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A Cosmos of Creativity
Shakespeare lies at the centre of our dramatic
universe. Here at Stratford, we celebrate him in
our theatres by honouring his text and by placing
it in the context of the work of his predecessors,
contemporaries and successors, so we can better
understand his breathtaking achievement. In doing
so, we range freely through the best and most
enduring works of the dramatic canon.
This season, you can explore the diversity of
Shakespeare’s genius in three such very different
plays as Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
Julius Caesar. You also have a rare opportunity
to compare his work to that of his friend and
rival Ben Jonson, whose Bartholomew Fair is a
brilliant satire of life in London, Shakespeare’s
adopted city, or with that of Jean Racine,
whose Phèdre is searing drama from a different
dramatic tradition. Both these plays are
masterpieces in their own right – and to see
them performed is to discover how radical
are the differences between the world’s
greatest playwright and his nearest peers.
Shakespeare’s unprecedented
exploration of the human comedy paved
the way for such subsequent dramatists
as Anton Chekhov, Edmond Rostand and
Oscar Wilde, whose work also features on our
stages this season. His influence reveals itself
even in our two musicals, one of which shares
its ancestry with The Comedy of Errors while the
other draws directly on Romeo and Juliet.
Our own writers here in Canada owe no less to
Shakespeare and the extraordinary creative ferment
of his age. George F. Walker’s Canadian classic
Zastrozzi uses the Jacobean revenge tragedy as its
point of departure, while Sunil Kuruvilla’s Rice Boy,
newly revised for our production, is rooted, like
some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, in the tensions
between parents and children. So too is Morris
Panych’s The Trespassers, a brand-new play that
receives its world première here this season.
We are delighted to welcome you to this, our
57th season. We hope you will enjoy exploring with
us the astonishingly varied dramatic universe that
Shakespeare helped to create and that will always
honour him as its centre.
antoni Cimolino
General Director
Des mcanuff
Artistic Director
We dedicate our 2009 season
to the memory of
richard monette
Artistic Director of this Festival
from 1994 to 2007.
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Crime and Punishment
by Robert Blacker
That seemingly most gentle of playwrights, Thornton
Wilder, wrote that we are meant to see ourselves
in the terrifying Macbeths. Being able to recognize
ourselves in the characters on stage was for Wilder
fundamental to the power of theatre: “We have
all murdered in thought and been murdered. We
have all seen the ridiculous in estimable persons
and in ourselves. We have all known terror as
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Facing page, From top | Colm Feore (leFt) with Des mcanuFF (DireCtor);
Yanna mcintosh (laDY maCbeth); Yanna mcintosh anD Colm Feore
Following page | Colm Feore
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well as enchantment. Imaginative literature has
nothing to say to those who do not recognize –
who cannot be reminded of – such conditions.”
In Macbeth, Shakespeare takes us on one
of the darkest rides in theatre, and part of the
terror he creates is by forcing us to experience
the play through his two leads. He does this in a
number of ways. Even before he enters, Macbeth
is presented as a war hero who saves his country
from domestic rebellion and foreign invasion. This
and his early struggles with his “black and deep
desires” allow us to enter his journey with him
rather than against him. Thereafter, Shakespeare
puts us inside the heads of the Macbeths and
their point of view in their many soliloquies
and asides for nearly a tenth of the play.
We do not see that struggle in his wife. She
sees “the future in the instant” and moves with
determination to create it, calling on spirits to fill
her “from crown to toe top-full of direst cruelty.” This
invocation comes so quickly after her first entrance
that she is often presented as cruel, but does it
not actually imply that Lady Macbeth must fortify
herself in order to commit the terrible act of murder?
Later we will see the cracks in the armour that she
dons here and get a glimpse of what is inside.
We get one glimpse while her husband is
killing Duncan offstage. She is drunk and reveals
too much: “Had he not resembled my father as
he slept, I had done’t” seems a lame excuse for
someone of her supposed ferocity. Sounds startle
her as she nervously awaits and then welcomes
her husband. In fact, we experience this entire
scene through the overwrought emotions of the
two murderers. Alfred Hitchcock often forces his
audiences to identify with questionable characters,
even murderers, by making us audit his films
through their eyes and ears. He does this for the
same reason that Shakespeare does here: to suggest
that we all harbour black and deep desires.
The Porter suggests this in the scene that
follows. He steps out of the play to remind us
that we too are sinners. He fashions himself as
the Porter of Hell Gate, a comic character from
plays Shakespeare would have seen as a child,
and welcomes three professions notorious to
Shakespeare’s audiences who overreached, lied and
cheated on their “primrose way to th’everlasting
bonfire.” And then he asks us, “What are you?” For
this production, we have modernized the sinners,
as Shakespeare did – they were contemporary
to Shakespeare’s time, not to Macbeth’s – so we
can see clearly what Shakespeare is up to.
As Macbeth’s crimes multiply and become
even more heinous in the second half of the
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play, Shakespeare will gradually detach us from
the Macbeths, but one vestige of their humanity
continues to move us: they truly seem to love
each other. At the heart of this dark ride is a love
story. In Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt writes
about this: “There are two significant exceptions to
Shakespeare’s unwillingness or inability to imagine
a married couple in a relationship of sustained
intimacy, but they are unnervingly strange: Gertrude
and Claudius in Hamlet and the Macbeths.”
The Macbeths know each other so well that they
seem to inhabit each other’s minds. Lady Macbeth
unsexes herself to help her husband attain what
she knows he wants but will not speak. In a play
full of fathers and sons, they are a childless couple
who put their energies into his career. Macbeth
in turn protects her from participation in the later
murders after he observes her faint when the
court gathers after Duncan’s murder. Macbeth and
Lady Macbeth need each other to commit the
first murders, which could not be done without
both of them, but soon begin to retreat into their
private hells. They never speak to each other after
the banquet scene, even though a third of the play
remains. This isolation from each other is the price
they pay for their crimes, and Shakespeare makes
us feel this through her absence from the stage.
It is in this section of the play that Shakespeare
turns more to the public story. During the
first half of his writing career, Shakespeare
examined the nature of political leadership in
his history plays. He continued this examination
in the great tragedies that followed, and
Macbeth is in part a study of three kings.
Whatever Duncan represents as a person, he is
never seen on the battlefield or even commanding
his armies from afar. His kingdom, in chaos from
rebellion at home and invasion from abroad, is saved
only by Macbeth and Banquo. In Shakespeare’s
source for the play, Holinshed’s Chronicles of Scotland,
Macbeth feels he deserves to be the next king. The
monarchy in Scotland at that time was not always
hereditary. The king was usually chosen by election
by thanes from among a group of blood relatives,
and the crown often went to the warrior-in-chief.
Shakespeare is not explicit about this, but there
are traces of it in his play. When Ross first informs
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Macbeth that the king has named him Thane of
Cawdor, Ross tells him what both seem to believe:
that this is a pledge of a greater honour to come.
Macbeth, by contrast, is a warrior king, capable
of leading troops on the battlefield and even
defeating the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. But
“blood will have blood,” as he tells his wife, and one
murder leads to another. When his thanes finally
revolt, their charge against him is not regicide but
tyranny. The word tyrant is first heard at the end of
Act III and rings out through the rest of the play.
All compromise themselves under his corrupt
regime. Ross refuses to acknowledge Macduff’s
suspicions. Banquo decides not to tell others
about the Sisters’ prophecy, and Macduff places
his family in peril to go seek Malcolm in England.
We see what kind of king Malcolm will be in his
scene with Macduff. That it is the longest in the
play should tell us something about its importance
to Shakespeare. Malcolm lies so convincingly
that when he reveals the truth – that he was
testing his interlocutor – Macduff does not know
whether to believe him or not. Malcolm is one of
Shakespeare’s effective leaders, smart enough to
be crafty and manipulative when needed, and one
who understands that a modern leader organizes
and leaves others to fight in the field. At the end
of this scene he creates the perfect avenger as
he takes Macduff through grief to revenge.
Greenblatt summarizes the complex terrors that
this great, dark play evokes: “If you are worried
about losing your manhood . . . look to your wife.
If you are worried about temptation, fear your
own dreams. If you are anxious about your own
future, scrutinize your best friends. And if you feel
spiritual desolation, turn your eyes on the contents
not of the hideous cauldron, but of your skull.”
Robert Blacker is dramaturge for the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival and for this production of
Macbeth.
William Shakespeare – playwright
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon
in 1564, William Shakespeare
was the eldest son of John
Shakespeare, a glover and
tanner who rose to become
an alderman and bailiff of the
town, and Mary Arden, the
daughter of a wealthy farmer.
The exact date of his birth
is unknown, but there is a record of his baptism
on April 26. Since an interval of two or three days
between birth and baptism would have been quite
common, tradition has it that he was born on April
23 – the same date as his death 52 years later.
The young Shakespeare is assumed to have
attended what is now the Edward VI Grammar
School in Stratford, where he would have studied
ancient Roman literature in its original Latin. In
1582, when he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway,
a farmer’s daughter who was eight years his senior.
Anne was pregnant at the time, and the couple’s
first daughter, Susanna, was born a few months
afterwards in 1583. Twins followed two years later: a
son, Hamnet, who died at the age of 11, 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 love poems that many believe to be at least
partly autobiographical.
By 1594, Shakespeare was back in the theatre,
writing and acting for the Lord Chamberlain’s
Men. His income as one of the country’s most
successful dramatists enabled him, in 1597, to buy a
mansion back in Stratford, and in 1599 he became a
shareholder in London’s newly built Globe Theatre.
In 1603, Shakespeare’s company was awarded a
royal patent, becoming known as the King’s Men.
Possibly as early as 1610, the playwright retired to
his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, living there until
his death on April 23, 1616. He is buried in the town’s
Holy Trinity Church.
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Ideas and Insights
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The Bloody Pendulum
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Macbeth begins and ends in war. Duncan’s regime is
attacked by rebels from within and by invaders from
abroad. Civil war and foreign invasion threaten the
existence of his country. The fighting is fierce and
brutal and described by Shakespeare in the most
graphic terms: “Till [Macbeth] unseamed him from
the nave to th’ chops.” It is important to remember
that Macbeth is introduced, not as a villain, but as
a war hero who saves a country under the rule of a
weak king.
This is one reason why I have set this production
in mythic mid-20th-century Africa. The extreme
violence we have witnessed in some African
countries in the last 50 years is intended to conjure
up the blood-drenched world of Shakespeare’s play,
where “blood will have blood.”
I hope that Africa will also provide a useful
context in which to place the three women
who open the play. They refer to themselves not
as witches, but as the Weird Sisters, and that is
what Macbeth and Banquo call them as well.
Today, they may seem more like practitioners
of a pre-Christian religion than Elizabethan
fantasies of witches. Most importantly, these
characters deserve to be treated with dignity
as people, not as abstractions or fantasies.
The English thought the Scots were barbarians,
and that word is used against Africans today by
people who do not understand that what we are
witnessing on that continent is the bloody birth
of nations freeing themselves from their colonial
pasts and forging their modern identities. We
see that dynamic in the 11th-century Scotland of
Shakespeare’s play.
With the help of English troops, the historical
Malcolm moved Scotland away from its bloody
past towards a more stable and modern form of
government modelled after England, with direct
lineal descent and stronger feudal allegiance to the
king. That is why Malcolm names his thanes “earls” –
an English title – at the end of the play. Like Prince
Hal, he is one of Shakespeare’s modern Machiavellian
leaders, and like Hal he is capable of manipulating
others when necessary. During his reign, Malcolm
turned his country more toward England, only to
be forced to submit to William the Conqueror as
overlord, when the latter invaded Britain in 1066.
Of course, power is always cyclical in Shakespeare’s
plays: he was an astute observer of history. Weak
kings are followed by strong kings as the pendulum
of history swings from victory to defeat, from order
to anarchy. A thousand years after Macbeth and
Malcolm, Scottish nationalists are still uncomfortable
with British rule and steadfastly strive for political
independence.
Macbeth resonates today for those of us who
have witnessed, within the last half century, the
assassination of a U.S. president, whereupon the
assassin himself was killed. A sprawling series of
deaths followed in what seemed like a neverending shock wave of sometimes unsolved political
murders. It was, as in Shakespeare’s play, the wound
on a nation that refused to heal, and instead
multiplied – “Double, double, toil and trouble.”
On a domestic level, the Macbeths are familiar as
a contemporary childless couple who replace baby
with career and fiercely pour all of the love and
hope normally associated with an infant into their
single-minded partnership. Macbeth is an especially
intimate (though grotesquely twisted) love story
sandwiched between epic historical events.
The African setting is not intended to be an exact
mirror image of Shakespeare’s times any more than
Shakespeare’s play is an exact copy of 11th-century
Scotland. It is a refracted and composite reflection –
history through a crystal or prism – and it is intended
to extract the essence of the truths in the play that
sadly proves itself universal, more apt today than
when Shakespeare invented it.
For it is not only the themes of the play but
its very subjects that are startlingly familiar:
unsolved assassination leading to civil war, military
invasion, regime change, moral cowardice, inbred
corruption, unchecked dictatorial powers and the
diseased politics of terror. Shakespeare’s Macbeth
is contemporary indeed, proof of the adage that
“things don’t change, they just get more so.”
