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2 3 for an unforgettable time ALL THE WORLD’S The Mirror up to Nature By Alexander Leggatt A STAGE Jonathan Goad, Hamlet opens – almost – on a note of his own brother. Beneath the glamour celebration and reassurance. After the and sophistication of the court is what sudden death of old King Hamlet, his Claudius himself will call “the primal brother Claudius has succeeded and eldest curse,” Cain’s murder of his has married his brother’s widow. A new brother Abel. reign, a new marriage, life goes on. But The Ghost’s command to Hamlet INDEED in the midst of the celebration is a figure looks straightforward: revenge. But while in black: young Hamlet, still mourning that impulse drives countless stories in for his father, seeing Gertrude’s second which the only question about revenge marriage as incest and the world itself is how to do it, this story is different. In as an unweeded garden, rank with his own way, the Ghost is as disturbing corruption. Life goes on – but for Hamlet as Claudius. His return from the dead – it is a life not worth living. In comedy, Hamlet imagines him breaking violently new life is guaranteed by the promise out of his sepulchre – is itself a violation of marriage and sexual fulfilment; but of nature. And is this figure really the for Hamlet sex is what Gertrude is doing late King Hamlet? Those who talk of the Offi cial Newspaper of the Stratford Festival in bed with Claudius. Whenever he Ghost call it not “he” but “it,” and while imagines it, the effect is queasy disgust, they see a resemblance – “Looks it not and of his own love affair with Ophelia like the king?” – they can never bring we see only the broken remains. themselves to say it is the king. In the While new life begins in the court, out excitement of his first encounter with the on the battlements the past has come Ghost, Hamlet accepts it as the spirit of back in the form of the ghost of the his father; but later, when that excitement late King Hamlet. Silent under repeated has worn off, he wonders if it is a devil questioning (and this is a play in which tempting him to an act that will damn him, questions are asked more often than an act as sinful as murder itself. they are answered), it finally speaks to Appearing on the battlements in young Hamlet, a dead man breaking armour, at a time when Denmark itself the silence of death to describe in is on a war footing with armaments graphic detail how he died, poisoned by factories working day and night, the

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But even death Death Hamlet is improvising as new ideas come is not the end. Hamlet’s story will live on, into his mind. He still needs to steady and he commands his friend Horatio to and Desire himself, and he finds an ironic way of live and get the story right. He has cause Director’s notes doing it. to worry: as he moves to kill Claudius, by Antoni Cimolino Encountering the army of the the courtiers’ cries of “Treason! Treason!” Norwegian prince Fortinbras, on their show they do not understand what they “Who builds stronger than a mason, way to conquer a patch of Poland so are seeing. When Fortinbras marches in a shipwright, or a carpenter?” riddles small it will not even hold the bodies with his army and takes over Denmark, the Gravedigger in Hamlet. When his of the men who will die fighting for it, his first official act is to order for Hamlet colleague is stumped for an answer, he Hamlet sees in this image of the waste a military funeral, and the play ends with delivers his punch-line: “A grave-maker: and futility of war – his father’s world – the sound of gunfire. This is Fortinbras’s the houses he makes lasts till doomsday.” an example of the sort of manly action version of Hamlet’s story: Hamlet is an In Hamlet, as in our own lives, death he himself should be taking. But if in image of Fortinbras himself. All through is never far away. The play takes place the play’s last movement Hamlet seems the play other characters have been in a world almost at war. The old heroic steadier, what has concentrated his mind trying to understand Hamlet, interpreting king has died. His brother, the new king, is not just the example of Fortinbras him, as Fortinbras does, according to has ushered in a modern age – practical, but a new acceptance of the reality of their own lights. And if the play continues politic and steeped in corruption. death. He has just foiled Claudius’s plot to fascinate us, one reason may be that Hamlet is a young man trying to find to kill him, but in the process he has we see in this mirror held up to nature justice in this world – our world as much seen his own name on a death warrant. a reflection of our own doubts, our as his. In the end, he settles for revenge What happens to the soul after death questions, our shifting hold on reality, and death, including his own. The young remains a mystery, but when Hamlet asks our awareness of death, and our concern are sacrificed in this play. They are a lost Antoni Cimolino the Gravedigger what happens to the with the stories we leave behind us. generation, forced to react to the past by body, he gets a precise, professionally their parents’ wrongs and their parents’ where is there a place for love and informed answer. In the graveyard, Alexander Leggatt is Professor sins. “Remember me!” demands the loyalty, family and friends? That question holding a skull in his hand, Hamlet finds a Emeritus of English at University Ghost of Hamlet’s father. was on Shakespeare’s mind in the 1600s reality he can believe in. College, University of Toronto. The Gravedigger tells us that he took and should be on ours today. In the busy action of the final scene, up his trade on the very day that old Our point of departure in this staging death runs rampant as murderous King Hamlet killed old Fortinbras – the of Hamlet is the birth of the modern same day, too, on which young Prince age – just before the start of the Great Hamlet was born. So in a single day the War in 1914 – but since the story’s events of the play were given their birth, relevance defies limitation to one era, The Story and so too was our hero – while the time in our production is changeable and man who will bury him started to work. compressed, and the world begins to Since the recent death of old King their nightly watch. Meanwhile, young Many years later, another playwright look more and more like our own. Hamlet, Denmark has been adjusting Prince Hamlet remains in deep mourning captured some of the same sense of Just as, in Shakespeare’s day, Galileo’s to the new regime of Claudius, the late for his father, his grief compounded by life’s predetermination – Samuel Beckett discoveries in optics and Montagne’s king’s brother, and preparing for an disgust at the speedy remarriage of his in : “They give birth skepticism would eventually end the anticipated conflict with Norway. On mother, Gertrude, to Claudius – a union astride of a grave, the light gleams an feudal world of faith, so at the start of the battlements of the royal castle at that Hamlet considers incestuous. But instant, then it’s night once more.” the twentieth century Freud, Einstein and Elsinore, the sentries are on edge – and even more anguish is in store when What happens in that instant? Picasso were to dissolve the certainties not just because of the threat of war. Hamlet discovers the truth about his In the new modern age that of the mechanical age. The old world Twice now, a spectral figure resembling father’s death – and finds himself cast in Shakespeare describes in Hamlet, the would be swept aside – and with it, a the old king has appeared to them on the role of avenger. gleam is that of desire – for power, generation of young people. But what money, sex and drink. Such desires would replace them? Would there be help us forget death. They are seen as a fresh start? And in the face of death, integral to life itself and therefore not does anything really matter? The rest is to be questioned. But in such a world, silence.… 8 9 where he would have studied rhetoric, often ambiguous poems on themes of grammar and ancient Roman literature love, jealousy and mortality that have in its original Latin. In 1582, when aroused much biographical speculation. he was eighteen, he married Anne By 1595, Shakespeare was back in the Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter who theatre, writing and acting for the Lord was eight years his senior. Anne was Chamberlain’s Men. His income as one pregnant at the time, and the couple’s of London’s most successful dramatists first daughter, Susanna, was born enabled him, in 1597, to buy a large a few months afterwards in 1583. house called New Place back in Stratford, Twins followed two years later: a son, and in 1599 he became a shareholder Hamnet, who died at the age of eleven, in London’s newly built . and a second daughter, Judith. In 1603, when James I had succeeded Nothing further is known of Elizabeth on the throne, Shakespeare’s Shakespeare’s life until 1592, by which company was awarded a royal patent, time he was sufficiently established as becoming known as the King’s Men. but there is a record of his baptism at an actor and writer in London to be the Meanwhile, the playwright continued Stratford’s Holy Trinity Church on April target of a literary attack by a jealous Playwright 26. Since an interval of two or three fellow playwright, Robert Greene. Soon his business dealings in Stratford and in London, where in 1613 he bought Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, days between birth and baptism would afterwards, an outbreak of plague William Shakespeare was the eldest have been quite common, tradition has it forced the temporary closure of the a property known as the Blackfriars son of John Shakespeare, a glover and that he was born on April 23 – the same , and Shakespeare turned his Gatehouse. He is believed to have tanner who rose to become an alderman date as his death fifty-two years later. attention instead to his long narrative spent increasing amounts of his time and bailiff of the town, and Mary Arden, The young Shakespeare is assumed poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape in Stratford from around 1609 until his the daughter of a wealthy farmer. The to have attended what is now King of Lucrece. He also began writing the death on April 23, 1616. He is buried exact date of his birth is unknown, Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford, Sonnets,Rheot T Housea series Program of 154 Adcomplex 2015-9.qxp_RT and hp adin the2-15 town’s 2015-03-16 Holy Trinity 8:15 PMChurch. Page 1

