jesus Christ superstar - Stratford Festival

Avon 

Theatre 

May 16 TO 

OcTOber 29, 2011 

Opens June 3 

Support for the 2011 season of the 

Avon Theatre is generously provided by 

The Birmingham Family 

From left: Brent Carver, Bruce Dow, 

Josh Young, Chilina Kennedy, Paul Nolan 

jesus Christ superstar 

Lyrics by Tim Rice 

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 

Directed by Des McAnuff 

Production support generously provided by 

Catherine and David Wilkes 

and in loving memory of 

Mary E. Turnbull by the 

George B. Turnbull family 

Antoni Cimolino 

General Director 

Des McAnuff 

Artistic Director

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An Epoch-Making 

Musical 

by James Magruder 

Below | Members of the company in rehearsal. Facing page, from top| 

Director Des McAnuff; Josh Young (Judas Iscariot) and Paul Nolan (Jesus 

CHrist); Bruce Dow (King Herod), centre, with members of the company. 

Following page | Brent Carver (Pontius Pilate) and Des McAnuff; Members of 

the company; Chilina Kennedy (Mary Magdalene); Paul Nolan. Photography 

by Erin Samuell. 

I find it hard to believe that it’s been forty years 

since I first heard Jesus Christ Superstar blasting 

out of my brother’s stereo on the other side of my 

bedroom wall. Until then I’d only heard our hero’s 

name used during Mass, or when my father 

was in a very bad temper. The title track, with 

its driving gospel-rock rhythm, up-to-the-minute 

lyrics and a melismatic Judas Iscariot wailing over 

a back-up group that sounded like the Supremes, 

struck this Catholic ten-year-old as vaguely 

wicked – which only made it more exciting. And 

then, elsewhere on the album, to have Mary 

Magdalene not know how to love Him, and King 

Herod make fun, in a wack-a-doo way, of His first 

miracle (the water and the wine), and then to hear 

the thirty-nine lashes – well, I was hooked. 

I wasn’t alone. By the summer of 1971, it seemed 

that the entire English-speaking world was 

wearing out, and singing along to, a two-record 

set of a ninety-minute setting of Christ’s Passion 

by the astonishingly young British songwriting 

team of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and 

lyricist Tim Rice. Hundreds of unauthorized 

amateur and church productions sprang up 

overnight, a phenomenon to match the spread of 

early Christianity, or at least the global mania that 

surrounded the première of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 

HMS Pinafore more than ninety years before. The 

much-anticipated New York opening of Jesus 

Christ Superstar in October 1971 earned the 

largest advance in Broadway history and made 

the covers of both Time and Life magazines. 

Though always envisioned for the stage – 

one of Lloyd Webber’s favourite playthings as 

a boy was a toy theatre – Superstar began 

life as a 45-rpm single (remember those?) and 

then a commissioned double album. Rice, a 

record executive, had begun working with the 

seventeen-year-old Lloyd Webber in 1965. After 

the surprising success of their Joseph and the 

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a short pop 

cantata for school choirs (long since expanded 

to a full-length show), Rice, drawn to historical 

figures with short lives but lasting influence, 

proposed that their next project tackle Hitler, 

John F. Kennedy, Richard the Lionheart, Robin 

Hood or Jesus. 

A musical dramatization of the trial, suffering 

and death of Jesus of Nazareth was an 

idea at least as old as the thirteenth-century 

Benediktbeurn Passion Play. Its, shall we say, 

familiarity as a plot would enable Rice to add 

psychological shadings to the characters, much 

as the Greek playwrights had tweaked their 

versions of the tragic deeds of the Houses 

of Atreus and Thebes for their audiences. 

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Moreover, “the greatest story ever told” wouldn’t 

require dialogue or traditional book scenes. It 

could behave like a rock concert, with its songs 

slamming, or bleeding, into one another. In short, 

it could be a rock opera. 

Like putting the Genesis story of Joseph’s coat 

in Technicolor, Rice’s canny appropriation of 

superstar, a notion popularized by Andy Warhol 

and epitomized by the likes of Mick Jagger, 

is very much a part of the sixties Zeitgeist. 

Most interested in the theme of betrayal, Rice 

downplays the apostle Peter in favour of Judas, 

who, one might argue, has an even greater 

dramatic arc than the Son of God. 

The show opens with “Heaven on Their Minds,” 

in which Judas frets that his old friend has begun 

to believe his own publicity – a dangerous 

moment for any fame-seeker. With more fans than 

followers, Jesus also seems to Judas to have 

forgotten his communitarian ideals to help the 

poor (also very sixties). With time and the proper 

documentation, a cult can become a religion, and 

Jesus, as much man as martyr, knows that his 

crucifixion will seal the deal. 

As the show progresses, with Mary Magdalene 

more than a passing temptation, we learn 

that Rice’s Jesus is reluctant to make the 

sacrifice his father demands of him. During the 

Reformation, heretics were burned for less. 

Equally controversial to devout listeners and the 

BBC, which initially banned the album, is that 

Jesus Christ Superstar doesn’t conclude with the 

Resurrection. Once more, god or man? In its initial 

New York run, picketers (as good for business 

as a BBC ban) replaced “Superstar” on their 

placards with “Lamb of God” or “Our Hope.” 

More sanguine religious leaders of the 

time were pleased that, in an era of rampant 

“godlessness” and social upheaval, Christ’s 

eternal message of love and peace was reaching 

a new and younger audience. If the message 

was a mix of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Rice, 

the medium was early Andrew Lloyd Webber. 

All these years later, with Evita, Cats, Starlight 

Express, Sunset Boulevard and the everlasting 

Phantom of the Opera behind him, it’s easy to 

forget that in his salad days – the ultra-mod 

sixties – Procul Harum and the Moody Blues 

were as big an influence on Lloyd Webber’s 

work as Puccini. For Superstar, he took the 

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notion of the post-Vatican II “guitar mass,” turned 

the speakers way up, layered the sound and 

hired major British musicians to play and sing 

a freewheeling cornucopia of rock, jazz, soul, 

gospel, funk, pop and classical sounds. 

Yet, as complicated as his score can get, its 

ultimate and enduring appeal is based on Lloyd 

Webber’s innate understanding of how the 

best theatre music often works in the simplest 

fashion. A character with big needs and a 

full throat expresses himself in a melody with 

indelible hooks. Like any Christian service, a 

moving production of Jesus Christ Superstar can 

be housed in a setting as opulent as Chartres 

Cathedral or as plain as a chapel in the desert. 

Western theatre, after all, started as part of the 

medieval Mass. Faith in the material is everything. 

Forty years on, Superstar and its 

methodologies, obsessions and rhythms are still 

with us. Representations of Jesus continue to 

court controversy – witness Serrano’s Piss Christ, 

Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and 

Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. When 

Green Day’s multi-platinum album American Idiot 

morphed into a book-less Broadway musical 

about a “Jesus of Suburbia,” its creators had 

Rice and Lloyd Webber to thank. When Andrew 

Jackson pulls a microphone out of his holster in 

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, he is getting 

the presidential Superstar treatment. Ditto the 

haplessly tawdry “celebrity” Anna Nicole Smith, 

heroine of her own opera, Anna Nicole, at this 

writing the hottest theatre ticket in London. The 

thematic equation of “Cult + Time = Religion” 

is currently being applied to Joseph Smith and 

his followers in the satiric musical The Book of 

Mormon, now previewing on Broadway. And 

although they have yet to set Hitler or Robin 

Hood to music, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir 

Timothy Rice have, after Jesus of Nazareth and 

Eva Peron, joined forces once more and turned 

their talents to the life and reign of another 

canonical leader: The Wizard of Oz, which 

opened at the London Palladium in March. 

James Magruder was the dramaturge for Des 

McAnuff’s Stratford production of A Funny Thing 

Happened on the Way to the Forum and also 

wrote about Kiss Me, Kate last season. 

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Des McAnuff and the 

resurgence of the rock musical 

by Chad Sylvain 

Considering the emergence of the rock musical, 

most would readily observe that 1970 was a 

watershed year that saw the release of the 

album-that-spawned-a-show, Jesus Christ 

Superstar. Also in 1970, a young rocker with a 

penchant for the theatrical made his first authorial 

foray into the field. 

Inspired by seeing that grandfather of rock 

musicals, Hair, Des McAnuff wrote his own rock 

musical, Urbania, for his Scarborough high 

school, and it went on to the Poor Alex Theatre 

in downtown Toronto. During the next forty years 

(most spent in the director’s chair), McAnuff would 

return again and again to the musical form on which 

he’d cut his theatrical teeth. They grew up together. 

When he was tapped to lead the La Jolla 

Playhouse in 1983, he brought Big River, an 

adaptation of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn 

that was fuelled by Roger Miller’s easygoing, 

twangy musical sensibility, to his second season 

there. When this show reached Broadway, it 

announced La Jolla’s arrival as a national theatre 

powerhouse for developing musicals. There, 

McAnuff alternated musicals by acknowledged 

masters, such as Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We 

Roll Along) and Frank Loesser (How to Succeed 

in Business Without Really Trying), with new 

musicals by composers from outside the usual 

Broadway vernacular. That included country 

music (Big River), jazz (Cannonball and Nat 

Adderley’s Shout Up a Morning) and, of course, 

rock: Ray Davies’s 80 Days and, in 1992, The 

Who’s Tommy. McAnuff also mentored a series 

of directors who assisted him on those musicals, 

including Michael Greif (who would go on to 

direct Rent and Next to Normal) and Alex Timbers 

(Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson). 