Des mcanuff
Director
The Cast
The Weird Sisters
karen glave
amanda lisman
Cara ricketts
Duncan
Malcolm
his sons
Donalbain
Bleeding Sergeant
Lennox
Ross
Angus
geraint wyn Davies
gareth Potter
andrew shaver
andré sills
sanjay talwar
John Vickery
kevin hanchard
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Their Porter
Waiting Gentlewoman
Doctor
Seyton
Colm Feore
Yanna mcintosh
tom rooney
irene Poole
James blendick
David Collins
Banquo
Fleance, his son
timothy D. stickney
araya mengesha
Macduff
Lady Macduff
Their Son
Dion Johnstone
sophia walker
kolton stewart
Old Man
Banquo’s Murderers
roy lewis
sean arbuckle
Peter hutt
bruce godfree
oliver becker
Jonathan Purdon
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Menteith
Caithness
Seyward,
Earl of Northumberland
Young Seyward, his son
Duncan’s Chamberlains
Nurse
wayne best
gordon s. miller
Douglas e. hughes
John innes
asha Vijayasingham
Soldiers, Messengers and Servants played by
members of the company
Understudies
sean arbuckle (Menteith, Caithness), wayne best (Duncan,
Seyton), karen glave (Lady Macduff ), bruce godfree
(Donalbain, Young Seyward), kevin hanchard (Macduff ),
Douglas e. hughes (Porter, Second Murderer, Seyward),
John innes (Doctor, Old Man), roy lewis (Bleeding
Sergeant), Jake mcCarroll (Macduff’s Son), araya mengesha
(Angus), gordon s. miller (Ross), irene Poole (First Sister,
Third Sister), gareth Potter (Macbeth), Jonathan Purdon
(Lennox, First Murderer, Third Murderer), Cara ricketts (Lady
Macbeth), andrew shaver (Malcolm), andré sills (Banquo),
asha Vijayasingham (Second Sister, Waiting Gentlewoman,
Fleance)
There will be one interval of 15 minutes.
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Artistic Credits
Wardrobe Attendants
Director
Des mcanuff
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Composer
Sound Designer
Media Designer
Dramaturge
Fight Director
Movement
Stunt Coordinator
Associate Fight Director
robert brill
Paul tazewell
michael walton
michael roth
todd Charlton
Dustin o’neill
robert blacker
steve rankin
lisa shriver
simon Fon
Daniel levinson
Assistant Director
Assistant Designer
Assistant Lighting Designer
Assistant Fight Directors
Dean gabourie
tamara marie kucheran
gareth Crew
michael Dufays,
Casey hudecki
wayne best
Fight Captain
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Managers
Apprentice Stage Manager
Production Assistant
Production Stage Manager
brian scott
a. naomi Duncan,
marie Fewer
kristopher weber
suzanne leandro
margaret Palmer
Production Credits
Responsibilities backstage during the performance accomplished by:
Stage Carpenter
Alternate
Master Electrician
Alternate
Property Master
Alternate
Head of Sound
Alternate
Crew
Wardrobe Master
art Fortin
adam Qualter
alec Cooper
mick mcDonald
Jeffrey hughes
ted Derry
michael walsh
scott matthews
tim hartman, karl wylie
william C. kraft
Wigs and Makeup Show Head
Wigs and Makeup Crew
Children’s Supervisor
Acknowledgements
Special effects by mark Fine, airmagic special effects.
Special thanks to norman Cruz, MD, Stratford;
Jennifer anderson, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto;
brian hands, MD, FRCS (C), medical voice consultant; Vox
Cura voice care specialists, Toronto; simon mcbride, MClSc,
MD, London Health Sciences Centre – Vocal Function Clinic,
London, Ont.; John Yoo, MD, London Sciences Centre,
London, Ont. Pianos tuned and maintained by
Don stephenson.
Music Credits
Orchestra
michael roth, Conductor/Piano/Keyboards;
michele Fox, Violin/Viola; ben bolt-martin, Cello;
tony nickels, Oboe/English Horn/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet;
merlin williams, Flute/Clarinet/Bass Flute/Bassoon;
holly shephard,Trumpet /Piccolo Trumpet; Derek Conrod,
Horn; rob stone, Trombone/Bass Trombone;
David Campion, Percussion
Music Preparation
John montgomery
Fanfare Musicians
David Campion,
Derek Conrod,
mary Jay,
holly shephard
(Fanfare Leader),
rob stone
The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre
From Artistic Director Des McAnuff and General Director Antoni Cimolino
Twenty-seven members of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 company have come out of our
professional training program, now known as the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre.
Founded in 1998, the Conservatory has helped to launch the careers of some of our leading young
actors, many of whom we have had the great pleasure of directing. Providing opportunities for young
Canadian artists is part of our mission at the Festival, and we hope you will find it as satisfying as
we do to watch their growth as they share the stage with some of the finest actors in the world.
Now under the leadership of Martha Henry, the Conservatory is made possible by the support of the
Birmingham family, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Endowment Foundation and the Department
of Canadian Heritage. We thank them for helping us to nurture and support these talented artists in
our 2009 company:
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margie bell bruer,
heather Diamond,
tracy houston-mcintyre,
annette lenze,
sherri neeb
Dave kerr
stanley wickens
Deborah howes
Quincy armorer 08
timothy askew 99
Dalal badr 07/08
sean baek 05
skye brandon 08
Dan Chameroy 03
laura Condlln 04
Jon de leon 07/08
Jesse aaron Dwyre 07/08
martha Farrell 04
stephen gartner 01
Jonathan goad 99
alana hawley 07/08
Dion Johnstone 03
ian lake 07/08
keira loughran 05
gordon s. miller 02
trent Pardy 07/08
Jennifer Paterson 08
gareth Potter 03
Christopher Prentice 08
suzanne roberts smith 08
andré sills 05
stacie steadman 07
matt steinberg 08
sara topham 00
sophia walker 05
Production
Director of Production
Production Administrator
Technical Director
Technical Director – Scenic Construction
Assistant Technical Director
Technical Management Assistant
Administrative Assistant
Resident Sound Designer
Set Design Coordinator
Costume Design Coordinator
Director of Music
Music Administrator
Electronics Technologist
Transportation
Wardrobe
Douglas lemcke
Cheryl bender
simon marsden
andrew mestern
David Campbell
michael besworth
Cindy Jordan
Peter mcboyle
Douglas Paraschuk
alix Dolgoy
rick Fox
marilyn Dallman
Chris wheeler
tony Flevill, ian a. Fraser,
michael taylor, James thistle
Wardrobe Manager
Assistant Wardrobe Managers
Wardrobe Buyer
Assistant Wardrobe Buyer
Cutters
Junior Cutters
Sewers
Properties
Head of Properties
Festival Properties Supervisor
Assisted by
Properties Apprentice
Dona hrabluk
Jennifer macdonald
beverly may adam,
eric ball, angela bester,
lucas Commerford,
ken Dubblestyne, tracy Fulton,
Carolyn horley,
michelle Jamieson, shirley lee,
brian mcleod, Dylan mundy,
stewart robertson,
heather ruthig,
lorraine senécal
michael shears
Scenic Art
Head Scenic Artist
Assistant Head Scenic Artist
Assisted by
Christopher klein
Daniel mcmanus
sylvie boulanger,
kevin kemp, John leberg,
amparo Patterson,
lisa summers, laurie tomé,
blair Yeomans
Scenic Carpentry
Head Carpenter
Lead Hands
Assisted by
neil r. Cheney
mark Card, ryan Flanagan,
Cliff tipping
simon aldridge,
mongo andrews, Jeff baici,
John Currie, Paul gorman,
Jeffrey hughes, Jay klassen,
william malmo,
stephen morgan,
John muxlow, John roth,
Joseph tracey, byron williams
Bijoux/Decoration
Boots and Shoes
Costume Painting
Dyeing
Assisted by
Millinery
Assisted by
Wardrobe Apprentice
Warehouse Supervisor
Warehouse Assistant
Additional costumes by
anne moore
elizabeth Copeman,
bradley Dalcourt
michelle ashbourne
Courtney Dunn
Johanna billings, terri Dans,
evan stillwater
anna baines, Jennie wonnacott
susy arnold, Denise bott,
Caroline broadley,
Cindy brown, sara brzozowski,
meghan Chapman, Jeff Chief,
sam Crossley,
Joanne Davies, lisa Di Quinzio,
ilana harendorf,
monique hodder,
shona humphrey,
anna lach, Paulette laporte,
mary-lou mason, amy mciver,
karen merriam, laura mills,
kathryn a. sherwin,
Victoria shillington,
Patricia taylor,
allison underwood,
Catherine weber,
hazel whitehead,
silvia widmer, lindsey winter,
lisa wright, lois zurell
kathi Posliff
sarah Cook, mark Fetter
lisa hughes
sylvia minarcin
linda Pinhay
helen Flower
isabel bloor
Frieda watt
madonna Decker
Valerie lariviere
hampton Productions
Wigs and Makeup
Wigs and Makeup Manager
Head of Wigs and Makeup
Construction Crew
Wigs and Makeup Apprentice
Clayton shields
gerald altenburg
teddi barrett, erica Croft-Fraser,
lena Festoso-richard,
lorna henderson, Dave kerr,
linda langenegger,
barb newbery, nancy warren
tracy Frayne
Funding for artisan apprenticeships is provided by the William H. Somerville Theatre Artisan Apprenticeship Fund, funded by the J.P. Bickell Foundation, and Robert and Jacqueline Sperandio.
A member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Stratford Shakespeare 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 and facilities staff 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 Festival acknowledges with thanks
the co-operation of the Stratford Musicians’ Association, Local 418 of the American Federation of Musicians.
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The Company
sean arbuckle – actor
Eighth season: First Murderer in Macbeth, Baron Tuzenbach in
Three Sisters and Théramène in Phèdre. Previous Stratford credits
include Cabaret, The Trojan Women, The Merchant of Venice, London
Assurance, Twelfth Night, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Swanne
(part 2), The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Henry IV Part 1, Agamemnon,
As You Like It and Electra. Most recently, Sean appeared in Richard III with the
Denver Center Theatre Company. Other favourite credits include Copenhagen
(U.S. national tour), Turn of the Screw (Grand Theatre), Picasso at the Lapin Agile
and Humble Boy (Pioneer Theatre Company), King John (Shakespeare Theatre
Company), The Magnificent Ambersons (Indiana Repertory), Present Laughter
(Olney Theatre), Woman in Mind (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Triumph of Love
(Walnut Street Theatre), The Spitfire Grill (George Street Playhouse) and I Love You,
You’re Perfect, Now Change (off-Broadway). TV: Law & Order, Hope & Faith and Sex
and the City. Sean is a graduate of Duke and Juilliard.
oliver becker – actor
Stratford debut: Menteith in Macbeth, Citizen in Cyrano de Bergerac
and Bernardo in Zastrozzi. Oliver Becker most recently appeared
in Theatre Aquarius’ Woman in White. Other recent credits include
George F. Walker’s Beyond Mozambique (Factory Theatre), Wild
Mouth (Tarragon) and The Pillowman (Birdland Theatre). Oliver
starred in Frozen (Citadel Theatre), Better Living and Escape From Happiness
(Factory Theatre) and A Whistle In The Dark (Company Theatre, Toronto). He has
appeared in Hamlet, The Bear and La Ronde (Soulpepper); Sideman and Soldier’s
Heart (Tarragon); Cherry Docs and Macbeth (Grand Theatre); The Diary of Anne
Frank (MTC); The Cripple Of Inishmaan (Centaur Theatre); The Weir and The Beauty
Queen of Leenane (CanStage); The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (Factory Theatre); and
Playboy of the Western World (Shaw Festival). Oliver is a series regular in The Line
(TMN) and recently wrapped his third season of Rent a Goalie (Showcase). Other
TV: Angela’s Eyes (Lifetime), Queer as Folk, Street Time, Odyssey 5 (Showtime), Salem
Witch Trials (CBS) and Chasing Cain (CBC).
wayne best – actor
14th season: Seyward in Macbeth and Le Bret in Cyrano de
Bergerac. Previously at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival: the
Duke of Cornwall (King Lear), Bob Ewell (To Kill a Mockingbird),
Don John (Much Ado About Nothing), Horatio (Hamlet),
Caliban (The Tempest), Astrov (Uncle Vanya), Maurice (In the
Ring), Macduff (Macbeth), Gratiano (The Merchant of Venice), Leontes (The
Winter’s Tale), Teddy Lloyd (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Ben (Good Mother),
Fluellen (Henry V), Victor (Private Lives), Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet), Grumio
(The Taming of the Shrew), Enobarbus (Antony and Cleopatra) and Escalus
(Romeo and Juliet). Other credits include Captain Keller in The Miracle Worker
and Jacob in Of the Fields, Lately (Theatre Calgary), Carl in Heaven (CanStage),
Abbott in Inexpressible Island (Necessary Angel), Quinn in The Affections of
May (TNB), Johnny Regan in Balconville and Phil in The Motor Trade (Theatre
Aquarius), Brutus in Julius Caesar and Antonio in The Tempest (NAC) and
Billy in The Collected Works of Billy The Kid (Saidye Bronfman Centre).
robert blacker – dramaturge
Second season: Dramaturge for the Stratford Shakespeare
Festival. Dramaturge for Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and Rice Boy. Over 50 projects from Robert’s eight years as artistic
director of the Sundance Theatre Labs went on to production,
including I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize),
The Laramie Project and the Tony Award-winning musicals The Light in the
Piazza and Spring Awakening. He was interim chair of playwriting at Yale School
of Drama in 2004-5 and has taught playwriting and Shakespeare studies in
the graduate programs at Columbia, Iowa and Yale. He has dramaturged 12
productions of Shakespeare for Des McAnuff and others. At Stratford he was
dramaturge on Macbeth (1983) and last season’s Romeo and Juliet and Caesar
and Cleopatra. Blacker was McAnuff’s associate artistic director at La Jolla
Playhouse, where he worked on The Who’s Tommy and Steppenwolf’s The Grapes
of Wrath, and participated in season planning. He was the first dramaturge
at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater (New York) and is a graduate of Cornell.