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10 11 Hamlet THE FORUM By William Shakespeare Showcase performances, illuminating speakers, The Cast engaging debates and family fun! Hamlet Jonathan Goad Gertrude Seana McKenna

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Horatio Tim Campbell Ophelia Adrienne Gould Polonius Tom Rooney Laertes Mike Shara

Player Queen Sarah Afful Player King Gentlewoman Ijeoma Emesowum CHIEF JUSTICE MARGARET ATWOOD DAN FALK BEVERLEY McLACHLIN Fortinbras Captain Xuan Fraser Messenger Josh Johnston Gravedigger #1 Robert King Playing With Words in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Hamlet Marcellus, Fortinbras John Kirkpatrick Sunday, June 21, 10:30 a.m. to noon | Studio Theatre Player, Court Lady Shruti Kothari Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost – a great tragedy and an early comedy – both call on the Francisco, Sailor Josue Laboucane actors’ skill with a range of different kinds of comic writing. Russell Jackson and company Prologue Tiffany Claire Martin members Juan Chioran and Seana McKenna explore this vital element of Shakespeare’s Reynaldo Jennifer Mogbock Lucianus, Priest Derek Moran world of entertainment. $25 Osric Mike Nadajewski Being Hamlet Voltemand Thomas Olajide Cornelius Andrew Robinson Wednesday, July 29, 10:45 a.m. to noon | Chalmers Lounge, Avon Theatre Guildenstern Steve Ross Actors Ben Carlson, and Stephen Ouimette, who have tackled the role of the Barnardo Brad Rudy Danish prince at the Festival in past productions, join this season’s Hamlet, Jonathan Goad, to Rosencrantz Sanjay Talwar discuss the impact of this seminal role on their lives and work. Moderated by Paul Kennedy. $25 English Ambassador, Gravedigger #2 Brian Tree Margaret Atwood: Shakespeare in My Work Saturday, August 8, 10 to 11 a.m. | Avon Theatre Understudies From the libretto of John Beckwith’s 1964 choral suite The Trumpets of Summer, commissioned Sarah Afful (Ophelia), Ijeoma Emesowum (Player Queen), Xuan Fraser (Marcellus, Fortinbras, by the CBC for Shakespeare’s 400th birthday, to Cat’s Eye and the Earle Grey Players, to her Francisco, Sailor), Josh Johnston (Laertes), Robert King (Voltemand, Cornelius), most recent book, Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, to the upcoming Tempest project – and everything John Kirkpatrick (Claudius/The Ghost), Shruti Kothari (Prologue), in between – Margaret Atwood discusses her work and her relationship to the Bard. $25 Josue Laboucane (Guildenstern, Gravedigger #2, English Ambassador), Tiffany Claire Martin (Reynaldo), Jennifer Mogbock (Gentlewoman, Messenger), The Science of Shakespeare Derek Moran (Horatio), Mike Nadajewski (Hamlet), Thomas Olajide (Rosencrantz, Osric), Sunday, August 16, 10 to 11:30 a.m. | Studio Theatre Andrew Robinson (Player King, Barnardo), Karen Robinson (Gertrude), Steve Ross (Polonius), Journalist, writer and broadcaster Dan Falk discusses Shakespeare and the beginnings of Brad Rudy (Gravedigger #1, Lucianus, Priest), Brian Tree (Fortinbras Captain) modern science. $25 There will be one 15-minute interval. Hamlet’s Appeal Saturday, September 12, 10 to 11:30 a.m. | Festival Theatre Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin returns to preside over the appeal of Hamlet in the murder of Audience Alert Polonius. Free. A gunshot, atmospheric haze and smoke are used in this production.

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12 13 Artistic Credits Backstage Production responsibilities during the performance accomplished by: Director Antoni Cimolino Stage Carpenter David McDonald Designer Teresa Przybylski Alternate Les MacLean Lighting Designer Michael Walton Master Electrician Michael (Mick) McDonald Composer Steven Page Alternate Chris Knarr Sound Designer Thomas Ryder Payne Property Master Jeffrey Hughes Fight Director John Stead Alternate James Turner Movement Director Shona Morris Head of Sound Scott Matthews Alternate Michael Duncan Producer David Auster Crew Walter Sugden Casting Director Beth Russell Wardrobe Master John Bynum Creative Planning Director Jason Miller Wardrobe Attendants Ina Brogan, Margie Bell Bruer, Christine Smith, Debra Yundt Assistant Director Bronwyn Steinberg Swing Rebecca Dillow Assistant Set Designer Nancy Anne Perrin Wigs and Makeup Show Head Erica Croft Assistant Costume Designer Charlotte Robertson Wigs and Makeup Crew Lorna Henderson Assistant Lighting Designer George Quan Associate Fight Director Geoff Scovell Fight Captain Brad Rudy

