The merry wives of windsor - Stratford Festival

Robert King
18th season: Robert in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Man Coming Back
in The Grapes of Wrath and Guard of the Marshalsea in The Misanthrope.
Stratford: Selected credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two
Gentleman of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Richard
II, Richard III, Henry V, Henry VI, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Julius
Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Pericles, Sticks & Stones, Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof, Home, The Swanne, Quiet in the Land, The Diary of Anne Frank,
Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers, The Trespassers, Bartholomew Fair, Three Sisters.
Elsewhere: Blyth Festival, The Grand, the Centaur, MTC, TNB, Persephone Theatre. Recent
credits include the one-man show Bolsheviki for Infinitheatre in Montreal and Falling: A
Wake with Alternative Theatre Works, of which he is a founding member. Film/TV: Murdoch
Mysteries. Awards: Guthrie Award recipient. Et cetera: Robert lives in Stratford with his wife,
Peggy, and their children, Mary and Lawrence.
Chris McEwen
Stratford debut: Assistant lighting designer of The Merry Wives of Windsor,
Camelot and Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: Touring head electrician, Scrap Arts
Music (Canada, U.S.A., Guatemala, Spain, Scotland, Wales, Hong Kong,
South Korea, Taiwan and Belgium), head electrician/technical director,
Victoria Playhouse Petrolia. Installation and systems technician at Horizon
Solutions. Training: Fanshawe College, ETC Certified Technician. Et cetera:
Chris also works with various theatres including The Grand and the Stratford Shakespeare
Festival doing electrical special effects and special projects. In his spare time Chris likes
sailing the waters around Bayfield with his wife on their boat, Tardis.
Holly Korhonen
10th season: Assistant stage manager of The Merry Wives of Windsor and
The Misanthrope. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of Kiss Me, Kate,
Dangerous Liaisons, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ever Yours, Oscar,
Cabaret, My One and Only, The Comedy of Errors, South Pacific, Oliver!,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Edward II, The Count of Monte Cristo, Anything
Goes and Henry VI, parts 1 and 2. Stage manager for the 2006 and 2007
Birmingham Conservatory. Elsewhere: Assistant stage manager of The Love List, My
Fair Lady, Noises Off (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Strawberries in January, A Guide to
Mourning, Mary’s Wedding (Globe Theatre); Miracle on 34th Street (Grand Theatre); Zadie’s
Shoes, Belle (Factory Theatre). Awards: Recipient of the Tanya Award and two Tyrone
Guthrie Awards. Et cetera: Holly would like to thank Jason and her family for their constant
love and support. “Enjoy the show, Madeline and Julianna!”
Zachary Misener
Stratford debut: William Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Training:
Zachary has been involved with Stratford’s local theatre programs
Playmakers and Acting Out for the past five years, and has loved every
minute of it! Et cetera: “I’m very excited to have the amazing opportunity
to be part of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival – one of North America’s
leading classical theatres! Living in Stratford has given me the chance to
see many wonderful plays and incredible performances. Never in my wildest dreams did I
imagine that I would have the honour to be on this stage. Thank you to my family and friends
for their ongoing support in realizing one of my life’s dreams!”
Monique Lund
Sixth season: Nimue in Camelot and appears in The Merry Wives of
Windsor. Stratford: Lilli Vanessi/Kate (Kiss Me, Kate), Max (Cabaret), Louise/
Gypsy (Gypsy), Angelique (The Imaginary Invalid), Evita, The Bacchae, Our
Town, Carousel, HMS Pinafore, World of Wonders. Elsewhere: Original
Toronto companies of Mamma Mia!, The Lord of the Rings, The Who’s
Tommy, Crazy for You, Cats, The Rat Pack and Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat (also U.S. tour). Favourite credits include two years as Donna
Sheridan (Mamma Mia!) (Broadway touring production); Ulla (The Producers), Victoria Grant
(Victor/Victoria) (Stage West); Susie (Lady Be Good) (MTC); Babette (Beauty and the Beast)
(Neptune/Arts Club); Judy Haynes (White Christmas) (Arts Club); and The Mikado (NAC).
Originally from Charlottetown, she spent four seasons with the Charlottetown Festival.
