The merry wives of windsor - Stratford Festival

Heather Davies
Stratford debut: Assistant director of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Training:
Ryerson University (BFA, Theatre), York University (MFA, Theatre), Webber
Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, U.K. As Director: At The Grand Theatre:
Anything Goes, Macbeth (High School Projects); Playwrights’ Cabaret, The
Little Prince. In the U.K.: Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew (Creation
Theatre); Plunder (Watermill/Greenwich Theatre); Copenhagen, Neville’s
Island (Watermill); Lope de Vega’s Montagues and Capulets (RSC/Capital Centre). For the
Royal Shakespeare Company: Stratford Talking, The Witch, Desire Under the Elms. Other
directing: Toronto Noir (SummerWorks); Educating Rita, Laughing Wild, Blithe Spirit (English
Theatre, Frankfurt); Medea (Richmond, Virginia). As Associate and Resident Director:
For Propeller, The Winter’s Tale (U.K. and international tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(West End); two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company including the Olivier
Award-winning Jacobethan Season (Outstanding Company Achievement). Website: www.
heatherdavies.com.
Nicholas Dolan
Stratford debut: Appears in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Stratford:
Stratford Miscast (PAL benefit). Elsewhere: Noah in Still Human (Stratford
Central Secondary School for the Sears Drama Festival); Le Fou in Beauty
and the Beast, Vince in Sister Act, Prince Caspian in Prince Caspian (Acting
Out); Oliver in Oliver!, Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Benny Southstreet in
Guys and Dolls, Winthrop in The Music Man (Stratford Montessori School);
Stratford Youth Chorus in Starbright Christmas 2009 and 2010. Awards: Sears Drama
Festival Distinctive Merit Award for Still Human. Et cetera: Nicholas is a student at Stratford
Central Secondary School where he enjoys being a part of Theatre Central and the Central
Youth Choir. Outside of school he is a competitive swimmer and likes playing guitar. Nicholas
is very happy to be part of the Stratford season, working with such a great company.
Barbara Fulton
17th season: Appears in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night.
Stratford: Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons, Lise (Cyrano de Bergerac),
Elizabeth I/Widow (The Taming of the Shrew), Fatima (Pentecost), Mrs.
Sowerberry (Oliver!), Jack’s Mother (Into the Woods), Mrs. Keller (The
Miracle Worker), Sister Helena (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Queen
Anne (The Three Musketeers), Fruma-Sarah (Fiddler on the Roof), Peep-Bo
(The Mikado) and Nicole (Bonjour, là, bonjour). Elsewhere: Mrs. Webb (Our Town, Mercury
Theatre), Grizabella (Cats, original Toronto production and across Canada). Recordings:
CBC/Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest, Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Fanfare:
Stratford Music of Louis Applebaum; debut album, Somebody New; all available at the
Theatre Store. Training: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.; Bird College, London England.
Awards: Recipient of four Tyrone Guthrie Awards. Website: barbarafulton.com.
Frank Galati
Stratford debut: Director of The Merry Wives of Windsor and adaptor of The
Grapes of Wrath. Elsewhere: Member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company,
Chicago, associate director at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. Opera
directing at Chicago Lyric, San Francisco, Dallas and the Metropolitan
Opera in New York. Awards: Recipient of 11 Joseph Jefferson Awards
for directing, acting and writing at various Chicago theatres. Two Tony
Awards for best play and best direction of Steppenwolf’s The Grapes of Wrath. Tony Award
nomination for directing Ragtime. Academy Award nomination for screenplay, with Lawrence
Kasdan, of The Accidental Tourist. Et cetera: Inducted into American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Emeritus Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
Victor Dolhai
Second season: John in The Merry Wives of Windsor and appears in
Twelfth Night and The Misanthrope. Stratford: As You Like It, The Winter’s
Tale. Elsewhere: Pygmalion, King Lear (Birmingham Conservatory); Pride
and Prejudice (Citadel); Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla
(Belfry/Electric Company Theatre); Little Women (Persephone); As You Like
It, Death of a Salesman, The Fantasticks (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre);
The Full Monty (Patrick Street Productions); The Pirates of Penzance (Chemainus Theatre
Festival); Narnia (Kaleidoscope Theatre); Grimm Tales (Itsazoo Productions); Woyzeck
Songspiel (Ecce Homo); Guys and Dolls, Tartuffe, Metamorphoses, Tyrants, The Street
of Crocodiles (Phoenix Theatre); 11th and 12th 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. Et cetera: Victor is
a founding member of the award-winning SNAFU Dance Theatre. He dedicates this season
to the memory of Denis Simpson and Jeremy Tow.
