Stratford home!

ALEXEI DELUCA MICHAEL BLAKE 2016: Messenger in Macbeth. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sheriff in Robin Hood: 2016: Macduff in Macbeth and George Deever in All My Sons. Fifth season. Stratford: King Lear, Dream, Beaux’ Stratagem, Romeo Tales of the Sheriff of Nottingham, Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet in Kidnapped by Pirates (Playmakers! and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado, Henry V, Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives. Elsewhere: Martin Theatre School); Robin Hood in Robin Hood (St. Aloysius School). Training: Apprentice/Journeyman casts in Playmakers! Luther King (The Mountaintop) (Theatre Kingston); Edmund (King Lear) (Theatre Calgary/Bard on the Beach); Small Axe (Project Theatre School, Play On! drama summer camp. Et cetera: Alexei would like to thank the Stratford Festival for this Humanity); Simba (The Lion King) (Mirvish/Disney); Clybourne Park (Citadel); Scientific Americans (SideMart/Segal Centre); Mercutio opportunity. A big thank you also goes out to Susan, Stacy and Jen, along with his mom, dad, grandma and grandpa for all (Romeo and Juliet), Eilif (Mother Courage), Nativity, A Christmas Carol (NAC); Othello (Othello), Angelo (The Comedy of Errors) (Bard of their help and support. on the Beach); Gratiano/Morocco (The Merchant of Venice) (SITR); Mitch (…Spelling Bee) (Belfry/Arts Club); As You Like It, A Raisin in the Sun, Blink, Three Sisters, Time of Your Life, Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper); Rock and Roll (Canadian Stage); Wilbur County Blues (Blyth). Film/TV: The Expanse, Senior Trip, YTV Rocks, Degrassi Junior High. Training: NTS, Soulpepper, St. Michael’s Choir School. IJEOMA EMESOWUM BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2015 2016: Gentlewoman in Macbeth, Phebe in As You Like It and appears in The Hypochondriac. Third season. Stratford: Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Alice Through the Looking- PETRINA BROMLEY Glass, Antony and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Five seasons with the Shaw Festival including Major Barbara, Serious Money, 2016: Rosalind in As You Like It, appears in The Hypochondriac and understudy in Macbeth. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Ragtime, The Admirable Crichton, The Women, The Devil’s Disciple, Born Yesterday; Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct); The Bonnie in Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre); Violet in Oil and Water (Artistic Fraud of Aftermath (Nightwood Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in High Park, Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Antony Newfoundland); Claudia Roe in Enron, Elsa in The Sound of Music, Dorine in Tartuffe, Alcyone in Metamorphoses (National and Cleopatra, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew (Stratford Festival HD). Training: Birmingham Arts Centre). Training: Memorial University of Newfoundland, School of Music. Online: @petieb. Et cetera: At home in St. Conservatory for Classical Theatre; BFA, University of Windsor. Online: : @UsoIje. Et cetera: “Love and thanks to my John’s, Newfoundland, Petrina also works as a director, writer, composer and musician. She is delighted to be making her family and Jake.” Stratford debut.

TIM CAMPBELL DEIDRE GILLARD-ROWLINGS 2016: Angus in Macbeth, Chris Keller in All My Sons and Carol in Bunny. Eighth season. Stratford (selected): Hamlet (twice), 2016: Second Witch in Macbeth, Audrey in As You Like It and appears in John Gabriel Borkman. Third season. Stratford: Chorus Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV (1), Henry IV (2), Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Leader (Oedipus Rex), Chorus (The Diary of Anne Frank), Yvette (Mother Courage). Elsewhere: Francis (Fly Me to the Moon, The Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. Elsewhere: Recent credits include Venus in Fur (ATP); Twelve Angry Men, Grand); Myra Bennett (Tempting Providence), Elizabeth (Winter, Theatre Newfoundland Labrador); Gnat (Alice Through the Looking- Death of a Salesman, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Soulpepper); Jane Eyre (MTC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Glass, NAC); Katherine (The Taming of the Shrew, New Curtain); Nancy (Pillow Trade, Rising Tide); Minnie (Salvage, Artistic Fraud); Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Death of a Salesman (Citadel); Private Lives (Chicago Shakespeare). Film/TV (selected): Beatrice (The Servant of Two Masters, Wonderbolt); Christine (How It Works, PTE); Holly (Kiss the Sun, Kiss the Moon, WCTC); Agnes Reign, Republic of Doyle, Warehouse 13, Nikita, The L.A. Complex, Saving Hope, Deadly Hope, The Firm, , Against the (Marion Bridge, Bare Boards). Film/TV: Heyday!, Republic of Doyle, Last of the Snow, Four Sisters. Recordings: The Grey Islands, Wall, Combat Hospital, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, Killshot, Hollywoodland. Awards: Dora Award, Best Ensemble (Twelve Hard Light (Rattling Books). Training: BFA, Memorial University, Newfoundland. Et cetera: Deidre is a member of Bare Boards Angry Men). Past recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore Guthrie Award (for outstanding contribution to the Stratford Festival). Theatre, based in Newfoundland, which is committed to creating contemporary theatre with Spartan and inventive methods.