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James blendick – actor
26th season: Doctor in Macbeth and Doctor Chebutykin in Three
Sisters. Stratford roles include Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Part
1. He appeared at New York’s Lincoln Center as Gloucester in
Christopher Plummer’s King Lear. Past seasons: Big Daddy (Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof), Honoré (Gigi), Boyet (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Doolittle
(My Fair Lady), Claudius (Hamlet), Sir Toby Belch (Twelfth Night), Matthew Brady
(Inherit the Wind), Titus (Titus Andronicus), Orgon (Tartuffe), Epicure Mammon
(The Alchemist), Sir Oliver Surface (The School for Scandal), Lopachin (The Cherry
Orchard), Pozzo (Waiting for Godot), “Captain” Jack Boyle (Juno and the Paycock),
Menenius (Coriolanus), Buckingham (Richard III), Harry (Home), Bottom (A
Midsummer Night’s Dream), Henry (The Lion in Winter, Citadel Theatre), Cyrano
(Cyrano de Bergerac), John Proctor (The Crucible, Guthrie Theater), Le Bret (Cyrano,
Broadway musical) and Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor, San Diego’s Old
Globe). Mr. Blendick has film and television credits in Canada and the U.S.
robert brill – set designer
Second season: Set designer for Macbeth. Stratford: Caesar and
Cleopatra. Broadway: Guys and Dolls, The Story of My Life, Assassins
(Tony nomination), Cabaret, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Good
Body, Laugh Whore, Anna in the Tropics, Design for Living, One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Buried Child and The Rehearsal. His
collaborations with Des McAnuff include Wozzeck (San Diego Opera), Sinatra
(Radio City Music Hall) and The Wiz (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include On
the Record (Disney Theatrical), An American in Paris (Boston Ballet), L’Incoronazione
di Poppea (Chicago Opera Theatre), La Bohème (Minnesota Opera), A Clockwork
Orange (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Laramie Project (New York, Denver, Berkeley, La
Jolla), The House of Martin Guerre (Goodman Theatre and CanStage) and designs
for Lincoln Center Theater, The Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe, Oregon
Shakespeare Festival and American Conservatory Theater. He is a founding
member of Sledgehammer Theatre and in 2004 received the Merritt Award for
excellence in design and collaboration.
todd Charlton – sound designer
12th season: Sound designer of Macbeth, Three Sisters, Cyrano de
Bergerac and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mr. Charlton has been
designing sound for over 20 years. He counts himself lucky to have
worked with so many talented, generous and inspiring people.
Last year you may have heard his work on Romeo and Juliet, Palmer
Park, Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew. Stratford highlights include Of Mice and
Men, Ghosts, The Swanne (all three parts) and Elizabeth Rex. Recent work includes
Scorched (Tarragon), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Adeona Productions) and
Intimate Apparel (Obsidian). He is the resident sound designer at the Blyth Festival,
Eric Coates’s success story just down the road. Todd also teaches at and designs
for Sheridan College, where he has done West Side Story, Gypsy, Company and
several other Broadway hits. He has been nominated for four Dora Mavor Moore
Awards, is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and lives happily in
Stratford with his wife, Melissa, and his three boys, Harper, Jack and Devlin.
David Collins – actor
Second season: Seyton in Macbeth, Publius in Julius Caesar and
Philostrate in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent: Apothecary in
Romeo and Juliet, Constable Dull in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Theodotus
in Caesar and Cleopatra (Stratford) and Shakuntala (Premiere Dance
Theatre). David has performed on stage, film, TV and radio throughout
Canada and the U.S. He received a Dora nomination for Twilight Café. Toronto
audiences will remember him in The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish),
The Comedy of Errors (CanStage), Pusha Man (Theatre Passe Muraille), Bunnicula (LKTYP),
The Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareWorks), Twelfth Night (CanStage), Top Gun the
Musical (Factory Theatre/NYC), El Paso (Factory Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare
in Action), The Ladysmith, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Theatre
Passe Muraille) and The America Play (Dora Nomination, best actor). Film/TV: Trojan
Horse, 11Cameras, Mr. Magorium’s Magic Emporium, ReGenesis, Owning Mahowny,
Shoot ‘Em Up, The Incredible Hulk, MVP, Nurse Fighter Boy. David, a founding member of
Obsidian Theatre Company, holds an MFA from York University.
gareth Crew – assistant lighting designer
Fifth season: Assistant lighting designer of Macbeth, West Side
Story, Cyrano de Bergerac and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 2009
marks Gareth’s fifth season at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival,
and his first at the Festival Theatre. He previously worked at the
Avon Theatre, assisting designers Kevin Fraser, Michael J. Whitfield
and Robert Thomson. Gareth has also designed lighting for shows across Ontario;
his favourite design credits include original lighting designer for Evil Dead: The
Musical (Beyond Chutleigh/Duelling Egoes), Jonathan Munro’s Variations on a
Nervous Breakdown (Talk is Free Theatre), Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief
(Portrait Productions) and the Canadian première of Jerry Springer: The Opera (Hart
House Theatre), which will be remounted this fall. Gareth is a graduate of Ryerson
Theatre School.
a. naomi Duncan – assistant stage manager
10th season: Assistant stage manager of Macbeth and West
Side Story. Stratford credits include The Music Man, Moby Dick,
Oklahoma!, Oliver!, Hello, Dolly!, Guys and Dolls, The King and I, My
Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, The Tempest, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The
Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale and The Cherry Orchard. Born
and raised in Winnipeg, Naomi has worked on many productions at Manitoba
Theatre Centre, Manitoba Opera and Rainbow Stage, including Hamlet, King
Lear, The Crucible, Hansel and Gretel, Brigadoon and Oklahoma! Naomi has also
enjoyed working in many different cities in Canada, at the Vancouver Playhouse,
The Citadel, Theatre Calgary, CanStage, The Grand and the National Arts Centre,
as well as in the U.S. at Arena Stage. Productions include The Blonde, the Brunette
and the Vengeful Redhead, The Taming of the Shrew, Arcadia, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
Ethan Claymore, Patience and For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Naomi enjoys
living in Stratford with her wonderful husband, Michael.
Colm Feore – actor
16th season: Macbeth in Macbeth and Cyrano de Bergerac in
Cyrano de Bergerac. Colm Feore’s previous Stratford credits include
Coriolanus, Fagin, Hamlet, Romeo, Richard III, Iago, Petruchio and
Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady). In 2005 he played Cassius opposite
Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar on Broadway, and received
the St. Clair Bayfield Award. Film credits include Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, Bon
Cop, Bad Cop (Genie nomination), The Perfect Son (Genie nomination), Chicago,
The Chronicles of Riddick, The Red Violin (Jutra Award), The Exorcism of Emily Rose,
Paycheck, The Sum of All Fears, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Genie
nomination), The Caveman’s Valentine, City of Angels and Face/Off and the
upcoming The Trotsky. For television, Colm can currently be seen as Henry Taylor
on 24 and the upcoming The Listener. Other credits include Trudeau (Gemini and
Monte Carlo Television Festival awards), The West Wing, Boston Public, Nuremburg,
The Day Reagan was Shot, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon, And Starring Pancho Villa as
Himself, Slings and Arrows and Julius Caesar in ABC’s mini-series Empire.
marie Fewer – assistant stage manager
Fifth season: Assistant stage manager of Macbeth and Rice Boy.
Previous credits at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival include
Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, My One and Only, To
Kill a Mockingbird, The Duchess of Malfi, The Blonde, the Brunette
and the Vengeful Redhead and Noises Off. Other theatre credits
include That Summer (Theatre Erindale, University of Toronto at Mississauga);
Léo, Alice’s Affair, Bea’s Niece and Private Jokes Public Places ( Tarragon Theatre); The
Babysitter (Theatre Direct Canada/Eldritch Theatre); Better Parts, Fish Eyes, Jamaica
Man and blood.claat (Stage3: word.sound.power, produced by Theatre Passe
Muraille/Obsidian Theatre Company); Wrong For Each Other (Bluewater Summer
Playhouse); and Fire (Charlottetown Festival). Marie is a graduate of the theatre
arts – technical production program at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and
Advanced Learning. “Immense gratitude goes to my parents and Michael for their
continued love and support.”
simon Fon – fight director, stunt coordinator
Stratford debut: Fight director of West Side Story and stunt
coordinator of Macbeth, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the Forum and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Simon is an awardwinning stunt coordinator, executive producer (AOF Festival
California – Best Martial Arts Sequence) and a member of Fight
Directors Canada as a fight master, teaching thousands of people in stage
combat over the past 18 years. Recently, stunt coordinator on Cooper’s Camera
with Dave Foley, Disney’s Power Rangers In Training and Marvel’s Spiderman (the
DVD training spot). Stunt performing credits include series stunt double (season
III) for the character of Jesse on the TV series Mutant X, Hemingway vs. Callaghan
for CBC, Earth: Final Conflict, Prince Charming (HBO) and Tracker for TV/Film. Simon
also worked on the Genie Award-winning short Hangman’s Bride (fight director
and actor). In theatre Simon has worked at CanStage, Soulpepper, Factory
Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, YPT/Lorraine Kimsa, Grand
Theatre (London) and Theatre by the Bay (Barrie).
Dean gabourie – assistant director
Sixth season: Assistant artistic director of the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival. Assistant director of Macbeth. Dean has been
creating challenging Canadian theatre for the past two decades,
as a director, actor and founding artistic director of the Dora
Award-winning ACME Theatre Co. Dean has earned acclaim for
his direction of productions for such diverse companies as ACME, The Co., Equity
Showcase, Hilberry Rep., Neptune Theatre, Queen Mab Productions, Shakespeare
in the Rough, True Edge Productions and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
While working at Stratford Dean received the Jean Gascon Award at the annual
Tyrone Guthrie Awards. In 2008, Mr. Gabourie was appointed the assistant artistic
director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival by artistic director Des McAnuff.
Dean is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School (Chairman’s Award, 1989), and lives
in Toronto with his fiancée, photo illustrator Marcelle Faucher.
karen glave – actor
Stratford debut: First Sister in Macbeth and Duenna/Mother
Marguerite in Cyrano de Bergerac. Karen is pleased to be a part of
the Festival this season. As a proud graduate of George Brown
Theatre School, her first professional job was Twelfth Night
(CanStage, Dream in High Park). Other theatre credits include
The Lady Smith (Theatre Passe Muraille), New World (Tarragon), The Winter’s Tale
(Shakespeare in the Rough) and Steel Magnolias (Theatre Aquarius). Karen also
has enjoyed numerous TV and film experiences including The Day After Tomorrow,
Don McKellar’s Last Night, Da Kink in My Hair, The Hades Factor, Soul Food and Guilt
by Association. Karen was also a member of the President’s Class at the British
American Drama Academy in Oxford, England, 2001, studying with John Barton,
Fiona Shaw and David Leveaux. Karen is extremely grateful for the love and
support of her family.
bruce godfree – actor
Second season: Third Murderer in Macbeth, Titinius in Julius
Caesar and Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bruce’s theatre
credits include: Laertes in Hamlet, Nathaniel in The Taming
of the Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford); Romeo
in Romeo and Juliet (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men); Phoebus
in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Avery in Charlotte’s Web, Tom in The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster); Edgar in King Lear (Royal
Shakespeare Company); Luka in Sitting Pretty (Watford Palace Theatre); Kip
in the U.K. première of Tennessee Williams’ Something Cloudy, Something
Clear (Finborough Theatre); Matt in The Fantasticks (Chester Playhouse); Dickon
in The Secret Garden (Neptune Theatre); and Hank in Marvin’s Room (Festival
Antigonish). Other credits include The Magic of Marciano and Parsley
Days (film) and Norman in Peyton Place (BBC Radio 4). He is originally from
Nova Scotia and is a graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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kevin hanchard – actor
Second season: Angus in Macbeth, Messala in Julius Caesar and
Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Kevin studied theatre at
the University of Windsor and is glad to be back after a busy offseason that included Coma Unplugged (Great Canadian Theatre
Co.), Miss Julie: Freedom Summer (CanStage/Vancouver Playhouse)
and NBC/CTV’s The Listener. Stratford credits include Cimbranos in Fuente Ovejuna
and Ron Marshall/Alvin Wilkinson in Palmer Park. Other theatre: Intimate Apparel
and Consecrated Ground (Obsidian Theatre Co.); The Real McCoy and Apple
(Factory Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Blue/Orange
and Angels in America, Parts I and II (CanStage); Twelfth Night (Magnus Theatre);
Riot, The Member of the Wedding and The Gospel at Colonnus (Neptune Theatre);
and What Fresh Mel Is This? (Second City Mainstage). Upcoming: a reprisal of the
critically acclaimed Intimate Apparel (Obsidian Theatre/CanStage). Kevin would
like to dedicate his work in this season to his wife, Christine, and their three
beautiful children. “Thank you for your love, support and hugs.”
Douglas e. hughes – actor
Second season: Lignière in Cyrano de Bergerac and appears in
Macbeth. Doug is pleased to be returning to Stratford after 21
years. He was last here in 1988, when he appeared in King Lear,
Twelfth Night, Oedipus and The Critic. He has worked in theatres
across the country, including 13 seasons as a member of the
acting ensemble at the Shaw Festival, where he played such roles as La Hire in
Saint Joan, Carmichael in Floyd Collins and Kulygin in Three Sisters. He was seen
most recently in CanStage’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life. Last summer he
played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at Huron Country Playhouse, and last spring
he received a Dora award nomination for his work as Alfie Byrne in Acting Up
Stage’s production of A Man of No Importance. Doug is also an accomplished
playwright, having penned three plays with his writing partner, Marcia Kash:
Who’s Under Where?, A Party to Murder and Too Many Cooks.
Peter hutt – actor
10th season: Second Murderer in Macbeth and Kulygin in Three
Sisters. Mr. Hutt is celebrating his 30th year in repertory, having
accomplished 20 seasons with the Shaw Festival and now 10 with
the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Stratford credits include Richard
III (Buckingham), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chauvelin), The Merchant of
Venice, Titus Andronicus, Elizabeth Rex (portraying William Shakespeare), Macbeth
and The Tempest. Selected Shaw credits: An Inspector Calls, Belle Moral: A Natural
History, The Philanderer, Summer and Smoke, Arms and the Man and War and Peace.
Mr. Hutt’s extensive career has taken him across Canada. He has acted on stages
at Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, Neptune Theatre,
The Grand Theatre, National Arts Centre and Toronto’s Royal Alexandra. He earned
a Dora nomination for Patience (Tarragon Theatre). Film/TV credits include The
Age of Dorian, Forever Knight, The Taming of the Shrew (CBC), Breaking All the Rules,
Echoes in the Darkness and the much-acclaimed CBC television production of
Elizabeth Rex.
John innes – actor
11th season: Cicero in Julius Caesar, Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and appears in Macbeth. John, a National Theatre School
graduate, is pleased to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his first
professional contract with Stratford in 1969. Last year he played
Rynaldo in All’s Well That Ends Well and the priest in Hamlet.
John has performed in every major regional theatre in Canada and many in the
United States, playing such diverse roles as Horst in the Canadian première of
Bent, Norman in The Dresser (with Douglas Campbell), Oedipus in Oedipus, John
Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest and Rev. Abernathy in Guys and Dolls.
Shakespeare roles include Jaques, Benedick, Macbeth, Prospero, Henry IV, Angelo
and almost every priest in the canon. Twice recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie
Award, he feels privileged to have worked with every Festival artistic director after
Guthrie. He has also appeared regularly on TV and film. “Thanks to Eleanor Stuart,
Pierre leFevre, Robin Phillips and many others for their friendship, support and
formative mentoring.”
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Dion Johnstone – actor
Fifth season: Macduff in Macbeth, Octavius Caesar in Julius
Caesar and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After a year in
Vancouver focused on film and TV, Dion is thrilled to be back at
the Festival among some truly extraordinary artists. In previous
seasons, audiences have seen Dion as Tom Robinson (To Kill a
Mockingbird), Edmund (King Lear), Orlando (As You Like It), Iachimo (Cymbeline)
and the Dauphin (King John). Other credits include Timon of Athens, The Tempest,
Agamemnon, Electra, The Flies and The Swanne, part two. Dion originated the
role of Boromir in the musical première of The Lord of the Rings and was in the
Canadian première of Take Me Out for CanStage. When not treading the boards,
Dion has furthered his work in film and TV, playing recent roles in the mini-series
The Sea Wolf, The Guard (Global TV), Ice Twisters and The X Files. Once an aspiring
comic-book artist, Dion has rekindled that passion and enjoys drawing as a
means of quieting his mind.
tamara marie kucheran – assistant designer
Fifth season: Assistant designer of Macbeth. Tamara is pleased to
return for her fifth season. As an assistant designer at the Festival,
Tamara has had the honour of working with some of the world’s
top designers, including Ann Curtis and Desmond Heeley. Tamara
has designed sets and costumes for theatre companies across
Canada, including How It Works (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Late, Black Medea and
Intimate Apparel (Obsidian Theatre Company); The Drawer Boy (Theatre Passe
Muraille); Peter Hinton’s Fanny Kemble (Stratford Festival); Amadeus (set) and The
Mystery of Irma Vep (costume) (Theatre Aquarius); Metamorphosis (costume) and
That Elusive Spark (costume) (Phoenix Theatres) (Victoria); and Unity, 1918 (Great
Canadian Theatre Company). Last summer Tamara won a Dora Mavor Moore
Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Intimate Apparel. Tamara previously
received a Dora Mavor Moore nomination for Outstanding Set Design for The
Teenage Girl Diaries. Tamara is a graduate of the University of Victoria and the
National Theatre School of Canada.
roy lewis – actor
Eighth season: Old Man in Macbeth and Bellerose in Cyrano
de Bergerac. Stratford credits include Montague in Romeo and
Juliet, Achillas in Caesar and Cleopatra, Reverend Sykes in To Kill
a Mockingbird and Cyclops in The Odyssey. He was recently seen
as Baron Van Swieten in Amadeus. He continues to work across
the country as an actor and is pleased to be working at the Festival again. He
has worked at the Shaw Festival and the National Arts Centre. He is a founding
member of the Obsidian Theatre Company and Shakespeare in the Rough. Acting
roles of note include the Stage Manager in Our Town, Prospero in The Tempest,
Posthumus in Cymbeline, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lightbourne in
Edward II, Norfolk in A Man for All Seasons and Mr. Visconti in Travels with My Aunt.
Directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Tempest, Cymbeline and
Waiting for Godot.
amanda lisman – actor
Stratford debut: Second Sister in Macbeth, Roxane in Cyrano
de Bergerac and Julia in Zastrozzi. Amanda was born and raised
in Victoria, B.C., where she received her BA in anthropology at
the University of Victoria. She obtained her BFA in acting at the
University of Alberta in 2007. Amanda was a participant in the
inaugural Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Program. Selected credits: Elizabeth
Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Citadel Theatre); The Cherry Orchard, Crimes of
the Heart, King Lear (Studio Theatre); Unity 1918, [sic], Lieutenant Nun (Theatre
SKAM); Dancing at Lughnasa, Steel Magnolias, Rebecca (Victoria Theatre Guild);
Silverwing (Kaleidoscope Theatre); and sketch comedy performances with Atomic
Vaudeville. Amanda thanks Janet, Alex and Jack for their love and support.
Des mcanuff – director
Third season: Second season as artistic director. Director of
Macbeth and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Two-time Tony and Olivier award-winning director Des McAnuff
attended Ryerson University and was part of Toronto’s burgeoning
theatre scene in the 1970s. He was artistic director of La Jolla
Playhouse, where he directed over 30 productions of Shakespeare and other
classics, new plays and musicals. Stratford: Macbeth (1983) with Nicholas Pennell
and Roberta Maxwell. New York: Crazy Locomotive, Mary Stuart, his play Leave It
to Beaver is Dead. Broadway: Guys & Dolls (2009), Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth
Invention (2007), Jersey Boys (2006, Tony and Olivier awards: best musical), Billy
Crystal’s 700 Sundays (2004, Tony Award), How to Succeed… (1995), The Who’s
Tommy (1993, director/co-author with Pete Townshend, Tony and Olivier awards:
best director; Olivier: best musical), A Walk in the Woods (1988), Big River (1985, Tony
awards: best director and musical). Film: Cousin Bette and The Adventures of Rocky
and Bullwinkle (director), Iron Giant (producer) and Quills (executive producer).
Jake mcCarroll – actor
Stratford debut: Understudy in West Side Story and Macbeth.
Jake lives in Stratford and is grateful for this opportunity.
He will be 11 years old this summer and is a student at St.
Aloysius School. Jake is a Kindermusik graduate (2000-2005);
he was a member of the Perth County Children’s Choir
(2005-2006) and the Stratford Children’s Choir (2006-2007). Also, Jake has
been studying piano for four years. In his spare time, Jake enjoys hockey,
golf, chess, camping and swimming. He receives love and encouragement
from proud parents Pat and Rona and younger brother Luke. Jake sends
his love to Lolo and Lola, his most favourite people in the world.
Yanna mcintosh – actor
Fifth season: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Calphurnia in Julius
Caesar and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other Stratford
productions with too-wordy titles: Google ‘em if you wanna.
Selected stage: Condoleezza Rice in David Hare’s Stuff Happens
(Studio 180); Mary in Mary Stuart, Phèdre (Soulpepper); Michael
Healey’s Generous (Tarragon); Colleen Wagner’s The Monument (Obsidian); title
roles in Hedda Gabler (Volcano) and Florence Gibson’s Belle (Factory/NAC); The
Syringa Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew
(CanStage); the Toronto première of Hare’s Skylight (Tarragon – Dora Award);
Valley Song (New Globe Theatre – Dora Award); Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Bear (NAC);
Andre Alexis’s Lambton Kent (Volcano/Edinburgh Festival); and Trace (co-writer/
performer). Yanna has taught and directed at the National Theatre School and
Humber College. Screen credits: This is Wonderland, Doomstown (Gemini Award),
The Sentinel, Riverdale, John Q, Finn’s Girl, A Raisin in the Sun, A Very Lucky Girl and the
George Walker/Dani Romain series The Line (TMN). Upcoming: Cloud Nine (Mirvish).
araya mengesha – actor
Stratford debut: Fleance in Macbeth, Tommy in Rice Boy and
appears in Julius Caesar. Araya Mengesha is a 2009 graduate
of the Ryerson Theatre School program and has been acting
professionally for more than 10 years. This will be his first
appearance on the Stratford Shakespeare Festival stages. Past
credits include hosting the Gemini-nominated Mystery Hunters, seasons one
through four (TV), Official Toronto International Film Festival selection Nurse.
Fighter.Boy (film) and the Canadian première of Disney’s The Lion King (stage) as
well as numerous TV series and commercial roles. Araya would like to give a
special thanks to his mother, Selamawit, for her endless love and support.
gordon s. miller – actor
Seventh season: Young Seyward in Macbeth, Andrei in Three
Sisters and understudy in Phèdre. A native of Lower Truro, Nova
Scotia, Gordon trained at the National Theatre School of Canada,
graduating in 2002. Since then he has performed for six seasons
at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in roles including Roderigo
(Othello), Hryhory (Pentecost), Arviragus (Cymbeline), Flaminius (Timon of Athens),
and most recently Benvolio (Romeo and Juliet) and Apollodorus (Caesar and
Cleopatra). He has also worked with the National Arts Centre, Festival of Classics,
VideoCabaret and Theatre Malheur at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre
Festival and is a recipient of the John Hirsch award. He now makes his home here
in Stratford with his beautiful wife, Martha.
Dustin o’neill – media designer
Stratford debut: Media designer for Macbeth. Broadway: Guys and
Dolls (director Des McAnuff ), The Story of My Life (director Richard
Maltby). N.Y./regional: Wozzeck (San Diego Opera), Parlour Song
(Atlantic Theater Co.), What’s That Smell? (Atlantic Theater Co.), Oh,
the Humanity (Flea Theater), TakeOver BAM (BAM), 365 Days/365
Plays (Bowdoin College), tick, tick, Boom! (ATF), Area of Rescue, Linus and Alora (And
How! Theater Co.), The Director (Flea Theater). Set and video design: I See London,
I See France (NYMF), Jekyll and Hyde: The Concert (national tour), Kimberly Akimbo
(Hudson Stage), Donna Morelli (NYS&F). Regional work at ACT (San Francisco), La
Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Co. and the Santa
Fe Opera. Other: NBC – The Today Show (assistant art director); art direction for
Prada, GAP, Dolce and Gabbana and others; art direction for the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame induction ceremony, 2009.
margaret Palmer – production stage manager
(Festival Theatre)
26th season: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre.
An apprentice at Neptune Theatre (1966/67) and graduate of
the National Theatre School (1971), Maggie returns as production
stage manager, a post she has held at both the Avon and Festival
theatres for 17 seasons. Stratford credits include Will Power: A Conversation, Henry
IV (parts 1 and 2), Iolanthe, The Imaginary Invalid, My Fair Lady (1988), A Man for
All Seasons (1986), Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls (1990), The Government Inspector,
Coriolanus (1981), The Mikado (toured Canada and played at London’s Old Vic) and
Twelfth Night (toured with King Lear across the U.S.). She spent several seasons at
the St. Lawrence Centre (Toronto Arts Productions), MTC and the Grand Theatre.
Maggie stage-managed Eugene Onegin for Manitoba Opera, the first Dream in
High Park and the first Dora Awards. She was publicity director for the NDWT
Company, worked for Fountainhead Theatre in London and toured Canada with
the Charlottetown Festival.
irene Poole – actor
Second season: Waiting Gentlewoman in Macbeth, Olga in
Three Sisters and Panope in Phèdre. Last season: Katherina in The
Taming of the Shrew and Montague’s Wife in Romeo and Juliet.
Credits include Escape from Happiness and Better Living (Factory
Theatre), The Age of Arousal (Alberta Theatre Projects), a workshop
production of Possible Worlds directed by Yoshi Oida (Canadian Rep), The Last
Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre, Dora Award), The Leisure Society (Factory
Theatre, Dora Award), The Gambler (Artword Theatre), Hockey Mom, Hockey
Dad (Prairie Theatre Exchange), The Game of Love and Chance (Sudbury Theatre
Centre), Fighting Words and The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (Factory Theatre);
Wuthering Heights (Theatre Aquarius), Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Talley’s Folly, Salt-Water Moon (Resurgence Theatre).
Directing credits include the Canadian première of David Mamet’s Romance (The
Pilot Group, Berkeley Street Theatre). Love and thanks to husband Tim Campbell
and son Silas.
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gareth Potter – actor
Sixth season: Malcolm in Macbeth, Decius Brutus/Claudius in
Julius Caesar and Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gareth
is very happy to be back at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
This past winter he was in Edmonton playing Simon/Wahab
in the Tarragon’s production of Scorched. Favourite roles at
Stratford: Romeo (Romeo and Juliet), Nathaniel (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Edgar (King
Lear), Gratiano (The Merchant of Venice), Pierrot (Don Juan), Adrian (The Tempest),
Malcolm (Macbeth) and Cromwell (King Henry VIII). Other Shakespearean roles
include Orlando and Edmund (BCC), Ferdinand (Saidye Bronfman), Henry V
(Gravy Bath), Mercutio (Elysian River), Macbeth and Suffolk (NTS), and a one-man
show based on Shakespeare’s poem The Rape of Lucrece (Theatre Ste. Catherine/
Centaur). He is the recipient of the Michael Mawson Award and a graduate of the
National Theatre School of Canada. “Thank you, Richard!!! Much love to my family
and friends. Enjoy the show!”
