PLAY BY THE BOOK: UPRISING SERIES When Ladies Meet by Rachel Crothers

IJEOMA EMESOWUM MRS. BRIDGET DRAKE ANNE MURPHY STAGE MANAGER Stratford: Co-Host of Showstarters, Sonneteer in Undiscovered Sonnets, 2021: Stage manager of You Can’t Stop the Beat. 29th season. Stratford: Maya in The Neverending Story, Tituba in The Crucible, Phebe in As You Anne is so happy to be back for the 2021 season after our COVID year away. Like It, Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hay Fever, , The Elsewhere: (MTC), Sleeping Beauty (), Orpheus Changeling, The Hypochondriac, , Alice Through the Looking- Descending (MTC, Royal Alexandra Theatre), toured the Belfry Theatre’s Glass, Antony and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Death and the King’s Horseman The Year of Magical Thinking to the Tarragon Theatre and the National (Soulpepper), Romeo & Juliet (Spontaneous Theatre), A Christmas Carol Arts Centre, toured with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Theatre New Brunswick); fi ve seasons with Shaw Festival including Major and the NAC’s The Mikado, The Lion King and Jane Eyre in Toronto. She Barbara, Serious Money, Ragtime, The Women, The Devil’s Disciple, Born has had the pleasure of working across Canada at the Grand Theatre, Yesterday; Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct); The Aftermath (Nightwood Vancouver Playhouse, Neptune Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre and Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in High Park, Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Expo ’86 in Vancouver. Et cetera: Anne lives in Stratford with her partner, Anne; their son, Callum; Antony and Cleopatra, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, , Macbeth, Timon daughter Brianna; Luna, the cutest German Spitz/poodle ever; and two beautiful cats. of Athens (Stratford Festival on Film). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; BFA, University of Windsor. Et cetera: All for the love of Jake and Z. HANNAH RITTNER CURATOR Hannah Rittner is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and dramaturge. JESSICA B. HILL MARY HOWARD She began working with the Stratford Festival through the 2019 Metcalf Stratford: Jessica was set to appear as Lady Anne in Richard III, Helen in Internship, where she was mentored by Bob White, Director of The Foerster- All’s Well That Ends Well and Marianne in The Miser in the Stratford Festival’s Bernstein New Play Development Program. During that season she won the 2020 season. Past Stratford credits: Bess/Anne (Mother’s Daughter); Ann Guthrie Award for Outstanding Apprentice. Thanks to the generous support Putnam (The Crucible); Antipholus of Syracuse (The Comedy of Errors); of the Canada Council for the Arts, Hannah is currently the “Feminist Curator Emily (Brontë: The World Without); Gabriel/Beelzebub (Paradise Lost); in Residence” with the Stratford Festival, and will be until spring of 2022. She Isabella (The Changeling); Lydia Lubey (All My Sons); Lola (Bunny); Dame has several works in development including a feature fi lm. She wants to thank Pliant (The Alchemist). Elsewhere: Mother’s Daughter (Soulpepper); The her parents for their love and unending support, and her incredible circle of Play’s the Thing, An Enemy of the People (Segal Centre); The Bacchae brilliant and deeply soulful friends. Thank you, Stratford, for seeing the value in these classic plays (Centaur Theatre); The Lady Smith (Black Theatre Workshop); Scapin, Much by women and for giving them a platform so they may be presented on large stages across the Ado About Nothing (Repercussion Theatre). Film/TV: Jessica is currently a recurring character world. For more info on Hannah, her bio, and creative statement, go to www.hannahrittner.com. on Five Days at Memorial (Carlton Cuse/John Ridley), Kings of Napa and The Boys, season 3. Past TV credits: What We Do in the Shadows; On the Basis of Sex; Slaxx; 19-2; Hero: The AMY RUTHERFORD CLAIRE WOODRUFF Life and Times of Ulric Cross; Assassin’s Creed: Origins; 30 vies; The Battle of Wills. Training: Amy is a graduate of National Theatre School and Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory; McGill University; Dawson College. Awards: Mary Savidge Award Birmingham Conservatory. For 20 years, she has worked as an actor and (2016); Elsa Bolam Award (2006); Brian Cloutte Award (2005). Teaching: Jessica co-teaches writer with many of Canada’s leading artists in fi lm, television, radio and Shakespeare and Chekhov at the National Theatre School. Also: Catch a staged reading of theatre. She has embodied a multitude of characters and brought new another play she’s working on, In Search of