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JESSICA B. HILL PETER HUTT ROBERT KING JOHN KIRKPATRICK IAN LAKE CYRUS LANE TRISH LINDSTRÖM JAMIE MAC OLIVER NEUDORF SOPHIE NEUDORF

JESSICA B. HILL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2014/15 CYRUS LANE 2016: Lady Macbeth’s Attendant in Macbeth, Lydia Lubey in All My Sons and Lola in Bunny. Second season. Stratford: Dame Pliant 2016: Porter in Macbeth, Orlando in As You Like It and Ethan in Bunny. Fifth season. Stratford: The Taming of the Shrew, (The Alchemist), Maiden Priestess (Pericles). Birmingham Conservatory: Duchess of York/Richard (Richard III), Paulina (The Winter’s Tale). Possible Worlds, Peter Pan, King of Thieves, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline, Wanderlust. Elsewhere: Twelve Angry Elsewhere: Ilona Szabo (The Play’s the Thing), Petra (An Enemy of the People) (Segal Centre); Heartbreaker (Les Zinspirés 2.0) (Théâtre Men (Soulpepper); The Gift of the Magi (Theatre Orangeville); The De Chardin Project (Passe Muraille); Minotaur (YPT); RIFLES français de Toronto); Lena Horne (Joe Louis: An American Romance) (Infinithéâtre); Holly (The Lady Smith) (Black Theatre Workshop); (Next Stage); The Tin Drum (UnSpun Theatre); Passion Play (Convergence, Outside the March, Sheep No Wool); Rock ’n’ Zerbinette (Scapin), Ursula (Much Ado About Nothing) (Repercussion Theatre); Tamora (Titus Andronicus) (Montreal Shakespeare Theatre Roll, Habeas Corpus, Take Me Out, Amadeus, Sweeney Todd (Canadian Stage); Blood Brothers (Theatre Aquarius); Kiss of Company); Jehanne (Jehanne of the Witches) (Tableau d’Hôte). Film/TV: 30 vies (Radio-Canada); The Jensen Project (Muse Entertainment); the Spider Woman, The Inspector General (Talk Is Free); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (YPT). Film/TV: Reign, Murdoch The Battle of Wills (Informaction). Training: Birmingham Conservatory; McGill University; Dawson College. Awards: Elsa Bolam Award (2006); Mysteries, Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, The Summit. Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Brian Cloutte Award (2005). Online: jessicabhill.com. Et cetera: “Boundless gratitude to my friends and family for their love and support.” Awards: Two Dora Awards (Ensemble – Passion Play, Twelve Angry Men). Et cetera: Love always to Joanne and Eliza.