Jonathan Purdon – actor
Stratford debut: Caithness in Macbeth, Flavius/Volumnius in Julius
Caesar and Mr. Harris in Rice Boy. Jonathan is thrilled to be making
his Stratford Shakespeare Festival debut. He has appeared in
theatres across the country. Favourites include Cliff in Cabaret at
the Sudbury Theatre Centre, Nick in Over the River and Through
the Woods for Neptune Theatre, the Beast in Beauty and the Beast for Theatre New
Brunswick, Soapy Smith in The Lion of the Yukon for Playbill Theatre and Greg in
Corker for Theatre North West in British Columbia. Jonathan has also appeared
in a variety of television shows and films and was most recently seen in the new
hit television series Flashpoint. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s
BFA acting program and was awarded the Dame Peggy Ashcroft scholarship to
attend the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England.
steve rankin – fight director
Second season: Fight director for Macbeth. Last year for the
Festival Mr. Rankin staged Romeo and Juliet as well as Caesar and
Cleopatra. On Broadway he served as an actor and fight director
for the highly acclaimed Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, at Lincoln Center.
Other Broadway credits include Guys and Dolls, Jersey Boys,
Dracula, The Who’s Tommy, Two Shakespearean Actors, Twelfth Night, The Real
Inspector Hound, Anna Christie , and the upcoming new musical Memphis. OffBroadway: The Third Story, Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died and Below the
Belt. Other theatres: The Alley, the Ahmanson, Mark Taper Forum, the Old Globe,
La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Asolo, Metropolitan Opera,
Seattle Opera and San Diego Opera. Films include Renaissance Man, Tumbleweeds
and Human Error. As a mandolinist/guitarist, Mr. Rankin records and performs
with the Appalachian/bluegrass artist Susie Glaze and the HiLonesome Band.
Cara ricketts – actor
Stratford debut: Third Sister in Macbeth, Portia in Julius Caesar
and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A Humber College
grad, Cara has performed all over Ontario and in the U.S. Selected
credits: Queen of Sheba in Wise Woman of Abyssinia for b current
Theatre Company; Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun for Soulpepper
and Theatre Calgary; Titania/ Hippolyta in CanStage’s A Midsummer Night’s
Dream; Saint Monica in the Canadian première of Steven Adly Guirgis’ The Last
Days of Judas Iscariot for Birdland Theatre (the production won five Dora Awards,
including outstanding production); Antigone in Antigone: Insurgency for One
Little Goat Theatre Company; a one-woman show called Domestic by d’bi young
for Volcano Theatre’s Wrecking Ball; and Peggy Sue in Joseph Pierre’s Born Ready
for Obsidian Theatre Company. Film/ TV credits include Bonnie in The Gathering
(Lifetime Network) and most recently a pilot for CBS with Davis Guggenheim
called The Tower.
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tom rooney – actor
Second season: Porter in Macbeth, Cassius in Julius Caesar and
Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Last season at Stratford:
Horatio in Hamlet and Lavache in All’s Well That Ends Well. Recent
theatre: My Mother’s Feet (Munich, Germany); Hairspray (Broadway
cast); Benevolence, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Tarragon);
Whistle Me Home (prevatican toot); I Am My Own Wife (Vancouver Playhouse);
Homechild, Rice Boy (CanStage); Hairspray (Mirvish); title role in Hamlet, The Winter’s
Tale (NAC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel Theatre); The Tempest (Globe
Theatre); Othello (Persephone Theatre); Romeo et Juliette, Richard III, Twelfth Night,
Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Angels in America (ATP); The Glass
Menagerie (Theatre Calgary). TV/film: three seasons as Crown Attorney David Kaye
on CBC’s This Is Wonderland (two Gemini nominations), The Gilda Radner Story, The
Day After Tomorrow, Everest ’82, CBC miniseries and Flash of Genius.
brian scott – stage manager
16th season: Stage manager of Macbeth and Rice Boy. For the
Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brian has stage managed King
Lear, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The
Country Wife, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Waiting
for Godot, The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Fitting Confusion,
London Assurance, Noises Off, Private Lives, Present Laughter, Into the Woods and last
season’s Romeo and Juliet. Stage management credits elsewhere include King Lear
(Lincoln Center), Don Carlos, The Duchess of Malfi and Coriolanus (Shakespeare
Theatre). Brian lives in Stratford with his partner, Francesca Callow, and their
young son, Orlando.
andrew shaver – actor
Stratford debut: Donalbain in Macbeth, First Marquis in Cyrano de
Bergerac and Verezzi in Zastrozzi. Andrew has been a performer
with, and Canadian Artistic Director of, the Brooklyn/Montrealbased creation ensemble SaBooge Theatre since 2000. He is also
the Artistic Director of SideMart Theatrical Grocery, the resident
company of the Studio at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal.
SideMart is currently developing a musical adaptation of Derek McCormack’s
The Haunted Hillbilly with Juno-nominated songwriter Matthew Barber. Acting
highlights include Darren O’Donnell’s [boxhead] (director Chris Abraham), Mark
Doherty’s Trad (director Bryan Quinn), Greg Kramer’s Isadora (director Sarah
Stanley), Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus (director Alexandre Marine) and Ted Hughes’s
adaptation of The Oresteia Trilogy (director Craig Walker). Film credits include I’m
Not There, Zackary Samuel: Illusionist, Les Pieds dans le vide, Cruising Bar 2, The Last
Kiss and 300. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and École Jacques Lecoq.
lisa shriver – movement
Second season: Movement for Macbeth and Julius Caesar.
Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Ring of Fire, The Story of
My Life. Others: Caesar and Cleopatra (Stratford Shakespeare
Festival), Yellow Face (The Public Theatre), After the Ball (Irish Rep),
Where’s Charley? (Goodspeed Opera House), The Farnsworth
Invention (La Jolla Playhouse), Hot ’n’ Cole (Westport Country Playhouse), The
Oldest Profession (Signature Theatre) and Stephen Sondheim’s 75th birthday
celebration. She directed and choreographed An Evening of Guys and Dolls Music
with Tony Bennett, Marisa Tomei and Vanessa Williams. Her film credits include
A Beautiful Mind, Hysterical Blindness, Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding and House of D. She
also choreographed the motion-capture version of A Christmas Carol, starring Jim
Carrey and directed by Robert Zemeckis, which will be released this fall. “Many
thanks to Des McAnuff and to Pamela Cooper at The Cooper Company for their
support. Love to Brian.”
andré sills – actor
Fourth season: Bleeding Sergeant in Macbeth, Murellus in Julius
Caesar and Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. André is pleased
to be returning for his fourth season. Festival credits include
Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Caesar and Cleopatra, Henry
IV, Part 1, The Duchess of Malfi and Pentecost. He made his American
debut last January in the title role in Othello and Radio Golf (St. Louis Black
Rep). Other theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing (CanStage), Macbeth
(CTP), Othello (Hart House Theatre), As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Theatre by the Bay) and Titus Andronicus (Canopy Theatre). André is a graduate of
the George Brown Theatre School and the 05/06 Birmingham Conservatory. He
would like to send out a thank-you to his friends and family and his fiancée,
Amanda – “love you.” He bids farewell to his friend JDW.
kolton stewart – actor
Second season: Macduff’s Son in Macbeth and appears in West
Side Story. Kolton is honoured to be returning to the Stratford
stage, where he performed last year in The Music Man as a cast
member and understudy (Winthrop). Kolton has won several
awards for drumming including the Star Search Talent Contest
(2005), first place awards at the Norfolk Music Festival for percussion and vocals
and the Larrie Londin Scholarship Award (2008), which is an international
drumming award through the Percussive Arts Society. He has played in
competitive pipe bands and the Port Dover High School Community Band. He
is currently recording with Dan Walsh, a Canadian multi-instrumentalist who is
completing his instrumental CD VirtuSoSo, which features Kolton on percussion.
Kolton thanks Stratford’s finest who have inspired his passion for the arts.
timothy D. stickney – actor
Second season: Banquo in Macbeth, Cinna in Julius Caesar and
Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In 2008 Timothy was
Pothinus in Caesar and Cleopatra with Christopher Plummer and,
years after debuting with the National Shakespeare Company,
reprised Tybalt in Stratford. Earlier he was Macbeth (New York
State Theatre Institute). In 2007: Hamlet (AUDELCO-nominated, Take Wing and
Soar), Oswald (Public Theater’s King Lear with Kevin Kline) and Escalus (Romeo and
Juliet, the Delacorte in Central Park). Timothy’s led award-nominated productions
of Othello (Africa Arts); Richard III for TWAS. Previous: Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and The
Taming of the Shrew (Public Theater); Achilles, Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare
Theater); Orsino, Twelfth Night (Seattle Rep.); Lorenzo, The Merchant of Venice
(Hartford Stage). Graduate: American Academy of Dramatic Arts/Company. In
2009 Stickney directed King Lear with Trezana Beverly for TWAS (Associate Artistic
Director.) Timothy is best known as One Life to Live’s R.J. Gannon.
sanjay talwar – actor
Second season: Lennox in Macbeth, Trebonius/Lucilius in Julius
Caesar and Uncle in Rice Boy. Stratford credits: Orsino (Twelfth
Night), Seacoal (Much Ado About Nothing), Volscian Lieutenant
(Coriolanus). Other credits: Dushyanta in Shakuntala (Pleiades/
World Stage); Bird Brain in Bird Brain (LKTYP) in English and ASL;
Kamal in Bombay Black (Cahoots/Arts Club); El-Fayoumy in The Last Days of Judas
Iscariot (Birdland); Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Claudio/Pompey
in Measure for Measure, Marcus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus, director of The
Merchant of Venice and Artistic Director for five seasons (Shakespeare in the
Rough); Escalus in Romeo and Juliet, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sir
Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Dream in High Park); and Nabil in Helen’s
Necklace (Tarragon/Pi Theatre; Jessie for Best Supporting Actor). Film and TV
credits include Puck Hogs, The Border, Flashpoint, Guns, Supernatural and Murder
Unveiled/A Love Story. Sanjay is originally from Halifax, and is a graduate of
Dalhousie University’s theatre program.
Paul tazewell – costume designer
Second season: Costume designer for Macbeth. Broadway:
Guys and Dolls; In the Heights; The Color Purple (Tony
nomination); Caroline, or Change; A Raisin in the Sun;
Drowning Crow; Bring in ’da Noise… (Tony nomination); Elaine
Stritch: At Liberty; On the Town; Fascinating Rhythm; Def
Poetry Jam. Off-Broadway: Ruined, McReele, Flesh and Blood, Fame, Boston
Marriage, Harlem Song. Regional theatre: The Guthrie, New York Shakespeare
Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare
Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, The Alliance and Pasadena Playhouse.
Opera: Porgy and Bess (Chicago Lyric, San Francisco Opera, L.A. Opera,
Washington Opera), Little Women (New York City Opera, Glimmerglass
Opera), Treemonisha (St. Louis Opera). Awards: three Helen Hayes Awards
plus Lucille Lortel, Jefferson, Princess Grace and Irene Sharaff awards.
John Vickery – actor
Second season: Ross in Macbeth, Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de
Bergerac and Victor in Zastrozzi. In 2008: Capulet (Romeo and Juliet),
Holofernes (Love’s Labour’s Lost) and Lucius Septimius (Caesar and
Cleopatra). John originated the part of Scar in Broadway’s The Lion
King and reprised the role for the L.A. run. Other Broadway: The
Real Thing, The Sisters Rosensweig, Macbeth, Eminent Domain and Ned and Jack. He
recently worked with Robert Wilson on The Black Rider and David Hare on Stuff
Happens. Roles across the U.S. include Laertes, Hamlet, Benedict, Dr. Caius, Gower,
Pericles, Richard II, Bolingbroke, Richard III, Cassius, Brutus, Autolycus, Edgar,
Edmund, Malcolm, Macbeth, Don Juan, Tartuffe, Alceste, Trofimov, Lopahin and
Delio and Bosola (twice) in The Duchess of Malfi. Under Mr. McAnuff’s direction
Mr. Vickery has played Prince Hal, Romeo, Macbeth and Trigorin. Film: Murder by
Numbers, Big Business, Dr. Giggles, Patriot Games, Shooting L.A., Rapid Fire and Out
of Bounds. Recent TV: Without a Trace, NCIS, Frasier, NYPD Blue and all of Star Trek
(except Voyager).
asha Vijayasingham – actor
Stratford debut: Servant Girl in Rice Boy and appears in Macbeth
and Julius Caesar. Asha is thrilled to be a part of this season’s
company at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Selected theatre
credits: Funny Boy (CBC, directed by Deepa Mehta), La Ronde
(Theatre Onslaught, directed by Lewis Baumander), Petra (Theatre
Direct), Wedding Belles (Two Girls and a Sledgehammer). Selected film and TV
credits: Flashpoint, The Dating Guy, Dawgs Playing Poker, Max Neo and Exhibit A.
Asha would like to thank her family and friends, especially her parents, for their
unconditional love and support.
sophia walker – actor
Fourth season: Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Varro in Julius Caesar
and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sophia is ecstatic
to return for another thrilling season. Stratford credits include
Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet), Caesar and Cleopatra (Charmian),
Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Comedy of Errors (Luciana), The Odyssey
(Nausicaa), To Kill a Mockingbird (Helen Robinson), Harlem Duet (Amah) and
The Duchess of Malfi. Sophia Walker is a graduate of the 2005 Birmingham
Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Other theatre: Pope Clement VI in Red Noses,
Mrs. Mi Tzu in The Good Woman of Setzuan and Mary Donovan in St. Nicholas
Hotel (Ryerson Theatre). Other credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Ursula)
for CanStage’s Dream in High Park and touring the musical Orchids (Marquis
Entertainment), as well as projects for the 2003 Groundswell Festival (Nightwood
Theatre). Sophia is a recipient of the Mary Savidge and the Michael Mawson
awards. She is a graduate of Ryerson University. She would like to thank her family
for their love and constant encouragement.