Recordings: Sweet Airs That Give Delight (Stratford Festival 40th Anniversary). Et cetera:
“Love to Mark and Char, now and for always.”
Annie Lockerbie Newton
Stratford debut: Appears in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Elsewhere: Third
Witch and Child in Macbeth (Playmakers Theatre School); various roles
in school plays (Stratford Middle Years and Stratford Montessori School);
Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Acting Out). Training:
Playmakers Theatre School. Awards: First place in her age group in Kiwanis
Music Festival for “Sick,” by Shel Silverstein, and for Three Witches in
Macbeth. Et cetera: Annie dedicates this season to all of her many brothers and sisters and
her mom and dad.
Angela Marshall
11th season: Assistant stage manager of The Merry Wives of Windsor
and Camelot. Stratford: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in
Paris, As You Like It, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,
Bartholomew Fair, The Trojan Women, Palmer Park, To Kill a Mockingbird,
The Odyssey, Henry IV, Part 1, The Liar, Orpheus Descending, Measure
for Measure, Macbeth, King Henry VIII, The King and I, Private Lives,
Henry V and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Elsewhere: Favourites: Einstein’s Gift (The
Grand Theatre); Trying (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Sylvia (Globe Theatre); Dear Santa
(Theatre New Brunswick); The All Night Strut! (Stirling Festival Theatre); Flying on Her Own
(Neptune Theatre); Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun (Theatre Orangeville); Mamma Mia! (Mirvish
Productions); Godspell (Waterloo Stage Theatre). Et cetera: Angela thanks her family and
friends for all of their love and support.
Margaret Palmer
28th season: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre. Stratford:
Maggie has been production stage manager at the Avon and Festival
theatres for 19 seasons. Stage-management credits include Will Power;
Henry IV (parts 1 and 2); Iolanthe; The Imaginary Invalid; My Fair Lady;
A Man for All Seasons; Kiss Me, Kate; Guys and Dolls; The Government
Inspector; Coriolanus; The Mikado (national tour, London’s Old Vic); and
Twelfth Night (U.S. tour). Elsewhere: Maggie apprenticed at Neptune Theatre (1966/67)
and worked at the St. Lawrence Centre (Toronto Arts Productions), MTC and the Grand
Theatre. She stage-managed Eugene Onegin (Manitoba Opera), the first Dream in High
Park and the first Dora Awards. She was publicity director for the NDWT Company, worked
for Fountainhead Theatre in London and toured Canada with the Charlottetown Festival.
Training: Graduate of the National Theatre School, where she returned to coach last winter.
Tom McCamus
11th season: Master George Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Jim
Casy in The Grapes of Wrath. Stratford: Selected: Peter Pan, Dangerous
Liaisons, Three Sisters, Phèdre, Bartholomew Fair, An Ideal Husband,
Timon of Athens, Richard III, The Threepenny Opera, Waiting for Godot,
Coriolanus, Camelot, Julius Caesar, Long Day’s Journey Into 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 (Atom Egoyan), Long Day’s Journey
Into Night (David Wellington), Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage). Awards: Dora Mavor Moore
Award, best actor: Abundance (Theatre Plus); Genie Award, 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: Tom lives on a farm in Warkworth with his
wife, actress Chick Reid, and their two dogs.
Trent Pardy
Fourth season: Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Sebastian in Twelfth
Night and Acaste in The Misanthrope. Stratford: Twin in Peter Pan, Christie
in King of Thieves, Bartholomew Cokes in Bartholomew Fair, King of
Navarre in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Samson in Romeo and Juliet, appeared
in Three Sisters and Caesar and Cleopatra. Trent is a graduate of the
2007/2008 Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Elsewhere:
Pastor Ray in Haunted Hillbilly and Teach in American Buffalo with SideMart Theatrical
Grocery, Billy the Kid in Everyday Above Ground – SaBooge Theatre, Cupid/Penthus/
Adonis in Tales from Ovid – Centaur Theatre, Ariel in The Tempest – Segal Centre. Film/
TV: The Dead Zone (U.S.A.), Black Eye Dog (independent), The Secret (Max Films). Training:
Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada (2004) and Mount Royal College (2001).
Et cetera: Trent is a founding member of the critically acclaimed SideMart Theatrical Grocery
in Montreal. “Love to family, friends and Stefanie.”
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