PETER HUTT Second Murderer, Old Siward in Macbeth and Monsieur Diafoirerhoea in The Hypochondriac. 17th season. Peter dedicates his 41st 2016: TRISH LINDSTRÖM year in the business to his late son, Adam. Stratford: Includes Measure for Measure (Escalus), Mary Stuart (Aubespine), Othello (Brabantio), 2016: Celia in As You Like It, Beline in The Hypochondriac and understudy in Macbeth. Fifth season. Stratford: Alice Through the Looking-Glass Cymbeline (Doctor), Elektra (Old Man), The Misanthrope (Oronte), The Tempest (Alonso), Richard III (Buckingham), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Alice), A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play (Titania/Hermia), The Tempest (Miranda), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta), Cabaret (Chauvelin), The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus, Elizabeth Rex (portraying William Shakespeare), Macbeth. Elsewhere: Shaw (Sally Bowles), The Trojan Women, The Miracle Worker (Helen Keller), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Elsewhere: Once – Dora Award (Mirvish); Festival: 20 seasons including An Inspector Calls, Belle Moral, The Philanderer and Summer and Smoke. Mr. Hutt’s career has him The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (RMTC); A Misfortune (Next Stage); The Mousetrap (Aquarius); Bloodless (Theatre 20 – founding artist); The across Canada, to the Tarragon, Citadel, Neptune and Grand theatres, Manitoba Theatre Centre, National Arts Centre and Toronto’s Royal Game of Love and Chance (Canadian Stage); In the Next Room (Tarragon/RMTC); the King, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Soulpepper); Alexandra. Film/TV: Includes The Age of Dorian, Forever Knight, The Taming of the Shrew (CBC), Breaking All the Rules, Echoes in the Assassins – Dora nomination (Birdland/TIFT); Mimi – Dora nomination (Tarragon); Shaw Festival (five seasons); Love’s Labour’s Lost (NAC); The Darkness and CBC Television’s much-acclaimed production of Elizabeth Rex. Awards: Dora nomination, Patience (Tarragon Theatre). Greatest Gift (TIFT); Dancing in Poppies (Grand); Mary’s Wedding (Ship’s Company); Pippi Longstocking (MTYP); Emily (Charlottetown). Film/TV: Dorothy’s Secret, Jack in the Box, Murdoch Mysteries. Training: National Theatre School. Et cetera: Trish as a photographer: trishlindstrom.org. ROBERT KING 2016: First Murderer, Cathness in Macbeth and understudy in All My Sons. 23rd season. Stratford: Hamlet, Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Three Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Richard II, Cymbeline, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Dream, Pericles, Henry V, Henry VI, Shoemakers’ Holiday, Treasure Island, JAMIE MAC BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2013/14 Count of Monte Cristo, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Grapes of Wrath, Home, Of Mice and Men, The Diary of Anne Frank, Ah, 2016: Lennox in Macbeth, Silvius in As You Like It and appears in The Hypochondriac. Third season. Stratford: Kastril (The Alchemist), Wilderness!, Quiet in the Land, The Donnellys. Elsewhere: A Wind in the Willows Christmas, The Yalta Game, Afterplay, Falling: A Fisherman (Pericles), Danny McArthur (The Physicists), Young Soldier (Mother Courage and Her Children), Towrus (Antony and Wake (Alternative Theatre Works); Bolsheviki (world première, Infinithéâtre/ATW); Owen inThe Melville Boys (world première, TNB); Cleopatra). Birmingham Conservatory: Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale. Theatre: Jacob Mercer five seasons with Blyth Festival: I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Garrison’s Garage, Country Hearts. Et cetera: A proud “Domie” – in Salt-Water Moon (NAC); Laurie in Vimy (GCTC); Clown in The 39 Steps (Stage West); David Jung in Rockbound (Two Planks and Dawson College’s Dome Theatre program. Robert lives in Stratford with his wife, Peggy, and children, Mary and Lawrence. a Passion); Michael in The Elephant Song (Beothuk Street Players); Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare by the Sea); Jerry in Zoo Story (Reid Theatre). Film/TV: Beauty and the Beast, Republic of Doyle, Covert Affairs, Life With Derek. Training: Birmingham Conservatory; Ryerson University, BFA Acting. Awards: For The Elephant Song: Walter C. Chambers Memorial JOHN KIRKPATRICK Scholarship, D.A. Matthews Memorial Scholarship, Honorary Chairman’s Award for Best Actor. Et cetera: Jamie is from St. John’s, NL. 2016: Doctor in Macbeth, Oliver in As You Like It and appears in The Hypochondriac. Third season. Stratford: Marcellus, Fortinbras in Hamlet, Philip, Pedant in The Taming of the Shrew, Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost, René Descartes in Christina, The Girl King, Red Knight/Walrus in Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Elsewhere: Jaques in As You Like It, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Lucio in Measure for Measure, Jake in Stones in His Pockets, Sam in Fully Committed (Citadel); Slim in Of Mice and Men (Canadian Stage/ OLIVER NEUDORF Romeo and Juliet Counsellor-at-Law Age of Theatre Calgary); Tybalt/Friar Laurence in , Roy Darwin in (Theatre Calgary); Everard in 2016: Young Macduff in Macbeth. Stratford debut. Training: Singing, dancing and acting have filled Oliver’s childhood as Arousal, Ned in The Gift of the Coat (ATP); Milan in Rock ’n’ Roll (Canadian Stage/Citadel); Kent in King Lear, Sir Andrew Aguecheek he’s grown up performing with vogelJoy, his family’s band. From street corners to stages, he’s enjoyed entertaining with in Twelfth Night (Freewill Shakespeare Festival.) Film/TV: Blackstone, Mixed Blessings. Training: BFA, Acting, University of Alberta. characters from Aesop Fables to his favourite, Don Quixote. He recently completed a term at Original Kids Theatre and is Measure for Measure Awards: Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award, , Citadel Theatre. Et cetera: Love to Breanna. currently studying voice and ukulele. Online: vogeljoy.com. Et cetera: Oliver is grateful for all the people who helped make this adventure possible and is looking forward to many more. “Sally forth!” IAN LAKE BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2007/08 2016: Macbeth in Macbeth and Thomas Diafoirerhoea in The Hypochondriac. Seventh season. Stratford: Mortimer in Mary Stuart, Orestes in Elektra, Arviragus in Cymbeline, Joey in The Homecoming, Silvius in As You Like It, Florizel in The Winter’s Tale, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Trouble-All in Bartholomew Fair, Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Elsewhere: SOPHIE NEUDORF Once (Mirvish – Dora nomination, Outstanding Performance in a Musical); The Valley, This Is War (Tarragon); For This Moment 2016: Apparition in Macbeth. Stratford debut. Training: “All the world’s a stage” for Sophie as she’s performed with her Alone (Theatre Aquarius); Amadeus (Segal Centre); Schoolhouse, Lost Heir (Blyth Festival); Much Ado About Nothing (Resurgence family’s band, vogelJoy, singing, acting and dancing all around the country. She entertains children and parents alike Theatre). Film/TV: Catch Ian as Anson Haight on Bitten (/Space); Brace for Impact (Incendo); Remedy, Bomb Girls, Rookie with her characters from Aesop’s Grasshopper to Cervantes’s Sancho and the Innkeeper in her audio theatre production. Blue (Global); Beauty and the Beast (CW); The Divide (WE/AMC); Flashpoint (CTV). Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Currently she is studying voice and recorder. Online: vogeljoy.com. Et cetera: Sophie is excited that she has been given Birmingham Conservatory. Awards: 2009 Michael Mawson Award. Online: Twitter: @SirIanoftheLake. Instagram: @ianhlake. this great opportunity! She is looking forward to many more stages.

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KRYSTIN PELLERIN LANISE ANTOINE SHELLEY E.B. SMITH SANJAY TALWAR BRIAN TREE EMILIO VIEIRA SCOTT WENTWORTH BRIGIT WILSON ANTOINE YARED JOSEPH ZIEGLER

KRYSTIN PELLERIN EMILIO VIEIRA BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2015 2016: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Maggie in Bunny and understudy in All My Sons. Second season. Stratford: Joyce in Possible 2016: Donalbain in Macbeth, Justin in Bunny and understudy in All My Sons. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Father in Six Worlds (2015). Elsewhere: Emily in Our Town, Luisa in The Fantasticks, Mary Snow in Salt-Water Moon, Cathleen in Long Day’s Characters in Search of an Author, Hastings/King Richard III in Richard III (Birmingham Conservatory); Benvolio in Romeo Journey Into Night, Cecily in Travesties, Debbie in The Real Thing (Soulpepper); Nellie in Floyd Collins (Patrick St. Productions/ and Juliet (Guild Festival Theatre); Charles/Amiens in As You Like It, Lucius Andronicus in Titus Andronicus (Canadian Stage); Talk Is Free); Kate in The Little Years (NAC/Neptune); Viola in Twelfth Night, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare by Talbot in Henry VI, Part 1, Scullery in Road, Cassius in Julius Caesar (York University). Film/TV: Santiago in The Soliloquies the Sea, NL). Film/TV: Anne Boleyn in Reign (CW). Series lead: Leslie Bennett in Republic of Doyle (CBC). Guest appearances of Santiago (webseries). Radio/Recordings: Dan in Priceless. Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; on (Showtime/CBC), Lost Girl (Showcase), Saving Hope, The Listener (CTV). Training: National Theatre School of BFA Specialized Honours in Acting, York University; Intermediate Actor-Combatant, Rapier Wit. Et cetera: Emilio thanks Canada. Awards: Gemini Award nomination: Best Actress in a Dramatic Series, Republic of Doyle. Jessie Award nomination: Best his mentors and all teachers who foster a love of storytelling in their students and dedicates this season to the two most Supporting Actress in a Musical, Floyd Collins. Online: Twitter: @krystinpellerin. Et cetera: “Love to my family. I’m so thankful.” influential teachers in his life: Ma and Pop.

LANISE ANTOINE SHELLEY BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2015 SCOTT WENTWORTH 2016: Third Witch in Macbeth, Sue Bayliss in All My Sons and Elissa in The Aeneid. Stratford debut. Chicago: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Titania/ 2016: Banquo in Macbeth, Duke Frederick in As You Like It and John Gabriel Borkman in John Gabriel Borkman. 22nd Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Adriana in The Comedy of Errors (Short Shakespeare!, Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Goodman season. Stratford: Favourites include last season’s Epicure Mammon in The Alchemist, Gloucester in King Lear, Tevye in Theatre; Lookingglass Theatre; Backroom Shakespeare. Elsewhere: Two Plays by Sophocles (Outside the Wire); A Midsummer Night’s Fiddler on the Roof, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Sky Masterson in , Iago in Othello and the title role Dream, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Eurydice, The Night is a Child, The Glass Menagerie, Gem of the Ocean, King Lear, Intimate in Macbeth. He also directed the 2001 productions of Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, and last season’s The Adventures of Pericles. Apparel, Sueno, …Young Lady from Rwanda, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Crucible (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); American Repertory Elsewhere: He recently played in Andrew Kushnir’s Wormwood at the Tarragon Theatre. Et cetera: Mr. Wentworth is a Theatre; Indiana Repertory Theater; Book-It Repertory Theater; Seattle Repertory Theatre. Film/TV: Chicago Fire (NBC), Goodman Theatre’s Stop. Tony-nominated actor, a director and playwright whose work has been celebrated on Broadway, in London’s West End, on Reset., Discovery World. Training: MFA from ART/MXAT at Harvard University; BFA from Cornish College of the Arts; certificate from BADA, Oxford, television, in films and in theatres across the U.S. and Canada. England; Birmingham Conservatory, 2015/2016 Chicago Fellow. Et cetera: Instagram: @Lantoines. “All things for my mom, Heidi and Jessi.”

E.B. SMITH BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY 2010/11 BRIGIT WILSON 2016: Seyton in Macbeth, Dr. Jim Bayliss in All My Sons and The Scavenger, Allecto’s Son in The Aeneid. Sixth season. Stratford: Juan 2016: First Witch in Macbeth, Duchess Senior in As You Like It and Toinette in The Hypochondriac. 11th season. Stratford: Pericles, The Murillo (The Physicists), Thaliard, Leonine (Pericles), Eilif (Mother Courage), Melun (King John), Alexas (Antony and Cleopatra), Bellievre Alchemist, The Swanne, All’s Well, Quiet in the Land, Hunchback, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Triumph of Love, Cat on a Hot Tin (Mary Stuart), Abhorson (Measure for Measure), Cymbeline, Elektra, Richard III, Titus Andronicus. Elsewhere: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Roof, Orpheus Descending (Stratford, MTC, Mirvish), The Merchant of Venice, The Comedy of Errors, An Ideal Husband, Three Sisters, (The Mountaintop) (The Grand); Big Sam (Gone With the Wind) (RMTC); Seyton (Macbeth), Friar Laurence (Romeo and Juliet) (Chicago Bartholomew Fair, Peter Pan, The Grapes of Wrath, King John, Christina, Mother Courage. Elsewhere: Clytemnestra in Agamemnon Shakespeare); Macduff (Macbeth) (First Folio Theatre); King (King Hedley II) (Karamu); Moustique (Dream on Monkey Mountain); Junior (Next Stage Festival); Narcisse Mondoux (Grand); Come Back to the Five and Dime… (Grand Theatre/Five & Dime Productions – Dora (Before It Hits Home); Cleveland Play House; Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Theater Wit, Chicago; The Great Lakes Theater Festival. Film/ nomination); Enron (Theatre Calgary); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Glorious, Man of La Mancha (TBTB); The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom, TV: The Beast (Sony), Ask Gilby, Maybe By Then, Thunder Bay (PBS). Training: Ohio University, Birmingham Conservatory. Et cetera: E.B. Another Season’s Harvest (Blyth); The Odd Couple (Segal Centre). TV: Harriet Sims on The Campbells (four seasons). Film: Beyond would like to dedicate his work to his parents and grandmother, and to the memory of his Papa, who will always be in the front row. Innocence, Anne of Avonlea, The Marriage Bed, Echoes in the Darkness, Lustre. Online: Twitter: @HOOPOOHEART.

SANJAY TALWAR ANTOINE YARED BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2012/13 2016: Menteth in Macbeth, Touchstone in As You Like It and Louis XIV in The Hypochondriac. Sixth season. Stratford: Hamlet, 2016: Malcolm in Macbeth, William in As You Like It and Erhart Borkman in John Gabriel Borkman. Fourth season. Stratford: Lysimachus The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Hay Fever, Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons, (Pericles), Dapper (The Alchemist), Guhl (The Physicists), Lewis, the Dauphin (King John), Swiss Cheese (Mother Courage), Mardian (Antony and Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Rice Boy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus. Elsewhere: The Road to Paradise Cleopatra), Prince of Aragon (The Merchant of Venice), Planchet (The Three Musketeers), Paris (Romeo and Juliet). Elsewhere: Mercutio (Romeo (Human Cargo); Free Outgoing (Nightwood); Around the World in 80 Days (ATP); two seasons at the Shaw Festival; The Story and Juliet), Touchstone (As You Like It), Stefano (The Tempest) (Repercussion Theatre); Fox (Pinocchio), Goat, Soldier (Alice Through the Looking- (Theatre Columbus); Bombay Black (Cahoots/Arts Club); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre); The Two Gentlemen Glass) (Geordie Productions); Justin (Jesus Jello) (Sheep in Fog); Galoshin (Provincial Anecdotes) (Concordia University). Film/TV: Boucherie Halal of Verona, Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, director of The Merchant of Venice and Artistic Director for five seasons (Babek Aliassa), Open (Tom Abray). Voice: Kojiro Sasaki, Samurai Warriors 2 (KOEI). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Concordia University, (Shakespeare in the Rough); five seasons at Dream in High Park; Helen’s Necklace (Tarragon and Pi Theatre – Jessie Award). Dawson College. Awards: 2014 Michael Mawson Award; 2013 Peter Donaldson Award; 2010 Elsa Bolam Award. Et cetera: “Thank you to my Film/TV: Orphan Black, Puck Hogs, The Border, Flashpoint, Guns, Supernatural, Murder Unveiled. Training: Dalhousie University. family and friends for your continued support and to all the mentors, teachers and coaches who have helped me along the way.”

BRIAN TREE JOSEPH ZIEGLER 2016: Old Man in Macbeth, Adam in As You Like It and appears in The Hypochondriac. 27th season. Stratford: Grumio (The Taming of 2016: Duncan in Macbeth, Joe Keller in All My Sons and Vilhalm Foldal in John Gabriel Borkman. Ninth season. Stratford: the Shrew), Sir Nathaniel (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Cardinal Pandulph (King John), Humpty Dumpty (Alice Through the Looking-Glass), Elbow 2015 season: The Diary of Anne Frank, She Stoops to Conquer and The Last Wife. Joseph was part of the Stratford (Measure for Measure), Melvil (Mary Stuart), Pisanio (Cymbeline), Wasp (Bartholomew Fair), Erronius (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way company from 1983 to 1987, acting in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry IV, Part 1, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Twelfth to the Forum), Costard (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Touchstone (As You Like It), Stephano (The Tempest), Joxer Daly (Juno and the Paycock), Night, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, Pericles, Measure for Measure and many others. In 2000 he directed Paul Gross as Mr. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Dolly Spanker (London Assurance), Oswald (King Lear), Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Hamlet, and in 2009 he appeared in Morris Panych’s play The Trespassers. Elsewhere: Founding member of Soulpepper, Elsewhere: Various roles (The Sneeze and other Chekhov one-acts), Talk Is Free Theatre; Jimmy (The Pitmen Painters), Theatre Aquarius; where he has directed and acted in many plays, including Our Town, Death of a Salesman and A Christmas Carol. He has Michael (Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me), Kemp (Vigil), Tarragon Theatre; Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Canadian Stage; Harry had a long association with the Shaw Festival, as an actor and as director of plays such as When We Are Married, Harvey, (The Sum of Us), Belfry Theatre; Jim (Passion), Grand Theatre; the Player (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), Touchmark. Major Barbara and Widowers’ Houses.

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ANTONI CIMOLINO KATHERINE DERMOTT JULIE FOX T. ERIN GRUBER JULIA HOLBERT BRYAN KENNEY JULIE MILES ANNE MURPHY STEVEN PAGE

ANTONI CIMOLINO JULIA HOLBERT 2016: Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival. Director of Macbeth and The Hypochondriac. 29th season. Stratford: 2016: Assistant costume designer of Macbeth. Second season. Stratford: She Stoops to Conquer (assistant costume Directing credits include Hamlet; The Alchemist; King Lear; The Beaux’ Stratagem; Mary Stuart; The Merchant of Venice; designer, 2015). Elsewhere: Tweed & Company (costume designer, 2015), Platypus Theatre (costumer, 2014), Drayton Cymbeline; The Grapes of Wrath; Bartholomew Fair; Coriolanus, with Colm Feore and Martha Henry; As You Like It, Entertainment (dresser and stitcher, 2011 to present), Collective Productions (costume designer, 2010), Queen’s Musical featuring original music by Barenaked Ladies; King John; Love’s Labour’s Lost, with Brian Bedford; Twelfth Night, with Theatre (costume designer and head of wardrobe, 2008 to 2010), Chaos Theory Theatre (costume designer, 2008). William Hutt; The Night of the Iguana; and Filumena, with Richard Monette. Among his other accomplishments, Mr. Cimolino Training: BAH from Queen’s University; Fashion Design and Technical Costume Studies Post-Graduate from Fanshawe was instrumental in establishing the Festival’s Endowment Foundation, which has raised more than $75 million to date, as College. well as in the renovation of its Avon Theatre and the creation of its Studio Theatre. Elsewhere: The Canadian première of ENRON (Theatre Calgary); Twelfth Night (Attic Theatre, Detroit); A Woman of No Importance (Hilberry Theater, Detroit). A champion of the arts and culture, Mr. Cimolino served as the Founding Chair of Culture Days, a nation-wide celebration of arts and culture in Canada. He has initiated collaborations with several prestigious theatre companies, including Montreal’s BRYAN KENNEY Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, New York’s Lincoln Center and City Center, San Francisco’s 2016: Assistant lighting designer of Macbeth and A Chorus Line. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Lighting design: A Christmas American Conservatory Theater and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He also spearheaded the Festival’s involvement Carol (Theatre North West); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Helen’s Necklace, On the Edge (Belfry Theatre); in a joint project with CUSO International, Canada’s international volunteer co-operation agency, to establish a performing The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Capilano University); The Trojan Women (Douglas College). Lighting and set design: arts and educational centre in the city of Suchitoto, El Salvador. MissUnderstood (Frank Theatre); Boeing Boeing (Keyano College). Set design: Gas Light (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre). Lighting and projection design: Alice vs. Wonderland (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre); Lion in the Streets (University of Victoria). Training: MFA University of Victoria; BA Dalhousie University. Online: bryankenney.com.

KATHERINE DERMOTT JULIE MILES 2016: Apprentice stage manager of Macbeth and The Hypochondriac. Second season. Stratford: Festival Theatre 2016: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre, stage manager of The Hypochondriac and assistant stage manager of production assistant, 2015. Elsewhere: Anne & Gilbert: The Musical, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, The Sound of Music Macbeth. 19th season. Stratford: Ten seasons as production stage manager (Tom Patterson, Avon and Studio theatres). Stage (National Arts Centre); Tosca, Madama Butterfly (Opera Lyra Ottawa); This is War (Great Canadian Theatre Company); manager: The Alchemist, The Beaux’ Stratagem, A Word or Two, The Thrill, The Homecoming, Jacques Brel, Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Hal & Falstaff, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V (A Company of Fools); Pacino One Night Only (NAC Universe, Othello, The Measure of Love/Ruth Draper on Tour. Assistant stage management (selected): Noises Off, The Merchant presentation). of Venice, King Lear, Inherit the Wind, Fiddler on the Roof. Elsewhere: In 2014, Julie travelled to Los Angeles with Christopher Plummer’s A Word or Two. Production stage manager: The Odd Couple, As You Like It (Soulpepper). Assistant stage manager: Don Giovanni, Roméo et Juliette, Eugene Onegin, Lakmé, Tosca (Opera Ontario); La Bohème, Die Walküre (Canadian Opera Company). Training: Graduate of the Ryerson Theatre School. Et cetera: Much love and gratitude to Mom, Dad, Roger, Eldon and Annie-Irene.

JULIE FOX 2016: Designer of Macbeth. Seventh season. Stratford: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, The Best Brothers, The Little Years, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Elsewhere: The Watershed, The Seagull, Someone ANNE MURPHY Else, Seeds, I, Claudia, The Country (Crow’s Theatre); Arigato, Tokyo, The Maids, Blasted (Buddies in Bad Times); Endgame, 2016: Stage manager of Macbeth and assistant stage manager of The Hypochondriac. 24th season. Stratford: Anne is The Long Valley (Soulpepper); Within the Glass, The Patient Hour, Faust, The Designated Mourner, The Cryptogram pleased to be back for the 2016 season. Elsewhere: Cabaret (MTC), Sleeping Beauty (Globe Theatre), Orpheus Descending (Tarragon); We Are Not Alone, Geometry in Venice (Segal Centre); Frozen (Citadel); The Eco Show, Insomnia (Necessary (MTC, Royal Alexandra Theatre), toured the Belfry Theatre’s The Year of Magical Thinking to the Tarragon Theatre and the Angel); Possible Worlds (Theatre Passe Muraille). Opera: A Synonym for Love (Volcano). Dance: Still Here (adelheid); Shudder National Arts Centre, toured with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the NAC’s The Mikado and worked (Susanna Hood); Bas-Reliefs (Chartier Danse). Training: National Theatre School. Awards: Four Dora Awards for set design; on The Lion King and Jane Eyre in Toronto. She has had the pleasure of working across Canada at the Grand Theatre, Virginia Cooper Award for costume design; META and Sterling Award nominations. Teaching: National Theatre School. Playhouse, Neptune Theatre (production manager for two years), Manitoba Theatre Centre and Expo ’86 in Vancouver. Et cetera: Anne lives in Stratford with her partner, Anne; their son, Callum; daughter Brianna; Richard, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever; Lucy, the cutest Maltipoo ever; and three beautiful cats.