Stage Manager Anne Murphy Assistant Stage Managers Krista Blackwood, Corinne Richards Apprentice Stage Manager Jocelyn McDowell The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Production Assistant Katherine Dermott Production Stage Manager Margaret Palmer From Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino: Thirty-three members of this season’s company have taken part in our professional training program, the Technical Director Jeff Scollon Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Founded in 1998, the Conservatory has helped launch the careers of many leading Canadian actors, several of whom I have had the great pleasure of directing here at Stratford. Music Credits Directed by , the Conservatory is made possible by the support of the Birmingham family, the Stratford Festival Endowment Foundation and the Department of Canadian Heritage. Supporting the 2015 in-season work of Conservatory participants are the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Fund, John & Therese Gardner Original music recorded by Steven Page, Conductor/Keyboards; Mel Martin, Violin; and The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation. We thank them for helping us to nurture and support these Adele Pierre, Violin; Jonathan Craig, Viola; Ben Bolt-Martin, Cello; talented artists. Larry Larson,Trumpet; Steve McDade, Trumpet; Kate Stone, Horn; Rob Stone, Trombone; Past Birmingham Conservatory participants include these members of our 2015 company: Dale Anne Brendon, Percussion Sarah Afful 2011/12 Ruby Joy 2011/12 Mike Nadajewski 2012 Fanfare Musicians: Larry Larson (Fanfare Leader), Soprano Herald Trumpet; Evan Buliung 1999 Josue Laboucane 2012/13 Thomas Olajide 2014 Steve McDade, Soprano Herald Trumpet; Kate Stone, Soprano Herald Trumpet; Shane Carty 2003 Keira Loughran 2005 (associate Karack Osborn 2013/14 Rob Stone, Bass Herald Trumpet; Dale Anne Brendon, Parade Snare Drum Paul deJong 2000 (coach) producer, Forum and Laboratory) Gareth Potter 2003 Sara Farb 2013 Jamie Mac 2013/14 Andrew Robinson 2012/13 Ryan Field 2011 Kennedy C. MacKinnon 1999 Tyrone Savage 2010/11 Director of Music: Franklin Brasz Jonathan Goad 1999 (winter) (coach) Laura Schutt 2013/14 Adrienne Gould 2002 Tiffany Claire Martin 2014 E.B. Smith 2010/11 Music Administrator: Marilyn Dallman Deborah Hay 1999 Gordon S. Miller 2003 Evan Stillwater 2004 (cutter) Administrative Assistant: Don Sweete Jessica B. Hill 2014 Jennifer Mogbock 2013/14 Shannon Taylor 2014 Brad Hodder 2011/12 Derek Moran 2013/14 Antoine Yared 2012/13 Josh Johnston 2014 André Morin 2014 Acknowledgements The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction Special thanks to Dr. Darren C. Marks; Tyler Vandergaag; Jennifer Anderson, MD, St. Michael’s From Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino: Hospital, Toronto; Sean Blaine, MD, Stratford; Norman Cruz, MD, Stratford; Shawn Edwards, MD, Stratford; Brian Hands, MD, FRCS (C), medical voice consultant, Vox Cura voice care specialists, The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction continues Michael Langham’s tradition of mentorship in Toronto; Simon McBride, MCISc, MD, London Health Sciences Centre Vocal Function Clinic, a risk-free environment, allowing directors to develop their craft within the rich history and evolving artistry of the Stratford Festival. London; Laurel Moore, MD, Stratford; David Thompson, MD, Stratford; John Yoo, MD, London Health Sciences Centre, London. Pianos tuned and maintained by Don Stephenson. We extend our thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage, Johanna Metcalf & the George Cedric Metcalf Cover photography by Don Dixon. Page 1 photography by David Hou. Foundation and the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation. Participants in the 2015 workshop: | Charlotte Gowdy | Krista Jackson Kate Newby | Bronwyn Steinberg | Kristen van Ginhoven | Rona Waddington | Ted Witzel Cover Photo: Jonathan Goad 14 15 Production Credits Wardrobe Director of Production Simon Marsden Head of Wardrobe Bradley Dalcourt Technical Director – Scenic Construction Andrew Mestern Wardrobe Head – Avon/Studio Elizabeth Copeman Wardrobe Manager Tanya Apostolidis Seasonal Wardrobe Supervisor Linda Sparks Production Administrator Cheryl Bender Cutters Johanna Billings, Melanie Farrar-Jackson, Design Coordinator Mary-Jo Carter Dodd Luci Pottle, Evan Stillwater Scene Shop Manager Robbin Cheesman First Hands Wendy Bendle, Mary-Lou Mason, Associate Technical Director David Campbell Krista Nauman Technical Management Assistant Michael Besworth Sewers Sarah Baxter, Caroline Broadley, Diana Brown, Administrative Assistant Cindy Jordan Marlee Bygate, Susan E. Dick, Allison Erb, Electronics Technologist Chris Wheeler Shona Humphrey, Jordan Johnstone, Transportation Charlie Fox, Dirk Newbery, James Thistle Grace Kessel, Alanna Kitson, Olga M. Kouzmina, Anna Lach, Norma LaChance, Paulette Laporte, Properties Elisabeth Mastrandrea, Gina Schellenberg, Head of Properties Dona Hrabluk Laura Snowden, Catherine Weber Lead Builder Jennifer Macdonald Bijoux/Decoration Rebecca Dillow Assisted by Eric Ball, Ken Dubblestyne, Michelle Jamieson, Assisted by Liane Guttadauria, Tami MacDonald, Kathryn Kerr, Shirley Lee, Brian McLeod, Kathi Posliff Dylan Mundy, Heather Ruthig, Lisa Summers Boots and Shoes Michael Karn Properties Apprentice Matt Leckie Assisted by Karen Beames, Sarah Cook, Properties Buyer Tracy Fulton Chantelle Laliberte, Connie Puetz Assistant Properties Buyer Jaclyn Zaltz Costume Painting Lisa Hughes Dyeing Linda Pinhay Assisted by Sylvia Minarcin Scenic Art Millinery Isabel Bloor Assisted by Helen Flower, Katarzyna Maxine, Monica Viani Head Scenic Artist Christopher Klein Wardrobe Buyer Michelle Barnier Assistant Head Scenic Artist Daniel McManus Assistant Wardrobe Buyer Caitlin Luxford Assisted by Kevin Kemp, Amparo Villalobos, Wardrobe Apprentice Rebecca Forsyth Michael Wharran, Blair Yeomans Warehouse Supervisor Madonna Decker Warehouse Assistants Chevy Barlow, Valerie Lariviere Scenic Carpentry Head Carpenter Ryan Flanagan Wigs and Makeup Head of Automation Ian Phillips Head of Wigs and Makeup Gerald Altenburg Lead Hand Stephen Morgan Construction Crew Teddi Barrett, Erica Croft, Jessica Elsbrie, Assisted by Simon Aldridge, David Bedford, Mark Card, Tracy Frayne, Lorna Henderson, Sherri Neeb, Gary Geiger, Nick Glenn, Douglas Ledingham, Stanley Wickens William Malmo, Wayne Nero, John Roth, Wigs and Makeup Apprentice Anna Burton Joseph Saunders, Mark Smith, Geoff Taylor, Cliff Tipping, Joe Tracey