Catharsis, part of Here for Now Theatre’s New plays to life with many esteemed playwrights, including Daniel MacIvor, Works Festival, September 1 to 11. Online: www.jessicabhill.com, Insta: @jessicabhill. Hannah Moscovitch, Michael Ondaatje, Karen Hines and Jason Sherman. She has also written several plays, some to great acclaim. In 2014, she co- JAMIE MAC JIMMIE LEE wrote The Public Servant, which was one of the highest grossing shows in Stratford: Slender (Merry Wives), Kruger (Front Page), Benvolio (Romeo The Great Canadian Theatre Company’s history. The Public Servant was and Juliet), Allardyce (Treasure Island), Wickers (The Breathing Hole), published by The Canadian Theatre Review in 2015. Her play Mortifi ed, a “dramedy” about Lennox (Macbeth), Silvius (), Kastril (The Alchemist), Fisherman sexual abuse, won The Playwright Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award for Best New Play of 2019, (Pericles), Young Soldier (Mother Courage), Towrus (Antony and Cleopatra). was chosen by the CBC’s Playwright-to-Pilot stream in 2019, and will be published this year by Elsewhere: Petruchio (St. Lawrence); Jacob Mercer, Salt-Water Moon Playwrights Canada Press. (NAC); Laurie, Vimy (GCTC); Clown, The 39 Steps (Stage West); David Jung, Rockbound (Two Planks); Michael, Elephant Song (Beothuk Street); MEGAN WATSON DIRECTOR Dromio of Ephesus, The Comedy of Errors (SBTS); Jerry, Zoo Story (Reid Megan is a director and theatre maker originally from Ottawa. She is the Theatre). Film/TV: On the Count of Three, Murdoch Mysteries, Uninvited current Artistic Associate at the Grand Theatre in London, . Selected Guest, Played, Beauty and the Beast, Republic of Doyle, Covert A airs, Life with Derek. Training: directing credits include Holiday Window Walk (Curveball Creative); Birmingham Conservatory; Ryerson University, BFA Acting. Awards: Elephant Song: Walter Juno’s Reward; Mary Poppins; A Christmas Carol; ; Chambers Scholarship, D.A. Matthews Scholarship, Honorary Chairman’s Award for Best Actor. Playwrights Cabaret (Grand Theatre). Other credits include Dial M for Murder Et cetera: Proud Newfoundlander. (Watermark Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Ru ); Extremophiles (Summerworks); When the Rain Stops Falling; Much Ado MICHAEL MAN WALTER MANNERS About Nothing (University of Alberta). Upcoming projects include Festival I am an actor and theatre educator. My work diversifi es narratives of East Director of the ReOpening Festival at the Grand Theatre, and writing and Asian diasporic peoples and confronts existing power structures in theatre directing Cravings, a Curveball Creative site-specifi c, immersive production. She holds an MFA in making. My current research about translations of late imperial dynastic directing from the University of Alberta and a BFA in acting from Ryerson University. She is grateful Chinese theatrical texts expands the familiarity of Chinese literary content to her friends and family for their love and support. and emphasizes its wealth. Selected Theatre: Victory, Cyrano de Bergerac (Shaw Festival; recipient, Saunderson Award); Lear, , As You RYLAN WILKIE ROGER WOODRUFF, PIERRE Like It, (Shakespeare in High Park, Canadian Stage); Julius Stratford: The Crucible, The Neverending Story, Henry VIII, To Kill a Caesar, (St. Lawrence ); Mockingbird, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Measure for Measure, Duchess of Malfi (Shakespeare Bash’d); A Midsummer Shakespeare in Love, The Hypochondriac, Pericles, The Alchemist, Night’s Dream (Chekhov Collective); Christmas Carol (Grand Theatre); Birds and the Bees, The Christina, The Girl King, Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Elsewhere: Jungle Book (Magnus Theatre); Snow Queen (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Other Shore Lion in Winter (Grand); Am I Not King? (Zone 41); Enron (Theatre Calgary); (Gateway Theatre, workshop). Educator: Text coach, assistant director, The Witch of Edmonton Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth); The Story (Theatre Columbus); Blue (George Brown Theatre School); co-facilitator, Crossing Gibraltar 2019 (Cahoots Theatre). Training: Planet (YPT); Macbeth, Mother Courage (Caravan Farm); A Doll’s House George Brown Theatre School; Queen’s University. (Globe); East of Berlin, The December Man, Around the World in 80 Days, Shakespeare’s Dog (ATP). Film/TV: Charity, Homefront, Blue Smoke, The Secret of the Nutcracker, See This Movie. Training: NTS. Awards: Stratford’s Award; Betty Mitchell Award for Vincent in Brixton. Online: Instagram @wilkierylan .

Support for the Uprising Series is generously provided by The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation.