Dangerous Liaisons - Stratford Festival

Margaret Palmer
27th season: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre. Stratford:
Maggie has been production stage manager at the Avon and Festival
theatres for 18 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.
Michael Therriault
Eighth season: Peter Pan in Peter Pan and le Chevalier Danceny in
Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford (selected): Quiet in the Land, Henry VI, Twelfth
Night, The Seagull, Fiddler on the Roof, As You Like It, The Tempest, Oscar
Remembered, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Alchemist, The Miser, Camelot.
Elsewhere: The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Roundabout, N.Y.), Fiddler on the Roof
(Broadway), The Lord of the Rings (Toronto and London’s West End), The
Producers (Toronto). Film/TV: The Englishman’s Boy, Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story and
the upcoming film If I Were You. Awards: Michael has won two Dora Awards and has been
nominated for a Gemini. Et cetera: Michael was an inaugural member of the Birmingham
Conservatory for Classical Theatre.
Michael Roth
Third season: Composer and musical director for As You Like It, composer
for The Tempest and music consultant for Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford:
Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. Film/TV: Music director, Disney’s The Princess
and the Frog (Randy Newman, composer); composer, Jews and Baseball
(PBS documentary, theatrical release); Your Name Here (with Bill Pullman).
Theatre: Over 250 productions. Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (Daniel Sullivan,
director), A Walk in the Woods (also PBS). Off-Broadway: Dinner With Friends, The Persians,
many others. With Tom Stoppard, Carey Perloff, American premières of Indian Ink, The
Invention of Love; with Culture Clash, The Birds; with Mac Wellman, The Allegory of Whiteness
(Humana Festival); resident composer, La Jolla Playhouse. Recordings: Their Thought & Back
Again (opera) and work-in-progress with Alice Ripley, available via myspace.com/rothmusik
and iTunes. Et cetera: With Randy Newman, orchestrating Faust, editing five anthologies;
music/sound for the UN’s Landmine Safety DVD. His work at Stratford is dedicated to his old
friend Nicholas Pennell.
Siobhán Sleath
Fourth season: Lighting design execution for Kiss Me, Kate. Assistant
lighting designer of As You Like It, The Tempest and Dangerous Liaisons.
Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Trespassers,
Rice Boy, Zastrozzi, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s
Well That Ends Well, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Comedy of Errors and My One
and Only. Elsewhere: Lighting design for Back to X (Larchaud Dance Project);
Confluence, Tirtha and Frida and Herself (Anandam Performance Group); Les Belles-Soeurs and
The Killing Game (Randolph Academy); Bluebeard (GromKat Production Ltd.), Fat Pig (Geek Girl
Productions); Disciples (DMT Productions); and Anowa (AfriCAN Theatre Ensemble). Associate
lighting design for Anne and Gilbert: The Musical (Campbell Webster Entertainment). Siobhán
also worked on Nuit Blanche 2008, designing the lighting score for Brendan Fernandes’s
installation Future (…---…) Perfect. Training: BFA in theatre production from York University.
Stacie Steadman
Third season: Michael in Peter Pan and appears in Dangerous Liaisons.
Stratford: First Fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jaquenetta in Love’s
Labour’s Lost and appeared in Romeo and Juliet and Caesar and Cleopatra.
Elsewhere: She in Someone’s Going to Come (One Little Goat Theatre
Company), Beauty in The House of Sleeping Beauties (Boca de Lupo), Dora
Stipple in Terrible Things (Rumble Productions), Diana Massingberd in Diana
of Dobson’s (Studio 58), Bridget in The Waiting Room (Studio 58/Ruby Slippers), Helen in Troy:
City of Love (Studio 58). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, Studio 58.
Et cetera: Stacie would like to thank her loving family for their support and Jesse for keeping
the light on.