A member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Stratford Festival engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Stage crew, scenic carpenters, drivers, wigs and makeup attendants, facilities staff and audience development representatives are members of Local 357 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Wardrobe attendants are members of IATSE Local 924. Scenic artists are members of IATSE Local 828. The musicians, Funding for artisan apprenticeships is provided by the William H. Somerville Theatre Artisan Apprenticeship Fund, musical directors, conductors and orchestra contractors engaged by the Stratford Festival are members of the Toronto funded by the J. P. Bickell Foundation and by Robert & Jacqueline Sperandio. Musicians’ Association, Local 149, of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. 16 17 Sarah Afful Ijeoma Emesowum 2015: Player Queen in Hamlet, Bianca in and Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s 2015: Maria in Love’s Labour’s Lost and appears in Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew. Second Lost. Fourth season. Stratford: Tiger Lily, Alice Through the Looking-Glass; featured in A Midsummer season. Stratford: Jackie Coryton in Hay Fever, Pudding/Daisy 2 in Alice Through the Looking- Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play; Mariana, Measure for Measure; understudy, Othello; ; Glass and Cleopatra Attendant in . Elsewhere: Five seasons with Shaw Chorus, Elektra; The Pirates of Penzance. Viola, ; Hermione, The Winter’s Tale Festival including Major Barbara, Serious Money, Guys and Dolls, Ragtime, Cat on a Hot Tin (Birmingham Conservatory). Elsewhere: Margaret, , Octavia/Iris, Antony and Roof, A Man and Some Women, The Admirable Crichton, The Women, The Devil’s Disciple, Born Cleopatra (Bard on the Beach); : nach Shakespeare (Conspiracy/Gas Heart); Saint Monica, Yesterday, Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct); The Aftermath (Nightwood Theatre); A Midsummer The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Pound of Flesh/Pacific Theatre); The Eighth Land (PI Theatre); Old Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in High Park, Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Antony and Cleopatra Goriot (Western Gold/UBC Theatre); Small Axe (Project Humanity/ Centre). Film/TV: Smallville, Caprica, (Stratford Festival). Training: BFA, University of Windsor. Online: Twitter: @UsoIje. Et cetera: Ijeoma has an online Eureka, The Perfect Score, American Dreams, numerous commercials. Recordings: Days of Old (Neworld Theatre/ Etsy store that sells homemade cream and lip balms as well as cake stands made of recycled glasses and dishes. CBC). Training: Birmingham Conservatory; BFA Acting, UBC; Lyric School of Acting; Tarlington Training. Online: Twitter: etsy.com/shop/usovintagedesigns. “Love and thanks to my family and Jake.” @SarahAfful1.Et cetera: “Thanks to my brothers for all their support and unconditional love this year!” Krista Blackwood Xuan Fraser 2015: Assistant stage manager of Hamlet and The Sound of Music. Third season. Stratford: 2015: Fortinbras Captain in Hamlet, Nicholas in The Taming of the Shrew and appears in Love’s Assistant stage manager of Crazy for You and . Elsewhere: Stage manager Labour’s Lost. Ninth season. Stratford: (Curan), The Beaux’ Stratagem (Fellow, Chamberlain), of Glenn, Farther West, Great Expectations, Dirt, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, High Life A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wanderlust (Blount), (Duke of Burgundy), (Le Beau), (Soulpepper); The Mill, parts 1 to 4 (Theatrefront); Anne of Green Gables – The Musical The Winter’s Tale (Cleomenes), (Aaron), The Tempest (Caliban), Macbeth (Witch), (Charlottetown Festival); Peter and the Starcatcher, A Christmas Story, Joseph and the Amazing (Benvolio), The Three Musketeers (Jussac), (Pedro), Juno and Technicolor Dreamcoat (Western Canada Theatre); It’s a Wonderful Life, The Rocky Horror Show the Paycock, Oedipus Rex (Chorus), (Pindarus), The Alchemist, , (Theatre New Brunswick); Skin Flick, Masked, Happy Days (Neptune Theatre); Generous (Tarragon Hamlet. Elsewhere: Oberon/Theseus (Shakespeare in Action/Canadian Stage), Thomas Matthews Theatre); The Last Five Years (Theatre and Company); Noises Off(Atlantic Theatre Festival). (Toronto the Good – Factory Theatre), Othello (Othello – Driftwood Theatre), Macbeth (Macbeth – Workman Arts/ Shakespeare in Action), Cody (This Is How It Goes – Neptune Theatre), Dubois (Counterfeit Secrets – Artword Theatre, Tim Campbell Dora nomination). Film/TV: Nikita, Suits, Insecurity, King, The Rick Mercer Report. “For my lovely fiancée, Leigh, and my 2015: Horatio in Hamlet and understudy in The Taming of the Shrew and Love’s Labour’s Lost. wonderful children, Myles, Bailey, Cole, Max, Lyric and Marley! Here lies all my future hopes.” Seventh season. Stratford: Credits include Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV (1), Henry IV (2), Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida. Elsewhere: Recent credits include Venus in Fur (ATP); Twelve Jonathan Goad Angry Men, Death of a Salesman, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Soulpepper); Jane Eyre (MTC); A 2015: Hamlet in Hamlet and Face in The Alchemist. 13th season. Stratford: King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Death of a Salesman Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice, (Citadel); (Blue Bridge); ( Shakespeare). Film/TV: Othello, Pentecost, Phèdre, The Music Man, , Pericles, Orpheus Descending, Henry Credits include Reign, Republic of Doyle, Warehouse 13, Nikita, The L.A. Complex, Saving Hope, Deadly Hope, The IV, Henry VI, Fiddler on the Roof, As You Like It, Fuente Ovejuna, Julius Caesar, The Two Noble Firm, Lost Girl, Against the Wall, Combat Hospital, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, Killshot, Hollywoodland. Awards: Kinsmen, Bartholomew Fair, The Brothers Karamazov, Richard II, Pride and Prejudice. Elsewhere: Past recipient of the Guthrie Award (for outstanding contribution to the Stratford Festival). A Whistle in the Dark, Speaking in Tongues (Company Theatre); Our Class, The Laramie Project (Studio 180); King Lear (Soulpepper); Stones in His Pockets (GCTC); Arcadia (Theatre Junction); Juan Chioran Strawberries in January (Grand). Film/TV: Dorsal, Nikita, Republic of Doyle, Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, 2015: Player King in Hamlet and Don Adriano de Armado in Love’s Labour’s Lost. 14th season. Unnatural History, Othello, The Waking, Rookie Blue, Mutant X. Radio: Hockey: A People’s History. Training: NTS, Stratford: Henry V, Much Ado, , Twelfth Night, Kiss Me, Kate, Evita, Bartholomew Birmingham Conservatory, University of Waterloo, Banff Centre.Teaching: NTS, Fanshawe College. Et cetera: Fair, Three Sisters, All’s Well, Shrew, As You Like It, Hamlet, Dracula, Dream, . “Thank you all for coming to the theatre!” Elsewhere: The Motherf**ker with the Hat (Bob Kills Theatre); , Philadelphia Story, Light in the Piazza (Shaw); Madonna Painter (Factory); New Brain, Piazza (Acting Up Stage); It’s a Wonderful Life, Goodnight Desdemona, Much Ado (Canadian Stage); , The Three Adrienne Gould Musketeers, Hecuba (Chicago Shakespeare); Blithe Spirit, An Ideal Husband (Citadel); Love’s 2015: Ophelia in Hamlet and understudy in Love’s Labour’s Lost. 10th season. Stratford: Selected Labour’s Lost (NAC); The Producers (Mirvish); (Soulpepper); Anything That Moves (Tarragon); credits: Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Pentecost, Much Ado About Nothing, Ghosts, The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Livent); (MTC); Rocky Horror (Bathurst Street). Film/TV: Finn on the Fly, Tempest, As You Like It, The Swanne (part 3), Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Republic of Love, What’s Up Warthogs, The Border, Roxy Hunter, This Is Wonderland, Cheetah Girls, Monk. Training: Tempest-Tost and The Diary of Anne Frank. Elsewhere: The Matchmaker and The Rivals BFA, U of A. Awards: Dora, Gemini, Jeff, Ovation, Carbonell. (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 Antoni Cimolino Desert Cities (Grand Theatre). Film/TV: The Lady in Question, Jonovision and Nikita. Recordings: 2015: Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival. Director of Hamlet and The Alchemist. 28th season. Timothy Goes to School. Training: North Carolina School of the Arts, Birmingham Conservatory. Awards: Mary Stratford: Directing credits include King Lear; The Beaux’ Stratagem; Mary Stuart; The Merchant of Savidge Award. Online: Adrienne is the founder of ABCyogis.com, a children’s/family yoga company. Et cetera: Venice; Cymbeline; The Grapes of Wrath; Bartholomew Fair; Coriolanus, with and Martha “This one’s for my ‘better half!’” Henry; As You Like It, featuring original music by ; King John; Love’s Labour’s Lost, with ; Twelfth Night, with ; The Night of the Iguana; and Filumena, with . Among his other accomplishments, Mr. Cimolino was instrumental in establishing Josh Johnston the Festival’s Endowment Foundation, which has raised more than $75 million to date, as well as in 2015: Appears in Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost and understudy in The Taming of the Shrew. the renovation of its Avon Theatre and the creation of its Studio Theatre. Elsewhere: The Canadian première of ENRON Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Young Shepherd in The (Theatre ); Twelfth Night (Attic Theatre, Detroit); A Woman of No Importance (Hilberry Theater, Detroit). A champion Winter’s Tale (Birmingham Conservatory); Sebastian in Who’s Under Where? (Lighthouse Festival of the arts and culture, Mr. Cimolino served as the Founding Chair of Culture Days, a nation-wide celebration of arts and Theatre); Louis Martin in In His Name (Canadian History Project); Giri in The Resistible Rise of culture in Canada. He has initiated collaborations with several prestigious theatre companies, including Montreal’s Théâtre Arturo Ui (red light district); Thespis in Something Is Wrong (Naught, A Theatre Company); Troilus du Nouveau Monde, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, New York’s Lincoln Center and City Center, San Francisco’s American in Troilus and Cressida (York University). Film/TV: Stephen in The Silver Chevy (Sheridan College). Conservatory Theater and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. He also spearheaded the Festival’s involvement in a joint Radio: Collaborator and speaker in The Other Families Radio Show. Training: BFA in Acting, York project with CUSO International, Canada’s international volunteer co-operation agency, to establish a performing arts and University; Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Et cetera: Josh dedicates his work this season to the educational centre in the city of Suchitoto, El Salvador. memory of his mother and to all those who have helped him on his journey thus far. “You know who you are.” 18 19 Robert King 2015: Gravedigger #1 in Hamlet, Peter, Vincentio in The Taming of the Shrew and Marcade in Love’s Labour’s Lost. 22nd season. Stratford: King Lear, The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Three WHAT YOU CAN’T HAVE Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Richard II, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Pericles, Henry V, Henry VI, YOU CAN’T RESIST Hamlet, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Treasure Island, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Grapes of Wrath, Home, Of Mice and Men, The Diary of Anne Frank, Ah, Wilderness!, Quiet in the Land, The Donnellys. Elsewhere (selected): A Wind in the Willows Christmas, The Yalta Game, Afterplay, Falling: A Wake (Alternative Theatre Works – founding member); Bolsheviki (world première, Infinithéâtre/ATW); original Owen in The Melville Boys (TNB); Garrison’s Garage, Country Hearts, Blyth Festival. Et cetera: Graduate of Dawson College’s Dome Theatre program – a proud “Domie.” Robert lives in Stratford with his wife, Peggy Coffey, and children, Mary and Lawrence.