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michael walton – lighting designer
Fifth season: Lighting designer of Macbeth and A Midsummer
Night’s Dream. For the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Mr. Walton
was the lighting designer of Hamlet in 2008 and has assisted
on nine productions including Coriolanus, Measure for Measure,
Orpheus Descending, King John and Timon of Athens. Recent
designs include East of Berlin and Generous (Tarragon); ’Night Mother (Soulpepper);
Oliver! and Blood Brothers (Theatre Aquarius); A New Brain (Acting Up Stage);
Offensive Shadows (Studio 180); Norway. Today and Tiny Dynamite (Theatre
Smash); The Drawer Boy, Sexy Laundry, Moonlight and Magnolias and Over the River
and Through the Woods (Grand); Oliver! and This Is How It Goes (Neptune); The Goat,
or Who is Sylvia? and The Last Five Years (MTC); The Vertical Hour (PTE); and Hay Fever
(Theatre Calgary). He was also the associate special effects designer on The Lord of
the Rings in London and Toronto. Mr. Walton is originally from Winnipeg and now
lives in Toronto.
kristopher weber – apprentice stage manager
Third season: Apprentice stage manager of Macbeth and Cyrano
de Bergerac. Recent credits: apprentice stage manager of Jersey
Boys (Dancap Productions); production assistant for Oklahoma!,
King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, An Ideal Husband, The Taming
of the Shrew, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well,
Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare’s Universe (Stratford). Kristopher’s credits
also include apprentice stage manager of ’Twas and Could You Wait? (Theatre
Orangeville), apprentice stage manager of Test Drive (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia),
stage manager of Cabaret (New Yorker Theatre), stage manager of The Mercy Seat
(Outside Edge/Alchemy Theatre), stage manager of Twelfth Night (Rogue and
Peasant Theatre Company), stage manager of Legendales (Runway Bay, Jamaica)
and stage manager of Unchained Melody – A Breast Cancer Fundraiser (Rosetown,
Saskatchewan). Kristopher was the 2007 Guthrie Award winner for outstanding
contribution to the Festival by a young artist.
geraint wyn Davies – actor
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Sixth season: Duncan in Macbeth, Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar and
Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Stratford credits include
Polonius (Hamlet), King Ferdinand of Aragon (Fuente Ovejuna),
Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady), Henry V (Henry V), Bassanio (The
Merchant of Venice), Young Fashion (The Relapse), D’Artagnan (Three
Musketeers), Hortensio (The Taming of the Shrew), Antipholus S (The Boys From
Syracuse) and Pericles (Pericles). Other: CanStage’s The Elephant Man; five seasons
at the Shaw Festival. International: King Lear (Lincoln Center Theater); Women
Beware Women (Redbull Theatre); Do Not Go Gentle (ArcLight, NYC); Shakespeare
Theatre Company’s Richard III and Cyrano (Washington DC); Love’s Labour’s
Lost (RSC); Hamlet and Henry VIII (Chichester Festival); Enemy of the People (Lyric
Hammersmith, London); and two seasons as Theatr Clwyd’s artistic associate (The
Welsh National Performing Arts Company). TV/film includes ReGenesis, Murdoch
Mysteries, 24, Slings and Arrows, Black Harbour, Tracker, Airwolf, Forever Knight,
American Psycho II, Ghost Mom, Post Mortem, Nancy Drew and Hypercube.
A Salute to Our Donors
We extend heartfelt thanks to the individuals, corporations and foundations listed on the following pages.
As you sit in the theatre, we hope you take great pride and satisfaction in knowing your generosity has played
a significant role in creating what you will experience on the stage today. Thank you.
Tribute Gifts
Gifts were made between March 1, 2008, and
January 31, 2009.
In Honour of Bruce Dow
In Honour of Ron Fine
In Honour of Elizabeth Gaffney
In Honour of Judy & Ernie Ginsler
In Honour of Joanna Glass
In Honour of Rev. & Mrs. Robert Leland
In Honour of Arlene Lewis
In Honour of Peter & Noreen Little
In Honour of Mary Lee Myers
In Honour of Mr. & Mrs. Victor F. Ptasznik
In Honour of Valerie Pinder
In Honour of Richard Polk
In Honour of Sam Polk
In Honour of Janice Price & Ian Findlay
In Honour of Richard Rooney
In Honour of Carolyn Schiff
In Honour of Carolyn Schiff & Noah Millman
In Honour of Barbara Schubert
In Honour of Diane Walker
In Honour of Margaret Wilson & Allen Sill
In Memory of Madelyn Deane
In Memory of Joseph Dechario
In Memory of Thomas K. Doolittle
In Memory of William Evans
In Memory of June Travis Friedlob
In Memory of Sara Gardiner
In Memory of Nuala Goldberg
In Memory of Karen P. Hay
In Memory of Nadine Herz
In Memory of Alix Hess
In Memory of Frank Joseph Jr.
In Memory of Betty Kumchy
In Memory of Naomi E. Lohr
In Memory of William J. McCordic
In Memory of Richard Monette
In Memory of Pearle Grace Moore
In Memory of Jennifer Naiberg
In Memory of Shellie Nixon
In Memory of Helen McMaster Paulin
In Memory of Robert J. Potters
In Memory of Thomas A. Rowe
In Memory of Beverlie Conant Sloane
In Memory of Evan Sorber
In Memory of Jim Stone
In Memory of Judith Teller
In Memory of James Douglas Wood
Bequests and
Estate Gifts
For All Time
Endowment
November 2007 to January 31, 2009
Commitments were made to the Stratford
Shakespearean Festival Endowment
Foundation between November 1, 2007, and
January 31, 2009.
We are grateful to the following individuals
who thoughtfully made provision for the
Festival in their wills and estate plans.
The Estate of Frances Agnew
The Estate of Dr. Thomas A. Brown
The Estate of Fergus Brown
The Estate of Mona Louise Campbell
The Estate of Norman J. Cornack
The Estate of Mary-Jane D. Givens
The Estate of Alix Martha Hess
The Estate of Ada Elizabeth Hill
The Estate of Thomas Arthur Jones
The Estate of Page J. Karling
The Estate of Richard Lowe
The Estate of Dr. George W. Sgalitzer
The Estate of Mrs. Helen E. Sinclair
The Estate of Eva Margaret Sitton
The Estate of Helen Stacey
The Estate of Nancy G. Steen
The Estate of Susan Gail Sybersma
The Estate of Jean Elizabeth Wilson
2009
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The FSA Group
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Procor
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The Woodbridge Company Limited
$250,000 or more
Robert & Jacqueline Sperandio
$100,000 – $249,999
Karon C. Bales & Charles E. Beall Family Fund
Andy & Helen Spriet
The Summertime Fund
$50,000 – $99,999
The Loris & Theodore Birnkrant Fund
Wilfrid P. Gregory
Dr. Diane M. Soubly & Courtney Massie
$25,000 – $49,999
John & Arlene Lewis
Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen
$10,000 – $24,999
Birnkrant Great Grandchildren’s Fund
Julia & Robert Foster
Murray Frum & Nancy Lockhart
Margaret D. King
Marg Misener
The Philip & Berthe Morton Foundation
$1,000 – $9,999
Richard & Mona Alonzo
Canada Council for the Arts - Vida Peene Fund
Barbara Garland
Harvey Firestone Jr. Foundation
Tim & Alexandra MacDonald
Doris McCarthy
Kayla & Richard Pechter
Phillips, Hager & North Investment
Management Ltd.
Douglas D. Roche
Peter & Carol Walters
Ann K. Warren
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The Birmingham Family
Richard Rooney & Laura Dinner
$, – $,
Caitlin Adamson
& Richard Costley-White
Bluma Appel Community Trust
Mark Appel,
in memory of Bram & Bluma Appel
Des McAnuff
Kelly Meighen
$, – $,
Jarka Hradecky
Barbara & John Schubert
John H. Whiteside
Annual Support
Reflects gifts made before
January 31, 2009
The Prospero Society
Many generous supporters of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
have provided a future bequest or gift through a will, life
insurance policy, trust arrangement, charitable gift annuity or
the beneficiary designation on an RRSP/RRIF or IRA/401 (K). We
gratefully acknowledge these individuals as members of The
Prospero Society for planned giving donors and thank them for
their vision in making a lifelong commitment to the Festival’s
continuing success.
If you have remembered the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in
your will or your estate plans, or you would like information
on how to do so, please contact the planned giving manager
at 1.800.51.1233 ext. 540, or e-mail plannedgiving@
stratfordshakespearefestival.com.
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Baines
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Philip Brown
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H. Deese
Mary Ann DeMattia
& Robert H. Gorlin
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Marshall & Judi Egelnick
The late Dr. John C. &
Mary F. Elder
J. David Ellis
La & Philip Engel
Michael Esztelecky &
Cynthia Rowden
Barbara Evans
Daniel Evans & Rosa
Munoz
Lois Farber
Robert Feeney
James L. Fiegehen
Sherri Fillingham
Douglas L. Flanders
Gail Fricker & Blair
Yeomans
Ted & Sheila Gale
James & Jayne Gall
Barbara Garland
Dr. & Mrs. Walter C.
Gates Jr.
Heather V. Gibson
Alexander Gluskin &
Shauna Sexsmith
Herbert & Dorothy
Graebner
Barbara & Charles
Graham
M. L. Sam Grant
Ronald Gustafson
Dr. Don & Mary Jane
Gutoski
Dr. Dennis E. & Dorothea
Hacker
Phyllis M. Hale
Carol & Roger Haverfield
Ellen L. Hawman
Dr. Robert & Mrs. Diana
Heard
Barbara Heggie
Grace Heggie
Sandra J. Heggie
Dr. & Mrs. J. Daniel
Heilman
Jay Helms & Terry
O`Loughlin
Miss Rosanne Herold
Andrea & Dr. Edward
Herzig
Robert A. Hetherington
Lauri & Jean Hiivala
Martha J. Hines
Joan & Ron Holmes
Lori Ann Horley
Dr. Sharon Horlick
David & Marci Horowitz
Archie & Jean Hunter
Anne M. Hurley
Wayne & Leslie Ingram
Marion Isherwood
Glenn & Joan Johnson
Kerry & Heather
Johnson
Douglas & Mary Kahn
Eleanor Kane
Martin Katz
Kimberly Kelley
Kip Kelley & Family
T. M. Kelly
Max Kenney
Marjory & James W.
Kilgour
Merl & John Koegler
Jane Fryman Laird
Marilyn R. Laughlin
John & Ruth Lawson
Dr. Richard W. Lee
Rev. Robert K. & Mrs.
Emily Leland
Janet & Ellsworth Levine
Linda M. Levine
Maury & Leslie
Lieberman
Janet & Richard Lint
Ann & David Love
John T. Lucas
Earl K. & Theresa A.
Lundy
Hartland & Eve
MacDougall
Polly K. A. MacFarlane
Michele A. Machowicz &
Thomas J. Becvar
Peter D. Mackey
Thomas A. MacWilliam
Cheryl Elisabeth Manny
Mel Marsh & Rick Rutan
Mr. & Mrs. W. Ronald
McCallum
Dr. Ross & Fran McElroy
Dr. Murlene E. McKinnon
Sylvia M. McPhee
William A. Meiers
$, – $,
Karon C. Bales & Charles E. Beall
Hans & Susan Brenninkmeyer
Sylvia D. Chrominska
Margaret & Jim Fleck
Dr. Dennis & Mrs. Dorothea Hacker
Beth L. Kronfeld & Matthew D. Means
The Brian Linehan Charitable
Foundation
Drs. M. L. Myers & W. P. Hayman
Robert Summers-Gill
Alice & Tim Thornton
Ophelia Tong & Mike Lazaridis
Hon. Michael A.
Meighen &
Kelly Meighen
Bob Meinschenk
Kevin & Tania Meldrum
Pennie A. Meyers
Alan C. Middleton
Eleanor Miller
Kathleen Minor
Marg Misener
Joan Moeller
Mark Monette &
Judy F. Lane
Mr. & Mrs. Franklin H.
Moore, Jr.
F. Daniel Moreau
Catherine & Paul Motz
Richard C. Mulock
Mrs. Marion I. Murray
Geoff & Marion Neigh
Jeffrey & Peggy Norton
Carole Ann O’Connell &
Mark Boyle
Tom & Susan O’Neill
Patricia Osborn
Harold Pankrac
Elizabeth Papps
Curtis L. & Jody A.
Passafume
Betty & Don Paxson
Richard & Sandra Pearse
Doug & Marilyn Peltier
Todd R. Pepper
Catherine Perkin
Sandra & Jim Pitblado
Robin B. Pitcher
Laura Pogson
Cheryl & William Povalla
Wallace & Diane Pretzer
Heather & John T. A.
Proctor
Raymond P. Quinlan
William & Isabelle
Radock
Mira Ratkaj
Douglas S. & Marcia J.
Rector
Ann K. Reynolds
Wayne & Wendy Rider
Margaret A. Riggin
Les Ringer
Dr. Forrest & Patricia
Riordan III
Randall B. Ripley & Grace
A. Franklin
Peter S. Roberts
Lisa & Paul Rohrbaugh
Richard Rooney & Laura
Dinner
Lillian Roth
Larry J. Santon
Dr. & Mrs. Peter W.