T. ERIN GRUBER STEVEN PAGE 2016: Assistant set designer of Macbeth, A Chorus Line and As You Like It. Second season. Stratford: Assistant projection 2016: Composer for Macbeth. Sixth season. Stratford: Bartholomew Fair, Coriolanus, As You Like It, Cymbeline, Hamlet. designer for Tommy. Elsewhere: Co-founder of the ShowStages Video Collective, a group who build narratives through Elsewhere: Singer and songwriter Steven Page’s distinctive and powerful tenor is among the most familiar voices in projected media for theatre and live events. Category E (production designer, Sterling Award for Lighting Design, Maggie popular music today. His evolving artistic path has always included a diverse array of musical endeavours – like composing Tree Collective); Mary Poppins (lighting and projection designer, Globe Theatre); A Bomb in the Heart (production designer, scores for the Stratford Festival and collaborating with Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble – but 2016 marks the release of Downstage, Betty Mitchell nomination); Ring of Fire (set and projection designer, Chemainus Festival Theatre). Training: BFA Heal Thyself, Pt.1: Instinct. This new collection of original songs debuted in early March and was followed by Steven’s in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta. Online: eringruber.com; showstages.com. Et cetera: Erin is really pleased to critically acclaimed residency at New York’s storied Café Carlyle. Called “whip smart” and “perfect pop,” his new album be back at Stratford for a second season and owes a debt of gratitude to her family and friends for their continued support. finds Steven Page “at the top of his game” and touring across the continent. “The best you can do is make the art you are Lots of love to Pat, Laurie and Haley, and her colleagues Joel and Elijah at the ShowStages Video Collective. driven to make. And, in the end, I know this album sounds like me.” www.stevenpage.com.

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MARGARET PALMER THOMAS RYDER PAYNE CORINNE RICHARDS GEOFF SCOVELL JOHN STEAD HEIDI STRAUSS CYNTHIA TOUSHAN JAMES WALLIS MICHAEL WALTON

MARGARET PALMER HEIDI STRAUSS 2016: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre and assistant stage manager of A Little Night Music. 33rd season. 2016: Movement director of Macbeth. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Golden Dragon (Tarragon Theatre); Another Africa/Africa Trilogy Stratford: Maggie has been PSM at the Avon, Tom Patterson and Festival theatres for 25 seasons. Stage-management (Canadian Stage, Luminato); The Marriage of Figaro (Canadian Opera Company); Through Roses (Frankfurt Opera); Julie Sits Waiting credits include Henry IV (parts 1 and 2); Iolanthe; The Imaginary Invalid; My Fair Lady; A Man for All Seasons; Kiss Me, (Good Hair Day); Insomnia (Necessary Angel). Film/TV: elsewhere (Festival Internacional de Vídeo & Dança, Rio de Janeiro); IDN Kate; Guys and Dolls; The Government Inspector; Coriolanus; The Mikado (national tour, London’s Old Vic); and Twelfth festival, Barcelona; Art in Transit, Pattison (OneStop); a settling haze (Young Centre); Girl in Mourning (Harbourfront Centre Theatre). Night (U.S. tour). Elsewhere: Maggie has worked at the St. Lawrence Centre (Toronto Arts Productions), MTC and the Grand Commissions: Everyday Anthems (Harbourfront Centre Theatre World Stage/Toronto Dance Theatre). With adelheid: adelheid solos Theatre, where she stage-managed a Dora Award-winning production of A Little Night Music. She stage-managed Eugene (Harbourfront Centre Theatre); as it is, this time, still here (Factory Theatre); elsewhere (Harbourfront Centre Theatre). These works Onegin (Manitoba Opera), the first Dream in High Park and the first Dora Awards. She did publicity for the NDWT Company have toured nationally. With adelheid, Heidi is currently a resident artist at the Theatre Centre. Training: The School of Toronto Dance and toured Canada with the Charlottetown Festival. Training: Graduate of the National Theatre School. Theatre. Awards: K.M. Hunter Award for Dance, Dora Award for choreography of this time. Online: adelheid.ca; @adelheid_dance.

THOMAS RYDER PAYNE CYNTHIA TOUSHAN 2016: Sound designer of Macbeth and The Hypochondriac. Eighth season. Stratford: Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, 2016: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre and stage manager of A Chorus Line. 20th season. Stratford: The Alchemist, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Othello, The Matchmaker, Much Ado Shows include Crazy for You, Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street, Camelot, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, My About Nothing, The Little Years, Hosanna, King of Thieves, Rice Boy. Elsewhere: Designs for BIBT, Soulpepper, Canadian Fair Lady, Man of La Mancha, Hello, Dolly!, The King and I and others. Elsewhere: Over 35 years as a stage manager; over Stage, Tarragon, Factory, Theatre Passe Muraille, NAC, Blyth Festival, RMTC, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, Volcano, Nightwood, 25 years with the Canadian Opera Company as a stage manager and choreographer, most recently on Siegfried; White Modern Times, Aluna, Crow’s and many others. Film: Hero.Traitor.Patriot, Alegra & Jim, Robert’s Circle. Training: Studied Christmas for Drayton Entertainment with Michael Lichtefeld; production stage manager and resident director of Jersey composition with James Tenney, Honours BA, York University. Awards: 16 nominations and two Dora Awards for Sound Boys, Toronto; 25 years as a singer/dancer and choreographer in Canadian theatre; assistant director/choreographer to her Design and Composition. Et cetera: Started as a songwriter with a four-track tape machine and still endlessly fascinated mentor, Alan Lund. Et cetera: Love to daughters Stephanie and Jennifer, son-in-law Andrew, fiancé Paul and her beautiful with the storytelling possibilities of layered sound. grandchildren, Kennedy and Koston.

CORINNE RICHARDS JAMES WALLIS MICHAEL LANGHAM WORKSHOP, 2016 2016: Assistant director of Macbeth. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Director: Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, 2016: Assistant stage manager of Macbeth and All My Sons. 29th season. Stratford: Festival productions include 20 Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Edward II (staged reading), King John (Shakespeare BASH’d – also Founder and Shakespearean plays (some multiple times) plus The Physicists, The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Thrill, Wanderlust, The Grapes Artistic Director); Shakespeare in Hospitals (Spur of the Moment Collective); As You Like It (Theatre by the Bay); Reasons of Wrath, The Homecoming, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Home, Memoir, Les Belles-Soeurs, Phaedra, Alice to Be Pretty (Labute Cycle). Actor: Hamlet in Hamlet, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Petruchio in The Taming of Through the Looking-Glass, Amadeus, Little Women, The Country Wife, Pride and Prejudice, An Ideal Husband, Ghosts, The the Shrew (Shakespeare BASH’d); Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Resurgence Theatre Lark and a 1998 run at the City Center in New York City of Much Ado About Nothing and The Miser. Elsewhere: Corinne has Company); Shakespeare’s Magic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre by the Bay). Film/TV: Actor: The Movie Out Here, also worked for the Grand Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, the National Arts Centre, the Red Barn Theatre and Douglas Dead of Winter, Last Chance for Christmas, And Now a Word from Our Sponsors. Training: Ryerson Theatre School. Online: Beattie Productions. Training: University of Waterloo. @ShakesBASHd; shakespearebashd.com. Et cetera: “Thanks to Julia for all her support.”

GEOFF SCOVELL MICHAEL WALTON 2016: Associate fight director of Macbeth, All My Sons, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, As You Like It, Shakespeare in Love, A Little Night Music, 2016: Lighting designer of Macbeth, A Chorus Line and The Hypochondriac. 12th season. Stratford: Hamlet, The Sound of Music, Breath of Kings: Rebellion and Breath of Kings: Redemption. Sixth season. Stratford: Associate fight director (selected): Hamlet, The Physicists, Pericles, Oedipus Rex, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2009, 2014), Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Fiddler on The Taming of the Shrew, Oedipus Rex, King Lear, Crazy for You, King John, Man of La Mancha, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The the Roof, The Three Musketeers, Henry V, The Matchmaker, Twelfth Night, The Misanthrope, The Tempest, As You Like It, King of Three Musketeers, Othello. Assistant fight director: Fiddler on the Roof, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Count of Monte Cristo. Elsewhere: Fight director: Thieves, Macbeth, Hamlet (2008). Elsewhere: Evangeline (Charlottetown/Citadel); The Little Prince – The Musical (Theatre Calgary); Peter and the Starcatcher, Sweet Charity (Shaw); Don Giovanni, War and Peace (COC); The Godot Cycle (Yes Let’s Go); Mirandolina (Soulpepper); Così Fan Tutte (Canadian Opera Company); A Word or Two with Christopher Plummer (CTG/Stratford, Los Angeles); Maria Stuarda Romeo and Juliet (ShakespeareWorks). Film/TV: Stunt performer (selected): Suicide Squad, Dark Matter, , 12 Monkeys, Bitten, The Strain, Covert (Pacific Opera); Enron, The Year of Magical Thinking (NAC); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse, California); Affairs, Pompeii, Robocop, Reign, Orphan Black, Assassins Creed: Unity, Carrie, Total Recall, Lost Girl. Training: BFA, Ryerson University. Awards: Paddy Julie, The Other Place, Harper Reagan, Venus in Fur (Canadian Stage); Glenn, A Tender Thing, ’Night Mother (Soulpepper); Mary Crean: excellence in stage combat. Online: @GeoffScovell.Et cetera: This season is dedicated to the memory of Joel Harris. Poppins, Next to Normal (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); The Rocky Horror Show (Citadel); Chimerica (RMTC/Canadian Stage).

JOHN STEAD 2016: Head of Stage Combat. Fight Director of All My Sons, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, As You Like It, A Little Night Music, Breath of Kings: Rebellion and Breath of Kings: Redemption. 23rd season. Stratford: Fight director, 200+ productions. Elsewhere: 500+ productions, including 15 seasons with Shaw Festival. Film director: Cyborg Soldier, Troubled Waters, Good Morning Tomorrow, The Waking, The Hot Flash, End Game, Charon’s Obal. TV director: Dark Matter, Bitten, The Bobby Buck Show, XIII, Lost Girl, Earth: Final Conflict, Tracker, Mutant X, The Dresden Files, The Adventures of Sinbad. 400+ film/TV credits as stunt coordinator/ action director. Awards: Award of Excellence (Canadian International Film Festival); Genre Award for Best Suspense (BNFF); Derek F. Mitchell Artistic Director’s Award, Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford); Judges’ Choice Award (15 Minutes of Fame International Film Festival); Best Short Award nominee (Directors’ Guild of Canada). Online: johnstead.com; IMDB: imdb.com/name/nm0824093/.

26 27 The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre

Led in 2016 by Stephen Ouimette and Martha Henry, this intensive professional training program nurtures talented young actors for a future in classical theatre. 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 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. The 2016 in-season work of Conservatory participants is supported by the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Fund and by John & Therese Gardner.

The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction

Overseen by Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director, and David Latham, Theatre Training Consultant, this program offers an unparalleled opportunity for directors in the early or mid stages of their careers to develop their craft within the rich history and evolving artistry of the Stratford Festival. Participants serve as assistant directors on specific productions for periods ranging from eleven to sixteen weeks; in the fall, selected participants return to the Festival to direct a short piece of classical theatre to be performed for an invited audience. Twelve current or past Langham Workshop participants are members of this season’s artistic company. 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. The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction is sponsored by The RBC Emerging Artists Project. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DON DIXON. BY PHOTOGRAPHY SHANNON TAYLOR, LUKE HUMPHREY. HUMPHREY. LUKE SHANNON TAYLOR,

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