Dangerous Liaisons - Stratford Festival

Tom McCamus
10th season: Captain James Hook in Peter Pan and le Vicomte de Valmont
in Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford: Selected: 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,
When My Name was Anna (Necessary Angel); Misery (CanStage); The
Unanswered Question (NAC); Thom Pain (Tarragon Theatre); 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 the
Warkworth area with his wife, actress Chick Reid, and their three dogs.
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Yanna McIntosh
Sixth season: Hermione in The Winter’s Tale and Mme de Volanges in
Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford: Lady Macbeth, Titania, Helen of Troy
(The Trojan Women), among other roles. Elsewhere: Cloud 9 (Mirvish
Productions); Condoleezza Rice in David Hare’s Stuff Happens (Studio 180);
Mary in Mary Stuart, Phèdre (Soulpepper); Colleen Wagner’s The Monument
(Obsidian); title roles in Hedda Gabler (Volcano) and Florence Gibson’s Belle
(Factory/NAC); The Syringa Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Petruchio in The Taming of the
Shrew (CanStage); Michael Healey’s Generous, Hare’s Skylight (Dora Award) (Tarragon); Valley
Song (New Globe Theatre – Dora Award); Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Bear (NAC); André Alexis’s
Lambton Kent (Volcano/Edinburgh Festival); and Trace (co-writer/performer). Yanna has taught
and directed at the National Theatre School and Humber College. Film/TV: The Line (TMN);
This Is Wonderland, Riverdale (CBC); Doomstown (CTV – Gemini Award); The Sentinel, John Q,
Finn’s Girl, A Raisin in the Sun.
Seana McKenna
19th season: Paulina in The Winter’s Tale and la Marquise de Merteuil in
Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford: Thirty-eight productions, with roles from Juliet
to Phèdre, Andromache to Anne Hathaway, Kate Hardcastle to Kate the
curst, Amanda Wingfield to Amanda Prynne, Medea to Dotty Ottley, Lady
Torrance to Lady Gay Spanker. Elsewhere: Phèdre (San Francisco’s ACT);
The Year of Magical Thinking (Belfry Theatre – Canadian première). Thirteen
MTC productions, including Macbeth, Hedda Gabler, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named
Desire and, with Mirvish Productions, Medea and Orpheus Descending. Eight Canadian Stage
shows (Doubt, Lucy). Eliza Doolittle, Candida (Shaw Festival); Cleopatra (Centaur); Mme
Tourvel, Masha (Banff/Equity Showcase); Hermione (Kansas City Rep). Honours: Spring 2010:
an Honorary MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theatre. Dora Awards (Saint
Joan, Orpheus Descending, directing Valley Song). Jessie Award (Wit – Vancouver Playhouse/
CanStage). Genie Award (The Hanging Garden). Upcoming: The Year of Magical Thinking
(Tarragon, NAC); Shakespeare’s Will (Globe).
Ethan McSweeny
Stratford debut: Director of Dangerous Liaisons. Elsewhere: New York
credits include the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Tony
nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards); off-Broadway
premières of John Logan’s Never the Sinner (Outer Critics Circle Award), 100
Saints You Should Know and 1001 (both Top 10 productions of ’07 in Time
Out and Entertainment Weekly) and a landmark production of Aeschylus’
The Persians, starring Roberta Maxwell and Len Cariou (National Actors Theatre). He has
directed more than 50 productions for leading companies including the Guthrie, Globe,
Shakespeare Theatre, South Coast Rep, Centerstage, Denver Center, Alley, Wilma, George
Street, Pittsburgh Public, Primary Stages and Playwrights Horizons. Training: Columbia
University. Et cetera: Mr. McSweeny serves on the executive board of SDC, the directors’
and choreographers’ union, and is co-Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Theatre Company
in western New York.
Shona Morris
Third season: Movement for The Winter’s Tale, Peter Pan and Dangerous
Liaisons. Stratford: 2003-2007 seasons with the company and Birmingham
Conservatory as coach; King Lear, Henry VIII (movement); Agamemnon, The
Flies, Electra, The Birds, Antony and Cleopatra (coach). Elsewhere: 2007-
2008 Chichester Festival Theatre – movement director of Nicholas Nickleby
(Chichester, Gielgud Theatre West End, Toronto) and Twelfth Night. 2008-
2009 Watford Palace Theatre – movement director of As You Like It, My Mother Said I Never
Should, Lysistrata, The Dresser, An English Tragedy (world première). 2007-2008 National
Theatre Studio – Swine (director). 2009 Soho Theatre – Invasion. 2006 Royal Court – Scenes
from the Back of Beyond. Film/TV: Tess (Polanski), 1979, assistant choreographer. Actor on
numerous shows. Training: RAD ballet, 1972-1975 Bristol University (drama/English), 1976-
1978 École Jacques Lecoq Paris, movement training with Trish Arnold. Et cetera: Teaches at
Drama Centre London. “I dedicate this season to Trish Arnold.”
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