Prior to Tommy’s arrival on Broadway, the fire 

of rock music had nearly extinguished on the 

New York stage, with only Little Shop of Horrors 

and Chess to be found as exemplars in the 

decade preceding it. But after McAnuff and Pete 

Townshend plugged in, and pulled the stage, the 

guitar and the amp back together, a doorway was 

opened that Rent, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 

Spring Awakening, American Idiot and others 

rushed through – shows that prove the rock 

musical’s maturity. 

McAnuff’s personal Act II with the La Jolla 

Playhouse, from 2001 to 2006, after a seven-year 

hiatus, follows the observed pattern: this era was 

bookended by Dracula: The Musical and Michael 

Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 

(with rock music by McAnuff), and Zhivago and 

Jersey Boys at the other end. With the latter, the 

co-evolutionary paths of the kid rocker and the 

rock musical intersect at transcendence. 

Rock music is based, as it has been from the 

start, on a three- to five-minute dramaturgy. 

Musical theatre is based on a 90- to 105-minute 

dramaturgy, with one intermission. Mastery of 

both is not common. Using the first to create 

the second is an alchemy that McAnuff has 

consistently mastered. Listen to his work – and 

this is true for his Shakespeares and Chekhovs 

as much as his Superstars – and you will hear 

the steady, pulse-quickening beat that is his 

métier. It changes to match the character and the 

composition of the piece, to be sure. But there is 

a beat nevertheless, always there, always going 

on in just about everything he puts on stage. 

Chad Sylvain is the dramaturge for this 

production of Jesus Christ Superstar. 

The Story 

Jesus Christ has developed a fervent religious following in Nazareth, causing his apostle Judas Iscariot 

to fear a violent crackdown by the oppressive Roman regime. When the high priests Caiaphas and 

Annas decide that something must be done about this man whom the people now call their king, Judas 

is faced with a terrible choice. 

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Ideas and Insights 

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and staff behind every outstanding experience at the 

Stratford Shakespeare Festival. 

The Eternal Triangle 

It was seeing a television interview with Tim Rice, 

years ago, that led me to the doorstep of this 

production. 

I’d gotten to know Tim in the early 1990s, when 

I was working on The Who’s Tommy. He was very 

supportive of that production: he came to an early 

preview, took us out afterwards for a meal of 

Falstaffian proportions and told us that we were in 

great shape. He was truly a mensch, and I became 

very fond of him. So I’ve always followed his press 

coverage with great interest. 

One evening, when I happened to be channel 

surfing, I came upon an interview with him in which 

he talked at one point about Jesus Christ Superstar. 

He spoke first of all about the secular approach 

he’d taken to the story – leaving the big issues out 

of it and focusing on the history and on Christ the 

man, as opposed to Christ the Son of God – which 

I thought was a terrific idea in itself. Then he got on 

to the relationship between Jesus, Mary Magdalene 

and Judas, which he described as a love triangle. 

And I suddenly realized: yes of course. That’s 

exactly how that show is written. It doesn’t tackle 

the question of whether or not Jesus is the Son of 

God and certainly allows for the faith of Christian 

believers. But essentially it portrays Jesus simply as 

a truly remarkable man. 

Before I started working on Superstar, I wasn’t 

familiar with its previous stage incarnations; I knew 

the show only from the album. The great discovery 

for me in working on this production has been 

that Tim Rice is a very good playwright as well as 

a great lyricist, and that in Jesus Christ Superstar 

he and Andrew Lloyd Webber created not only 

a ground-breaking rock musical but also an 

outstanding work of drama. 

Des McAnuff 

Director 

costume Designs For Judas and Jesus by Paul Tazewell 

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Jesus Christ Superstar 

Lyrics by Tim Rice 

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 

The last seven days in the life of Jesus of Nazareth 

Artistic Credits 

Director 

Choreographer 

Musical Director 

Set Designer 

Costume Designer 

Lighting Designer 

Sound Designer 

Video Designer 

Associate Choreographer 

Associate Musical Director 

Dramaturge 

Fight Director 

Aerial Stunt Coordinator 

Assistant Director 

Assistant Choreographer 

Assistant Set Designer 

Assistant Costume Designer 

Assistant Lighting Designers 

Assistant Fight Director 

Dance Captain 

Fight Captain 

Stage Manager 

Assistant Stage Managers 

Production Assistant 

Production Stage Manager 

Technical Director 

Des McAnuff 

Lisa Shriver 

Rick Fox 

Robert Brill 

Paul Tazewell 

Howell Binkley 

Jim Neil 

Sean Nieuwenhuis 

Bradley “Shooz” Rapier 

Laura Burton 

Chad Sylvain 

Daniel Levinson 

Simon Fon 

Lezlie Wade 

Marc Kimelman 

Brandon Kleiman 

Laura Gardner 

Kaileigh Krysztofiak, 

Tristan Tidswell 

Kevin Robinson 

Krista Leis 

Julius Sermonia 

Brian Scott 

Meghan Callan, 

Melissa Rood 

Katerina Sokyrko 

Julie Miles 

elissa Horscroft 

Jesus Christ Superstar is presented through an exclusive 

arrangement with R & H Theatricals and Two Knights Rights 

Limited. www.rnhtheatricals.com. 

Cast 

Jesus Christ 

Judas Iscariot 

Mary Magdalene 

Pontius Pilate 

King Herod 

Caiaphas 

Annas 

Simon Zealotes 

Peter 

The other Apostles 

Thaddeus 

Matthew 

Bartholomew 

Thomas 

James the Lesser 

John 

James 

Phillip 

Andrew 

The Women 

Elizabeth 

Mary (Martha’s sister) 

Sarah 

Martha 

Rachel 

Esther 

Ruth 

The Priests 

Maid by the Fire 

Swings 

Paul Nolan 

Josh Young 

Chilina Kennedy 

Brent Carver 

Bruce Dow 

Marcus Nance 

Aaron Walpole 

Lee Siegel 

Mike Nadajewski 

Matt Alfano 

Mark Cassius 

Ryan Gifford 

Kyle Golemba 

Stephen Patterson 

Jason Sermonia 


Jonathan Winsby 

Sandy Winsby 

Mary Antonini 

Jacqueline Burtney 

Kaylee Harwood 

Melissa O’Neil 

Laurin Padolina 

Katrina Reynolds 

Dominique Roy 

Mark Cassius, 

Stephen Patterson, 

Sandy Winsby 


Krista Leis, 

Matthew Rossoff 

Soldiers, Crowd, Lepers, Attendants, Prostitutes played 

by members of the ensemble. 

Understudies 

Mark Cassius (Simon Zealotes, Annas), Kyle Golemba 

(Peter), Mike Nadajewski (King Herod), Melissa O’Neil 

(Mary Magdalene), Katrina Reynolds (Maid by the Fire), 

Aaron Walpole (Judas Iscariot), Jonathan Winsby (Jesus 

Christ), Sandy Winsby (Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas) 

Interval 

There will be one interval of 20 minutes. 

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Musical Numbers 

Act I 

Overture 

Heaven On 

Their Minds 

What’s the Buzz 

Strange Thing, 

Mystifying 

Everything’s Alright 

This Jesus Must Die 

Hosanna 

Simon Zealotes 

Poor Jerusalem 

Pilate’s Dream 

The Temple / 

Make Us Well 

Everything’s 

Alright Reprise 

I Don’t Know How 

to Love Him 

Damned For All Time / 

Blood Money 

Act II 

The Last Supper 

Gethsemane 

The Arrest 

Peter’s Denial 

Pilate and Christ 

Orchestra 

Judas 

Jesus, Mary, Ensemble 

Judas, Jesus, Ensemble 

Mary, Judas, Jesus, 

Ensemble 

Caiaphas, Annas, Priests, 

Ensemble 

Caiaphas, Jesus, 

Ensemble 

Simon, Ensemble 

Jesus 

Pilate 

Ensemble, Jesus 

Mary, Jesus 

Mary 

Judas, Caiaphas, Annas, 

Ensemble 

Jesus, Judas, Apostles 

Jesus, Judas 

Jesus, Peter, Caiaphas, 

Annas, Apostles, Ensemble 

Peter, Maid by the Fire, 

Mary, Priests 

Pilate, Jesus, Annas, 

Ensemble 

King Herod 

Herod’s Song 

Could We Start Again 

Please 

Mary, Peter 

Judas’ Death 

Judas, Caiaphas, Annas 

Trial by Pilate / 

39 Lashes Pilate, Caiaphas, Jesus, 

Ensemble 

Superstar 

Crucifixion 

John 19:41 

Judas, Ensemble 

Jesus 

Orchestra 

Production Credits 

Responsibilities backstage during the performance accomplished by: 

Stage Carpenter 

Paul Hughes 

Alternate 

Wayne Nero 

Master Electrician 

Greg Bride 

Alternate 

Jay Klassen 

Property Master 

Mark Fisher 

Head of Sound 

Lance Hinds 

Crew 

Andy Allen, Craig Geiger, 

Bruno Hacquebard, 

Dan Hoodless, 

Michael Izma, 

Chris Knarr, 

Jeremy Lach, 

Nancy McCune, 

Andrew Mawdsley, 

John Muxlow, 

Martin Penner 

Wardrobe Mistress 

Sharon Parker 

Wardrobe Attendants Caroline Broadley, 

Heather Diamond, 

Mary-Lou Mason, 

Luci Pottle, 

Christine Smith, 

Maxine Tubbe 

Swing 

rebecca Dillow 

Wigs and Makeup Show Head Erica Croft-Fraser 

Wigs and Makeup Crew Alana Scheel, 

Stanley Wickens 

Orchestra 

Rick Fox, Conductor, Piano/Organ; Ian Harper, Clarinet/ 

Flute/Tenor Saxophone; Steve Mcdade, Trumpet; 

Derek Conrod, French Horn; Dale Anne Brendon, 

Drums; David Campion, Percussion; Kevin Muir, Bass; 

Terry Mckenna, Kevin Ramessar, Guitars; Laura Burton, 

Marilyn Dallman, Keyboard 

Rehearsal Pianist 

Laura Burton 

Music Preparation 

Don Sweete 

Acknowledgements 

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, MCISc, MD, London Health Sciences Centre 

Vocal Function Clinic, London; John Yoo, MD, London 

Health Sciences Centre, London. 