John Kirkpatrick 2015: Marcellus, Fortinbras in Hamlet, Philip, Pedant in The Taming of the Shrew and Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Second season. Stratford: René Descartes in Christina, The Girl King and Red Knight/Walrus in Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Elsewhere (selected): 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 Theatre); Slim in Of Mice and Men (Canadian Stage/Theatre Calgary); Tybalt/Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Roy Darwin in Counsellor-at-Law (Theatre Calgary); Everard in Age of Arousal, Ned in The Gift of the Coat ( Theatre Projects); Milan in Rock ’n’ Roll (Canadian Stage/Citadel Theatre); Kent in King Lear, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Freewill .) Film/TV: Blackstone, Mixed Blessings. Training: BFA in Acting, University of Alberta. Awards: Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award, Measure for Measure, Citadel Theatre. Et cetera: “Love to Breanna.”

Shruti Kothari 2015: Appears in Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost and understudy in The Taming of the Shrew. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Princess/Genie in Aladdin (Diversified Productions), Mimi in Rent, Gary Coleman in Avenue Q (Lower Ossington Theatre); Mallory/April in City of Angels (Queen’s Musical Theatre); Nickie in Sweet Charity (Blue Canoe Productions); First Fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Queen’s Drama); First Witch in Macbeth (BSS/UCC Theatre). Voice Work: Beheader in Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft), Gail in My Dad is Scrooge (Eb Scrooge Productions). Training: Queen’s University, Claude Watson School for the Arts. Et cetera: “Endless love and thanks to family and friends for their constant support – particularly to my parents for sharing their love of the theatre and for always taking a four- year-old’s, seven-year-old’s and 20-year-old’s dream seriously.”

Josue Laboucane 2015: Francisco in Hamlet, Costard in Love’s Labour’s Lost and appears in The Taming of the Shrew. Third season. Stratford: King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello. Birmingham Conservatory: Toby Belch, Twelfth Night (); Private Lives, Tons of Money (Christopher Newton); Hamlet (Stephen Ouimette); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Martha Henry). Elsewhere: Henry VI, Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Julius Caesar, (Bard on the Beach); Zachary, The Exquisite Hour (Relephant); Cowardly Lion, The Wizard of Oz, Toad, A Year with Frog and Toad, Horton, Seussical (Carousel); The Emperor’s New Threads (Axis). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Studio 58, Canadian National Voice Intensive. Awards: Multiple Jessie nominations, one win; Sydney J. Risk Award. Et cetera: Josue is also a teacher, director and mask maker. Online: “Tweet me @josuelaboucane.” BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY! Tiffany Claire Martin 2015: Katherine in Love’s Labour’s Lost and appears in Hamlet. Stratford: A participant in the 2014 Birmingham Conservatory. Elsewhere: Tiffany has played Vivian in The Devil We Know (Blyth The Taming of the Shrew Festival), Laurie in Spelling 2-5-5 (Carousel Players), Chorus in Black Medea (Obsidian Theatre By William Shakespeare | Director Chris Abraham Company), Feste in Twelfth Night (Humber River Shakespeare), Jill in Tough (Factory Theatre). TV/ with Ben Carlson, Deborah Hay, Sarah Afful, Peter Hutt, Cyrus Lane, Gordon S. Miller, Tom Rooney, Mike Shara Online: Sydnie in The Strain (FX Network), Una in Leslieville (a Broken Stairs production), Sam in Production support is generously provided by Larry Enkin & family in memory of Sharon Enkin, Sweet Fever (Sandbox Empire). Training: Humber College. Et cetera: “Thank you to all the amazing and by Martie & Bob Sachs people who have supported and continue to support my joy of telling stories. Especially Mr. EAR.” Ben Carlson, Deborah Hay. Photo: Don Dixon 20 Jocelyn McDowell Anne Murphy 2015: Apprentice stage manager of Hamlet. Second season. Stratford: Production assistant for 2015: Stage manager of Hamlet and assistant stage manager of The Taming of the Shrew. 23rd the Festival Theatre (2014). Elsewhere: Shrek: The Musical (The Grand Theatre); A Christmas season. Stratford: Anne is pleased to be back for the 2015 season. Elsewhere: This past winter Carol, The Cemetery Club, No Sex Please, We’re British, Murder at the Howard Johnson’s, Whose she worked on Cabaret (MTC). Other productions: Sleeping Beauty (Globe Theatre), Orpheus Wives Are They Anyway? (Upper Canada Playhouse); Guys and Dolls (Toronto Youth Musical Descending (MTC, Royal Alexandra Theatre), toured the Belfry Theatre’s The Year of Magical Theatre Company); Through the Gates (SummerWorks); Bell, Book and Candle (Classic Theatre Thinking to the Tarragon Theatre and the National Arts Centre, toured with Joseph and the Festival); Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor (Green Mountain Opera Festival); The Shape of Things Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the NAC’s The Mikado and worked on The Lion King and (Xposed Productions); Reasons to be Pretty (Players Theatre); The Rake’s Progress (Opera McGill). Jane Eyre in Toronto. She has had the pleasure of working across Canada at the Grand Theatre, Training: Graduate of the Music Performance program at McGill University; graduate of the Technical Production for Vancouver Playhouse, Neptune Theatre (production manager for two years), Manitoba Theatre Centre and Expo ’86 Theatre program at Sheridan College. 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.

Seana McKenna Mike Nadajewski 2015: Gertrude in Hamlet and Fräulein Doktor Mathilde von Zahnd in The Physicists. 24th season. 2015: Osric in Hamlet and Ernst Heinrich Ernesti (alias Einstein) in The Physicists. Sixth season. Previously: After playing the title role in Mother Courage and Constance in King John last season, Stratford: Peter Sellars’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play, Tweedledum in Alice Ms McKenna went on to San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre to play the mother of Through the Looking-Glass, Romeo and Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof, Camelot, Jesus Christ Jesus in Colm Tóibín’s solo play Testament. She has played more than 24 Shakespearean roles, Superstar (also Broadway), Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, As You Like It, A including Cleopatra (Centaur), Katerina the Shrew and Richard III (Stratford). Other Stratford credits Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (also Mirvish). Elsewhere: This past winter, include Blithe Spirit, Mary Stuart, Medea, Phèdre, The Matchmaker, , The Glass Emcee in Cabaret (Manitoba Theatre Centre), Smee in the Canadian première of Peter and the Menagerie, Orpheus Descending, Night of the Iguana, Shakespeare’s Will, Good Mother, Private Starcatcher (Western Canada Theatre). Other credits include productions with Canadian Stage, Lives and She Stoops to Conquer. She has three Doras, one Jessie, one Genie, an honorary MFA in Acting from NAC, Drayton Entertainment, Charlottetown Festival, Theatre Aquarius, and three seasons with . ACT, a Doctor of Sacred Letters from Trinity College and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. She lives with Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Et cetera: Mike lives in Stratford with his wife, company one husband, one son, two cats and one fish. member Glynis Ranney, and their son, Emrys. Online: @mikenadajewski.

Thomas Olajide Jennifer Mogbock 2015: Voltemand in Hamlet, Nathaniel in The Taming of the Shrew and Dumaine in Love’s Labour’s 2015: Reynaldo in Hamlet, Jaquenetta in Love’s Labour’s Lost and appears in The Taming of the Lost. Second season. Stratford: Oswald in King Lear. Elsewhere: Kwasi in Binti’s Journey (Theatre Shrew. Second season. Stratford: Blanche of Spain in King John, Iras in Antony and Cleopatra. Direct/Young People’s Theatre); Laurent in Ruined (Obsidian Theatre); Florizel in The Winter’s Tale, Elsewhere: Phebe in As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Bernarda in The Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, Thane of Ross in Macbeth (Canadian Stage); Quentin in And House of Bernarda Alba (Theatre of War); Icarus in Damages Tangled (Theater for the New Slowly Beauty (Belfry Theatre/National Arts Centre); Oliver in Oliver! (National Arts Centre); Abraham City, N.Y.C.). Film: Quincy Vidal (Yellowhouse Pictures). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for in Sia (Pyretic Productions/Cahoots Theatre Company); various in This Must Be the Place (Architect Classical Theatre; BFA, State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase College. Online: www. Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille); John in The Whipping Man (Obsidian Theatre/Harold Green Jewish jennifermogbock.com. Et cetera: “Thank you to Aragorn, family, friends, and my heavenly father.” Theatre). Film/TV: After School, Broken Promises (Underdog Productions); Little Black Caddy (CBC); Combat Hospital (ABC). Training: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada (2010), Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, Brenda Crichlow Actors’ Studio and Stella Adler Academy of Acting. Awards: Award.

Derek Moran 2015: Lucianus in Hamlet, Joseph in The Taming of the Shrew and appears in Love’s Labour’s Steven Page Lost. Second season. Stratford: Egeus’s Interpreter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Burgundy 2015: Composer for Hamlet. Fifth season. Stratford: Bartholomew Fair, Coriolanus, As You Like It, in King Lear. Elsewhere: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Mario in The Game of Love and Chance Cymbeline. Elsewhere: Singer, songwriter and Canadian icon Steven Page’s distinctive and powerful (Neptune Theatre); Trout Stanley in Trout Stanley (Heart in Hand Theatre); Owen in The Melville tenor is among the most immediately familiar voices in popular music today. He is a founding Boys (Red Barn Theatre); Cléante in The Miser, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), member of The Barenaked Ladies, with whom he toured the globe and sold millions of albums. On Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Mug in New Canadian Kid (Sudbury Theatre Centre). Film/TV: his own, Steven Page continues his artistic evolution with a diverse array of solo projects. “I’d like to Mayday, Lost Girl, Bomb Girls, Being Erica, Murdoch Mysteries, Life With Derek, October 1970. think I’m still delivering that thing that has connected with audiences for so long. I enjoy the process Training: George Brown Theatre School, Birmingham Conservatory. of being artistic, of taking chances and not knowing what might come next.” New Steven Page music will be released in 2015. Online: www.stevenpage.com.

Shona Morris 2015: Head of movement. Movement for Hamlet, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Taming of The Shrew Margaret Palmer and Oedipus Rex. Seventh season. Stratford: Coach, 2003 to 2013; movement director of King John, 2015: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre. 32nd season. Stratford: Maggie has Mother Courage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, Peter been PSM at the Avon, Tom Patterson and Festival theatres for 24 seasons. Stage-management Pan, The Winter’s Tale, Dangerous Liaisons, King Lear, Agamemnon, Electra, The Flies. Elsewhere: credits include Henry IV (parts 1 and 2); Iolanthe; The Imaginary Invalid; My Fair Lady; A Man for Watford Palace Theatre: co-director: Love Me Do, Sleeping Beauty (2014); movement director: All Seasons; Kiss Me, Kate; Guys and Dolls; The Government Inspector; Coriolanus; The Mikado Jefferson’s Garden (2015), Perfect Match, Override, Our Father, My Mother Said, The Dresser, An (national tour, London’s Old Vic); and Twelfth Night (U.S. tour). Elsewhere: Maggie apprenticed English Tragedy, As You Like It, Lysistrata. Chichester Festival: Twelfth Night, Nicholas Nickleby at Neptune Theatre (1966/67), where she appeared as a dead body in The Physicists, and (Toronto/Gielgud Theatre). Io Theatre: The Snow Spider. Director: Swine (National Theatre Studio). Actor: National worked at the St. Lawrence Centre (Toronto Arts Productions), MTC and the Grand Theatre. She Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, Nottingham Playhouse, Tricycle Theatre, Paines Plough, Joint Stock, Shared Experience. stage-managed Eugene Onegin (Manitoba Opera), the first Dream in High Park and the first Dora Awards. She did Training: RAD ballet; Bristol University, drama/English; Ecole Jacques Lecoq; Trish Arnold. Awards: Time Out Award; publicity for the NDWT Company and toured Canada with the Charlottetown Festival. Training: Graduate of the Fringe First. Et cetera: Teaches movement, mask and chorus at RADA and Drama Centre London. National Theatre School, where she returned to coach last winter. 22 23 Thomas Ryder Payne 2015: Composer and sound designer of The Taming of the Shrew and sound designer of Hamlet and The Alchemist. Seventh season. Stratford: King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The LET ADVENTURE FIND YOU Beaux’ Stratagem, Othello, The Matchmaker, Much Ado About Nothing, The Little Years, Hosanna, King of Thieves, Rice Boy. Elsewhere: Designs for BIBT, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, Tarragon, Factory, Theatre Passe Muraille, NAC, Blyth Festival, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, Volcano, Nightwood, Modern Times, Aluna, Crow’s and many others. Film: Hero.Traitor.Patriot, Alegra & Jim, Robert’s Circle. Training: Studied composition with James Tenney, Honours BA, York University. Awards: 14 nominations and two Dora Awards for Sound Design and Composition. Et cetera: Started as a songwriter with a four-track tape machine and still endlessly fascinated with the storytelling possibilities of layered sound.

Nancy Anne Perrin 2015: Assistant set designer of Hamlet, The Sound of Music and The Taming of the Shrew and assistant designer of Possible Worlds and The Last Wife. Second season. Elsewhere: Set and/or costume designs include Parents Night and The Bigger Issue (CrazyLady); DeliMax (Teatron); Pitch Blonde (Convections/Next Stage); Waterfront: The Blessing and Shed (Les Nouvelles/SummerWorks); Rabbit Rabbit (Rather Undisciplined/SummerWorks); Magicien d’Oz (Le Théâtre La Roulotte); Cabaret, Stop Heart and Shouting (NTS). Training: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Set and Costume Design Program; BFA in Theatre Design and Production, University of Victoria.

Teresa Przybylski 2015: Designer of Hamlet. Ninth season. Stratford: 2013, Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett); 2009, Zastrozzi (George F. Walker); 2003, The Birds (Aristophanes); 2000, Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare) (set design); 1999, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare); 1998, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (William Shakespeare) (set design); 1994 and 1995, The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare). Elsewhere: Selected recent credits: 2014, Take Me Back to Jefferson, Theatre Smith-Gilmour; 2014, Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary, Pleiades Theatre; 2014, Elsewhere, Adelheid Dance Projects; 2013, Airline Icarus, SoundStreams; 2013, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Shaw Festival (set design); 2013, Annie, Young People’s Theatre (set design); 2012, Beckett: Feck It!, Queen of Puddings; 2012, Julie Seats Waiting, Good Hair Day Productions. Teaching: She teaches theatre design at York University. Awards: Five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, 18 nominations; two for production design. Online: teresaprzybylski.com.

George Quan 2015: Assistant lighting designer of Hamlet and The Sound of Music. Second season. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer for King John, Mother Courage and Her Children and Antony and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Assistant lighting designer of The Heart of Robin Hood (Mirvish/MTC); various lighting design credits including (Hart House Theatre); This Is It (The Blood Projects); The Lover (Three Peasants Theatre); Girl Who Loved Her Horses and White Buffalo Calf Woman (Centre for Indigenous Theatre); Fragments (No Parachute Theatre); The Dumb Waiter (Two Wolves); RAW (Ten Foot Pole); Vacant (Triangle Pi); The Russian Play (Spiel Players). Training: Production design at York University; animation. Online: www.georgequandesign.com.