Robert Thomson
Ninth season: Lighting designer of Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford: Rice Boy,
Zastrozzi, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra,
Krapp’s Last Tape/Hughie, The Odyssey, Into the Woods, Measure for Measure,
King Lear, The Swanne (all three parts), King John. Elsewhere: Resident
lighting designer of the National Ballet of Canada for 12 seasons; designs
include Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet. Highlights in 25 seasons at the
Shaw Festival include 10 years as head of lighting design, Picnic, Saint Joan, Cavalcade and
Cyrano de Bergerac. Recent credits include Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung (Seattle Opera
and Opéra de Québec), Buried Child and Macbeth (NAC), The Shadow (Tapestry New Opera),
The Wizard of Oz (Citadel Theatre). Awards: Sterling for Edmonton Opera’s mounting of the
globally acclaimed Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung, directed by Robert Lepage; four Dora
Mavor Moore Awards.
Sara Topham
11th season: Wendy in Peter Pan and la Présidente de Tourvel in Dangerous
Liaisons. Stratford (selected): Gwendolen Fairfax (The Importance of Being
Earnest), Panacea (…Forum), Laurencia (Fuente Ovejuna), Cordelia (Lear),
Mabel (An Ideal Husband), Jessica (The Merchant of Venice), Laura (The Glass
Menagerie), Grace (London Assurance), Dona Elvira (Don Juan), Rosalind (As
You Like It), Brooke Ashton (Noises Off), Anne Bullen (Henry VIII), Cassandra
(Agamemnon), Dot (The Swanne), Diana (All’s Well That Ends Well), Suzanne (The Scarlet
Pimpernel), Katherine (Henry V). Elsewhere: The Governess: The Turn of the Screw (Belfry
Theatre); Constanze: Amadeus (Theatre Aquarius); Maggie: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Neptune
Theatre); Mary: It’s a Wonderful Life, Grace: Annie (Grand Theatre); Good Fairy: Robin Hood
(Elgin Theatre). Film/Radio: Rachel Peabody (Eloise at Christmastime – Disney), All’s Well
(CBC). Et cetera: “In memory of Douglas Campbell and Lindsay Thomas and for Marcus, Izzy,
Emma, and Baby G.”
Brigit Wilson
Seventh season: Liza in Peter Pan and appears in Dangerous Liaisons.
Stratford: Last seen in Three Sisters (Housekeeper) and Bartholomew Fair
(Dame Purecraft). Other Festival credits include The Merchant of Venice, The
Comedy of Errors (Courtesan), An Ideal Husband (Gertrude Chiltern), Orpheus
Descending (Dolly), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Mae), The Triumph of Love (Corine),
The Count of Monte Cristo (Carconte), Pericles (Dionyza), The Hunchback of
Notre Dame (Paquette), Quiet in the Land (Lydia), All’s Well That Ends Well (Widow) and The
Swanne, part 1 (Augusta). Elsewhere: Brigit has performed at Theatre by the Bay, the Segal
Centre, Blyth Festival, MTC, Royal Alex, Shaw Festival, Grand Theatre, Skylight Theatre and
as far away as the Edinburgh Festival. Film/TV: She has appeared in numerous commercials,
films and TV shows including four seasons as Harriet Sims on The Campbells.
Sanjay Talwar
Third season: Mr. Darling in Peter Pan and Major-domo in Dangerous
Liaisons. Stratford: Lennox (Macbeth), Trebonius/Lucilius (Julius Caesar),
Uncle (Rice Boy), Orsino (Twelfth Night), Seacoal (Much Ado About Nothing),
Volscian Lieutenant (Coriolanus). Elsewhere: Dushyanta in Shakuntala
(Pleiades/World Stage); Bird Brain in Bird Brain (LKTYP) in English and ASL;
Kamal in Bombay Black (Cahoots/Arts Club); El-Fayoumy in The Last Days of
Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre); Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Claudio/Pompey
in Measure for Measure, Marcus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus, director of The Merchant of
Venice and Artistic Director for five seasons (Shakespeare in the Rough); Escalus in Romeo
and Juliet, Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Dream in High
Park); Nabil in Helen’s Necklace (Tarragon and Pi Theatre). Film/TV: Puck Hogs, The Border,
Flashpoint, Guns, Supernatural, Murder Unveiled/A Love Story. Training: Dalhousie University
theatre program. Awards: Jessie Award for Helen’s Necklace.
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