Pianos tuned and maintained by Don Stephenson. 

Front cover image provided by STEAMco., creative 

advertising agency for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. 

Front cover and page 1 photography by Andrew Eccles. 

The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre 

From General Director Antoni Cimolino and Artistic Director Des McAnuff 

Thirty-two members of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2011 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. 

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 2011 company: 

Skye Brandon 08/09 

Evan Buliung 99 

Shane Carty 03 

Dan Chameroy 03 

Laura Condlln 04 

Victor Dolhai 10 

Miranda Edwards 10 

Josh Epstein 10 

Martha Farrell 04 

Paul Fauteux 02 

Bruce Godfree 09/10 

Carmen Grant 10 

Ashleigh Hendry 10 

Dion Johnstone 03 

Chilina Kennedy 09 

Sarah Kitz 10 

Ian Lake 07/08 

Amanda Lisman 09 

Keira Loughran 05 (new plays) 

Kennedy C. MacKinnon 99 (voice coach) 

Brendan Murray 00 

Paul Nolan 09 

Trent Pardy 07/08 

Gareth Potter 03 

Christopher Prentice 08/09 

Andrea Runge 09 

Tyrone Savage 10 

E.B. Smith 10 

Evan Stillwater 04 (tailor) 

Sara Topham 00 

Dylan Trowbridge 10 

Sophia Walker 05 

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Director of Production 

Production 

John Tiggeloven 

Technical Director – Scenic Construction Andrew Mestern 

Wardrobe Manager 

Anne Moore 

Production Administrator 

Cheryl Bender 

Assistant Technical Director 

David Campbell 

Technical Management Assistant Michael Besworth 

Administrative Assistant 

Cindy Jordan 

Design Coordinator 

Alix Dolgoy 

Resident Sound Designer 

Peter McBoyle 

Director of Music 

Rick Fox 

Music Administrator 

Marilyn Dallman 

Electronics Technologist 

Chris Wheeler 

Transportation 

Charlie Fox, Ian A. Fraser, 

Michael Taylor, James Thistle 

Properties 

Head of Properties 

Assisted by 

Properties Buyer 

Assistant Properties Buyer 

Scenic Art 

Head Scenic Artist 

Assistant Head Scenic Artist 

Assisted by 

Scenic Carpentry 

Head Carpenter 

Head of Automation 

Lead Hand 

Assisted by 

Dona Hrabluk 

Eric Ball, Lucas Commerford, 

Ken Dubblestyne, 

Carolyn Horley, 

Michelle Jamieson, 

Shirley Lee, 

Jennifer Macdonald, 

Brian McLeod, Dylan Mundy, 

Heather Ruthig, 

Jennifer Stevens, 

Elizabeth Thomas 

Tracy Fulton 

Penelope Schledewitz 

Christopher Klein 

Daniel McManus 

Kevin Kemp, Lisa Summers, 

Laurie Tomé, Blair Yeomans 

Neil R. Cheney 

Ian Phillips 

Ryan Flanagan 

Simon Aldridge, Jeff Baici, 

David Bedford, Mark Card, 

John Currie, Craig Geiger, 

Gary Geiger, Anthony Gentile, 

Jeffrey Hughes, Paul Hyde, 

Chris Knarr, William Malmo, 

John Muxlow, Wayne Nero, 

John Roth, Joe Saunders, 

Geoff Taylor, Cliff Tipping, 

Joe Tracey, Michael Woods 

Wardrobe 

Head of Wardrobe 

Assistant Head of Wardrobe 

Seasonal Wardrobe Supervisor 

Cutters 

First Hands 

Sewers 

Bijoux/Decoration 

Assisted by 

Boots and Shoes 

Assisted by 

Costume Painting 

Dyeing 

Assisted by 

Millinery 

Assisted by 

Millinery Apprentice 

Wardrobe Buyer 

Assistant Buyer 

Wardrobe Apprentice 

Warehouse Supervisor 

Warehouse Assistant 

Wigs and Makeup 

Head of Wigs and Makeup 

Construction Lead Hand 

Construction Crew 

Additional Wigs by 

Bradley Dalcourt 

Elizabeth Copeman 

Linda Sparks 

Anna Baines, Johanna Billings, 

Kim Crossley, 

Melanie Farrar-Jackson, 

Evan Stillwater 

Mary-Lou Mason, 

Gina Schellenberg, 

Patricia Taylor 

Monica Berg, 

Anna-Claude Biron, 

Caroline Broadley, 

Dolores Brodhagen, 

Cindy Brown, 

Natalie Crittenden, 

Samantha Crossley, 

Allison Erb, Lisa Farinaccio, 

Sharon Gashgarian, June Gunn, 

Shona Humphrey, 

Olga M. Kouzmina, 

Debbie Kschesinski, Anna Lach, 

Norma Lachance, 

Paulette Laporte, 

Deborah S. Lount, 

Lori McMahon, Lisa Menzel, 

Krista Nauman, 

Marianne van den Heuvel, 

Catherine Weber 

Tami MacDonald 

Susan Allerston-Richards, 

Rebecca Dillow, 

Liane Guttadauria, Kathi Posliff 

Karen Beames 

Sarah Cook, Mark Fetter, 

Michael Karn, Connie Puetz 

Lisa Hughes 

Sylvia Minarcin 

Linda Pinhay 

Thea C. Crawford 

Isabel Bloor, Helen Flower, 

Kaz Maxine 

Melissa Nurmi 

Michelle Ashbourne 

Caitlin Luxford 

Samantha Aylsworth 

Madonna Decker 

Valerie Lariviere 

Gerald Altenburg 

Erica Croft-Fraser 

Teddi Barrett, 

Jessica Elsbrie, 

Lena Festoso Richard, 

Tracy Frayne, Lorna Henderson, 

Dave Kerr, Linda Langenegger, 

Angela Moncur, Barb Newbery, 

Alan Scheel, Julie Scott, 

Stanley Wickens, 

christine Vaughan 

The Michael Langham Workshop for 

Classical Direction 

“The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction will continue 

Michael Langham’s tradition of mentorship in a risk-free environment, 

allowing directors to develop their craft with the rich history and evolving 

artistry of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.” 

– Des McAnuff 

We extend our thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage, 

the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation and Johanna Metcalf. 

Participants in the 

2011 workshop: 

Sharon Bajer 

Eric Benson 

Dian Marie Bridge 

Heather Davies 

Alan Dilworth 

Varrick Grimes 

Thomas Morgan Jones 

Rachel Peake 

Andrew Shaver 

Rachel Slaven 

Lezlie Wade 

Funding for artisan apprenticeships is provided by the William H. 

Somerville Theatre Artisan Apprenticeship Fund, funded by the J. P. 

Bickell Foundation, and by Robert and Jacqueline Sperandio. 

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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Tim Rice 

Lyricist 

Born in 1944, Tim Rice 

began songwriting in 

1965. That same year 

he met fellow budding 

songwriter Andrew 

Lloyd Webber, whose 

musical ambitions 

were in theatre rather 

than rock or pop. They 

teamed up and wrote 

four musicals together from 1965 to 1978. The first, 

The Likes of Us (1965-66), was performed for the 

first time in 2005. The other three, Joseph and 

the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus 

Christ Superstar (1969-71) and Evita (1976-78) were 

more immediate successes. 

After the pair went their separate ways in the 

early 1980s, Rice wrote Blondel (1983) with Stephen 

Oliver. It ran for a year in London and was followed 

in 1986 by Chess, in collaboration with ABBA’s 

Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Chess had 

a healthy run in the West End but flopped on 

Broadway in 1988. Many other productions of it 

have been mounted worldwide in the years since. 

In the 1990s Rice worked primarily for the Disney 

company, writing lyrics for the movies Aladdin and 

The Lion King and for the stage shows Beauty 

and the Beast, King David, The Lion King and 

Elton John’s Aida. Between Disney commitments 

he wrote the words for Cliff Richard’s theatrical 

blockbuster Heathcliff, which toured the U.K. in 

1995-96. For Dreamworks, he joined forces again 

with Elton John to write the score for the 2000 

animated film The Road to El Dorado. 

His awards include a star on Hollywood’s Walk of 

Fame, three Oscars, four Tonys, five Grammys and 

thirteen Ivor Novello Awards. The first volume of 

his autobiography, Oh What a Circus, was 

published in 1999. 

Andrew 

Lloyd 

Webber 

Composer 

Andrew Lloyd Webber 

is the composer 

of The Likes of Us, 

Joseph and the 

Amazing Technicolor 

Dreamcoat, Jesus 

Christ Superstar, 

By Jeeves, Evita, Song & Dance, Cats, Starlight 

Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of 

Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, 

The Beautiful Game, The Woman in White and, 

most recently, Love Never Dies, which continues 

the story of the Phantom and Christine. He also 

composed the film scores of Gumshoe and The 

Odessa File, and the classical work Requiem. 

Besides many of his own shows, his credits 

as producer include Daisy Pulls It Off, Lend Me 

a Tenor, Shirley Valentine, La Bête, the groundbreaking 

Bollywood musical Bombay Dreams, The 

Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz and the film of 

The Phantom of the Opera. 

He pioneered television casting for musical 

theatre with the Emmy award-winning BBC series 

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? He 

repeated his success with Any Dream Will Do, 

which cast the title role of Joseph and the Amazing 

Technicolor Dreamcoat, and I’d Do Anything, which 

cast the roles of Nancy and Oliver for Oliver! In 

the 2010 BBC series Over the Rainbow, Danielle 

Hope was cast in the role of Dorothy for his new 

production of The Wizard of Oz. 

His awards include seven Tonys, three 

Grammys (including Best Contemporary Classical 

Composition for Requiem), seven Oliviers, a Golden 

Globe, an Oscar, two International Emmys, the 

Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award 

for Excellence in Musical Theatre and The Kennedy 

Center Honor. 

He was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary 

life peer in 1997. 

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The Company 

Matt Alfano 

Third season: Thaddeus in Jesus Christ Superstar and appears in Camelot. 

Stratford: West Side Story, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Music Man, Moby 

Dick. Elsewhere: Selected credits: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor 

Dreamcoat (The Grand Theatre); Sweet Charity, Dance Legends (Drayton 

Entertainment); We Will Rock You (Mirvish); Anne of Green Gables, Canada 

Rocks (Charlottetown Festival); Verb.atim, Rain (Helix Dance Project). 

Training: Advanced certificates in RAD, CDTA and ADAPT syllabuses. Banff ballet school, 

RWB School, and is an alumnus of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Et cetera: In 

between performing gigs, Matt spends his time choreographing and teaching dance all 

across Canada with his co-owned dance workshop company, Shuffle Pop. “Nothing in my 

life could be done without the inspiration and support of my friends and family. Thanks, love, 

peace.” 

Laura Burton 

31st season: Music director of The Grapes of Wrath and associate musical 

director of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: Over 30 musicals, most 

recently Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (musical director) 

and West Side Story and Cabaret (associate conductor). Composing 

credits include Hamlet, Inherit the Wind, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. 

Elsewhere (selected): Musical director of Rich and Famous (ACT), The Music 

Man (Citadel), A Christmas Carol (ACT and YPT), The Apple Tree (TNB), Anything Goes (STC). 

Composer for I Am My Own Wife (NAC); A Streetcar Named Desire (Walnut Street Theatre); 

The Misanthrope, Don Carlos (Soulpepper); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); 

Thunder Perfect Mind (collaboration with Paul Gross, Toronto Free Theatre); Cyrano (Citadel). 

Awards: Four Guthrie Awards, two Sterling Awards. Et cetera: Laura also plays in the local 

band The Trespassers. 

Mary Antonini 

Third season: Lady Sybil in Camelot and Elizabeth in Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Stratford: Amazon in Peter Pan, Tina in King of Thieves, Rose in A 

Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosalia in West Side Story. Elsewhere: Joseph 

and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Helix Dance Project, The Vagina 

Monologues, Anton in Show Business, The Wizard of Oz. Television: Credits 

include RenegadePress.com, The Incredible Story Studio. Et cetera: Mary 

is thrilled and blessed to be part of this wonderful Stratford company. A big thank-you to 

Stephen and Peter, Mum and Christine; and love to the Ladle. 

Meghan Callan 

11th season: Assistant stage manager of Jesus Christ Superstar and The 

Homecoming. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of The Tempest, The Two 

Gentlemen of Verona, West Side Story, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oliver!, Fallen 

Angels, Into the Woods, Guys and Dolls, The Swanne: Princess Charlotte 

(The Acts of Venus), My Fair Lady, Twelfth Night, The Sound of Music, 

Hamlet and Fiddler on the Roof. Elsewhere: Meghan has enjoyed working 

across Canada for the Shaw Festival, the Atlantic Theatre Festival, Theatre New Brunswick, 

the National Arts Centre, the Citadel Theatre, the Globe Theatre and the Lighthouse Festival 

Theatre. Recently Meghan has had the opportunity to work in stage management on events 

for corporate clients such as General Motors, Toyota Canada International and the Retail 

Council of Canada. Et cetera: Meghan sends her love and thanks to Peter, Ella and Beatrice. 

Howell Binkley 

Stratford debut: Lighting designer of Jesus Christ Superstar. Howell is 

honoured to reunite with Des McAnuff, with whom he collaborated on 

Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls, The Farnsworth Invention, Dracula and How 

to Succeed…, starring Matthew Broderick. Broadway (selected): Lombardi, 

Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), 

Gypsy, starring Patti LuPone, In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Avenue 

Q, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony nomination). Elsewhere: Joffrey 

Ballet’s Billboards, and more than 60 pieces for Parsons Dance, which he co-founded with 

David Parsons. Six musicals in repertory for the Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Celebration. 

Awards: A five-time Helen Hayes Award recipient, Mr. Binkley received the 1993 Sir 

Laurence Olivier Award and a Dora Award for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 Henry Hewes 

Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Award for Jersey Boys. 

Brent Carver 

Eighth season: Merlyn/King Pellinore in Camelot and Pontius Pilate in 

Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: Selected credits: As You Like It, Jacques 

Brel, Fiddler on the Roof, Elizabeth Rex, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, 

Cabaret, The Pirates of Penzance, Foxfire, Long Day’s Journey. Elsewhere: 

Selected credits: The Elephant Man, The Story of My Life, Vigil, Tartuffe 

(Canadian Stage); The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish Productions); High Life 

(Crow’s Theatre); Don Carlos (Soulpepper); Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac (the Citadel); 

King Lear, Parade (the Lincoln Center, N.Y.C.); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Toronto, London, 

N.Y.C.); On the Harborfront in concert, with Rick Fox and Laura Burton. Awards: Recipient 

of Dora, Gemini, Etrog, N.Y. Drama Desk and Tony awards. Film/TV/Recordings: Once in a 

Lifetime, Ararat, The Event, Sleepy Hollow, Deeply, The Wars, Young at Heart, Lilies, Parade, 

Cyrano and Walk Me to the Corner. 

Robert Brill 

Fourth season: Set designer of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: The 

Tempest, Macbeth, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Broadway: Guys 

and Dolls, Assassins (Tony nominations); The Story of My Life, 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, 

The Rehearsal. Collaborations with Des McAnuff include Faust (English 

National Opera), Wozzeck (San Diego Opera), Sinatra (Radio City), The Wiz (La Jolla). 

Numerous designs throughout the U.S. include White Noise (Royal George Chicago), 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), The Laramie Project (N.Y., Denver, Berkeley, La Jolla), The House of Martin 

Guerre (Goodman Theatre/Canadian Stage). Founding member of Sledgehammer Theatre. 

Awards: 2004 Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. 

Mark Cassius 

Second season: Fifth Narrator in The Grapes of Wrath and Matthew 

in Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: My One and Only and Oklahoma! 

Elsewhere: Mark was a member of the renowned a cappella group The 

Nylons (1997-2005). Theatre credits include Ragtime and Shenandoah 

(Broadway); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Elgin Theatre 

and Canadian national tour); Miss Saigon (Princess of Wales Theatre); 

Dreamgirls (Stage West Calgary and Theatre Aquarius); Sweet Charity and Dance Legends 

(Drayton Entertainment); A Starbright Christmas (D2 Entertainment). Film: Anchor Baby 

(Nigerian/Canadian feature). Awards: Legend Award (World A Cappella Association). Et 

cetera: Music producer/director, composer, writer and teacher. “Heartfelt thanks to the 

family life has given me. For the love of Art.” 

Jacqueline Burtney 

Stratford debut: Mary (Martha’s sister) in Jesus Christ Superstar and 

appears in Camelot. Recently: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the 

Forum (Stratford/Mirvish Productions). Elsewhere: Cabaret (Sally Bowles), 

Pippin, Carnival (Olga) and Big Time Operator (Bambi); Panopticon for The 

Dance Concept. Film/TV: Hellcats (CW Network). Training: Proud graduate 

of Sheridan Institute’s Music Theatre Performance Program. Et cetera: 

Jacqueline would like to thank Scot Denton, Marie Baron for always being there, Stephen 

and Peter, and, of course, her mom and dad. 

Bruce Dow 

12th season: Squire Dap in Camelot and King Herod in Jesus Christ 

Superstar. Stratford (selected): Trinculo, The Tempest; Speed, The Two 

Gentlemen of Verona; Pseudolus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way 

to the Forum; Emcee, Cabaret; Dromio of Syracuse, The Comedy of 

Errors; Luther Billis, South Pacific; the Baker, Into the Woods; Nicely-Nicely 

Johnson, Guys and Dolls; Sancho Panza, Man of La Mancha. Elsewhere: 

Broadway: Jane Eyre, The Music Man, Anything Goes (a benefit for Lincoln Center Theater). 

Toronto: Pirelli, Sweeney Todd (Canadian Stage, Dora nomination), Mr. Fox, Jacob Two-Two 

Meets the Hooded Fang (LKTYP). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury/Granada); The 

Rick Mercer Report (CBC); The Tempest (Melbar Entertainment). Solo Recordings: Keepin’ 

Out of Mischief, Lucky to Be Me. Training: BFA Acting, MFA Directing, UBC. Website: www. 

brucedow.com. Et cetera: “In loving memory of the ‘Mysterious Man,’ Peter Donaldson.” 

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Simon Fon 

Third season: Fight director of Titus Andronicus, stunt coordinator of The 

Little Years and Hosanna and aerial stunt coordinator of Camelot and 

Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: West Side Story, Macbeth, A Funny 

Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Zastrozzi, Bartholomew Fair, 

Phèdre, Peter Pan, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Rice Boy, A Midsummer 

Night’s Dream; King Lear (Birmingham Conservatory). Elsewhere: With 

over 400 professional credits stretching across Canada from Stratford to Yellowknife, Simon 

specializes in all areas: weaponry, aerial flying and unarmed combat (Eastern and Western). 

Most recently Simon has worked on Dora-winning projects The Mill, Hamlet (Necessary 

Angel) and When We Were Birds. Executive Director and founder of Riot ACT, earning 17 

nominations and eight awards in their past four years, including Simon for Male Action 

Performer of the Year, 2009 AOF Festival, California. Websites: www.simonfon.com and 

www.riotact.ca. 

Kaylee Harwood 

Stratford debut: Guenevere in Camelot and Sarah in Jesus Christ 

Superstar. Elsewhere: Selected credits: Johanna in Sweeney Todd (Citadel 

Theatre); Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Western Canada Theatre); Cosette 

in Les Misérables (Arts Club); A Year With Frog and Toad and Gertrude 

McFuzz in Seussical (Carousel Theatre); Mr. Pim Passes By and South Pacific 

(Chemainus Theatre Festival); Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal (shameless 

hussy productions); Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Dorine in Tartuffe (TWU). 

Training: Trinity Western University. Awards: Two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards in 2010: 

Outstanding Performance for the ensemble cast of A Year With Frog and Toad, and the Sam 

Payne Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Et cetera: Born in London, Ontario, and now 

based in Vancouver, B.C., Kaylee happily returns to the area to make her Stratford debut. 

Rick Fox 

Fourth season: Director of Music for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. 

Musical director of Camelot and Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: New 

musical arrangements/musical supervisor for Kiss Me, Kate and musical 

arrangements/musical supervisor for Jacques Brel. Musical director: 

Evita, West Side Story, Cabaret; musical supervisor, Forum; composer, A 

Midsummer Night’s Dream, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Broadway: 

Blood Brothers, Rent. Off-Broadway: Once Around the City. Toronto credits include The 

Lord of the Rings (world première), We Will Rock You, The Producers, The Lion King, Rent, 

The Who’s Tommy, Phantom of the Opera and Annie Get Your Gun at Massey Hall. Film/ 

TV/Recordings: Rick produces CDs and has composed music, arranged and conducted TV 

specials, including a PBS special with Colm Wilkinson and Patti LuPone. Awards: Four Dora 

Awards (nine nominations) for musical direction. 

Chilina Kennedy 

Third season: Rose of Sharon in The Grapes of Wrath and Mary Magdalene 

in Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: Lois Lane (Kiss Me, Kate), Eva Perón 

(Evita), Maria (West Side Story), Philia (Forum). A proud member of the 

2009/10 Birmingham Conservatory. Elsewhere: Chilina recently reprised 

Philia in Forum at the Canon Theatre in Toronto. Other credits include 

Guest Artist for an evening with Jason Robert Brown at Toronto’s Glenn 

Gould Studio; The President (Lydia), Wonderful Town (Eileen), Summer and Smoke (Nellie), 

Mack and Mabel, Gypsy, Major Barbara, Follies – In Concert (Shaw Festival); Reprise 

Concerts (St. Lawrence Centre); Variations on a Nervous Breakdown (TIFT); The Lord of the 

Rings (Mirvish); Mamma Mia! (Sophie) (U.S. first national tour); Anne of Green Gables, Emily 

(Charlottetown Festival); On Albert Street, Seussical – The Musical (Aquarius); A Chorus 

Line, The Last Resort (Stage West). Recordings: Chilina is featured on CBC’s Celebrate the 

Seasons and has recorded with Burt Bacharach. 

Laura Gardner 

Fifth season: Assistant costume designer of Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Stratford: Assistant costume designer of Kiss Me, Kate; assistant designer 

of West Side Story, The Music Man, To Kill a Mockingbird. Elsewhere: 

Costume designer of The Mill: Ash (part 4), associate costume designer 

of The Mill, parts 1 and 2 (Theatrefront); set and costume designer of The 

Paper Bag Princess & More (PTE); costume designer of Orson’s Shadow and 

The Scene (Pilot Group); production designer of The Great Gatsby (adapted and directed by 

David Rotenberg); set designer of the 2009 and 2010 Siminovitch Prize award ceremony, 

Gorey Story (Thistle Project) and Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer 

Night’s Dream (Classical Theatre Project). Film/TV: Period costume and textile consultant, 

Red Riding Hood (Warner Bros.). Training: BFA, York University, theatre production and 

design program. Awards: Brian Jackson Award, Stratford Festival. 

Marc Kimelman 

Third season: Assistant choreographer of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: 

West Side Story, Forum, Cabaret, The Trojan Women. Elsewhere: Marc has 

choreographed productions of West Side Story, Jon & Jen, Tick Tick Boom! 

and A New Brain. He has worked with Katy Perry, Phish, Kurt Browning, 

Deborah Cox, Chaka Khan and Neil Young. He has choreographed for 

Degrassi: The Next Generation, Instant Star, the Toronto Raptors and Love 

Letter from an Open Grave, and danced alongside John Travolta in New Line Cinema’s 

Hairspray feature film. In N.Y.C., Marc choreographed workshops for a new African-American 

play called Holiday Diary and a musical featuring the music of Styx. He will be returning 

to New York to work on Seven Deadly Sins for the N.Y.C. Ballet, featuring Patti LuPone. 

Et cetera: “Huge thank-you to Lisa Shriver and all my love to family and friends.” www. 

marckimelman.com. 

Ryan Gifford 

Second season: Bartholomew in Jesus Christ Superstar and appears in 

Camelot. Stratford: Oliver!, South Pacific. Elsewhere: Selected credits: Joey 

Primo in Rock of Ages, Dirty Dancing (North American première) (Mirvish); 

Tap Dogs (2010 North American tour); Munkustrap in Cats (Neptune); Big 

Deal in West Side Story (Citadel); Brigadoon, Country Legends, Oklahoma! 

(Drayton); White Christmas (Aquarius). Film/TV: Score: A Hockey Musical 

(2010 TIFF opener), Once Upon a Mattress (ABC/ Disney), Michael Jackson’s This Is It 

(Columbia Pictures), The John Dore Show, Road to Avonlea. Training: Second City. Awards: 

Mr. Dance of Canada. Et cetera: Proud member of the MGT. Ryan would like to thank his 

family for all their support, his friends from “the ’shwa” for always having his back, and 

everyone at the Talent House for getting him to the place he loves the most: the stage. 

Brandon Kleiman 

Second season: Assistant set designer of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: 

Assistant set designer, Evita. Elsewhere: Set and costume design 

includes Jerry Springer – The Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, High 

Fidelity the Musical, Richard III (Hart House Theatre); Smackheaded Peter 

(Heather Davies, SummerWorks 2010); Blind Date (Rebecca Northan, 

director, World Stage at Harbourfront Centre, Dora-nominated: outstanding 

production); Napoleon: The Musical (Richard Ouzounian, director, Talk Is Free Theatre); A 

Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in Action); The Shadow of a Boy, Vinegar Tom, 

Terrorism (Royal Porcupine Productions). Film/TV: Costume design includes Seventh Day 

(short), The Reception (Bravo!FACT, short), Piece of Mind (Landed Entertainments, feature). 

Kyle Golemba 

Fourth season: Bookkeeper in The Grapes of Wrath and Thomas in Jesus 

Christ Superstar. Stratford: Kiss Me, Kate (Gremio), Evita, West Side Story 

(A-rab), Fuente Ovejuna, The Music Man, Cyrano de Bergerac, plus several 

performances as Bill (Kate) and Che (Evita). Elsewhere: Forum (Stratford/ 

Mirvish), Anne of Green Gables (Gilbert, Stage West), The Sound of Music 

(Rolf, Neptune), Anne and Gilbert (Roy, Summerside), Irving Berlin’s White 

Christmas (Sony). PAL Stratford: Assassins (Zangara), Stratford Miscast (co-director with 

Steve Ross). Film/TV: Hairspray (New Line), Canada’s Walk of Fame (CTV) and Queer as Folk 

(Showtime). Training: Sheridan College. Website: www.kylegolemba.com. Et cetera: Kyle 

and actor/musician Adam White created Making Love in a Canoe, an all-Canadian cabaret 

which will be performed at Stratford Summer Music on August 13. Kyle would like to thank 

you for supporting live theatre and send his love to his incredible family and friends. 

Kaileigh Krysztofiak 

Stratford debut: Assistant lighting designer of Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Elsewhere: Assistant technical director of Romeo and Juliet (National 

Arts Centre); technical director and lighting designer of Romeo and Juliet 

(Repercussion Theatre) and of the 2010 Toronto Festival of Clowns; lighting 

designer of Now He Belongs to the Ages (Angels), Liliom and Arcadia 

(National Theatre School of Canada) and The Particulars (Toronto Fringe 

Festival 2009). Training: The National Theatre School of Canada (2008-2011). 

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Krista Leis 

Fifth season: Appears in Camelot and swing in Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Stratford: A Funny Thing... Forum, West Side Story (2009, assistant 

choreographer), The Music Man, Fuente Ovejuna, Gigi, The Hunchback of 

Notre Dame, West Side Story (1999), The Tempest. Elsewhere: A Funny 

Thing... Forum (Mirvish); The Voice of the Turtle (Classic Theatre Festival); 

Guys and Dolls (NAC); White Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, Cats 

(Neptune Theatre). Film/TV: Hairspray (New Line), Roxana (Bravo!), The Music Man, Eloise 

at the Plaza (Disney), Interstate 60, Charms for the Easy Life, Missing, On the Line, Get Over 

It. Awards: Krista is the proud recipient of four Guthrie Awards. Et cetera: Krista is also a 

certified Pilates instructor. “So much love to my wonderfully supportive family.” 

Daniel Levinson 

Third season: Fight director of Richard III and Jesus Christ Superstar and 

stunt coordinator of The Grapes of Wrath. Elsewhere: A certified fight 

master with Fight Directors Canada, Daniel is the owner of Rapier Wit, 

Canada’s oldest stage combat school, and is a founding member of the 

Riot ACT stunt team. He has fight-directed for such companies as Volcano 

Theatre, Canadian Stage, Actors Repertory Company, ACT Productions, 

Shakespeare in the Square, Factory, Tarragon, Shakespeare in the Rough and RBC Festival 

of Classics. He teaches stage combat internationally, and is the resident stage combat 

instructor at Sheridan College, University of Toronto at Mississauga and Canadore College. 

Workshop highlights: Fight Directors Canada National Workshop (Banff, Victoria, Toronto, 

Montreal), Boston University, Arcadia University, the International Scuola Brancaleoni Stage 

Combat Workshop (Italy) and the Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop 

(Banff). Training: Daniel holds a BFA (acting) from York University. Websites: www.rapierwit. 

com and www.riotact.ca. 

Des McAnuff 

Fifth season: Fourth season as Artistic Director of the Stratford 

Shakespeare Festival. Director of Jesus Christ Superstar and Twelfth Night. 

Composer (with Michael Roth) for Twelfth Night. Stratford: Director of As 

You Like It, The Tempest starring Christopher Plummer (2010); Macbeth, 

A Funny Thing… (2009); Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra starring 

Christopher Plummer (2008); Macbeth (1983) with Nicholas Pennell and 

Roberta Maxwell. Elsewhere: Des McAnuff was part of Toronto’s burgeoning theatre scene 

in the 1970s. As Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse, he directed over 30 productions 

of Shakespeare and other classics, new plays and musicals. Broadway: Guys and 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). Other New York: Crazy Locomotive, Mary Stuart, 

his play Leave It to Beaver is Dead. Australia: New musical Dr. Zhivago premièred in Sydney 

(February 2011). Opera: Faust (N.Y.’s Metropolitan Opera, 2011, and English National Opera, 

2010). Film: Cousin Bette and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (director), Iron 

Giant (producer) and Quills (executive producer). Stratford’s Caesar and Cleopatra and The 

Tempest were also filmed for wide Canadian theatrical release to sold-out houses across 

the country. Training: Attended Ryerson University (honorary doctorate June 2011). Other 

Awards: Two-time Tony, Olivier and Dora award-winning director and 2005/2006 recipient of 

the Drama League’s prestigious Julia Hansen Award for lifetime achievement. 

Julie Miles 

14th season: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre. Stage 

manager of The Homecoming. Stratford: Six seasons as production stage 

manager (Tom Patterson, Avon and Studio theatres). Stage manager for 

Jacques Brel, Shakespeare’s Universe, Othello and The Measure of Love/ 

Ruth Draper on Tour. Assistant stage management highlights: Noises Off, 

The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, Inherit the Wind, Fiddler 

on the Roof. Elsewhere: Founding member of The Grey-Bruce Arts Collective; production 

stage manager for The Odd Couple and As You Like It (Soulpepper); stage manager for 

Mother Goose (Theatre Athena), Bell, Book and Candle (Touchmark Theatre) and A Number 

(Canadian Stage). Opera credits: assistant stage manager for Don Giovanni, Roméo et 

Juliette, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Eugene Onegin, Lakmé and Tosca (Opera Ontario) and La 

Bohème, Die Walküre and Falstaff (Canadian Opera Company). Training: Graduate of 

Ryerson Theatre School. Et cetera: “xo Eldon and Roger.” 

Mike Nadajewski 

Third season: Mordred in Camelot and Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Stratford: Mike in Jacques Brel, Amiens in As You Like It, Hero in Forum, 

Glad Hand in West Side Story. Elsewhere: Forum (Mirvish Productions); 

Happy End, The President, The Yalta Game, Hotel Peccadillo, Follies: In 

Concert, Mack and Mabel (Shaw Festival); Fiddler on the Roof (Manitoba 

Theatre Centre); Cotton Patch Gospel, Lend Me a Tenor, Brighton Beach 

Memoirs, The Boy Friend (Drayton Entertainment); Pélagie (Canadian Stage, National Arts 

Centre); The Mousetrap (Saidye Bronfman Centre); Kiss Me, Kate, Harvest Moon Rising, 

One Night Stand (Talk Is Free Theatre); Larry’s Party (Canadian Stage, National Arts Centre, 

Manitoba Theatre Centre); Little Women, Dads! (Victoria Playhouse); ’Twas (Theatre 

Orangeville); Emily, Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival). Et cetera: Co-founder of 

Talk Is Free Theatre, based in Barrie, Ontario. “Heaps of love to woman and lad.” 

Marcus Nance 

Third season: Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar and appears in 

Camelot. Stratford: Queequeg in Moby Dick, Olin Britt in The Music Man, 

Montgomery in My One and Only, To Kill a Mockingbird. Elsewhere: 

La Bohème (Broadway); Kismet, Of Thee I Sing (New York City Center 

Encores!); Cinderella (New York City Opera); Four Saints in Three Acts 

(Chicago Opera Theater); Beauty and the Beast (The Grand Theatre, 

Western Canada Theatre); Dark Star Requiem (Luminato); Floyd Collins, Pal Joey (Shaw 

Festival); Porgy and Bess (Toronto Symphony); Joseph... (Stage West); Broadway Baritones 

(Starbright); Annie Get Your Gun (Massey Hall); Elsewhereless (Tapestry); Show Boat (Livent). 

Film/TV: The Producers. Recordings: Debut album, Marcus Nance – The Voice Next Door 

(available in the Theatre Store); La Bohème, Ragtime, Show Boat (cast recordings). Awards: 

Metropolitan Opera National Council, Dora nominee (Elsewhereless). Training: BA in voice, 

Fresno State University. Website: marcusnance.com. 

Jim Neil 

15th season: Sound designer of Jesus Christ Superstar and The 

Misanthrope. Stratford: Sound designer for Evita, Peter Pan, Forum, Caesar 

and Cleopatra, The Importance of Being Earnest, Cabaret, The Music Man 

and over 25 other productions in the last 14 years. Elsewhere: IATSE Head 

of Audio for the Grand Theatre, London, Ontario, since 1983; over 200 

productions in that time. Numerous co-productions with various theatres 

across the country, including the Manitoba Theatre Centre, National Arts Centre, Theatre 

Aquarius and Citadel Theatre. Et cetera: Played drums professionally for over a decade in 

the 1970s. Won a Juno Award with the David Bradstreet band in 1977. Currently owns and 

operates a project recording studio in Stratford, Ontario. Produced and recorded various 

music projects over the last decade. “Special thanks to the Grand Theatre and IATSE Local 

105 for giving me the opportunity to pursue my sound design career.” 

Sean Nieuwenhuis 

Seventh season: Video designer for Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: 

Evita, Peter Pan, Cabaret, My One and Only. Elsewhere: A projection and 

media designer and producer, Sean has enjoyed applying his skills to a 

variety of corporate, charitable and theatrical events for the past 20 years. 

His work has taken him across Canada and to most of the continents. 

Opera: Lillian Alling, Nixon in China, The Magic Flute (Vancouver Opera). 

Film: David Suzuki – The Last Lecture. Event: Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympic Games 

opening and closing ceremonies. Additionally, Sean regularly designs and produces visual 

content for television productions, out of home advertising, major industrial shows and highprofile 

charity events. Et cetera: Sean is the owner of Sensory Overload Productions, which 

specializes in large-scale projection design and production. 

Paul Nolan 

Fifth season: Al in The Grapes of Wrath and Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Stratford: Orlando (As You Like It), The Winter’s Tale, Tony (West Side Story), 

Valvert (Cyrano), Bobby (Cabaret), Slim (Oklahoma!), King Lear. Elsewhere: 

Beast (Beauty and the Beast) (Persephone), Jesus (Jesus Christ Superstar) 

(Stage West Calgary, Sunshine Festival), Curly (Oklahoma!) (Aquarius), 

Henry (Jasper Station) (Lighthouse Festival), Danny (Grease) (Stage West 

Mississauga), Bill (Kiss Me, Kate) (Sunshine Festival), Huck (Big River) (Drayton), Young 

Hercules (Hercules) (Disney), Lucentio (Romancin’ the One I Love) (Winter Garden), Rafe 

(One Night Stand) (London, England), Mamma Mia! (Mirvish). Recent travels included a trip 

home to Saskatchewan, where he created a concert of musical-theatre songs with Chilina 

Kennedy in support of Regina’s Golden Apple Theatre Company. Film/TV: Bridegroom (The 

Gospel of John), Alex (Shapeshifter), Schumacher (Strike!), Cruel Intentions 2, On My Mind. 

Training: Birmingham Conservatory (2009), Randolph Academy. Awards: John Hirsch Guthrie 

Award (2010). 


Stratford debut: Martha/Maid by the Fire in Jesus Christ Superstar and 

appears in Camelot. Elsewhere: Selected credits: Beauty and the Beast 

(Bella) (Ross Petty Productions); Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions); High 

School Musical (Gabriella) and Dance Legends (Drayton Entertainment); 

British Invasion (Stage West Calgary). Recordings: Her four-times-platinum 

single, “Alive,” and certified gold self-titled debut album are available 

nation-wide and online through Sony/BMG Canada. Website: melissaoneil.com. Et cetera: 

Melissa is honoured to be joining the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. She’d like to thank her 

family, TH, GMMF and R for their love and support. 

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Laurin Padolina 

Stratford debut: Rachel in Jesus Christ Superstar and swing in Camelot. 

Previously: After 12 years of intensive ballet training and 10 years of 

performance in the commercial, film and television industry, Laurin is 

thrilled to be making her debut performance in theatre with the Stratford 

Shakespeare Festival. Et cetera: Most importantly, she would like to say, 

“Thank you, Mom.” 

Stephen Patterson 

Second season: Page in Camelot and James the Lesser in Jesus Christ 

Superstar. Stratford: As You Like It, Jacques Brel. Elsewhere: Guys 

and Dolls in Concert (NAC Orchestra); James Bond/ABBA in Concert 

(Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra); Bob in White Christmas (MTC, 

Neptune); Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (North American tour – 

Drayton); Che in Evita, Chris in Miss Saigon, Joseph in Joseph…, Jeff in 

Brigadoon, The World Goes ’Round (Drayton); Marius in Les Misérables (Broadway, U.S. 

national tour); Laurie in Little Women (first U.S. national tour); Bobby Strong in Urinetown 

(Canadian Stage); Jerry in The Full Monty (Stage West); Twist and Shout (Grand); I Love You, 

You’re Perfect, Now Change (Aquarius); Gilbert in Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown). 

Recordings: Stephen’s CD, Tonight at Eight, is available on his website, www. 

stephenpatterson.tv. Et cetera: Stephen resides in Stratford with his wife, Robin Hutton, and 

their two sons, Hutton and Wesley. 

Katrina Reynolds 

Stratford debut: Esther in Jesus Christ Superstar and appears in Camelot. 

Elsewhere: Karisma in Hair (Canadian Stage); Michelle in Dreamgirls (Stage 

West Calgary); Mack and Mabel and Hotel Peccadillo (Shaw Festival); Bird 

Girl #3 in Seussical (Theatre Aquarius); Lorelle Robinson in Dreamgirls 

(MTC, Theatre Aquarius and the Grand Theatre); featured singer in One Hit 

Wonders and Motown Gold (Stage West Mississauga and Calgary); Tina 

Turner in The Wedding Singer (Stage West); Little Inez in Hairspray (Charlottetown Festival). 

Film/TV: Singer in Zesty Mango McDonald’s commercial. Training: Randolph Academy for 

the Performing Arts. Et cetera: Kat would like to thank her wonderful and supportive parents, 

Nelson and Brenda Reynolds. “I couldn’t do it without you guys!” 

Melissa Rood 

11th season: Assistant stage manager of The Grapes of Wrath and Jesus 

Christ Superstar. Stratford: As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, A Funny Thing 

Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Importance of Being Earnest, 

Twelfth Night, London Assurance, Into the Woods, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A 

Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guys and Dolls, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry 

V, Henry VI, The Seagull, Wingfield on Ice, Elizabeth Rex, Medea, Collected 

Stories, The School for Scandal, The Alchemist. Elsewhere: From the Middle East to the 

Arctic and across Canada with Nightwood Theatre, Human Cargo Theatre, National Arts 

Centre, Canadian Opera Company, Pacific Opera Victoria, Globe Theatre, Suddenly Dance, 

Canadian Stage, Mump & Smoot, Green Thumb Theatre for Young People, Belfry Theatre, 

Haig-Brown Society, Princess Cruises and DAE. Training: Sheridan College. Et cetera: Board 

member: PAL Stratford; coach: Sheridan and NTS. 

Bradley “Shooz” Rapier 

Stratford debut: Associate choreographer of Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Elsewhere: Original member of the legendary group StreetScape. Attaining 

national prominence, StreetScape became the country’s introduction 

to street dance culture. Bradley went on to choreograph and perform 

nationally on all media. Relocated to U.S. after winning Canadian Talent 

Search. Founder/Artistic Director of award-winning group The Groovaloos 

(So You Think You Can Dance, Grand Champions of NBC’s Superstars of Dance, The 

Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Wayne Brady Show). Cocreator, 

director of choreography, lead performer of critically acclaimed Off-Broadway 

production Groovaloo. TV/Commercial Choreography: Lincoln Heights, Days of Our Lives, 

TVLand Awards, The Image Awards, Wrigley’s, Sony. Awards: Ovation Award and two 

NAACP Awards for best musical choreography (Once on This Island, City Kid). American 

Choreography Award nomination, Hip Hop Choreography Award for outstanding commercial 

(Skechers). Website: www.bradleyrapier.com. Et cetera: Canadian native. 

Matthew Rossoff 

Stratford debut: Clarius in Camelot and swing in Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Elsewhere: North American tour of Fiddler on the Roof with Topol and 

Harvey Fierstein, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (August Wilson 

Theater, N.Y.C.), Disney’s When You Wish (Theatre Under the Stars, TX), 

A Chorus Line (Coastal Carolina, SC), White Christmas (Carousel, OH), 

Guys and Dolls (Drayton), West Side Story (Citadel/Theatre Calgary), Hello, 

Dolly! and Fiddler on the Roof (Vancouver Playhouse). Film: Reefer Madness (Showtime), 

Once Upon a Mattress (ABC/Disney). Choreography/Teaching: Soul Kitchen (Joe’s Pub, 

N.Y.C.), High School Musical (Paper Mill Playhouse, associate), Juilliard School, Circle in the 

Square, Broadway Connections. Training: UBC (BA), Circle in the Square, newly certified 

yoga instructor. Et cetera: A Vancouver native now residing in New York City, Matthew is 

honoured to be here at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. “Thank you, Talent House. Love 

and gratitude to my family.” 

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Dominique Roy 

Stratford debut: Ruth in Jesus Christ Superstar and appears in Camelot. 

Recently: Motown Gold: A Musical Revue (Stage West Calgary). Elsewhere: 

Dirty Dancing (Mirvish Productions, Toronto); The Best of Broadway, French 

Tease, Viva Casino (Atlantic City); Rent (Broadway); Womyn in 3 (Fringe 

Festival, N.Y.); La Cage aux Folles Dinner Theatre (Toronto). Film/TV: D’une 

rive à l’autre (CFC); Eddie and the Cruisers, Due South, Straight Up (Alliance 

Films); Side Effects (CBC). Recordings: The single FREEWAY (Black Vinyl Records, U.K.), 

appearing on European and U.S. dance music compilations. Training: Les Grands Ballets 

Canadiens (Montreal), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (N.Y.), Al Waxman (Toronto), 

Sally Johnson Studios (N.Y.), Bill Zeffiro (N.Y.). Et cetera: Dominique is thrilled to be joining 

the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. “Thank you, Mom, friends and family for your undying 

support.” 

Lee Siegel 

Stratford debut: Simon Zealotes in Jesus Christ Superstar and appears in 

Camelot. Elsewhere: Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (Thousand Islands 

Playhouse), Old Deuteronomy in Cats (Drayton Entertainment and Neptune 

Theatre), John in Miss Saigon (Drayton Entertainment), Wayne (Curtis 

understudy) in Dreamgirls (Canadian cast première – Stage West Calgary, 

MTC, Theatre Aquarius and The Grand, London, Ontario), OCE Niagara, 

Smokey Joe’s Café (Stage West Mississauga), Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (GCP). 

Websites: Lee Siegel (actor/director) on Facebook and www.myspace.com/LeeSiegel. Et 

cetera: “Much love to my incredible family, Mom, Dad, friends and foes who may have come 

and gone but taught me so much about life; to the Talent House gang and Bruce for seeing 

something in a young guy from Niagara; to God (thank you!); and to you, our audience: thank 

you for supporting the arts! Enjoy!” 

Brian Scott 

17th season: Stage manager of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: For the 

Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brian has stage managed Macbeth, 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, Romeo and 

Juliet and last season’s As You Like It. Elsewhere: Stage management credits include Medea 

(MTC/Mirvish Productions); King Lear (Lincoln Center); Don Carlos, The Duchess of Malfi, 

Epicoene and Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre). Et cetera: Brian lives in Stratford with his 

partner, Francesca Callow, and their young sons, Orlando and Inigo. 

Chad Sylvain 

Stratford debut: Dramaturge of Jesus Christ Superstar. Elsewhere (all as 

dramaturge unless otherwise noted): The Who’s Tommy, How to Succeed in 

Business Without Really Trying (Broadway); Slavs! (Steppenwolf); Lady Day 

at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Arms and the Man (Center Stage); The Who’s 

Tommy, How to Succeed..., assistant dramaturge of Three Sisters (La Jolla 

Playhouse); The Lost Highway (The Old Globe); Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard 

(Foothill Theatre Company). Film/TV: Researcher, Cousin Bette. Training: MFA, University of 

California, San Diego. Et cetera: Chad is grateful to have the opportunity to work at Stratford 

for the first time with this production. 

Jason Sermonia 

Second season: John in Jesus Christ Superstar and swing in Camelot. 

Stratford: Anything Goes and Guys and Dolls. Thrilled to be back at the 

Stratford Shakespeare Festival! Theatre: The Lion King – Las Vegas 

company; Dirty Dancing, We Will Rock You, The Lion King – Mirvish 

Productions; West Side Story, Peter Pan – Citadel Theatre. Film/TV: 

Chicago, Honey and A Brave New Girl. Et cetera: “Love and thanks to my 

family, friends, MM and the T. House Gang for their love and support.” 

Paul Tazewell 

Fourth season: Costume designer of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: The 

Tempest, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: 

Broadway: Memphis, In the Heights, The Color Purple, Bring in ’da Noise… 

(Tony nominations); Lombardi, The Miracle Worker, Guys and Dolls, 

Caroline, or Change, A Raisin in the Sun, Drowning Crow, 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: 

Guthrie, New York Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Arena Stage, 

Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare, Alliance, Pasadena Playhouse. Opera: Faust 

(English National Opera), Porgy and Bess (Chicago Lyric, San Francisco Opera, L.A. Opera, 

Washington Opera), Magdalena (Théâtre du Châtelet), 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. 


Sixth season: James in Jesus Christ Superstar and appears in Camelot. 

Stratford: Kiss Me, Kate (Nathaniel), Evita, Forum, West Side Story (Chino), 

Cabaret, My One and Only (New Rhythm Boy), Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls, 

Anything Goes (Luke). Elsewhere: Forum (Stratford/Mirvish); final Broadway 

company and U.S. national tour of Cats (Mistoffelees); Contact (first U.S. 

national tour); Miss Saigon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera); The Drowsy 

Chaperone (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Cinderella (Ross Petty); Sweet Charity (assistant 

choreographer) (Stage West Calgary); West Side Story (Chino) (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Hair 

(Karma) (Canadian Stage); Beauty and the Beast (Grand, Drayton/Aquarius); Pleasure Island, 

Kids of the Kingdom (Disney World, FL). Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award (Dora Mavor Moore). 

Et cetera: Julius would like to thank his family and friends for their love and support. 

Tristan Tidswell 

Second season: Assistant lighting designer of Jesus Christ Superstar 

and The Homecoming. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of As You 

Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Do Not Go Gentle and King of 

Thieves. Elsewhere: Lighting designer of The Gondoliers, Thoroughly 

Modern Millie (Clarkson Music Theatre); Rigoletto (Opera York); The 

Frog Prince (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre); Cinderella (Brampton Lyric 

Opera); Choreographic Works 2009, The Three Birds, Choreographic Works 2008 (Ryerson 

Theatre School); In Transit (Only Human Dance Collective). Assistant lighting designer of 

Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway, Toronto), La Bohème (Canadian Opera Company). 

Training: BFA, Ryerson Theatre School. Awards: 2009 Wally Russell Lighting Internship and 

Scholarship with the Canadian Opera Company. Website: www.tristantidswell.com. 

Lisa Shriver 

Fourth season: Movement for The Grapes of Wrath and choreographer 

of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: Caesar and Cleopatra, Macbeth, 

Julius Caesar, The Tempest. Elsewhere: Broadway: The Farnsworth 

Invention, Ring of Fire, The Story of My Life. Others: Take Flight (McCarter 

Theatre), Yellow Face (The Public Theater), Where’s Charley? (Goodspeed 

Opera House), Fetch Clay, Make Man (McCarter Theatre), Stephen 

Sondheim’s 75th Birthday Celebration (New Amsterdam Theatre). Director/choreographer of 

Motherhood: The Musical and An Evening of Guys and Dolls Music with Tony Bennett, Marisa 

Tomei and Vanessa Williams. Choreographer of Phish’s New Year’s Eve Concert at Madison 

Square Garden. Assistant choreographer on eight Broadway shows. Film: Credits include A 

Beautiful Mind, Hysterical Blindness, Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, House of D and A Christmas 

Carol, starring Jim Carrey. Et cetera: “Many thanks to Des McAnuff, Antoni Cimolino, Pamela 

Cooper and Victoria Morris. Love to Brian and Viola.” 

Lezlie Wade 

Third season: Assistant director of Jesus Christ Superstar. Stratford: 

Assistant director, As You Like It, Fuente Ovejuna. Elsewhere: Resident 

director of Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Roth/Rubinoff Productions), The 

Toxic Avenger (Dancap), Dog Sees God (Rubinoff Productions), A Man of No 

Importance and Elegies (Acting Up Stage Co.); assistant director of Mack 

and Mabel and Summer and Smoke (Shaw Festival), The Yalta Game (Shaw 

Festival), Voice of the Turtle (Classic Theatre). Upcoming: Directing Symposium – Spoleto, 

Italy (La MaMa). Awards: Dora nomination, best director, A Man of No Importance; two-time 

Pauline McGibbon nominee; Guthrie Award 2007. Other: Lyricist in Lehmen Engle BMI 

workshop, New York City; member of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab; founder and Artistic 

Director of Theatre Emanation. Training: George Brown Theatre School and Neighborhood 

Playhouse. Website: www.lezliewade.com. 

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Aaron Walpole 

Second season: Sir Lionel in Camelot and Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Stratford: Angie the Ox/Nicely and Big Jule understudy (Guys and Dolls), 

Quartet Tenor #2 (Anything Goes). Elsewhere: Lonny (Rock of Ages) 

(Mirvish); Big Bopper (The Buddy Holly Story), Herman (Sweet Charity), 

Bouley (Damn Yankees), ensemble (One Hit Wonders), Canadian Explosion, 

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Stage West); Eddie/Dr. Scott (The 

Rocky Horror Show) (Theatre New Brunswick); Hank (Nursery School Musical) (Berkeley 

Street Theatre); Parker (Rock and Roll) (Grand Theatre); Aaron (The Compleat Works…), 

Fleshcreep (Jack and the Beanstalk) (Gayety Theatre); Roger (Grease) (Citadel Theatre), 

Moose (Crazy for You) (Huron Country Playhouse). Film/TV: Breakout Kings (A&E series); 

feature films Felling Shadows, Silent but Deadly, Deacons for Defense; Canadian Idol, 

season 3 (third-place finalist). Recordings: Debut self-titled album available in stores across 

Canada through Sony/BMG Canada. Training: Sheridan College Music Theatre Performance 

Program. Website: www.aaronwalpole.com. 

Jonathan Winsby 

Second season: Lancelot in Camelot and Phillip in Jesus Christ Superstar. 

Stratford: Stewpot/Buzz Adams in South Pacific. Elsewhere: Enjolras in 

Les Misérables, Gaston in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Chris in Miss 

Saigon, Paul in Company and My Fair Lady (Arts Club Theatre); Rapunzel’s 

Prince/Wolf in Into the Woods (Patrick Street Productions); Jinx in Forever 

Plaid (Magnus Theatre); Miss Saigon (Drayton Entertainment). Training: BA 

Theatre from the University of British Columbia. Awards: Jessie Richardson nominations – 

Into the Woods and My Fair Lady. Et cetera: Jonathan is honoured to be sharing the stage 

with his father, Sandy. “Love and thanks to Mom, AM&T and beautiful Ava.” 

Sandy Winsby 

Fourth season: Sir Sagramore in Camelot and Andrew in Jesus Christ 

Superstar. Stratford: King of Thieves (Mercer), Peter Pan (Noodler), HMS 

Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, The Gondoliers. Elsewhere: Four seasons 

with the Charlottetown Festival (Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green 

Gables); two seasons with the Shaw Festival (Alexius in The Chocolate 

Soldier); Broadway company and U.S. national tour of Ragtime; original 

Canadian productions of Cats (Gus the Theatre Cat), Les Misérables and Beauty and the 

Beast; Candide (Voltaire et al), Vancouver Opera, Calgary Opera; Looking and The Love List, 

Magnus Theatre. Over 100 productions in all, with theatre and opera companies across 

Canada and in Europe. Et cetera: Writer and director. “Very proud and pleased to be sharing 

the Stratford stage with my son!” 

Josh Young 

Second season: Connie in The Grapes of Wrath and Judas Iscariot in Jesus 

Christ Superstar. Stratford: Evita (Che), Kiss Me, Kate (Paul). Elsewhere: 

Les Misérables (Marius, U.S. tour), West Side Story (Tony, 50th-anniversary 

international tour), A Little Night Music (Henrik, Baltimore Center Stage). 

Training: Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts; BFA, Syracuse 

University. Awards: 2010 Broadway World Toronto Award (best actor in a 

musical) for Che in Evita. Website: Visit www.josh-young.com, iTunes or the Theatre Store 

to pick up Josh’s self-titled debut album or Still Dreaming of Paradise, a mix of re-imagined 

Broadway songs and pop classics (due out in August). Et cetera: Josh thanks Gary Griffin 

and Rick Fox for bringing him to Stratford, and Des McAnuff, Antoni Cimolino and the 

Festival’s patrons for the honour of another season here. “Thanks as always to my mother 

and father for their support and to Allan and Rena, my Canadian parents.” 

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