The Trespassers - Stratford Festival

kelli fox – actorSecond season: Natasha in Three Sisters, Trash in Bartholomew Fairand Cash in The Trespassers. At the Stratford Shakespeare Festival:Cassandra (The Trojan Women), Kate Townsend (Palmer Park). Mostrecent: Top Girls (Soulpepper remount), The Blonde, the Brunetteand the Vengeful Redhead (MTC, Winnipeg). Other: 11 seasons withthe Shaw Festival including leading roles in The Playboy of the Western World,The Children’s Hour, Major Barbara, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Candida,Rutherford and Son, Waiting for the Parade, Too True to Be Good and The Crucible;title role in Hamlet (Geva Theatre, Rochester); Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing(CST, Chicago); Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, thePrincess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost (NAC, Ottawa); Scorched, Slavs! (Tarragon);Zadie’s Shoes (Factory/Winter Garden). Sterling nomination for her work in Frozen(Citadel, Edmonton), Jessie Award for Keely & Du (Arts Club/CanStage), CapitalCritic’s Circle Award for A Room of One’s Own (Shaw tour), Dora nomination for TopGirls (Soulpepper).bruno gonsalves – assistant stage manager18th season: Assistant stage manager of Three Sisters and TheTrespassers. Mr. Gonsalves has worked as a production stagemanager, stage manager and assistant stage manager with theStratford Shakespeare Festival through 18 seasons. Over thelast 20 years, he has had the pleasure of working in theatresacross Canada including the Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage Company, MirvishProductions, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Young People’s Theatre, Theatre NewBrunswick, Tarragon Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre andVancouver Playhouse. Most recently, Bruno returned to the Grand Theatre,London, to stage-manage The Wild Guys.ken Macdonald – designerSecond season: Designer of The Trespassers. Selected designcredits: set designer for Moby Dick (Stratford ShakespeareFestival); A Little Night Music, Hotel Peccadillo, Design for Living(Shaw Festival); The Overcoat (Vancouver Playhouse, CanStageand Canadian, U.S. and U.K. tours); Habeas Corpus, Vigil, TakeMe Out, Amadeus (CanStage); Glengarry Glen Ross, ‘Night Mother, Blithe Spirit,The Government Inspector (Soulpepper Theatre Company); Benevolence, TheDishwashers, Earshot, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Tarragon Theatre); The ConstantWife, Waiting for Godot, The Dishwashers, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Arsenic andOld Lace, Hamlet, Vigil (Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver); Fronteras Americanas, TheHistory of Things to Come, Death and the Maiden, Waiting for the Parade (VancouverPlayhouse); Susannah, The Threepenny Opera (Vancouver Opera); designs featuredin the book Scenography in Canada. Film/television: two music videos for Spiritof the West; The Overcoat, CBC’s Opening Night. Awards: Gemini Award, BettyMitchell Award, two Dora Awards and 16 Jessie Awards.Marylu Moyer – production stage manager (Studio Theatre)29th season: Production stage manager of the Studio Theatre.Most recently Marylu stage-managed The Syringa Tree for theGrand Theatre and A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. Sheis delighted to be returning to the Studio Theatre. As part ofthe Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s stage management teamsince 1986, Marylu has worked on 38 different shows in the Festival, Avon, TomPatterson and Studio theatres and also as production stage manager in theTom Patterson and Avon theatres. Elsewhere Marylu has worked for theatrecompanies across Canada and even as far away as Singapore, stage-managingsuch shows as Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Blithe Spirit, Boy Gets Girl,Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Harry Chapin: Lies and Legends, Hedda Gabler, Into the Woods,Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Our Town, Passion, The Phantom ofthe Opera and The Speckled Band.jason hand – lighting designerFourth season: Lighting designer for The Trespassers. Based inToronto, Jason is very pleased to be spending another summerin Stratford. Notable design credits include Tijuana Cure (TheatreSmash), Ava/Chroma (Blue Ceiling Dance), The Scene (The PilotGroup), Gorey Story (The Thistle Project – four Dora nominations,including Best Production), The Life of Galileo (Theatre @York), Vacancy(McKinnon), Sweeney Todd, 42nd Street and Wonderful Town (Clarkson MusicTheatre), West Side Story (YorkMinstrels), Romeo and Juliet and Othello (ClassicalTheatre Projects) and Nelly Boy (Thirty Below). Jason has been an assistantdesigner on 3 Mo’ Divas (DanCap Productions), Cats (Drayton Entertainment), 10productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (including Moby Dick, Krapp’sLast Tape, King Lear and Oklahoma!) and 14 productions at the Canadian OperaCompany (including Fidelio, War and Peace and From the House of the Dead). Jasonis a graduate of York University’s theatre program.robert king – actor17th season: Ferapont in Three Sisters, Fruitmonger/Puppy inBartholomew Fair and Milton in The Trespassers. Stratford creditsinclude The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, The Merchant ofVenice, The Donnellys: Sticks & Stones, Quiet in the Land, Cat on aHot Tin Roof, Of Mice and Men, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V,Henry VI, Richard II, Richard III, Coriolanus, Pericles, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’sDream, Twelfth Night, Home, Tempest-Tost, Julius Caesar and The Swanne, amongothers. Robert was in the Blyth Festival’s production of Innocence Lost in 2008,and Drayton Festival’s production of The Drawer Boy. Other theatre credits includeA Streetcar Named Desire, Observe the Sons of Ulster, The Crackwalker, On the Job,Garrison’s Garage, County Hearts, The Melville Boys and many more. He has alsoperformed in radio, television and film. Robert lives in Stratford with his lovelywife, Peggy, and children, Mary and Lawrence.lucy Peacock – actor22nd season: Masha in Three Sisters, Ursla in Bartholomew Fairand Roxy in The Trespassers. Last season: Nurse (Romeo andJuliet) and Grumio (The Taming of the Shrew). Over 50 Stratfordcredits include the two-season sold-out run of her one-womanshow (The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead), whichtoured to Vancouver, Dolly (Hello, Dolly!), Duchess (The Duchess of Malfi), Beatrice(Much Ado About Nothing), Emilia (Othello), Gabriella (Pentecost), Jane (FallenAngels), Anna (The King and I), Lady Macbeth, Portia, Rosalind, Viola, Desdemona,Titania, Kate (The Taming of the Shrew), Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice),Gwendolyn (The Importance of Being Earnest), Mrs. Peabody (The Swanne), Helena(All’s Well That Ends Well), Lady Anne (Richard III), Masha (Three Sisters), Yelena(Uncle Vanya) and Regan (King Lear, Tony-nominated production). She is a farmwife, mother of two teenagers, teacher, fourth-generation actress and graduateof the National Theatre School. “This season is dedicated to the memory of myvery dear friend Richard Monette.”noah reid – actorStratford debut: Rohde in Three Sisters, Filcher in Bartholomew Fairand Lowell in The Trespassers. Noah Reid is thrilled to make hisdebut on the Stratford stage. A recent National Theatre Schoolgraduate, Noah has been acting professionally since the age ofeight. Theatre credits include The Cherry Orchard, Major Barbara,Restoration, the title roles in Macbeth and John... Sudden Death (NTS); InnocenceLost, Big Box (Blyth Festival); Who Has Seen the Wind (Theatre Aquarius); andBeauty and the Beast (Princess of Wales Theatre). Noah participated in The Ark atthe National Arts Centre and in the Master Directors’ Summit here at Stratfordlast summer, as well as in workshops of new plays in Toronto. Film and televisioncredits include In Love and War, Terry, Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, Soul Food,Nikita, Jane and the Dragon, Rolie Polie Olie and Pippi Longstocking. He was also theoriginal voice of Franklin the Turtle. Noah would like to thank his family, friendsand Susie for their unwavering support.7