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The CompanyMichael BlakeStratford debut: Corporal Bardolph in The Merry Wives of Windsor andAntonio in Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet), Eilif(Mother Courage), Joseph (Nativity), A Christmas Carol (National ArtsCentre); title role (Othello), Angelo (The Comedy of Errors) (Bard on theBeach); Gratiano/Morocco (The Merchant of Venice) (SITR); Simba (TheLion King) (Mirvish/Disney); Mitch (Putnam County Spelling Bee) (Belfry/ArtsClub); Orlando (As You Like It), A Raisin in the Sun, Blink, Three Sisters, The Time of YourLife, The Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper); Rock and Roll (Canadian Stage); Wilbur CountyBlues (Blyth); Jacob Two-Two (LKTYP); Big River (Drayton). Film/TV: Senior Trip, YTV Rocks,The Planet of Junior Brown, Earth: Final Conflict, Due South, Degrassi Junior High. Radio:Numerous CBC radio dramas. Training: Inaugural member of the Soulpepper Academy,graduate of the National Theatre School, St. Michael’s Choir School. Et cetera: Residentmember of National Arts Centre English Theatre acting company.Juan Chioran12th season: Fabian in Twelfth Night and Philinte in The Misanthrope.Stratford: Kiss Me, Kate, Evita, Hamlet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’sDream, Man of La Mancha, The Winter’s Tale, The Mikado. Elsewhere: TheMadonna Painter (Factory); The Light in the Piazza, A New Brain (Acting UpStage); Cymbeline, The Three Musketeers, Hecuba (Chicago Shakespeare);Private Lives (Theatre Athena); Blithe Spirit, An Ideal Husband (Citadel);Much Ado About Nothing, Goodnight Desdemona… (Canadian Stage); Love’s Labour’sLost (NAC); The Producers (Mirvish – Dora Award); Present Laughter, The Play About theBaby (Soulpepper); Anything That Moves (Tarragon); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Broadway/first national – Ovation, Carbonell and Jeff awards). Film/TV: The Border, Finn on theFly, Republic of Love, Roxy Hunter, The Call, This Is Wonderland, Cheetah Girls, Monk,Dracula (Gemini Award), Dan for Mayor, What’s Up Warthogs?, How to be Indie. Webseries:Guidestones, Papillon.Todd CampbellThird season: Fight director of Camelot and Twelfth Night and stuntcoordinator of The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Homecoming.Stratford: Dangerous Liaisons, King of Thieves, Zastrozzi, BartholomewFair. Elsewhere: Todd has arranged fights for the Tempest Theatre Group,Neptune, Theatre in Port, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Repercussion, BirdlandTheatre, Absit Omen, Driftwood, Tribal Productions and ResurgenceTheatre, to name a few. He also recently produced/directed a remount of his hit fight showDuel of Ages in the 2011 Next Stage Festival. Training: Certified fight director and instructorwith Fight Directors Canada. Website: www.riotact.ca. Et cetera: Todd teaches stage combatat the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and Rapier Wit Studios and is a foundingmember of the award-winning Riot ACT stunt team. Todd resides in Toronto, where he worksas an actor, director, fight director and teacher.Brian DennehySecond season: Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and Max in TheHomecoming. Elsewhere: Brian Dennehy has maintained a strong presencein film, theatre and television for three decades. In 2007 he starred withChristopher Plummer in the critically acclaimed Broadway production ofInherit the Wind. He returns to Stratford from a successful run of John B.Keane’s The Field at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Awards: He has twicewon the Tony Award for best actor: honoured for playing James Tyrone in Eugene O’Neill’sLong Day’s Journey Into Night in 2003 and for playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death ofa Salesman in 1999. Film/TV: Death of a Salesman was also filmed for Showtime by directorKirk Browning. His feature films include Ratatouille, Tommy Boy, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo +Juliet, Gladiator, Cocoon, Gorky Park and, most recently, The Big Year with Jack Black.Brad CanningStratford debut: Musician in Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: A 25-year-old multiinstrumentalist,Brad began his career at age 12, playing drums on a tour ofNewfoundland with a Southern gospel-style group. He has shared the stagewith such big names as Ron Sexsmith, Wide Mouth Mason, Jim Cuddy (BlueRodeo), The Guess Who and Jordan John, and has opened for such greatCanadian artists as Jack de Keyzer (2003 Blues Artist of the Year), Valdy(Country Male Vocalist of the Year and Folksinger of the Year), producer/singer/songwriter/guitarist Colin Linden, David Francis and Jimmy Bowskill. He has on many occasionsaccompanied one of his favourite artists and friends, Juno-nominated Dayna Manning, andgave private guitar instruction to pop superstar Justin Bieber for his YouTube video of “CryMe a River.” Recordings: Brad recorded his first LP, Take a Chance, in 2006.Ben CarlsonFourth season: Feste in Twelfth Night and Alceste in The Misanthrope.Stratford: Touchstone in As You Like It, Leontes in The Winter’s Tale, JohnWorthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Brutus in Julius Caesar,Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet in Hamlet. Elsewhere: Ben hasworked throughout Canada and the United States. Shaw Festival audienceswill remember his 12 seasons, and his marathon John Tanner in an uncutMan and Superman. His Stratford Hamlet was preceded by playing the same part for theChicago Shakespeare Theater, where he also played Macbeth. He was most recently seenas Mr. Lockhart in The Seafarer at MTC, and in Cloud 9 for Mirvish Productions. Film/TV: GreyGardens, Angela’s Eyes, Slings and Arrows, The 11th Hour, Hemingway vs. Callaghan, MyDog Vincent. Awards: Joseph Jefferson, Hamlet; Dora Mavor Moore, The Doll House.Victor DolhaiSecond season: John in The Merry Wives of Windsor and appears inTwelfth Night and The Misanthrope. Stratford: As You Like It, The Winter’sTale. Elsewhere: Pygmalion, King Lear (Birmingham Conservatory); Prideand Prejudice (Citadel); Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla(Belfry/Electric Company Theatre); Little Women (Persephone); As You LikeIt, Death of a Salesman, The Fantasticks (Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre);The Full Monty (Patrick Street Productions); The Pirates of Penzance (Chemainus TheatreFestival); Narnia (Kaleidoscope Theatre); Grimm Tales (Itsazoo Productions); WoyzeckSongspiel (Ecce Homo); Guys and Dolls, Tartuffe, Metamorphoses, Tyrants, The Streetof Crocodiles (Phoenix Theatre); 11th and 12th Wreck Beach Butoh (Kokoro Dance); 14cabarets with Atomic Vaudeville. Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre,Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, University of Victoria. Et cetera: Victor isa founding member of the award-winning SNAFU Dance Theatre. He dedicates this seasonto the memory of Denis Simpson and Jeremy Tow.Miranda EdwardsStratford debut: Appears in Twelfth Night and understudy in TheHomecoming. Elsewhere: The Madonna Painter, Toronto the Good (FactoryTheatre), who knew grannie: a dub aria (Obsidian), The Taxi Project (PENCanada), ’da Kink in my Hair (Mirvish, Theatre Passe Muraille), Danny,King of the Basement (Roseneath Theatre). Film/TV: Covert Affairs (NBC),The Bridge (CTV), The Line (CBS), Kevin Hill (CBS), At the Hotel (CBC), BlueMurder (Global), P2 (Summit), Mean Girls (Paramount). Radio: The Adventures of a BlackGirl in Search of God, BeatDown (CBC Radio). Training: The Birmingham Conservatory forClassical Theatre, York University. Et cetera: “Lots of love and thanks to my Nicholas and tomy wonderfully supportive family and friends.”Todd Charlton14th season: Sound designer of The Grapes of Wrath and Twelfth Night.Stratford: Last season: As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, DangerousLiaisons. Other highlights include Palmer Park, Hamlet, Of Mice and Men,the Swanne trilogy, Timon of Athens. Elsewhere: Courageous, Democracy,Scorched, Wild Mouth (Tarragon); Intimate Apparel (Obsidian/CanadianStage/Citadel); Rock ’n’ Roll (Canadian Stage); Cabaret, The DrowsyChaperone, Carnival, Anything Goes, Chicago, many others (Theatre Sheridan); six seasonsas Resident Sound Designer with the Blyth Festival, including Innocence Lost, HockeyMom, Hockey Dad, A Killing Snow, Pearl Gidley; Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (AdeonaProductions). Awards: Four Dora nominations for outstanding sound design. Training:Honours English and Drama, UWO; Theatre, Banff School of Fine Arts. Et cetera: Todd is thesound instructor for Humber College in Toronto. He lives happily in Stratford with his wife,Melissa, and three boys, Harper, Jack and Devlin.Marie FewerSeventh season: Assistant stage manager of Twelfth Night. Stratford:Previous credits at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival include Evita, KissMe, Kate, Macbeth, Rice Boy, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra,My One and Only, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Duchess of Malfi, The Blonde,the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead and Noises Off. Elsewhere: Othertheatre credits include Hush and Léo (Tarragon Theatre); That Summer(Theatre Erindale, University of Toronto at Mississauga); The Babysitter (Theatre DirectCanada/Eldritch Theatre); Better Parts, Fish Eyes, Jamaica Man and blood.claat (Stage3:word.sound.power, produced by Theatre Passe Muraille/Obsidian Theatre Company); Wrongfor Each Other (Bluewater Summer Playhouse). Training: Graduate of the theatre arts –technical production program at Sheridan College. Et cetera: “I dedicate this season to thememory of my father, who always encouraged me to do something I enjoy.”12