Corinne Richards 2015: Assistant stage manager of Hamlet and The Physicists. 28th season. Stratford: Festival BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY! productions include 20 Shakespearean plays (some multiple times) plus The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Thrill, Wanderlust, The Grapes of Wrath, The Homecoming, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Home, Memoir, Les Belles-Soeurs, Phaedra, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Amadeus, The Adventures of Pericles Little Women, The Country Wife, Pride and Prejudice, An Ideal Husband, Ghosts, The Lark By William Shakespeare | Director Scott Wentworth and a 1998 run at the City Center in New York City of Much Ado About Nothing and The Miser. with Evan Buliung, Sean Arbuckle, Deborah Hay, Claire Lautier, Brigit Wilson, Antoine Yared Elsewhere: Corinne has also worked for the Grand Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, the National Arts Centre, the Red Barn Theatre and Douglas Beattie Productions. Training: University of Waterloo. Et Production support is generously provided by M. Fainer cetera: Corinne enjoys life in Stratford with her son, Timothy, and a few too many cats. Evan Buliung. Photo: Don Dixon 24 Charlotte Robertson Brad Rudy 2015: Assistant costume designer of Hamlet. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Costume designer for 2015: Barnardo in Hamlet, Curtis in The Taming of the Shrew and Dull in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Silence en coulisses! and La Cantantrice chauve (Théâtre Nouvel-Ontario); The Full Monty, Alice 25th season. Stratford: Pembroke (King John), Bill Sikes (Oliver!), Count (The Count of Monte in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, The 39 Steps, Moonlight and Magnolias, Lawrence and Cristo), Talbot (Henry VI), Common Man (A Man for All Seasons), Sergeant of Police (The Pirates of Holloman, The Love List, I Had a Job I Liked. Once., Waiting for Godot and Vigil (Sudbury Theatre Penzance); only actor to appear in all eight “Wars of the Roses” plays, consecutively. Elsewhere: Centre); The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Bash’d); Marg Szkaluba (New West Theatre Ratty (A Wind in the Willows Christmas) (ATW), Ted Narracott (War Horse) (Toronto); Gabe (Dinner Company). Head of wardrobe: Pearl Gidley, A Killing Snow, Bordertown Café and The Book of With Friends) (Theatre Aquarius), Todd (The Book of Esther) (Blyth). Directing: King Lear (Fanshawe Esther (Blyth Festival). Film/TV: Assistant costume designer: Cas and Dylan and Unearthing. College), The Book of Esther (Festival Players of Prince Edward County), Falling: A Wake (ATW), Costume supervisor: Hyena Road, The Witch, Remember, Midnight Sun, The Captive, Goodwitch VII, Darwin, Girls in the Gang (St. Clair College), Our Town (Mercury Theatre). Teaching: Acting/Voice and Text (Fanshawe, St. Fighting Man, The Returned, A Masked Saint and Dark Rising. Circus: Costume dresser: Corteo (Cirque du Soleil). Clair colleges); guest instructor (Michigan State, Wayne State, University of Waterloo); fight director (Aquarius, Training: BA (Anthropology), McGill University. Touchmark, colleges). Jack Hutt Humanitarian Award. Et cetera: “Love to Anne, Emma, Jack and Rob.”

Geoff Scovell Andrew Robinson 2015: Associate fight director of Hamlet, The Physicists, The Diary of Anne Frank, Carousel, The 2015: Cornelius in Hamlet, Gregory in The Taming of the Shrew and Longaville in Love’s Labour’s Adventures of Pericles, She Stoops to Conquer and The Taming of the Shrew. Fifth season. Stratford: Lost. Third season. Stratford: The Merchant of Venice, King John, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Associate fight director (selected): King Lear, Crazy for You, King John, Man of La Mancha, Alice, Musketeers, Antony and Cleopatra, Mother Courage and Her Children. Birmingham Conservatory: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Tons of Money. He recently had the pleasure of working Othello, The Thrill. Assistant fight director: Fiddler on the Roof, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Count of in the Incubator on The Aeneid and Cue for Treason. Elsewhere: Andrew recently premièred his Monte Cristo. Elsewhere: Fight director: Don Giovanni (Royal Conservatory); Gas (Next Stage); Don second solo show, He Crucified Me (Buddies/Rhubarb – playwright/performer); Our Ajax, Intuition Giovanni, War and Peace (COC); The Godot Cycle (Yes Let’s Go); Mirandolina (Soulpepper); Romeo of Iphigenia, Elektra in Bosnia (Women and War Project – Canada/Greece tour); Machina Nuptialis and Juliet (ShakespeareWorks). Film/TV: Stunt performer: 12 Monkeys, Bitten, The Strain, Covert Affairs, Pompeii, (Corpus Dance Projects); Bent (Theatre Engine); Russian Dolls (Buddies/Rhubarb – playwright/performer). Training: Robocop, Reign, Orphan Black, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Assassins Creed: Unity, Carrie, Total Recall, Being Human, XIII Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, Ryerson Theatre School. Awards: Award. the series, Lost Girl. Training: BFA, Ryerson University. Awards: Paddy Crean: excellence in stage combat. Online: @ GeoffScovell.Et cetera: “Thank you to Kasia and John for all your continued support and guidance.”

Karen Robinson Mike Shara 2015: Marta Boll in The Physicists and understudy in Hamlet. Fifth season. Stratford: Harlem Duet, 2015: Laertes in Hamlet, Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew and Berowne in Love’s Labour’s The Duchess of Malfi, Shakespeare’s Universe, Agamemnon, Electra, The Flies, The Swanne, Lost. Seventh season. Stratford: Othello, The Homecoming, The Matchmaker, King Lear, Eternal Hydra, Shadows. Elsewhere: Lady Bracknell (The Importance of Being Earnest), Red Cymbeline, The Importance of Being Earnest, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, The Beaux’ Queen (Alice Through the Looking-Glass), Condoleezza Rice (Stuff Happens), Nurse (Romeo Stratagem. Elsewhere: Nothing Sacred, Arms and the Man, Rutherford and Son, You Can’t Take It and Juliet) (NAC); The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Obsidian); Esther in Intimate Apparel With You, Cavalcade (Shaw Festival); It’s a Wonderful Life, Take Me Out (Canadian Stage); Boeing (Alberta Theatre Projects); Prospera in The Tempest (Canadian Stage); Doubt – A Parable (Citadel); Boeing (Aquarius); Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Shunning (MTC); The Great Gatsby (Grand); ’da Kink in My Hair (U.K., U.S.); The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish). Film/TV: Our Town, The Way of the World, Black Comedy (Soulpepper); The Amorous Adventures of Anatol Schitt’s Creek (CBC); King, Slings and Arrows (Showcase); Corner Gas: The Movie, Ghett’A Life, Lars and the Real (Tarragon); An Inspector Calls (Theatre Calgary); Richard III, Caesar and Cleopatra (Citadel). Film/TV: Whatever Girl, Saving Hope, Soul Food. Awards: Salento International Film Fest Award for Ghett’A Life; Sterling Award for Linda, Murdoch Mysteries, Life With Boys, Little Mosque on the Prairie, The Gathering. Online: @mikeshara. Et Doubt – A Parable; NAACP Award for ’da Kink in My Hair; Dora Award for Riot. cetera: “For my beautiful girls, Carla and Molly.”