Schilke
W. Schram
Elizabeth Ann Scott
Mr. Dale W. Smith
Doug & Maggie Smith
Terrence L. Smith
Rachel Smith-Spencer
Ms Teddi Smokler
Sperandio Family
Foundation
Barry & Sharlyn Stare
Dennis & Rhea Steffler
Jayne Stewart
William R. Stewart
Glen & Sandra
Strawsburg
Kerry Stuckey
Robert Summers-Gill
Danielle & David Susser
Randal & Nancy Sutton
Merilyn & Jim Thompson
Dolly Tiger
Bill & Mary Todt
Marie & Peter Van Der
Gulik
Jane & Robert Van der
Kraan
Nancy Johnson Vazzano
Dr. Nancy J. Vivian
Renata Walker
Susan H. Warren
Deana & Lyman Welch
Dr. Clarke Dewey Wells *
Andy Werner & Barb
Hoyle-Werner
Leslie Clare Whitfield
Violet L. Wilson
John Wirtz IV
Mary & Max Wisgerhof
Duncan & Claudia Wood
Donald & Jan Woodley
Deirdre Wright
Bernice & Peter Ziegler
Roger & Carol Zinnecker
Anonymous (37)
*deceased
(as of April 2009)
Annual Donors (Reflects gifts made before January 31, 2009)
Annual donations of
$20,000 to $24,999
Ethel Harris
J. Hans Kluge
M. E. H. Foundation
Anonymous
Artistic Director’s Circle
Members
Claire & Daniel Bernstein
Bruce Birmingham
Mary Ann DeMattia &
Robert H. Gorlin
Miles Gilburne & Nina Zolt
Parnassus Foundation,
courtesy of Jane &
Raphael Bernstein
Sandra & Jim Pitblado
Raymond P. Quinlan
Richard Rooney & Laura
Dinner
S. Schulich Foundation
Robert & Jacqueline
Sperandio
Annual donations of
$12,500 to $19,999
Margaret E. Cockshutt
Joan & Clifford Hatch
Foundation
Andy & Helen Spriet
Playwright’s Circle
Emerald Stage
Members
Antoni Cimolino & Brigit
Wilson
The Thor E. & Nicole Eaton
Charitable Foundation
Averil Farlow & Blain
Caverly
Jim Harkins
Johanna Metcalf & Robert
Reid
Cathy & John Phillips
Anonymous
Annual donations of
$5,500 to $12,499
Jennifer Birmingham
Jim Doak
Dr. Emma Plattor
Playwright’s Circle
Diamond Stage
Members
Peter & Jocelyn Allen
Richard & Mona Alonzo
Family Fund
Jill Armstrong
Michael Barnstijn &
Louise MacCallum
Nani & Austin Beutel
Loris G. Birnkrant
Leland & LaRita Boren
M. Joan Chalmers, C.C.,
O. Ont.
Patricia Connell
Mrs. Eve Cork
Drs. Carl Cucco & Marilyn
Cucco
Dr. Jeanne Deinum
The Fraser Elliott
Foundation
James & Pati Ericson
George Fierheller
Mr. & Mrs. William Clay
Ford
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Fugitte
John & Judith Grant
Thomas P. & Christine M.
Griesa
Mrs. Albert Hanna
Dr. Jules & Josephine Harris
Nona Macdonald Heaslip
Patricia A. Heftler
Richard M. Ivey
Dr. Frederic L. R. Jackman
Margaret D. King
Hartman & Brenda Krug
James Leech & Deborah
Barrett
Harlan L. Lewis & Doris F.
Wittenburg
John Lind
Tom & Rosemary Logan
Lawrence & Margaret
Marsland
Mr. & Mrs. E. J. McCarthy
Don & Marion McDougall
Kelly & Michael Meighen
Delia M. Moog
Frank & Nancy Moore
Ms Louise Morwick &
Mr. Lynn Miller
The Mosaic Foundation
(of Rita & Peter Heydon)
Noel Mowat
Dorothy F. NovotnyBrandenburg
Jonathan F. Orser
Nancy K. Owens
Cecil & Linda Rorabeck
Rose Family Fund at the
Toronto Community
Foundation
Esther & Sam Sarick
Marilyn & Wes Scott
Michael, Jennifer, Kira &
Juliet Stein
Nargis & Shaukat
Tarmohamed
Chip & Barbara Vallis
Diane Walker & Rob Bell
The Westaway Charitable
Foundation
Catherine & David Wilkes
Joan & Jack Wing
Mary Winton Green
Julian Wise & Nandita
Junnarkar
Max & Mary Wisgerhof
Warner & Maggie Woodley
George M. Zeltzer Family
Anonymous (2)
Annual donations of
$2,750 to $5,499
Arlene & John Lewis
John Mogan
Catherine & Paul Motz
Martie & Bob Sachs
Shakespeare School
Bursary, in honour of
David James Elliott
Playwright’s Circle
Gold Stage Members
G. John Adamson
Mr. & Mrs. William F. Aigler
Laurence & Susan Allen
Holly & Bert Althaver
Joan & Peter Andrews
Family Foundation
Bob & Judy Astley
James M. & Jean T.
Babcock
Marjorie Baillie
Robert & Mona Bandeen
Colin Baxter & Ruth Harris
Diana M. Beacham
M. Ross Bear
Elin & Barry Becker
Carole Belcher
Mrs. Lynn Beyak
Elaine Billings
The Birks Family
Foundation
Annette & Rick
Birmingham
Stephanie & Fred Bishop
Ann & Neal Blackmarr
Bob Boltz
Walter M. & Lisa Balfour
Bowen
Terry Boyle & Jim Lawlor
Edward W. Brice Jr.
Elaine L. Brickman
Mr. & Mrs. James R.
Bridgeland, Jr.
Brown’s Shoes
Dr. Craig & Mrs. Elizabeth
Campbell
Ellen & Brian Carr
Dan & Penny Carruthers
Walter Carsen, O.C.
Alison & Guy Chadsey
Dr. C. C. Chancey
Earl & Claude Cherniak
Dr. John & Mrs. Yvonne
Chiu
David Chivas & Ron Rice
Joe & Jean Chorostecki
Chris & Pam Clark
George & Edna Clemans
Marcia Mary Cook
Dr. Frederick Coop
Murray & Katherine Corlett
Cathy & Paul Cotton
Barbara Crook & Dan
Greenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J.
Daniels
Mr. & Mrs. L. F. Darga
H. John Davidson &
Cathay Weston
Glenn & Joan Davis
Chrysanne Di Marco
Marilynn Scott Doscher
Douglas & Mary Dyment
Nancy & William Edmunds
Dr. Dan Eickmeier &
Ms Laura Inglis-Eickmeier
Christine A. Eierman
La & Phil Engel
Elsie & Eric Etchen
Elizabeth A. Evans
Ron Farmer & Kathryn
Stanley
Arthur & Shirley
Fergenson
Festival City Dairy Inc.
Elaine Fieldman & Mark
Sims
Harvey S. Firestone Jr.
Foundation
Virginia Fitzgerald
Robert W. Fox
Gina Fredette & Allan
Murray
Murray Frum & Nancy
Lockhart
Alda & John Futhey
John & Therese Gardner
Heather V. Gibson
Dr. Alexander Gluskin &
Ms Shauna Sexsmith
Mr. & Mrs. William
Goldstein
Dr. Thomas Gray & Linda
MacDonald
Stanley I. Griffin
Ron Gustafson
Dr. & Mrs. Ted Hagan
Dan Hagler Family
Phyllis M. Hale
Sheila Hannon & Garry
Ruttan
Dr. Beverley Harris
Richard Harsch
Dr. Doris Hausser
Charlotte & Ian Hector
Mr. & Mrs. Gunter F.
Herman
Robert D. Hicks & Suzanne
L. Burke
Ronald Hikel & Tricia
O’Malley
Mary E. Hofstetter &
R. David Riggs
Bernard H. Holicky
Michael Homer & Ann
Hébert
Dr. Ronald & Carol
Horowitz
The K. M. Hunter
Charitable Foundation
Dick & Lou Hurckes
Patricia L. & Thomas H.
Jeffs II Fund
Norman Jewison
Dr. Donald & Christina
Jolly
Douglas & Mary Kahn
Martin Katz
Patrick & Barbara Keenan
Kip Kelley
The Kendis Family Trust Hilary & Robert Kendis
Ann & Ross Kennedy
Keystone Alley Café - Patty
& Sheldon Russell
Rita & Rudy Koehler
Anthony La Marca &
Thomas Dolan
Jane Fryman Laird
Paul & Anne Lake
Allen & Marion Lambert
Fund
Sally E. Lane
George W. Lange
The Lawrason Foundation
Desta F. Leavine
Dr. Renee S. Lerche
Gary Levene & Deborah
Eisenberg
Janet & Ellsworth Levine
Arlene & John Lewis
The Linden-Fraser Family
Mr. & Mrs. James Lorimer
Sue & Larry Luck
Eve & Hartland
MacDougall
James & Connie
MacDougall
Wayne & Jo Magee
Dr. Mario & Mrs. Barb
Malizia
Dr. Aaron Malkin
Elaine & Mervyn Manning
Dr. Marilyn Marshall
Marcia Matsui & Roger
Cotton
Nancy & John McFadyen
Gloria & James McSherry
Dr. Wayne Melchior
A. James Memmott &
Cynthia Schmitt
Kathleen Minor
Joan E. Moeller
George & Melanie Moses
Ed & Judie Narens
M. D. Naylor
John & Amy O’Hara
Toni, Cecelia & Elena
Oliveri
Tom & Susan O’Neill
Tom & Connie Orr
Ouellette Family
Foundation
Sunny & Nini Pal
Michael Parkin & Robin
Bade
Dr. David Parratt & Dr.
Janis MacNaughton
Dr. & Mrs. Francis C. Pasley
Gordon & Roberta
Passmore
Jean Scales Pataky
Betty & Don Paxson
Dr. & Mrs. William B.
Pearson
Erica Peresman & David
Jaffe
Guenter Petricek
Polk Family Charitable
Fund
John & Jackie Porter
Peggy & Vic Ptasznik
Steve & Carolyn Rae
M. Rosie Rees & Gene
Servillo
Elizabeth Renfrew
Jamie & Kate Richardson
Gordon & Jean Riedlinger
Margaret A. Riggin
Randall B. Ripley & Grace
A. Franklin
Douglas D. Roche
Martie & Bob Sachs
Dr. Hershel & Dorothy
Sandberg
Larry J. Santon
Margaret Sarkela & John
Curtis
Marion & Victoria
Saunderson
Carolyn Schiff & Noah
Millman
Tony & the late Celia ScottFisher
Winifred Shantz
Kenneth G. Shelley
Sandor & Mary Shoichet
Gloria & Steve Smith
Rachel Smith-Spencer
Steve & Jane Snyder
Dr. Robert & Roberta Sokol
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick
Spaulding
Andy & Helen Spriet
Sharon & Joel Stein
Jeff Stoller
Roger & Molly Stotts
Mr. & Mrs. August Sunnen
Drs. David & Susan
Tamblyn
Arthur Paul Tarasuk
Nancy & George Taylor
Jean & Bill Teron, O.C.
Philip Terranova
Jerome & Diane
Trojanowski
The George & Mary
Turnbull Foundation at
the Toronto Community
Fdn
The William & Nancy
Turner Foundation
Jane & Robert Van der
Kraan
James van Raalte &
Natasha Pateman
Dr. John & Dr. Marika van
Schalkwyk
Ann Kirk Warren
Susan A. Weber
Peter & Kathleen Wege
Mary L. Wermuth
James & Margaret Whitby
James D. Witmer
Drs. Krystyna Wojakowski
& Bruce Murray
Jan & Don Woodley
David Wright & Michael
Rockwell
C. Jen, W. J. Wyatt
Mr. & Mrs. William H.
Young
David Zussman &
Sheridan Scott
Anonymous (9)
Annual donations of
$1,250 to $2,749
Shakespeare School
Bursary, in honour of
William Hutt
Playwright’s Circle
Silver Stage Members
The Aaron Family
Eleanor M. Abra
Nicola Adair & David
Howard
Frances Adam
Mrs. Mary Lou Adgate
Clive & Barbara Allen
Don & Nancy Allen
George & Jean Alpervitz
Charles & Mary Anderson
David D. Anderson
Susan Ansara & Marc
Mageau
Deborah L. Anthony, Ph D.
Dalia & Jurgis Anysas
Caroline Archer
Marc Armstrong & Lynn
Logie
Robin & Karen Armstrong
Sherry Arnold
C. Atkin-Phillips
Dona & Cass Atkinson
Margaret Atwood
Margaret E. Auer
Charles L. Babcock &
Nancy Hamilton
David Bach & Jill Latta
Robert Badun & Eileen
Gillese
John & Claudine Bailey
James C. Baillie
Dr. James & Dr. Halina Bain
Andrew & Cornelia Baines
Richard & Victoria Baks
Dr. Hal & Mrs. Donna
Baldwin
Richard J. Balfour
Ballantyne on the
Park B&B
Frank & Grace Balnar
Heidi & Jim Balsillie
Sarah & Jason Bandey
Kim Bardwell
David & Helga Barenberg
Noreen Barrett
Lee & Floy Barthel
John Bates & Emily Bates
Lillian & Don Bauder
Anne Baumann & Leor
Margulies
Pam M. Baxter &
Gordon T. Law
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Annual Donors
Bishop John & Mrs. Joan
Baycroft
Larry Beare
Diane & John Beattie
Claire & Michael
Beckermann
Dr. Thomas H. Beechy
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Bell
Mr. & Mrs. Avie Bennett
John & Heather Bennett
Breen Bentley
Michael & Sherle Berger
Michael Bernstein &
Nandini Dasgupta
Rahul & Ritu Bhardwaj
Jennifer Birmingham
Jeffrey R. Black
Drs. Sean & Kirsten Blaine
Jim & Lorna Blair
Marilyn Blatnikoff
Lee & Paul Blizman
Dr. Christine Bloch
Robert & Judith Blowes
Ruth Bolt
Ruth-Ann Boos
Marshall Borden &
Lee Meriwether Borden
Dan Borengasser & Sally
McCluskey
Dr. George & Sandra
Boucher
George & Christine
Boynton
Sergio Bozikovic
Betty Bradshaw
Bradshaws - Jeremy &
Carrie Wreford
William R. Brashear
Dr. Deborah Bray Preston
& Dr. Daryl K. Heasley
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Brazolot
Brimstone Holdings
Dr. Donald & Judith
Brisbin
The late Dr. Daniel V.