Bona Duncan
11th season: Stage manager of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Stratford:
PSM, Avon Theatre; stage manager of Dangerous Liaisons, Cyrano de
Bergerac, Zastrozzi, All’s Well That Ends Well, Fanny Kemble, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Electra, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Merchant of Venice
and Hamlet; assistant stage manager of The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo
and Juliet, Twelfth Night and As You Like It. Elsewhere: Before coming to
Stratford, Bona was resident stage manager at Canadian Stage for four seasons. She has
also stage-managed at Soulpepper, The Grand, the National Arts Centre, the Manitoba
Theatre Centre, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Citadel, the Tarragon and the Centaur.
Training: She is a graduate of the technical production section of the National Theatre
School of Canada and holds a BA from Bishop’s University. Et cetera: Bona lives in Stratford
with her husband, Dan, and their daughter, Georgia.
Loreen Gibson
Second season: Apprentice stage manager of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Stratford: Production assistant for As You Like It, Kiss Me, Kate, The
Tempest and Dangerous Liaisons. Elsewhere: Apprentice stage manager
for Civil Elegies (Soulpepper), Dog Sees God (M. Rubinoff Productions), The
December Man (L’homme de décembre) (Canadian Stage), Rose (Harold
Green Jewish Theatre Company), Jewtopia and Evil Dead: The Musical
(both at the Diesel Playhouse). Stage manager for the Canadian première of The Grapes
of Wrath (Theatre@York) and assistant stage manager for He Sang, She Sang (Markham
Theatre) and Vacancy (York University, Creative Ensemble). Training: BFA in Design and
Production from York University. Awards: 2010 Guthrie Award recipient. Part of the 2008
Dora-winning team for Outstanding Production of a Play and the 2007 Dora-winning team
for Audience Choice Award. Et cetera: “Big thanks to family and friends for the love, support
and encouragement!”
Andrew Gillies
Fourth season: Hugh Evans in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Lord
Stanley in Richard III. Stratford: Islander in The Tempest, Panthino/Outlaw
in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Orlando in As You Like It, Macduff in
Macbeth, Valère in Tartuffe, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Benvolio
in Romeo and Juliet. Elsewhere: Hamlet in Hamlet (Vancouver Playhouse),
Cyrano in Cyrano (Royal Alex), Tony Blair in Stuff Happens (Royal Alex),
General Burgoyne in The Devil’s Disciple (Neptune). Fourteen seasons at the Shaw 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, Flash of Genius.
Training: Simon Fraser University. Awards: Best-actor nominations: Andrew Allen Award for
radio, Dora for theatre. 2009 Merritt Award (best supporting actor) for The Devil’s Disciple
(Neptune).
Ryan Field
Stratford debut: Peter Simple in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Valentine
in Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: Oil and Water (Artistic Fraud); Romeo and
Juliet (Shakespeare in Action); Oh What a Lovely War, Window on Toronto,
A Chorus of Disapproval, The Winter’s Tale, The Beggar’s Opera, She
Stoops to Conquer (Soulpepper); Hair (Canadian Stage); Romeo and Juliet,
The Taming of the Shrew (ShakespeareWorks); Jacob Two-Two Meets
the Hooded Fang, Blue Planet (LKTYP); Dream Girls (Stage West); Angels in America, The
Threepenny Opera (George Brown). Film/TV: Wingin’ It (Family Channel), This and That,
Transform It, host/producer of The Space (TVOKids), The Ladies Man (Paramount), The
Best Years (Global), This Is Wonderland (CBC), 1-800-MISSING (CTV), System Crash (YTV).
Training: Claude Watson School for the Arts, the Royal Conservatory of Music, George Brown
Theatre School graduate. Website: www.ryanfieldmusic.com. Et cetera: Ryan released his
album, The New Beginning, on iTunes on November 11th, 2010.
Randy Hughson
Fourth season: Host of the Garter Inn in The Merry Wives of Windsor
and Uncle John in The Grapes of Wrath. Stratford: Corin (As You Like It),
Antigonus (The Winter’s Tale), Senex (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum), Jordan Knockem (Bartholomew Fair), Hortensio (The Taming
of the Shrew), Second Gravedigger (Hamlet), Interpreter (All’s Well That
Ends Well). Elsewhere: Major roles at the Belfry Theatre, Citadel Theatre,
Manitoba Theatre Centre, Canadian Stage, Neptune Theatre, Factory Theatre, Theatre
Passe Muraille, Alberta Theatre Projects, Centaur Theatre, Blyth Festival, National Arts
Centre, Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre and many others. Film/TV: Leading roles in films The
Shoemaker, The Feeler, Stolen Heart and Luck and extensive television credits. Awards:
Nominated for eight Dora Mavor Moore Awards, three Edmonton Sterlings, one Calgary
Betty Mitchell, three Vancouver Jessies and one Gemini. Randy has won one of each award.
Et cetera: “Love to my wife, Melissa.”
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