John Stead Tom Rooney 2015: Head of Stage Combat. Fight director of Hamlet, The Physicists, The Diary of Anne Frank, 2015: Polonius in Hamlet, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew and Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Carousel, The Adventures of Pericles, She Stoops to Conquer and The Taming of the Shrew. 22nd Eighth season. Stratford: Crazy for You, Man of La Mancha, Measure for Measure, Waiting for Godot, season. Stratford: Fight director of over 150 productions. Elsewhere: Worked as a fight director across Wanderlust, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, For North America on over 500 professional productions, including 15 seasons with the Shaw Festival. Film/ the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and TV: Stunt coordinator and action director on over 375 films and television episodes.Teaching: Taught at All’s Well That Ends Well. Elsewhere: The Seagull, Someone Else (Crow’s Theatre); Homechild, Beckett: numerous universities and colleges, including the National Theatre School of Canada. Awards: Award Feck It! (Canadian Stage); My Mother’s Feet (Munich); Hairspray (Toronto and Broadway); Benevolence, of Excellence (Canadian International Film Festival); Genre Award for Best Suspense (BNFF); Derek F. Courageous (Tarragon); Hamlet (NAC); Roméo et Juliette (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan). Film/ Mitchell Artistic Director’s Award, Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival); Judges’ Choice Award (15 Minutes of Fame TV: Three seasons on CBC’s This Is Wonderland; The Gilda Radner Story; The Day After Tomorrow; Everest ’82 (CBC International Film Festival); Best Short First Runner-Up (Ticket to Hollywood International Film and Screenplay Festival); miniseries) and Flash of Genius. Awards: Two Gemini nominations and a Dora Award for Outstanding Actor 2013. and nominated for a Best Short Award (Directors’ Guild of Canada). Online: www.johnstead.com. John Stead on IMDB: www.imdb.com/name/nm0824093/. Et cetera: Master instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat.

Steve Ross Bronwyn Steinberg 2015: Guildenstern in Hamlet and Drugger in The Alchemist. 12th season. Stratford: Man of La 2015: Assistant director of Hamlet. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Director: Marion Bridge (Three Mancha, Crazy for You, Tommy, Fiddler on the Roof, The Pirates of Penzance, 42nd Street, The Sisters); Corpus (Counterpoint Players); In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play (Same Day/ Grapes of Wrath, The Misanthrope, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Kiss Me, Kate, Evita, Cyrano Counterpoint Players/Plosive); My Name is Asher Lev (9th Hour); Blood Relations (Unicorn Theatre). de Bergerac, The Comedy of Errors, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey, A Midsummer Night’s Assistant director: Circle, Mirror, Transformation (GCTC). Directing intern: A Christmas Carol and Dream, Coriolanus. Elsewhere: London Road, Indian Ink, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Mother Courage (NAC English Theatre). Actor: OCCUPY ME (Counterpoint Players); Private Lives, The Into the Woods, Dream (Canadian Stage); Assassins (TIFT/Birdland); Orson’s Shadow (Pilot Group); Importance of Being Earnest (Plosive).Training: University of Ottawa (MFA), University of Pittsburgh A New Brain (Acting Up Stage); Shrek (The Grand Theatre); One for the Pot, Forum (Drayton); (BA). Awards: Rideau Award for Outstanding Production and nomination for Outstanding Director The Producers (Neptune); Seussical, Sylvia (Aquarius); The Three Musketeers (Chicago Shakespeare); Guys and (Vibrator Play). Finalist for the Council for the Arts in Ottawa RBC Emerging Artist Award and the Ontario Arts Council’s Dolls (MTC/Citadel/TC); (Citadel); The Foursome, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (New Director’s Award. Online: counterpointplayers.com. Et cetera: Artistic director of Counterpoint Players and Stages); Three Sisters (ATF). Training: National Theatre School. series curator for TACTICS (Theatre Artists’ Co-operative: the Independent Collective Series) in Ottawa. 26 27 Sanjay Talwar 2015: Rosencrantz in Hamlet, Tailor in The Taming of the Shrew and King Ferdinand of Navarre in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Fifth season. Stratford: Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Hay Fever, Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Rice Boy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus. Elsewhere: Free Outgoing (Nightwood); Around the World in 80 Days (ATP); Peace in Our Time, Arcadia, Helen’s Necklace, Come Back, Little Sheba (Shaw); The Story Take home (Theatre Columbus); Bombay Black (Cahoots/Arts Club); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre); The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, director of The Merchant of Venice and Artistic Director for five seasons (Shakespeare in the Rough); The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and a piece of Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night (Dream in High Park); Helen’s Necklace (Tarragon and Pi Theatre – Jessie Award). Film/TV: Orphan Black, Puck Hogs, The Border, Flashpoint, Guns, Supernatural, Murder Unveiled. Training: Dalhousie University. the drama Original clothing, Brian Tree 2015: English Ambassador, Gravedigger #2 in Hamlet, Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew and unique giftware, books, Sir Nathaniel in Love’s Labour’s Lost. 26th season. Stratford: Cardinal Pandulph (King John), Humpty Dumpty (Alice Through the Looking-Glass), Elbow (Measure for Measure), Melvil (Mary music and much more! Stuart), Pisanio (Cymbeline), Wasp (Bartholomew Fair), Erronius (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Costard (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Touchstone (As You Like It), Stephano (The Tempest), Joxer Daly (Juno and the Paycock), Mr. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Dolly Spanker (), Oswald (King Lear), Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Elsewhere: Various roles (The Sneeze and other Chekhov one-acts), Talk Is Free Theatre; Jimmy (The Pitmen Painters), Theatre Aquarius; Michael (Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me), Kemp (Vigil), Tarragon Theatre; Bottom (A Midsummer Two locations: Night’s Dream), Canadian Stage; Harry (The Sum of Us), Belfry Theatre; Jim (Passion), Grand Theatre; the Player across from the Festival Theatre (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead), Touchmark. and next to the Avon Theatre stratfordfestival.ca/shop Michael Walton 2015: Lighting designer of Hamlet, The Sound of Music, Oedipus Rex and Love’s Labour’s Lost. 11th season. Stratford: King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2009, 2014), Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Fiddler on the Roof, The Three Musketeers, Henry V, The Matchmaker, A Word or Two, Twelfth Night, The Misanthrope, The Tempest, As You Like It, King of Thieves, Macbeth, Hamlet (2008). Elsewhere: Così Fan Tutte, directed by Atom Egoyan (Canadian Opera Company); A Word or Two with (CTG/Stratford, Los Angeles); Albert Herring (Vancouver Opera/Pacific Opera); Maria Stuarda (Pacific Opera); Enron, The Year of Magical Thinking (NAC); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse, California); The Other Place, Harper Reagan, Venus Proudly keeping the arts in the spotlight. in Fur, Cruel and Tender (Canadian Stage); Glenn, A Tender Thing, ’Night Mother (Soulpepper); Peter and the Starcatcher (WCT); Mary Poppins, Next to Normal (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); One Man, Two Guvnors, The Rocky We’re pleased to support the 2015 Stratford Festival Gala. Horror Show (Citadel).

Geraint Wyn Davies 2015: Claudius, The Ghost in Hamlet and Johann Wilhelm Möbius in The Physicists. 12th season. globeandmail.com/arts Stratford (selected): Cook (Mother Courage), Antony, Duke Vincentio, Leicester, Cymbeline, Malachi Stack, King Arthur, Falstaff, Stephano, Dylan Thomas, Julius Caesar, Bottom, Polonius, Henry Higgins, Henry V, Bassanio, Tom Fashion, D’Artagnan, Richmond, Edward IV, Hortensio, Antipholus of Syracuse, Pericles. Elsewhere: New York: King Lear (Lincoln Center); Poetic License (The Directors Company); Do Not Go Gentle (Clurman Theatre); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theater). Canadian Stage’s The Elephant Man; Shaw Festival, five seasons; , Richard III, Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC); Hamlet, Henry VIII (Chichester Festival); An Enemy of the People (Lyric Hammersmith, London); two seasons as Theatr Clwyd’s artistic associate (Welsh National Company). Film/TV (selected): ReGenesis, Murdoch Mysteries, 24, Slings and Arrows, Black Harbour, Airwolf, Forever Knight, American Psycho II, Hypercube, One of the Hollywood Ten, Conspiracy of Fear.

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