Brislane
Bill & Anne Brock
Doug & Mary Lou Brock
Elizabeth & Reuben
Bromstein
Barry & Alison Brown
Beverly A. Brown
Jim & Vija Brown
Margaret & Derek Brown
Mr. & the late Mrs. Philip
C. Brown
Dale & Cheryl BrubacherCressman
Josh & Beth Bruner
Dr. Astrid Brunner & the
late Mr. Aschi Habluetzel
James Robert Bruno
Brian Bucknall
Sue Buckner
Bill & Marjorie Buhlman
Corrine Burley & George
R. Donald
Paul Butler & Christopher
Black
Peter & Mary Calamai
Miss Beatrice L. Calendino
Robert & Claire Cameron
Kathy & Bernie Campbell
Byron & Maxine Canvasser
John Carrick
Harriet & Jeff Carter
M. J. Castle
Vernon Caswell
Dr. Susan Chalom
Margaret Chambers
William Chapman
Paul Chappell
Louis Charpentier &
Robert Wakefield
Karen Lynn Cheah
Edna & Bernard Chestney
Ernie & Joan Chilcott
Olia & Bohdun
Chodoriwsky
Stan & Elin Christianson
Molly C. Christie
Doug & Terry Clark
Margaret E. Cockshutt
Dr. & Mrs. Robert
Colcleugh
Vivienne & Charles
Collinson
Dr. Lee CombrinckGraham
Mrs. Judith Conner
Drs. Diana & Charlie Cook
Sue Cooper-Twiss
Murray & Katherine Corlett
Dr. Lesley S. Corrin
Gene Cortwright
Linda Anne & Allan
Cosman
Tyson & Amanda Coughlin
Dorothy Courtnage
Dr. Lynn Coveney
Ruth & Stewart Coxford
Harold Crawford
Fran & Keith Culliton
John & Laurie Currie
Carole Curtis
Mary Dagenais & Tom
Elsdon
Lindsay Dale-Harris
Carl M. Dare
Al & Sue Davidson
B. H. Davidson, M.D.
Elizabeth & Ted Davidson
The Davies Charitable
Foundation
Jean & Stan Davies
Michael & Honor de
Pencier
Dr. Donald De Sulis
Barry Deathe & Susan
Brown
Drs. Raisa & Charles Deber
Sandra Ragland Demson
Gene & Charlene Denzel
Dennis DesRosiers
Mrs. A. E. Diamond
John & Shirley Dickson
John Diebel
Chuck & Margaret
Dingman
Mrs. Elisabeth Dingman
Patricia Dinsdale Turner
Gail Dobbs & Barry
Silverman
Mike & Jean Domico
Diana B. Dorken
Bradley Douglas
Bryce & Nicki Douglas
Terry & Becky Douglas
Diana R. Drouillard
Michael J. Drouillard
Sydney Duder
Carol Duncan & George
Oleske
Barbara & Graham
Dunsmore
John & Patricia Dyble
Mike & Leslie Dyon
Janet Ecker & Derek
Nelson
June H. Edwards
Dr. Janice Elder
Ilse G. Elliott
Gayle Elstone, in
memory of June &
Bernie Robinson
Joyce & Philip Epstein
Meredith & Albert Ernst
Barbara Evans
Mrs. Iben Evans
John & Gay Evans
Shirley Mae Evans
Howard & Donna Famme
David & Susan Fay
Lou & Merle Fazzini
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Elizabeth Finlay
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Anne Silverthorn
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Dolores Flanagan
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Patricia Forbes
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Craig Foster
Julia & Robert Foster
Bob Foulkes
Judith & Christopher Fox
Philip Fox II
Don & Ruth Franks
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Anna Marie Frediani
The Reverend Dr. Brian D.
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Patricia J. & Martin
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Nuala Freund & Bob
Verdun
Gloria Friedman
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R. Donald Fullerton
James C. Funk
Richard Furnstahl & Teresa
Stankiewicz
Miss Dianne Furry
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Anita Gaffney & Kevin
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Joan & Les Garvie
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Anne L. Gautreau
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Greg George & John
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Christine L. Gill
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Charlotte Gillett
Lucie Gingras
Min Givens
M. A. Glover
Joseph & Kathleen
Godwin
Dr. David Goldbloom &
Dr. Nancy Epstein
James & Eva Good
Nathaniel Good & James
Hammontree
Clara & Harvey Gordon
Dr. Peter B. Gorman
Sarah & John Gosling
Dr. David H. Gould
Lynn & Robert Gould
Peter Gould & Robin
Potter
Eleanor Gow
Barbara & Charles Graham
Birgitte & Ronald
Granofsky
Barbara & Millard Grauer
Sherrill L. Gray
David & Diane Greer
Michael G. Grey
Rudyard Griffiths
James & Brenda Grusecki
Milo R. Guisti
James Gutmann
Dr. Don & Mary Jane
Gutoski
Dr. Joan Hackett
Sybil Hagerman
Roland Haines & Joan
Smart
Cliff & Carolyn Haley
David C. Hall
Jack & Nancy Hallam
Dr. Patricia J. Hames
Craig & Nelson Hammond
E. David Hank
John Hanly
Karen N. Hanson
Mary Jane Harding
George & Erika Hardy
Rev. Nancy E. Hardy
Dena & Felda Hardymon
Bob Harris
Dr. William E. Harris &
Dr. Gretchen L. H. Harris
Ronald Hart & Franziska
Hart
Dr. Charles F. Hartley
Stanley & Beverly Hartt
John & Amanda Hatton
Carol & Roger Haverfield
Dr. & Mrs. Gordon H.
Hawks
Patricia Hays Forsythe
Sally Headley
Mrs. Mildred Hedrick
Dr. & Mrs. J. Daniel
Heilman
The Hon. & Mrs. Paul T.
Hellyer
Orzie Henderson
Theodore & Judy Hendry
Frederick & Vallie Henry
Glynis A. Henry
Gregory & Margene Henry
Gloria Heppner
Michael Hermiston
Rosanne Herold
Ann & Glen Herring
Sonny & Marlene Hersh
Paul Hess
Rob & Janet Hiemstra
Mary & David
Higginbotham
Rev. James M. Higgins
Barbarie Hill
Mr. & Mrs. E. Cayley Hill
Jim & Tracey Hill
Donald & Jean Hillis
Marti Hines & Cindy Martz
Norma & Jim Hiscock
Mary & Don Hislop
Patti & Peter Hnatiw
Amy Hoffman Haimann
Jean M. Holland
Gordon L. Hollander
Joan & Ron Holmes
Mrs. Barbara Elaine
Homicz
Penelope Hommel &
James Bergman
Judith Horner &
Hammond Bentall
Richard & Susan Horner
Allan & Carolyn Horwich
Chris & Jean Houston
Susan A. Howard
John & Karen Hueston
Judith Hull
Jill Humphries
Mr. & Mrs. W. B. G.
Humphries
Earl L. Hunsaker
Barry & Janess Hunt
Archie & Jean Hunter
Patricia G. Hurd
Martha & Tom Hyde
Wilma Hysen
John Inciura
Joan F. Ivory
Alex, Shirley & Julie
Jackson
Brenda Jackson
Bonnie & Tom Jackson
Joe & Cindy Jacobs
Max Jacobs
The Jaquith Family
Foundation
Nora (Nonie) Jeffery
Shirley & Ted Jeffrey
Jan & Bill Jentes
David & Kathleen Jerome
Len & Brenda Jewitt
Donald K. Johnson
Colleen Johnston
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John T. Lucas
Patricia Lumsden
Dr. Robert G. Luton
Jane M. Lynch
Sandra & Jack Lynch
James MacCallum &
Carole Lindsay
Abby & Malcolm
Macdonald
J. Joseph MacDonald
Tim & Alexandra
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Vicki MacDonald
Mr. & Mrs. William
MacDonald
Michele A. Machowicz &
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Dr. Angus & Janice
Maciver
Bill MacKenzie & Alan
Westbrook
MacLeods Scottish Shop
Janice & Swaminathan
Madhu
Drs. Harris & Phoebe
Mainster
Ted & Nancy Maitland
Sharon & Ken Malvern
Melissa Manly & Barry
Avrich
Peter & Beverley Maranger
Joanne Marchis
Terry & Marilyn Marklevitz
Gary & Sandra Martin
Lloyd & Delphine Martin
Neil & Judy Matheson
Janeen & Ernie McAdam
Helen McArthur
McCann Construction Inc
W. Kenneth McCarter
James & Mary McCartney
Dr. Frances McCordic
Jane McCruden
Bruce M. McDonald
Nancy & Doug McDonald
Stephen McDonald &
Tracey Bailey
Vern & Nora McDonald
F. G. Ted & Elda McDowell
Dr. Ross & Mrs. Fran
McElroy
Dr. Joan C. McEwan
George & Anne McFadyen
Joan & Don McGeachy
Anne McGuire
Graeme & Charlotte
McIntosh
Jackie & Keith McKay
Michael & Ernestine
McKenna
Jean & the late Angus
McKenzie Family Fund,
a fund within London
Community Fnd
Joyce & Darcy McKeough
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Payroll Coordinator
Carol Grosby
Kathy McKellar
Customer Service
Company
RepresentativesAccommodations
Greenroom
Supervisor
Luke Green
Ruth Stevens
Stephanie Marriott
Victoria Noble
MUSIC
DEPARTMENT
Facilities
Facilities Manager
Director of Music
Jeff Heggie
Rick Fox
Assistant Facilities
Manager
Val Bielecki
Music Administrator
Marilyn Dallman
Administrative
Head of Maintenance Assistant
Don Sweete
Ron Brown
2009 Stratford Shakespeare
Festival Board of Governors
FOUNDER: Tom Patterson
OFFICERS
Chair: Richard Rooney, Toronto
Vice Chair: M. Lee Myers, London
Treasurer: Rick Birmingham, Chatham
Secretary: Joy Wishart, Stratford
GOVERNORS
Barry Avrich, Toronto
Daniel S. Bernstein, Westport, CT
Elaine Nani Beutel, Toronto
Rahul Bhardwaj, Toronto
Jennifer Birmingham, Stratford
Sylvia Chrominska, Toronto
Richard Costley-White, Toronto
Janet Ecker, Ajax
Jane Freeman, Toronto
James R. Fugitte, Elizabethtown, KY
David Goldbloom, Toronto
Jonathan Goldbloom, Montreal
Rudyard Griffiths, Toronto
Jules Harris, Stratford and Tucson, AZ
Michael Homer, Toronto
Beth Kronfeld, Chicago, IL
Gary Levene, Kitchener
Arlene Lewis, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Timothy E. MacDonald, Stratford
Marcia Matsui, Stratford
Graham T. Parsons, Waterloo
Hilary Pearson, Montreal
Arlene Perly Rae, Toronto
Steve Rae, Stratford
Andrew Spriet, London
Ophelia Tong, Waterloo
Chip Vallis, Toronto and Stratford
Diane Walker, Toronto
Ex OFFICIO
General Director: Antoni Cimolino
Artistic Director: Des McAnuff
Mayor of Stratford:
His Worship Dan Mathieson
President, Stratford Festival
of America:
Barbara Schubert, Cleveland Heights, OH
Past Chair: Kelly Meighen
Address: c/o Corporate Secretary,
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
P.O. Box 520, Stratford, ON N5A 6V2
Guest Services
For assistance
See the house manager or any theatre
staff. We’re here to help.
In case of emergency
Theatres and exits are equipped with
emergency lighting. Our staff are trained
in evacuation procedures. You are
requested to follow their instructions
and remain calm. You will be directed
to a meeting area, where you are to
remain unless otherwise advised by staff
or emergency personnel. If you discover
a fire, you should activate the nearest
fire alarm and, immediately following
evacuation, identify yourself to a staff
member and provide details.
Cameras, cell phones and snacks
Please enjoy your snacks outside the
auditorium and bring only bottled water
inside. Cameras are not permitted. Please
double-check that your cell phone is
turned off.
First aid
See an usher or house manager.
Automated external defibrillators (AED)
are located in the lobbies and balconies
of the Festival, Avon, Tom Patterson and
Studio theatres.
In the interest of safety
Please do not walk on the stage.
For our patron and donor privacy
protection see
www. stratfordshakespearefestival.com
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Season
We are honoured to acknowledge the following corporations and individuals
who have made sponsorship commitments in the 2009 season:
2009 Season Partners
Support for the 2009 season of the Festival Theatre is
generously provided by
Support for the 2009 season of the Avon Theatre is
generously provided by
Laura Dinner and
Richard Rooney
The Birmingham Family
Festival Theatre
Macbeth
West Side Story
Cyrano de Bergerac
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Avon Theatre
The Importance
of Being Earnest
Major Sponsor Level
Julius Caesar
A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum
Tom Patterson Theatre
Sylvanacre Properties Ltd.
Group of Hotels
Festival Inn
The Arden Park Hotel
The River Garden Inn
Three Sisters
Bartholomew Fair
Ever Yours, Oscar
Phèdre
Sponsor Level
Studio Theatre
The Trespassers
Rice Boy
Zastrozzi
In-Kind Sponsors
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival gratefully acknowledges
the generous support of these contributors to our success: