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festivalTheatremay 12 TOOctober 27, 2012opens june 2From left: Mike Shara, Laura Condlln,Seana McKenna, Tom McCamusthe matchmakerBy Thornton WilderDirected by Chris AbrahamProduction supportgenerously provided byJennifer Surridge in memory ofRobertson DaviesTwitter hashtag:#ssfMatchmakerAntoni CimolinoGeneral DirectorDes McAnuffArtistic Director

Paying homage to thepast, striding forwardto the futureOur 2012 SponsorsWe are honoured to acknowledge the following corporations andindividuals who have made sponsorship commitments in the 2012 season:2012 Season PartnersSupport for the 2012 season of the Avon Theatreis generously provided byThe Birmingham FamilySupport for the 2012 season of the Tom PattersonTheatre is generously provided byRichard Rooney andLaura DinnerMajor Sponsor LevelAs we celebrate our Festival’s sixtieth season, the gloriousheritage of our past provides us with a clear signpost to theway ahead. Our pioneering artists and those who supportedthem sought to create in Stratford nothing less than thefinest classical theatre in the world. Thanks to their visionand determination, the adventure that began in 1953 withtwo productions in a tent is now North America’s premierrepertory theatre, featuring fourteen productions in fivevenues. That same spirit drives us today as we explorethe classics of the past and give birth to the classics of thefuture, breaking new ground both on stage and in the othermedia by which we reach out to audiences around the globe.Embodying Stratford’s hallmark marriage of tradition andinnovation, our 2012 playbill ranges from the very roots ofdrama, the tragedy of ancient Greece, to some of the finestplaywrights working in Canada today. Shakespearean comedy,history and romance are complemented by a hilariouscontemporary pastiche of Shakespearean tragedy, while theseason’s varied musical theatre repertoire acknowledgesour own era’s great contribution to the western dramatictradition. Meanwhile, the strength of our acting company isbeing showcased not only in Stratford but also on Broadway.Please join us as we celebrate our Festival’s priceless legacyand begin writing the next extraordinary chapter of its history.Sponsor LevelIn-Kind SponsorsStratford’s Greatest HitsThe Stratford Shakespeare Festival gratefully acknowledges thegenerous support of these contributors to our success:Antoni CimolinoGeneral DirectorDes McAnuffArtistic DirectorScan with your QR-enabled device to check outbehind-the-scenes footage from our 60th season.The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is a non-profit organization with charitable status in Canada* and the U.S.***Charitable registration number: 119200103 RR0002 **As defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

Giving HoraceHis Dueby James MagruderBELOW | john vickery (joe scanlon) and Tom Mccamus (Horacevandergelder) in rehearsal.Facing page, left to right from top | seana mckenna (dolly gallagherlevi); josh epstein (barnaby tucker) and mike shara (cornelius hackl);laura condlln (irene molloy).Following Page | geraint wyn davies (malachi stack).rehearsal photography by erin samuell.In Book Two of Democracy in America (1840),Alexis de Toqueville opines: “There are no dramaticsubjects in a country which has witnessed no greatpolitical catastrophes and in which love invariablyleads by a straight and easy road to matrimony.People who spend every day in the week in makingmoney, and the Sunday in going to church, havenothing to invite the Muse of Comedy.”Toqueville remains distressingly current abouttoo many aspects of the American scene, buthere, on the subject of theatre, he’s wrong foronce. Although he can be excused the jibe aboutAmerica having “no great political catastrophes,” asthe Civil War is twenty years in the future, he clearlydoesn’t realize that “people who spend everyday in the week in making money” are practicallybegging Thalia to throw a banana peel under theirwingtips. He must not have met on his travelsthrough the young republic the ancestors of DavidMamet’s Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross orThornton Wilder’s Horace Vandergelder, the titlecharacter of The Merchant of Yonkers, the 1938play Wilder would later revise as The Matchmaker.Apropos of the Merchant-in-vitro, Wilder wrote toRuth Gordon, the actress whose Dolly Levi wouldeventually filch the play’s title away from Horace:“I’ve been reading all the great ‘formal’ comedies inevery language: Molière and Goldoni, and Lessing– just to make sure that I’ve expunged every lurkingvestige of what Sam Behrman and George Kaufmanthink comedy is.”S.N. Behrman wrote mild comedies of mannersand Kaufman traded in satire. Wilder, typically,is looking beyond the drawing room and thetopical headlines that fuelled the work of thesecommercially successful playwrights in order todrink from the deepest possible dramatic well.(That he could read the three authors he mentionsin their original languages is already wildly un-American.) He knew that money has been one ofthe three comic motivators since the Greeks. Tocraft his “formal” farce, Wilder hews Horace outof classical bedrock, borrows features from hisdramatic sources – plays by Oxenford and Nestroy– and then finishes the surface with the vernacularand values of nineteenth-century American thrift.2

Dolly’s challenge generates a lot of laughter, butWilder doesn’t soothe his audience with the stagebromides that so fatigued his spirit and intellect asa young theatregoer. The Matchmaker does notsay that money won’t buy happiness. Or that youcan live on love. The two younger couples in theplay might think so, but Dolly knows better: “Yes,we’re all fools and we’re all in danger of destroyingthe world with our folly. But the surest way to keepus out of harm is to give us the four or five humanpleasures that are our right in the world – and thattakes a little money!”Dolly’s pleasure principle is a powerfulcounterweight to Horace’s dour life of Dutch-American industry and thrift. Her campaign toredeem Horace over a chicken dinner at theHarmonia Gardens – served with farcical stagebusiness, reverse psychology and the telling ofsome hard truths – is the emotional linchpin of theplay and a high spot in American comedy. CanHorace be made to dance again? Can he move hisfeet to the tune of something larger than himself?Productions fail every season for mysteriousreasons, and The Merchant of Yonkers floppedloudly in its 1938 première. Was it Max Reinhardt’ssluggish direction, or the miscasting of Jane Cowlas Dolly, or general misperception on the part ofthe critics who weren’t expecting an old-fashionedfarce from the philosophical playwright who hadjust given the world Our Town?But, like Horace himself, the play got asecond chance. At the invitation of the StratfordShakespeare Festival’s first Artistic Director,Tyrone Guthrie, Wilder came here in the early1950s and began re-working the play for RuthGordon. According to Christopher Plummer andthe late Michael Langham, Guthrie sent Wilder towork in the prop shop when he was bored withthe writing process. Re-titled The Matchmaker,it was a runaway hit at the Edinburgh Festivalin 1954 under Guthrie’s quicksilver direction. Itquickly transferred first to the West End, then toBroadway in December 1955, where it settledin for a long run before being adapted into themusical Hello, Dolly! in 1964.“Medan agan” reads one of the legends carvedon the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It means“nothing in excess” and is one of the touchstonesof Greek civilization. The ancient authors decreedthat the function of comedy is to correct, throughpainstaking observation, the excesses of behaviourin the average man. Medan agan. Just enoughmoney. Just enough change. And just, as Barnabysays at play’s end, the right amount of adventure.That Dolly and Horace are able to come togetheras partners is the happiest adventure in the play,whether it’s called The Merchant of Yonkers orThe Matchmaker.James Magruder is a novelist, translator, theatrescholar, professor and dramaturge.The StoryWealthy merchant Horace Vandergelder, of Yonkers, New York, has decided to send his niece,Ermengarde, to New York City in order to prevent her from marrying Ambrose Kemper, an artist.Meanwhile, Horace himself is seeking a wife, and to that end has engaged the services of matchmakerDolly Gallagher Levi. When Dolly arranges a rendezvous for him at New York’s Harmonia Gardensrestaurant, Vandergelder’s two clerks, Barnaby and Cornelius, take advantage of his absence to go thebig city themselves in search of adventure. Needless to say, once all the parties are in New York, theirpaths cross in unexpected and hilarious ways.4

Thornton WilderPlaywrightBorn in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 17, 1897,Thornton Niven Wilder spent part of his childhoodin Hong Kong and Shanghai, where his fatherserved as United States Consul General. Onthe family’s return to the U.S., the young Wilderattended the Thacher School in California, wherehis first play, The Russian Princess, was performedby fellow students when he was just fifteen.After briefly serving in the U.S. Army’s CoastArtillery Corps during the First World War, heattended Oberlin College before switching to Yale,where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1920.He also received a master’s degree in Frenchfrom Princeton University. In 1926, while he wasteaching at Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, hepublished his first novel, The Cabala, and his playThe Trumpet Shall Sound was produced in NewYork. The following year, he published his secondnovel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, for which hewon the Pulitzer Prize.During the 1930s, he taught at the University ofChicago, spent time in Hollywood and continued towrite novels and plays. He won a second PulitzerPrize for Our Town, which opened on Broadwayin 1938; Wilder himself played the Stage Managerin the production for two weeks. Later that year,The Merchant of Yonkers, which he had adaptedfrom a farce by the Austrian playwright JohannNestroy, proved a flop, closing after just thirty-nineperformances. It was followed, however, in 1942by another hit, The Skin of Our Teeth, which wonWilder his third Pulitzer.Volunteering for the Second World War at the ageof 45, Wilder served as an intelligence officer inNorth Africa and Italy, rising to the rank of lieutenantcolonel and receiving several military decorations.In the early 1950s, encouraged by TyroneGuthrie, the first Artistic Director of the StratfordShakespeare Festival, to revisit The Merchantof Yonkers, Wilder came to Stratford to workon a new version. The result, The Matchmaker,made its debut at the Edinburgh Festival inScotland, transferred to London’s West End andthen opened in New York on December 5, 1955.With Ruth Gordon in the title role, it becameWilder’s biggest Broadway hit, running for 486performances and winning a Tony Award forthornton wilderGuthrie as its director. It later became the basisfor the hit 1964 musical Hello, Dolly!, with bookby Michael Stewart (who would go on to co-write42nd Street) and score by Jerry Herman.Wilder’s body of work also included adaptationsof plays by Ibsen and Sartre, opera libretti, sevennovels and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s1943 film Shadow of a Doubt. Other honours hereceived included the National Book Award forhis 1967 novel The Eighth Day, the National BookCommittee’s Medal for Literature, the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction,the German Booksellers Peace Prize and thePresidential Medal of Freedom. Wilder died at hishome in Hamden, Connecticut, on December 7, 1975.5

Comedy with aSense of AweDirector’s notes by Chris AbrahamIn an essay entitled “Thornton Wilder says Yes,”theatre critic and historian Bernard Hewitt asksus to see in Thornton Wilder’s greatest playsa profound affirmation of life. He christensWilder’s best-known play, Our Town, a “hymnto the humdrum,” pointing to the way in whichthe everyday is elevated to the sacred. In TheMatchmaker, Hewitt sees a celebration of the“radical, the pioneering, the exploring, thecreative spirit in man . . . a lively song in praise ofadventure.” In both plays, he points to the presenceof “something eternal” running through them.Hiding out in the double takes, mistaken identitiesand reconciliations of The Matchmaker is anunmistakable sense of awe at the human spirit – inparticular (but not exclusively) when Wilder is writingabout young people. It’s this sense of awe thatmakes the comedy of the piece shine with a specialintensity. The Matchmaker affirms the beautiful follyof life and love, while at the same time avoidingsentimentality with a ten-foot pole. It is also aboutpersonal and social transformation. It recognizesthat we are connected to each other in ways thatare not always apparent to us. This view of humaninterdependency appears throughout Wilder’s bodyof work as well as his view of the theatre. In Hewitt’swords, Wilder “recognizes and accepts the factthat theatre is a collaborative art, that director andactors necessarily intervene their bodies, minds,and imaginations between the playwright and hisvision of his play.”Wilder’s humility and wisdom about the theatreare evident not only in his journals and letters butalso in the complex history of The Matchmaker’sdevelopment from its initial ill-fated 1938 productionas The Merchant of Yonkers to the revised andre-titled 1954 version. The ingenious contributionsof Wilder’s collaborators are very much in evidencein the prompt script of Tyrone Guthrie’s legendary1954 production of The Matchmaker. It points toa depth of complicity between writer, director,designer and acting company that I always strive forin my work. The acting edition, based on Guthrie’sproduction, was a principal source of inspiration forme. It gave me a window into Guthrie’s inventivedirector chris abrahamproscenium mise-en-scène, as well as into therestless perfectionism of the director and writer. Ourproduction on the Festival’s thrust stage is in manyways deeply indebted to and influenced by thegenius of its first director.It is because I came to understand just howmuch tweaking and fine tuning took place withThe Matchmaker, that we decided to look at threedifferent versions of the play, ultimately preparinga text that draws from Guthrie’s prompt script, thepublished play and the published edition of TheMerchant of Yonkers. I am tremendously gratefulto Wilder’s nephew and literary executor, TappanWilder, for sensitively and graciously allowing usto nose around the three versions of the play insearch of further insights and omitted gems. It iswith great pleasure that we have been able tore-encounter The Merchant of Yonkers anddiscover just how much the success of TheMatchmaker owes this earlier version of the play.Who knows why plays don’t always work the firsttime around? Sometimes it’s the play, sometimesit’s the director, the times, the cast. But more oftenthan not, I think, plays deserve a second chance.The Matchmaker got that second chance, and weare so much the richer for it. I hope you’ll enjoy it asmuch as I have.6

The MatchmakerBy Thornton WilderArtistic CreditsDirectorDesignerLighting DesignerSound DesignerChoreographerDramaturgesStunt CoordinatorAssistant DirectorAssistant Set DesignerAssistant Costume DesignerAssistant Lighting DesignerAssistant Sound DesignerStage ManagerAssistant Stage ManagersApprentice Stage ManagerProduction AssistantProduction Stage ManagerTechnical DirectorIntervalThere will be one 20-minute interval.Chris AbrahamSanto LoquastoMichael WaltonThomas Ryder PayneJane JohansonRobert Blacker,Jacob Gallagher-RossDaniel LevinsonAndrea DonaldsonDevon BhimAlix DolgoySean PooleVerne GoodKim LottBona Duncan,Bruno GonsalvesStephanie MeineKelsey RaeMargaret PalmerJeff ScollonAudience AlertThis production uses loud noises, strobe lighting effectsand smoke and haze effects.CastHorace Vandergelder,a wealthy merchantErmengarde, his nieceAmbrose Kemper,suitor to ErmengardeJoe Scanlon,Vandergelder’s barberGertrude, his maidCornelius Hackl, chief clerk ofVandergelder’s storeBarnaby Tucker,an apprenticeMalachi Stack, looking foremploymentDolly Gallagher Levi,a matchmakerIrene Molloy, a milliner andowner of a hat shopMinnie Fay, her assistantRudolph, a headwaiter at theHarmonia GardensAugust, a waiterCabmanGypsy MusicianMiss Flora Van Huysen,a wealthy spinsterHer CookTom McCamusCara RickettsSkye BrandonJohn VickeryChick ReidMike SharaJosh EpsteinGeraint Wyn DaviesSeana McKennaLaura CondllnAndrea RungeJohn VickeryVictor DolhaiJohn VickeryRobert KingNora McLellanChick ReidLabourers, Citizens and Waiters: Simon Bracken,Ian D. Clark, Leah Doz, Carmen Grant, Ruby Joy,Robert King, Brian TreeTime and Place1880s. Vandergelder’s house and store in Yonkers. InNew York City: Mrs. Molloy’s hat shop; the HarmoniaGardens; the Van Huysen residence.The Wilder family has graciously given theStratford Shakespeare Festival permissionto use a few lines from the original versionof the play, The Merchant of Yonkers, for thisproduction. 2013 will mark the 75th anniversaryof its première on December 28, 1938. For moreon the writing of The Matchmaker, see JamesMagruder’s notes in this program.UnderstudiesAlden Adair (Ambrose Kemper), Simon Bracken(Barnaby Tucker, August), Leah Doz (Minnie Fay),Barbara Fulton (Dolly Gallagher Levi), Andrew Gillies(Malachi Stack), Carmen Grant (Irene Molloy),Brad Hodder (Cornelius Hackl), Ruby Joy (Ermengarde),Robert King (Horace Vandergelder), Lorena Mackenzie(Miss Flora Van Huysen, Cook, Gertrude), Brian Tree(Rudolph, Cabman, Joe Scanlon)7

Production CreditsResponsibilities backstage during the performance accomplished by:Stage CarpenterAnthony GentileMaster ElectricianAlec CooperAlternateMichael WalshProperty MasterTed DerryHead of SoundScott MatthewsCrewDavid Schilz,Walter Sugden,Karl WylieWardrobe MistressGail Homersham-RobertsonWardrobe Attendants Ina Brogan,Tracy Houston-McIntyre,Mary-Lou MasonSwingInez KhanWigs and Makeup Show Head Lena G. FestosoWigs and Makeup Crew Barb NewberyFanfare MusiciansDale Anne Brendon,Mary Jay (Fanfare Leader),Larry Larson,Kate Stone, Rob StoneAcknowledgementsSpecial 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 SciencesCentre vocal function clinic; John Yoo, MD, LondonHealth Sciences Centre.Pianos tuned and maintained by Don Stephenson.Front cover image provided by STEAMco.Front cover and page 1 photography by Andrew Eccles.Director of ProductionProductionJohn TiggelovenTechnical Director – Scenic Construction Andrew MesternWardrobe ManagerAnne MooreProduction AdministratorCheryl BenderDesign CoordinatorAlix DolgoyAssistant Technical DirectorDavid CampbellTechnical Management Assistant Michael BesworthAdministrative AssistantCindy JordanResident Sound DesignerPeter McBoyleInterim Director of MusicFranklin BraszMusic AdministratorMarilyn DallmanElectronics TechnologistChris WheelerTransportationCharlie Fox, Ian A. Fraser,Michael Taylor, James ThistlePropertiesHead of PropertiesLead BuilderAssisted byProperties ApprenticeProperties BuyerAssistant Properties BuyerScenic ArtHead Scenic ArtistAssistant Head Scenic ArtistAssisted byScenic CarpentryHead CarpenterHead of AutomationLead HandAssisted byDona HrablukJennifer MacdonaldEric Ball, Lucas Commerford,Ken Dubblestyne,Carolyn Horley,Michelle Jamieson,Kathryn Kerr, Shirley Lee,Brian McLeod, Dylan Mundy,Heather RuthigKatherine TheriaultTracy FultonPenelope SchledewitzChristopher KleinDaniel McManusKevin Kemp, Lisa Summers,Jo-Anne Vezina,Amparo Villalobos,Michael Wharran,Blair YeomansNeil R. CheneyIan PhillipsJohn CurrieSimon Aldridge, David Bedford,David Butler, Mark Card,Ryan Flanagan, Craig Geiger,Gary Geiger, Jeffrey Hughes,Paul Hyde, William Malmo,Stephen Morgan, Wayne Nero,John Roth, Mark Smith,Geoff Taylor, Cliff Tipping,Joe TraceyThe Birmingham Conservatory for Classical TheatreFrom General Director Antoni Cimolino and Artistic Director Des McAnuffTwenty-five members of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2012 company have come out of our professional trainingprogram, the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Founded in 1998, the Conservatory has helped to launchthe careers of some of our leading young actors, many of whom we have had the great pleasure of directing. Providingopportunities for young Canadian artists is part of our mission at the Festival, and we hope you will find it as satisfying aswe 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. Supporting the2012 in-season work of Birmingham Conservatory participants are Karon C. Bales & Charles E. Beall, The Brian LinehanCharitable Foundation, Robert Summers-Gill, and Alice & Tim Thornton. We thank them for helping us to nurture andsupport these talented artists in our 2012 company:Alden Adair 2011Sarah Afful 2011Kyle Blair 2001Skye Brandon 2008/09Dan Chameroy 2003Laura Condlln 2004Victor Dolhai 2010/11Josh Epstein 2010Ryan Field 2011Stephen Gartner 2001Carmen Grant 2010/11Deborah Hay 1999Brad Hodder 2011Luke Humphrey 2011Bethany Jillard 2011Ruby Joy 2011Ian Lake 2007/08Kennedy C. MacKinnon1999 (coach)Gareth Potter 2003Christopher Prentice 2008/09Andrea Runge 2009Tyrone Savage 2010/11E.B. Smith 2010/11Evan Stillwater 2004 (tailor)Sophia Walker 20058

WardrobeHead of WardrobeAssistant Head of WardrobeSeasonal Wardrobe SupervisorCuttersFirst HandSewersBijoux/DecorationAssisted byBoots and ShoesAssisted byBoots and Shoes ApprenticeCostume PaintingDyeingAssisted byMillineryAssisted byWardrobe BuyerAssistant BuyerWardrobe ApprenticeWarehouse SupervisorWarehouse AssistantWigs and MakeupHead of Wigs and MakeupConstruction CrewAdditional Wigs byBradley DalcourtElizabeth CopemanLinda SparksJohanna Billings, Kim Crossley,Terri Dans, Jennie WonnacottJoanne DaviesSusy Arnold, Monica Berg,Denise Bott,Caroline Broadley,Cindy Brown,Sharon Gashgarian,Jennifer Gilbert, June Gunn,Debbie Kschesinski,Anna Lach, Paulette Laporte,Karen Merriam, Krista Nauman,Magdalene Raycraft,Joan Scheerer,Victoria Shillington,Catherine Weber, Silvia WidmerSusan Allerston-RichardsRebecca Dillow,Liane Guttadauria, Kathi PosliffMark Fetter, Michael KarnKaren Beames, Sarah Cook,Connie PuetzChristopher MoloughneyLisa HughesLinda PinhaySylvia MinarcinKaz MaxineThea C. Crawford,Helen FlowerMichelle AshbourneCaitlin LuxfordChevy BarlowMadonna DeckerValerie LariviereGerald AltenburgTracy Frayne, Dave Kerr,Barb Newbery, Alana Scheel,Julie Scott, Stanley WickensChristine Vaughanleft to right from top | nora mclellan (miss flora van huysen),tom mccamus (horace vandergelder) and director chris abraham;skye brandon (ambrose kemper).The Michael Langham Workshop forClassical Direction“The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction will continueMichael Langham’s tradition of mentorship in a risk-free environment,allowing directors to develop their craft with the rich history and evolvingartistry of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.”– Des McAnuffWe extend our thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage, RBC,the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation, Johanna Metcalf andKaron C. Bales and Charles E. Beall.Participants in the2012 workshop:Eric BensonHeather DaviesAlan DilworthAndrea DonaldsonDarcy EvansVarrick GrimesKevin HammondRachel PeakeMumbi Tindyebwa OtuKristen van GinhovenAaron WillisFunding 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, theStratford Shakespeare Festival engages, under the terms of the CanadianTheatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of CanadianActors’ Equity Association. Stage crew, scenic carpenters, drivers, wigsand makeup attendants and facilities staff are members of Local 357of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).Wardrobe attendants are members of IATSE Local 924. Scenic artists aremembers of IATSE Local 828. The Festival acknowledges with thanks theco-operation of the Stratford Musicians’ Association, Local 418 of theAmerican Federation of Musicians.9

Chris AbrahamThird season: Director of The Matchmaker. Stratford: The Little Years,For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Elsewhere: Seeds, I, Claudia,BOXHEAD (Crow’s Theatre); Eternal Hydra (Crow’s/Factory Theatre);Geometry in Venice (Crow’s/Segal Centre); I, Claudia, The PatientHour (Tarragon); Blue/Orange (Canadian Stage); Antigone, The Lesson(Soulpepper); Hedda Gabler, The Glass Menagerie, Salt-Water Moon(Saidye Bronfman Centre). Training: National Theatre School of Canada. Awards: DoraAwards for Eternal Hydra, Easy Lenny Lazmon…; Sterling Award for Frozen (CitadelTheatre); Gemini Award for I, Claudia (CBC/Sienna Films); 2002 Elinor and Lou SiminovitchProtégé Award. Website: www.crowstheatre.com. Et cetera: Chris is the Artistic Directorof Crow’s Theatre in Toronto, for whom he will direct the premiere of Kristen Thomson’slatest, “Someone Else”, next season. He is past Co-Director of the National TheatreSchool of Canada Directing Program.Skye BrandonFourth season: Second Cloten Lord in Cymbeline and Ambrose Kemperin The Matchmaker. Stratford: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, TheWinter’s Tale, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesarand Bartholomew Fair. Elsewhere: The Secret Mask, Chimera (PTE);Reflections/The Little Prince, Mary’s Wedding (Dancing Sky Theatre); ThePillowman, Fat Pig (Wild Side Productions); Henry IV, Part 1, The Tempest,The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Julius Caesar, The Shapeof Things (Theatre Ecstasis); Twelfth Night (Globe Theatre); The Coronation Voyage, It’s AllTrue (Last Exit Theatre). Directing credits include Pageant (Last Exit) and The Busy Worldis Hushed (Northern Light Theatre). Radio: Yann Martel’s The Facts behind the HelsinkiRoccamatios (CBC). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, ACT (San Francisco), Universityof Saskatchewan (BFA Honours). Awards: SAT Award (Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, DST),Sterling nomination (The Credeaux Canvas, NLT), Equity Emerging Artist 2005.Alden AdairStratford debut: Jupiter/Second Briton Captain/Second Gentleman inCymbeline, appears in Elektra and understudy in The Matchmaker.Elsewhere: Bard in The Hobbit, Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice (GrandTheatre); Alistair in The Alice Nocturne (Globe Theatre); Proteus in TheTwo Gentlemen of Verona, Stephano in The Tempest, Prince Hal in HenryIV, Part 1 (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Zastrozzi in Zastrozzi,Dan in Closer (Hectik Theatre). Film/TV: Tideland, RenegadePress.com, Corner Gas, TheEnglishman’s Boy, Hybrid, Storming Juno, Dan for Mayor, Flashpoint. Training: BFA inActing from the University of Regina, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre.Ian D. ClarkSecond season: Soothsayer in Cymbeline and appears in TheMatchmaker and Elektra. Elsewhere: The Pitmen Painters, TheatreAquarius; Stuff Happens, Studio 180; The Foreigner, Royal Alex; HumbleBoy, Tarragon; Blue/Orange, Centaur; The Three Musketeers, Citadel;Shaw Festival veteran; all other regional theatres coast to coast. SelectedU.S. credits: Amadeus, Enchanted April, The Voysey Inheritance, TheConstant Wife, Finian’s Rainbow, Walnut Street Theatre; The Constant Wife, CoconutGrove, Miami. Film/TV: 14 feature films including Equus, Lilies, The Avro Arrow, Thirty-TwoShort Films About Glenn Gould, That Old Feeling, Cruel Intentions 2, The Boy in Blue; leadin five television series: Little Men, McPherson’s Herd, Paradise Falls, The Associates,Road to Avonlea. Most recently: Above Asking (pilot), Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries,Rookie Blue. Awards: Critics, Ohio State, Masque, Best Actor (Miami). Other: Jury member,Canadian Academy; co-author, For a good time, call…; MA from McGill.Devon BhimFourth season: Assistant set designer of Much Ado About Nothing, 42ndStreet, The Matchmaker and Henry V. Stratford: Costume assistant, TheGrapes of Wrath; set assistant, The Misanthrope; assistant designer, TheWinter’s Tale, Three Sisters. Elsewhere: Hansel & Gretyl (Solar Stage); Woyzeck(Red Light District); Therac 25 (Direct Flight Theatre); Songs for a New World, …Forum, Tick Tick Boom, Moonlight and Magnolias, Over the River and Throughthe Woods (Rose Theatre Productions, Brampton); Twistin’ to the ’60s, Spooktacular (Canada’sWonderland); The Love List (Markham Theatre); As You Like It, The Two Gentlemen of Verona(Shakespeare in the Square, Brampton). Associate producer: Opera on the Rocks, A MidsummerNight’s Dream. Other: Assistant new media designer for Dancap Productions and continuesto work in digital graphics for various clients throughout North America. Awards: FabriclandCreative Design Award and Technical Production Craft Achievement. Training: Sheridan CollegeTheatre Arts, Technical Production.Laura Condlln11th season: Irene Molloy in The Matchmaker, Chrysothemis in Elektraand understudy in Cymbeline. Stratford: Credits include Peter Pan (Mrs.Darling), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Page), King of Thieves(Polly), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Shakespeare’s Universe:Her Infinite Variety (the Moll), Pentecost (Amira), The Liar (Clarice/Lucrece/Sabine), The Duchess of Malfi (Cariola), As You Like It (Audrey), Henry IV,Part 1 (Lady Mortimer), Timon of Athens (Phrynia). Elsewhere: Beckett: Feck It! (CanadianStage/Queen of Puddings Music Theatre); Having Hope at Home, Marion Bridge (GlobeTheatre, Regina); A Christmas Carol (The Grand Theatre); and Over the River and Throughthe Woods (Theatre Aquarius). Training: Laura holds a BFA from the University of Windsorand is a graduate of the Birmingham Conservatory (2005). Awards: Recipient of the MarySavidge Award, Stratford Shakespeare Festival.Robert BlackerFifth season: Dramaturge for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.Dramaturge for The Matchmaker and Henry V. Stratford: Dramaturgedseven productions of Shakespeare, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Little Yearsand Rice Boy. Elsewhere: Over 50 projects from Robert’s eight years asartistic director of Sundance Theatre Labs went on to production, including IAm My Own Wife (Tony, Pulitzer), The Laramie Project, The Light in the Piazzaand Spring Awakening (Tonys for latter two). He was interim chair of playwriting at Yale Schoolof Drama; taught playwriting and Shakespeare studies in graduate programs at Columbia,Iowa, UCSD and Yale; and dramaturged 17 productions of Shakespeare for Des McAnuff andothers. Robert was McAnuff’s associate artistic director at La Jolla Playhouse and worked onThe Who’s Tommy and Steppenwolf’s The Grapes of Wrath (Tonys for both), among others. Hewas the first dramaturge at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater (New York). Training: Cornell.Victor DolhaiThird season: Henrique Oswald in Much Ado About Nothing and August inThe Matchmaker. Stratford: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, TheMisanthrope, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere: Pride and Prejudice(Citadel); Brilliant! (Belfry/Electric Company Theatre); Little Women (Persephone); AsYou Like It, Death of a Salesman, The Fantasticks (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre);The Full Monty (Patrick Street Productions); The Pirates of Penzance (ChemainusTheatre Festival); Narnia (Kaleidoscope Theatre); Grimm Tales (Itsazoo Productions); WoyzeckSongspiel (Ecce Homo); Guys and Dolls, Tartuffe, Metamorphoses, Tyrants, Street of Crocodiles(Phoenix Theatre); Wreck Beach Butoh (Kokoro Dance); 14 cabarets with Atomic Vaudeville. Training:Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program,University of Victoria. Awards: Lindsay Thomas Award, Tyrone Guthrie Award. Et cetera: ArtisticAssociate of the award-winning SNAFU Dance Theatre. Founding artist with the critically acclaimedBlue Bridge Repertory Theatre.Simon BrackenStratford debut: First Cloten Lord in Cymbeline and appears in TheMatchmaker. Elsewhere: Hugo in Tomasso’s Party (NextStage Festival);Balthasar in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Ensemblein The Ark: The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht (National Arts Centre); Gordon inthe The Particulars and In General (Pyretic Productions); Eli in Stop Heart,Hippolito in Women Beware Women, Fiscur in Lilliom (National TheatreSchool). Film/TV: The Transporter (HBO). Training: Simon is a graduate of the NationalTheatre School of Canada and the University of Manitoba.Andrea DonaldsonStratford debut: Assistant director of The Matchmaker. Elsewhere: Directinghighlights include the following Dora-nominated projects: The Atomic Weightof Happiness for Stand Up Dance and Theatre Direct Canada; Montparnassefor Groundwater in association with Theatre Passe Muraille; Offensive Foulsfor Theatre Direct; and The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinskiin Winnipeg, Victoria and twice in Toronto. Awards: Andrea has beennominated for numerous awards, including the John Hirsch Directing Award (2008 and 2011),eight Dora nominations for her various projects and the Gina Wilkinson Award for EmergingFemale Directors. She has received SummerWorks’ Spotlight Award – Directing, as well astwo Dora Awards for Theatre Direct’s URGE project And By the Way, Miss, for which she was acollaborator and performer. Website: www.sometimesandrea.com. Et cetera: As of fall 2012,Andrea will join Tarragon Theatre in Toronto as Assistant Artistic Director.10

Leah DozStratford debut: Appears in Much Ado About Nothing and The Matchmaker.Elsewhere: Tomasso’s Party (Rooftop Creations); world première of ToughCase (Left Foot First in association with Roseneath Theatre); A Raisin in theSun (Black Theatre Workshop); Romeo and Juliet (Repercussion Theatre);Oleanna, Autobahn (Seacoast Theatre Centre); The Laramie Project(Citadel Theatre); Cabaret, Annie, Agamemnon (NTS); Nobody’s Story, Inthe Eye (both self-written and performed). Film/TV: Amalgamations (independent short),Margarita (independent feature), Dual Suspects (History Television). Training: 2010 graduateof the National Theatre School of Canada, two years’ training at Seacoast Theatre Centrein Vancouver. Awards: Hnatyshyn Award for English Theatre Artist, 2009; Sterling Awardnomination for Best Fringe Actress, Edmonton, 2006. Et cetera: Leah is excited to understudyHero in Much Ado About Nothing and Minnie Fay in The Matchmaker. She thanks her mother,her friends and all her mentors.Bona Duncan12th season: Stage manager of Much Ado About Nothing and assistantstage manager of The Matchmaker. Stratford: PSM, Avon Theatre; stagemanager of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Dangerous Liaisons, Cyrano deBergerac, Zastrozzi, All’s Well That Ends Well, Fanny Kemble, A MidsummerNight’s Dream, Electra, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Merchant of Venice andHamlet; assistant stage manager of The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo andJuliet, Twelfth Night and As You Like It. Elsewhere: Stage manager, Do You Turn Somersaults?,Talk Is Free Theatre. Bona was resident stage manager at Canadian Stage for four seasons.She has also stage-managed at Soulpepper, The Grand Theatre, National Arts Centre,Manitoba Theatre Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts, Citadel Theatre, Tarragon Theatre andCentaur Theatre. Training: Technical production section, National Theatre School of Canada;BA, Bishop’s University. Et cetera: Bona lives in Stratford with her husband, Dan, and theirdaughter, Georgia.Josh EpsteinSecond season: Third Gentleman/Frenchman/Posthumus’s Brother inCymbeline and Barnaby Tucker in The Matchmaker. Stratford: Quintus(Titus Andronicus), Gas Station Owner (The Grapes of Wrath). Elsewhere:Barfée in ...Spelling Bee (Belfry/Arts Club – Jessie Award), Freddy inDirty Rotten Scoundrels (Playhouse – Jessie and Ovation nominations),Studies in Motion (Electric Company), Leo in The Producers (Arts Club –Ovation Award), three seasons with Bard on the Beach (Jessie nomination), The DrowsyChaperone (Citadel, NAC), Death of a Salesman (Aquarius), Spitfire Grill (Grand), Seymourin Little Shop of Horrors (Stage West), The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish). Featured singer atthe 2010 Olympics and with the rock band FP. Film/TV: Hairspray, Breaker High, X-Files.Josh is co-owner of Motion 58 Entertainment (www.motion58.com), whose films have wonthe NSI Drama Prize, Bravo!FACT, NFB FAP, three Leo awards and a development dealwith the Movie Channel. Training: Studio 58, Birmingham Conservatory. Website:www.joshepsteinonline.com. “4mydad.”Barbara Fulton18th season: Appears in Elektra and understudy in The Matchmaker.Stratford: Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Peter Pan,Dangerous Liaisons, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Taming of the Shrew(Elizabeth I/Widow), Pentecost (Fatima), Oliver! (Mrs. Sowerberry), Intothe Woods (Jack’s Mother), The Miracle Worker (Mrs. Keller), The Prime ofMiss Jean Brodie (Sister Helena), The Three Musketeers (Queen Anne),Fiddler on the Roof (Fruma-Sarah), The Mikado (Peep-Bo) and Bonjour, là, bonjour (Nicole).Elsewhere: Mrs. Webb in Our Town at the Mercury Theatre, Grizabella in Cats, originalToronto production and across Canada, Charlottetown Festival. Film: Stratford’s productionof Twelfth Night. Recordings: CBC/Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest, DarkLady of the Sonnets, Fanfare: Stratford Music of Louis Applebaum; jazz album, BarbaraFulton, Somebody New. Training: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Bird College, U.K.Awards: Recipient of four Tyrone Guthrie Awards. Website: barbarafulton.com.11

Jacob Gallagher-RossThird season: Dramaturge of Cymbeline and The Matchmaker and assistantdramaturge of Henry V. Stratford: Dramaturge of Twelfth Night, assistantdramaturge of The Tempest. Elsewhere: Dramaturge of Troilus and Cressida,The Robbers, Edward II (Yale School of Drama). Jacob is a doctoral candidatein the dramaturgy and dramatic criticism program at the Yale School ofDrama, and an associate editor of Theater magazine. His essays haveappeared in TDR, PAJ, TheatreForum, Theater and Canadian Theatre Review. He is a guestco-editor of “Digital Dramaturgies,” Theater’s upcoming special issue on theatre and newmedia, and a regular contributor to the Village Voice’s theatre section. In 2011, he participatedin the inaugural session of the Mellon Summer School of Theater and Performance Researchat Harvard University. Training: University of Toronto, Yale School of Drama. Awards: John W.Gassner Memorial Prizes for Criticism, 2007 and 2009 (Yale School of Drama).Brad HodderStratford debut: Fourth Gentleman/First Briton Captain in Cymbeline,appears in Elektra and understudy in The Matchmaker. SelectedTheatre: Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Neptune Theatre); Darcy in Prideand Prejudice (Grand Theatre); Paul in Hail (RCAT); Freder in Pains ofYouth, Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ernest in The Anger inErnest and Ernestine (c2c theatre); Harold in Black Comedy (Rabbittown);Sin in Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud); Clarke in No Man’s Land, Sebastian in The Tempest(Rising Tide); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew (NewCurtain); Chebutykin in Three Sisters (Studio Theatre). Directing: Henry IV, Part 1, Caesar,A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New World Theatre Project); The Leisure Society, Autobahn,The Stendhal Syndrome (c2c). Film/TV: Republic of Doyle, Diverted, Above and Beyond(CBC). Training: BFA in Acting, University of Alberta. Et cetera: Founding Associate of c2ctheatre and New World Theatre Project.Andrew GilliesFifth season: Philario in Cymbeline and understudy in The Matchmaker.Stratford: Sir Hugh Evans (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Stanley (Richard III),Islander (The Tempest), Panthino/Outlaw (The Two Gentlemen of Verona),Orlando (As You Like It), Macduff (Macbeth), Valère (Tartuffe), Bassanio (TheMerchant of Venice), Benvolio (Romeo and Juliet). Elsewhere: Hamlet inHamlet (Vancouver Playhouse); Cyrano in Cyrano, Tony Blair in Stuff Happens(Royal Alex); General Burgoyne in The Devil’s Disciple (Neptune). Fourteen seasons at theShaw Festival. Theatre Calgary, ATP, National Arts Centre, Tarragon Theatre, Necessary Angel,Canadian Stage. Manitoba Theatre Centre, including Frank in Educating Rita, 2010. Film/TV: The Virgin Suicides, Wild Girl, That Touch of Pink, The Associates, Paradise Falls, Flashof Genius. Training: Simon Fraser University. Awards: Best-actor nominations: Andrew AllenAward for radio, Dora for theatre. 2009 Merritt Award (best supporting actor) for The Devil’sDisciple (Neptune).Jane JohansonSecond season: Choreographer of Much Ado About Nothing and TheMatchmaker. Stratford: Movement for King John, The Swanne (part 3).Elsewhere: Choreographer – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Soulpepper);The Princess and the Handmaiden (YPT); Carmen (Canadian OperaCompany); Play, Orchestra, Play, Ways of the Heart, Wonderful Town,Happy End, Picnic, Peter Pan, The Doctor’s Dilemma, The Zoo (ShawFestival); Blood Brothers (Theatre Aquarius); The Sound of Music (Sterling Awardnomination), Metamorphosis (Citadel Theatre); Little Mercy’s First Murder (TouchstoneTheatre; Tarragon Theatre, Dora nomination); All Grown Up (Nightwood Theatre); TheBest Little Whorehouse in Texas (Neptune Theatre); The Cradle Will Rock, Pippin (EquityShowcase Theatre). Et cetera: A musical theatre performer, Jane just returned fromplaying Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical (co-production, YPT/Citadel).Bruno Gonsalves21st season: Assistant stage manager of The Matchmaker. Stratford:Mr. Gonsalves has worked as production stage manager of the TomPatterson Theatre (2001, 2003-2005), stage manager (The Best Brothersworkshop, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Palmer Park, The TrojanWomen and others) and assistant stage manager (Hosanna, Jacques BrelIs Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Trespassers, Three Sisters andothers). Elsewhere: Bruno has had the pleasure of stage-managing in theatres acrossCanada, including the Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Manitoba Theatre Centre, YoungPeople’s Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Tarragon Theatre, Citadel Theatre, TorontoDance Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse and Mirvish Productions on Rent (original Torontoproduction and Canadian tour). Most recently, Bruno returned for his 12th season atLondon’s Grand Theatre to stage-manage Susan Ferley’s acclaimed Canadian première ofTo Master the Art.Ruby JoyStratford debut: Helen in Cymbeline and appears in The Matchmaker.Elsewhere: The Tempest (Theatre by the Bay), Hamlet and The Winter’sTale (Theatre80 St. Marks), Evolutionism (The Schapiro Theatre), LookBack in Anger (The Old Stone House), Sex and the Holy Land (ThePlayers Theatre), The Libertine (Robert Moss Theater). Film/TV: Chantelin Republic of Doyle (CBC), Audrey in Oddly Flowers (CFC). Training:Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, New York University Tisch School of theArts. Website: www.rubyjoy.net.Verne GoodThird season: Sound designer of Hirsch and assistant sound designerof Much Ado About Nothing, 42nd Street, The Matchmaker and HenryV. Elsewhere: Sound designer, Was Spring and Communion (TarragonTheatre); Free as Injuns (Native Earth Performing Arts); Jesus Chrysler(Praxis Theatre); Buried and In Darfur (Theatre Awakening); Alphonse(Theaturtle); 9 Parts of Desire and Or (Seventh Stage Theatre); The Epicof Gilgamesh (Groundwater Productions). Sound design and original music for The RedQueen and Stockholm (Seventh Stage Productions); The Normal Heart (Studio 180); TheAtomic Weight of Happiness (StandUp Dance). Training: Bishop’s University, NationalTheatre School of Canada. Et cetera: Verne is a published poet working towards achapbook publication. She would like to take this opportunity to thank her Mom, rest her,for always supporting her decision to pursue theatre.Robert King19th season: Jailer in Cymbeline and Gypsy Musician in The Matchmaker.Stratford: Robert appeared in The Grapes of Wrath, The Misanthropeand The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2011. Other Stratford credits includeRichard III, Quiet in the Land, Richard II, Henry VI, Hamlet, The Merchantof Venice, Home, The Diary of Anne Frank, Ah, Wilderness!, A MidsummerNight’s Dream and Twelfth Night, among others. Elsewhere: Bolshevikiat Infinitheatre and Alternative Theatre Works; Falling, a wake with Alternative TheatreWorks; Garrison’s Garage and Country Hearts for the Blyth Festival. Robert has performedin theatres across the country. Et cetera: Robert lives in town with his wife, Peggy Coffey,and two children, Mary and Lawrence.Carmen GrantSecond season: Appears in Much Ado About Nothing and TheMatchmaker. Stratford: Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Paulina(The Winter’s Tale), Goneril (King Lear), Mrs. Higgins (Pygmalion)(Birmingham Conservatory); Third Citizen/Richard understudy in RichardIII, High Priestess/Tamora understudy in Titus Andronicus. Elsewhere:Helena (…Dream), Kent (King Lear) (Calgary); Lady Macduff (Macbeth),Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Phebe (As You Like It) (Halifax); Viola (Twelfth Night)(Globe Theatre); title role in The Miracle Worker (Dora nomination, YPT); Ruth (Zadie’sShoes) (Rising Star award, ATP); Catherine (Proof) (Neptune); The Syringa Tree (MerrittAward, Neptune, Belfry, MTC, Grand); Catherine (Doc) (Soulpepper). Training: MountRoyal College, National Theatre School (David Tuer Award), Birmingham Conservatory.Et cetera: Carmen is very happy to be to be working on the Festival Theatre stage thissummer, and to be understudying Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Irene Molloyin The Matchmaker.Daniel LevinsonFourth season: Fight director of The Pirates of Penzance and stuntcoordinator of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and The Matchmaker.Stratford: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Grapes of Wrath, Richard III, AsYou Like It, Evita, Kiss Me, Kate, Julius Caesar, Macbeth. Elsewhere:A certified fight master with Fight Directors Canada, Daniel is theowner of Rapier Wit, Canada’s oldest stage combat school, and is afounding member of the Riot ACT stunt team. Most recently: War Horse (firearms trainerand consultant), Jesus Christ Superstar (New York, Dodger Productions). Past creditsinclude Volcano Theatre, Canadian Stage, Actors Repertory Company, Factory, Tarragon,RBC Festival of Classics. He teaches stage combat across Canada and internationally.Workshop highlights: Fight Directors Canada National Workshop (Banff, Victoria, Toronto,Montreal), Boston University, Arcadia University, International Scuola Brancaleoni StageCombat Workshop (Italy), Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop (Banff).Training: BFA (acting), York University. Websites: www.rapierwit.com, www.riotact.ca.12

Complete your experiencewith a trip to theTake home a piece of the drama with originalclothing and giftware, books and music; thisis the place for every theatre lover! Makeevery visit unforgettable with a mementoto take home.TWO LOCATIONSDiscovery Centre, across from theFestival TheatreDowntown in the Avon Theatre lobbyOr shop online at:stratfordshakespearefestival.com/storeSanto LoquastoEighth season: Designer of Much Ado About Nothing and TheMatchmaker. Elsewhere: Santo Loquasto is a designer for theatre, film,dance and opera. Recent N.Y. designs include Waiting for Godot, Fences,Wit and The Cherry Orchard at CSC. Film: Mr. Loquasto’s film workincludes Big, Desperately Seeking Susan and a collaboration with WoodyAllen on over 24 productions. His costume design for Zelig and productiondesigns for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway received Academy Award nominations.Awards: He has won three Tony Awards and has been nominated 15 times. He receivedthe Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted intothe Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004 and received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for theArts in 2006 and the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007.Tom McCamus12th season: Iachimo in Cymbeline and Horace Vandergelder in TheMatchmaker. Stratford: Selected: The Grapes of Wrath, Peter Pan,Dangerous Liaisons, Three Sisters, Phèdre, Bartholomew Fair, An IdealHusband, Timon of Athens, Richard III, The Threepenny Opera, Waitingfor Godot, Coriolanus, Camelot, Julius Caesar, Long Day’s JourneyInto Night. Elsewhere: Hamlet, Divisadero (Necessary Angel); Misery(Canadian Stage); The Unanswered Question (NAC); Thom Pain (Tarragon); Mathilde(Nightwood). Film/TV: Cairo Time (director Ruba Nada), The Sweet Hereafter (AtomEgoyan), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (David Wellington), Possible Worlds (RobertLepage). Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award, best actor: Abundance (Theatre Plus); GenieAward, best actor: I Love a Man in Uniform (David Wellington); Gemini and ACTRA Award,best actor: Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story (Dean Bennett). Et cetera: Tomlives on a farm in Warkworth with his wife, actress Chick Reid, and their three dogs.Kim Lott16th season: Stage manager of The Matchmaker. Stratford: Most recentcredits include Titus Andronicus, Evita, West Side Story. Elsewhere: Sixseasons with The Grand Theatre, My Fair Lady (Drayton Entertainment),Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Opera Ontario) and The Who’s Tommy(Elgin Theatre). Et cetera: “To the beautiful angels in my life who share,inspire and celebrate with me everyday – Tim, Dawson, Courtney, Paul– you bring joy and love to everything we do; my parents and sisters from afar, and myintimate circle of family friends – let’s keep celebrating! You are awesome.”Lorena MackenzieSecond season: Ethel in 42nd Street and understudy in The Matchmaker.Stratford: Evita, Kiss Me, Kate (Wardrobe Lady/Kate understudy).Elsewhere: Canadian première of Hats! The Musical (Marianne, StirlingFestival), original cast of Cats (Rumpelteazer/Grizabella understudy,Elgin, first national tour), Brian Macdonald’s production of The Mikado(Pitti-Sing, NAC and national tour), Crazy for You (Polly, Grand Bend/Irene, Drayton), Side by Side by Sondheim (Theatre Collingwood), The Last Resort (Julia/Jessica, Aquarius), Cats (Jellylorum/Jennyanydots, Drayton/Aquarius), Les Misérables(ensemble/Cosette understudy, Royal Alex and national tour), The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy,Elgin), Damn Yankees (Royal Alex), Anne of Green Gables (Gertie/Anne understudy,Charlottetown Festival), The Norman Conquests (Annie, Imperial Theatre). TV: Queer asFolk (Showtime), Exhibit A (Discovery), numerous commercials. Training: Humber College,Trinity College of Music. Et cetera: Teacher (voice/music theatre); mom to Tanner, Nolanand Kimbal. “Love to Kevin and family.”Seana McKenna21st season: Dolly Gallagher Levi in The Matchmaker and Clytemestra inElektra. Stratford: First: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena) at the TPT,1982. Last: Richard in Richard III and Anne Hathaway in Shakespeare’sWill, both directed by husband Miles Potter. In between: Juliet, Cordelia,Viola, Olivia, Lady Macbeth, Portia, Titania, Queens Margaret, Elizabethand Katharine, Chorus (Henry V), Paulina and the spaghetti-WesternShrew. Medea, Phèdre, Dangerous Liaisons, The Glass Menagerie, Night of the Iguana,Private Lives, Fallen Angels, London Assurance, Noises Off, Trojan Women, Tartuffe, GoodMother. Elsewhere: Mrs. Warren’s Profession (MTC), The Year of Magical Thinking (Belfry/Tarragon/NAC), more than 80 productions across the continent. Television: Rookie Blue,Flashpoint, Eleventh Hour. Awards: Doras: Saint Joan (Theatre Plus Toronto), OrpheusDescending (MTC/Mirvish), directing Valley Song (New Globe). Jessie: Wit (VancouverPlayhouse/Canadian Stage). Genie: The Hanging Garden. Lives with Miles and son Cal inHarrington, Ontario.Nora McLellanFourth season: Miss Flora Van Huysen in The Matchmaker. Stratford:Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret, Athena in The Trojan Women, AuntEller in Oklahoma! and Anna Jedlikova in Pentecost. Elsewhere: ShawFestival; August: Osage County (Arts Club); The Drowsy Chaperone(Vancouver Playhouse, Citadel, NAC); For the Pleasure of Seeing HerAgain (Persephone Theatre); Harvey (Segal Centre, Montreal); Music forContortionist (Dora Award, Tarragon Theatre and du Maurier World Stage); Noises Off;Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Jessie Award); Epifania in The Millionairess,Charley’s Aunt, A Little Night Music (Vancouver Playhouse); Uncle Vanya and FartherWest (Dora nominations, Tarragon Theatre); The Stone Angel and The Threepenny Opera(Canadian Stage); The Grand Theatre; Seattle Rep. Training: Uta Hagen, HB Studio,New York. Et cetera: www.theatre20.com. Habitat for Humanity: Gray, Louisiana, andPascagoula, Mississippi.13

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Cara RickettsFourth season: Innogen in Cymbeline and Ermengarde in TheMatchmaker. Stratford: Ruth (The Homecoming), Maria (TwelfthNight), Celia (As You Like It), Perdita (The Winter’s Tale), Weird Sister(Macbeth), Portia (Julius Caesar), Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night’sDream). Elsewhere: Cathy (Cruel and Tender, directed by Atom Egoyan)(Canadian Stage), Pauline Newberry (Eternal Hydra) (Crow’s Theatre),Juliet/Ophelia (Shakespeare: If Music Be...) (Art of Time Ensemble), Beneatha (A Raisinin the Sun) (Soulpepper, Theatre Calgary), Queen of Sheba (Wise Woman of Abyssinia)(b current Theatre), Saint Monica (The Last Days of Judas Iscariot) (Birdland Theatre; fiveDora Awards), Antigone (Antigone: Insurgency) (One Little Goat Theatre), Domestic by d’biyoung (Volcano Theatre), Peggy Sue (Born Ready) (Obsidian Theatre). Film/TV: Bonnie(The Gathering) (Lifetime Network), Cyda Smith (Mayday) (Discovery), The Tower (CBSpilot with Davis Guggenheim). Training: Humber College. Et cetera: “To Marie-JosephAngélique and her passion.”Andrea RungeFourth season: Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Minnie Fay inThe Matchmaker. Stratford: Viola (Twelfth Night), Anne Page (The MerryWives of Windsor), Rosalind (As You Like It), Mopsa (The Winter’s Tale),Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Earnest), Sister Marthe (Cyranode Bergerac). Elsewhere: The 39 Steps, A Man for All Seasons, TheCoronation Voyage (Globe Theatre); The Misanthrope (Tarragon Theatre);Frost/Nixon (Canadian Stage/Playhouse Theatre); Between Friends (Lighthouse FestivalTheatre); Cloud 9, Loves and Hours, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (PennsylvaniaCentre Stage); Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan).Film/TV: Corner Gas, Incredible Story Studio, Sliced, The Risen and Try to Remember.Radio: The Beginning of the End of the World; Killjoy Was Here; Youth Poetry (CBC).Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, MFA in acting from PennsylvaniaState University, BFA in acting from the University of Regina.Mike SharaFourth season: Cloten in Cymbeline and Cornelius Hackl in TheMatchmaker. Stratford: Twelfth Night, The Importance of Being Earnest,The Homecoming, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale. Elsewhere: TheGreat Gatsby (Grand Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (MTC); Picnic,Nothing Sacred, You Never Can Tell, Arms and the Man, Misalliance,Hay Fever, Cavalcade (Shaw Festival); Take Me Out, It’s a Wonderful Life(Canadian Stage); Richard III, The Cherry Orchard (Citadel); Our Town, Black Comedy, TheWay of the World (Soulpepper); Anatol (Vancouver Playhouse); An Inspector Calls (TheatreCalgary); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Theatre Aquarius); Skylight (National Arts Centre). Film/TV: XIII: The Series (Showcase), Little Mosque on the Prairie (CBC), King (Showcase), TheGathering (Lifetime), Queer as Folk (Showtime), Due South (CTV).Michael WaltonEighth season: Lighting designer of The Matchmaker, Henry V and AWord or Two. Stratford: Twelfth Night, The Misanthrope, The Tempest,As You Like It, King of Thieves, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Hamlet. Elsewhere: Cruel and Tender (Canadian Stage, director AtomEgoyan); Maria Stuarda (Pacific Opera); The Rocky Horror Show, TheThree Musketeers, Little Women (Citadel); And Slowly Beauty (Belfry/NAC); The Cryptogram, The Year of Magical Thinking (Belfry); The 39 Steps, A ChristmasCarol, White Christmas, Oliver!, Blood Brothers (Aquarius); Mimi (or a Poisoner’s Comedy),East of Berlin, Generous (Tarragon); The Last Five Years, The Drawer Boy, Sexy Laundry,Moonlight and Magnolias, Over the River… (Grand); ’Night Mother (Soulpepper); A NewBrain (Acting Up Stage); Oliver!, This Is How It Goes (Neptune); The Goat, or Who isSylvia?, The Last Five Years (MTC); associate special effects designer, The Lord of theRings (Kevin Wallace Inc., London and Toronto).Geraint Wyn DaviesNinth season: Cymbeline in Cymbeline and Malachi Stack in TheMatchmaker. Stratford (selected): King Arthur (Camelot), Falstaff (MerryWives), Stephano (The Tempest), Dylan Thomas (Do Not Go Gentle), JuliusCaesar, Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Polonius (Hamlet), HenryHiggins (My Fair Lady), Henry V, Bassanio (The Merchant of Venice),D’Artagnan (Three Musketeers), Hortensio (The Taming of the Shrew),Antipholus S (The Boys From Syracuse), Pericles. Elsewhere: Canadian Stage’s TheElephant Man; Shaw Festival, five seasons; King Lear (Lincoln Center); Poetic License(The Directors Co.); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theatre); Richard III, Cyrano(Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC); Hamlet,Henry VIII (Chichester Festival); An Enemy of the People (Lyric Hammersmith, London); twoseasons as Theatr Clwyd’s artistic associate (Welsh National Company). Film/TV (selected):ReGenesis, Murdoch Mysteries, 24, Slings and Arrows, Black Harbour, Airwolf, ForeverKnight, American Psycho II, Hypercube.Let’s Meet Online!Order tickets, engage with members of theFestival’s acting company and staff, follow theconversation on our shows and enjoy behindthe-scenesvideos featuring our creative teams.Brian Tree23rd season: Pisanio in Cymbeline and appears in The Matchmaker.Stratford: Dubois (The Misanthrope), Old Shepherd (The Winter’s Tale),Adam (As You Like It), Wasp (Bartholomew Fair), Erronius (A Funny ThingHappened on the Way to the Forum), Costard (Love’s Labour’s Lost),Touchstone (As You Like It), Stephano (The Tempest), Joxer Daly (Junoand the Paycock), Mr. Dussel (The Diary of Anne Frank), Mr. Bennet (Prideand Prejudice), Dolly Spanker (London Assurance), Oswald (King Lear), Peter Quince (AMidsummer Night’s Dream). Elsewhere: Jimmy (The Pitmen Painters), Theatre Aquarius;Michael (Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me), Kemp (Vigil), Tarragon Theatre; Bottom (AMidsummer Night’s Dream), Canadian Stage; Harry (The Sum of Us), Belfry Theatre;Jim (Passion), Grand Theatre; the Player (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead),Touchmark. Film/TV: Billable Hours, La Femme Nikita, Traders, Forever Knight, StreetLegal; eight productions of A Taste of Shakespeare.John VickeryFifth season: Belarius in Cymbeline and Joe Scanlon/Rudolph/Cabmanin The Matchmaker. Stratford: Titus (Titus Andronicus), Antonio (TheTempest), Duke (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Ross (Macbeth),Comte de Guiche (Cyrano), Victor (Zastrozzi), Capulet (Romeo andJuliet), Holofernes (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Lucius Septimius (Caesar andCleopatra). Elsewhere: Broadway: original Scar in The Lion King (also inL.A.), The Real Thing, The Sisters Rosensweig, Macbeth. He recently worked with RobertWilson on The Black Rider and David Hare on Stuff Happens. Other roles include Romeo,Laertes, Hamlet, Benedict, Dr. Caius, Gower, Pericles, Prince Hal, Richard II, Bolingbroke,Richard III, Cassius, Brutus, Autolycus, Edgar, Edmund, Malcolm, Macbeth, Don Juan,Tartuffe, Alceste, Trofimov, Lopahin, Trigorin, Delio and Bosola (twice) in The Duchess ofMalfi. Film/TV: Murder by Numbers, Big Business, Dr. Giggles, Patriot Games, ModernFamily, Without a Trace, NCIS, Frasier, NYPD Blue and all of Star Trek (except Voyager).15