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The CompanyJordan BellThird season: Gregory in Kiss Me, Kate and swing in Evita. Stratford: Proteanin A Funny Thing Happened…Forum, West Side Story, Cabaret. Elsewhere:Edges (Acting Up Stage); Sweet Charity, Forever Plaid (Stage West Calgary);Anne & Gilbert (Thousand Islands Playhouse); the Canadian première ofSeussical (LKTYP); Emily, Bye Bye Birdie, In Gabriel’s Kitchen (TIFT); SnowWhite (Ross Petty Productions); and King David (Winter Garden Theatre).Jordan’s theatre and concert work has also allowed him to tour across Canada, the UnitedStates, Australia, Brazil and the U.K. Film/TV: CBC’s Jake and the Kid. Awards: Jordan wasthe recipient of a 2009 Tyrone Guthrie Award. Et cetera: He would like to thank his friendsfor their encouragement and his mom for her strength. “Always for Dad, who supported,believed and, most of all, loved.”Lindsay CroxallThird season: Swing in Evita and appears in Kiss Me, Kate. Stratford:Minnie in West Side Story, Gymnasia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Wayto the Forum. Stratford debut as Elsa, the genuine flapper/sausage girl, inCabaret. Elsewhere: Lindsay was an original cast member of We Will RockYou (Mirvish), where she had the thrill of a lifetime performing live onstagewith Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen. She also performed in the“sillylicious” pantomime Cinderella (Ross Petty Productions) and for two seasons at Canada’sWonderland, where she received an international award as best female performer (Big E!Entertainment); and she considers herself very lucky to have travelled to over 75 countriesentertaining on several world cruising ships. Training: University of Windsor, BFA musictheatre, 2003. Et cetera: “Love and thanks to my mum and dad, Di and Hazel.”Franklin BraszSecond season: Musical director of Kiss Me, Kate and associate musicaldirector of Evita. Stratford: Musical director of A Funny Thing Happened onthe Way to the Forum. Elsewhere: Musical director for The Lion King (Toronto,U.S. tour), Ragtime (original company) and Show Boat (U.S. tour). In Toronto,associate musical director for The Sound of Music, The Lord of the Rings, TheLion King, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Hairspray, Mamma Mia! Conductorfor Soulpepper’s The Threepenny Opera and the Shaw Festival’s Hotel Peccadillo. Keyboardsfor The Canadian Tenors, Measha Brueggergosman, New Line Cinema’s Hairspray, theShaw Festival’s Mack and Mabel, Toronto productions of Wicked, The Producers, Cabaret,Show Boat and Annie Get Your Gun at Massey Hall, Illinois and Dorian Opera Theatres, PineMountain Music Festival, American Boychoir School. Training: MM in vocal coaching andaccompanying, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.John DoyleStratford debut: Director of Kiss Me, Kate. Elsewhere: Broadway – SweeneyTodd (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Director ofa Musical); Company (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical); A CateredAffair (Drama League Award for Best Production of a New Musical). OffBroadway – Road Show (Public Theater). International – The CaucasianChalk Circle (American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco); Three Sisters(Cincinnati Playhouse); Madama Butterfly (Grange Park Opera); Peter Grimes (MetropolitanOpera); Lucia di Lammermoor (Mariinsky Theatre/Scottish Opera); The Rise and Fall of theCity of Mahagonny (Los Angeles Opera); The Gondoliers, Sweeney Todd and Mack and Mabel(London’s West End); Amadeus (Wilton’s Music Hall, London); Merrily We Roll Along (WatermillTheatre); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre). Mr. Doyle has been Artistic Director of fourprestigious British regional theatres. Film/TV: Main Street, starring Ellen Burstyn, Colin Firth,Orlando Bloom and Patricia Clarkson.Juan Chioran11th season: Fred Graham in Kiss Me, Kate and Juan Perón in Evita. Stratford(selected): Hamlet, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Man of LaMancha, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Mikado, Rules of the Game.Elsewhere: The Madonna Painter (Factory); The Light in the Piazza, A NewBrain (Acting Up Stage); Cymbeline, The Three Musketeers, Hecuba (ChicagoShakespeare); Private Lives (Theatre Athena); Blithe Spirit, An Ideal Husband(Citadel); Much Ado About Nothing, Goodnight Desdemona… (CanStage); Love’s Labour’s Lost(NAC); The Producers (Mirvish – Dora Award); Present Laughter, The Play About the Baby(Soulpepper); Anything That Moves (Tarragon); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Broadway/firstnational – Ovation, Carbonell and Jeff awards). Film/TV: The Border, Finn on the Fly, Republicof Love, The Perfect Son, Universal Soldier, Roxy Hunter, The Call, This Is Wonderland, CheetahGirls, Monk, Dracula (Gemini Award), Queer as Folk, Relic Hunter, Naked City II, Rebound.David FarleyStratford debut: Designer of Kiss Me, Kate. Elsewhere: Broadway – A LittleNight Music; 13, A New Musical and Sunday in the Park with George, for whichhe received Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations forhis costumes and (jointly with Timothy Bird) received a Tony nominationand won the Outer Critics Circle Award for set design. London’s WestEnd – A Little Night Music; Sunday in the Park with George (Olivier, EveningStandard and Critics Circle Awards for best set design with Mr. Bird) and Little Shop ofHorrors. International – Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Rocky Horror Show (Berlin/tour); Sweeney Todd (Gate, Dublin); La Cage Aux Folles (set), Take Flight, The Last Five Years(all Menier Chocolate Factory); Tick Tick Boom! (Menier Chocolate Factory/Rubicon Theatre/Coronet Theatre/Westport Country Playhouse); Corpse! (Salisbury Playhouse); The LemonPrincess (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible Studio). Web Site: www.davidfarley.co.uk.Naomi CostainSixth season: Appears in Kiss Me, Kate and Evita. Stratford: The TrojanWomen, Cabaret, My One and Only, Oklahoma!, Don Juan, Oliver!, Gigi, TheThreepenny Opera, My Fair Lady. Elsewhere: Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone(MTC), Sally in Cabaret (Saidye), Roxie in Chicago and Bombalurina inCats (Neptune), Laurey in Oklahoma! (Ganaraska), Marge in Breaking Up IsHard to Do, Ursula in Sweet Charity, Dawn in Best Little..., Norma in Victor/Victoria – Betty Mitchell nomination for best actor, Bebe in A Chorus Line (Stage West). Film/TV: Five episodes of Getting Along Famously. Training: Laine Theatre Arts College (London,England) and the Banff Centre of Fine Arts. Awards: The Richard March Award. Web Site:naomicostain.com. Et cetera: “Thank you, Mom, Dad, Tracey, Bruce and the Festival for yoursupport and belief.”Marie FewerSixth season: Assistant stage manager of Kiss Me, Kate and Evita. Stratford:Previous credits at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival include Macbeth,Rice Boy, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, My One and Only, To Kill aMockingbird, The Duchess of Malfi, The Blonde, the Brunette and the VengefulRedhead and Noises Off. Elsewhere: Other theatre credits include Hush andLéo (Tarragon Theatre); That Summer (Theatre Erindale, University of Torontoat Mississauga); The Babysitter (Theatre Direct Canada/Eldritch Theatre); Better Parts, FishEyes, Jamaica Man and blood.claat (Stage3: word.sound.power, produced by Theatre PasseMuraille/Obsidian Theatre Company); Wrong for Each Other (Bluewater Summer Playhouse).Training: Graduate of the theatre arts – technical production program at Sheridan College.Et cetera: “Mom, Dad, Michael: I couldn’t do this without you.”Stephen CotaSixth season: Philip in Kiss Me, Kate and appears in Evita. Stratford:Stephen is proud to be returning to the Stratford stage, where he waslast seen in West Side Story and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to theForum. Other credits include The Music Man, Moby Dick, Oklahoma!, My Oneand Only, Oliver!, South Pacific and Fiddler on the Roof. Elsewhere: Josephand the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Beauty and the Beast (DraytonEntertainment); Mel Brooks’s The Producers (Canon Theatre); Evita (Theatre Calgary andMTC); and Forever Swing (Winter Garden Theatre). Et cetera: Stephen would like to thankall his friends and family for their constant support, especially his newlywed wife, Rachel. “Ilove you! Hi Bella.”Kelly FletcherStratford debut: Assistant choreographer of Kiss Me, Kate and Evita.Elsewhere: Mamma Mia! (Broadway, U.S. national tour, Toronto); We WillRock You (Mirvish); The Boys in the Photograph (Mirvish and MTC ); RobinHood, Snow White and the Group of Seven (Ross Petty Productions); CaliforniaDreaming (Stage West Calgary); Val in A Chorus Line, British Invasion II (StageWest Mississauga). Film/TV: Luanne in Hairspray (New Line Cinema).Training: Graduate of Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts. Awards: “EmergingTalent,” Mississauga Arts Awards, and Randolph Academy “Triple Threat” Award. Et cetera:“Love to my soon-to-be husband, Yvan, and my very supportive family.”10
Tracey FlyeThird season: Choreographer of Kiss Me, Kate and Evita. Stratford:Romeo and Juliet (movement), West Side Story (assistant choreographer).Elsewhere: Choreography: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Boys in thePhotograph (Mirvish/MTC); The Drowsy Chaperone, Fiddler on the Roof (MTC);Frog and Toad (Citadel); Cabaret (Saidye Bronfman); As You Like It, Pélagie(CanStage); Smokey Joe’s Café (Stage West Calgary); West Side Story (JoopVanden Ende, Amsterdam); eight Ross Petty pantomimes. Associate choreographer of PeggySue Got Married (London’s West End), assistant choreographer of Mamma Mia! (Toronto, U.S.national tour), associate director of We Will Rock You (Toronto, South Africa, internationaltour). Film/TV: Triple Sensation, Christmas Dreams (CBC); Angel Square (Anne Wheeler).Et cetera: Tracey is also a director and performer with credits spanning over 100 productionsand has taught at colleges and workshops across North America. She dedicates this seasonto her Mom, Jody.Kyle GolembaThird season: Gremio in Kiss Me, Kate and appears in Evita. Stratford: WestSide Story (A-Rab), Fuente Ovejuna (Frondoso understudy), The Music Man(Dunlop understudy), Cyrano de Bergerac. Elsewhere: Anne of Green Gables(Gilbert, Stage West), The Sound of Music (Rolf, Neptune), Anne and Gilbert(Roy, Summerside), Les Feux Follets (Narrator, Charlottetown Festival), TheDrowsy Chaperone (ensemble, MTC), Cinderella (Carnivia understudy, Elgin).Film/TV: Hairspray (Record Hop Dancer, New Line Cinema), Canada’s Walk of Fame (Dancer,CTV), Queer as Folk (Jason, Showtime). Training: Sheridan College, Music Theatre. WebSite: www.kylegolemba.com. Et cetera: Kyle performs an all-Canadian cabaret, Making Lovein a Canoe, with Adam White. In addition to his performance work, Kyle is at work on his firstnovel. He would like to thank you sincerely for supporting live theatre and send his love tohis incredible family and friends.Rick FoxThird season: Director of Music for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.Musical director of Evita and new musical arrangements/musical supervisorfor Kiss Me, Kate and new orchestrations for Jacques Brel Is Alive and Welland Living in Paris. Stratford: Musical director: West Side Story, Cabaret;musical supervisor, A Funny Thing Happened...; composer, A MidsummerNight’s Dream, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Broadway: Blood Brothers,Rent. Off-Broadway: Once Around the City. Toronto credits include The Lord of the Rings (worldpremière) and Canadian premières of We Will Rock You, The Producers, The Lion King, Rent,The Who’s Tommy, Phantom of the Opera as well as Annie Get Your Gun at Massey Hall withLouise Pitre and Billy Ray Cyrus. He was musical director and arranger for Brent Carver’sacclaimed one-man show. Film/TV/Recordings: Rick produces CDs and has composedmusic, arranged and conducted for a number of TV specials, including a PBS special withColm Wilkinson and Patti LuPone. Awards: He has four Dora Awards (nine nominations) formusical direction.Keisha T. FraserStratford debut: Hattie in Kiss Me, Kate and appears in Evita. Elsewhere:Selected theatre: Mamma Mia! (Broadway), Little Shop of Horrors (StageWest Calgary), Othello (Ford Centre), The Heidi Chronicles (Threads, N.Y.C.),Grease (Elgin/Winter Garden Theatre), Look What a Wonder… (New YorkMusical Theatre Festival ’07). Film/TV (selected): Undercover Brother(Universal/Sony); campaigns for Gardasil, Wal-Mart, A&E. Et cetera: KeishaT. couldn’t be more pleased to return to her home and native land in this season’s StratfordShakespeare Festival after the hustle and bustle of New York City. “Thanks to the Fatherfor all blessings, my dear friends and family for endless prayer, and my agent for thinkingoutside the box.”Verne GoodStratford debut: Assistant sound designer of As You Like It, Kiss Me, Kate andThe Tempest. Elsewhere: Sound design: Tarragon Theatre’s Communion,Groundwater Productions’ Epic of Gilgamesh, Theatre Awakening’s Buriedand In Darfur, Seventh Stage Productions’ The Red Queen Effect. Soundand lighting design: Praxis Theatre’s Section 98. Touring production stagemanager, Wyrd Productions’ MacHomer. Lighting designer, Buddies in BadTimes Hysteria festival 2009. Recipient of Theatre Ontario Professional Theatre TrainingProgram grant, under which she assisted Todd Charlton at the Blyth Festival (full season)and at Stratford on Palmer Park. Training: Verne is a graduate of Bishop’s University and theNational Theatre School of Canada.Eran GoodyearSecond season: Appears in Kiss Me, Kate and Evita. Stratford: Swing inWest Side Story and Gemina in A Funny Thing … Forum. Elsewhere: Hold MeTouch Me in The Producers (Neptune Theatre); War and Peace (CanadianOpera Company); Tintinabula in A Funny Thing … Forum, Oklahoma!, Aladdin,Gertie Pye in Anne of Green Gables (Drayton Entertainment); Rosie in Cabaret(Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts); assistant choreographer/ensemblefor Oklahoma! (Theatre Aquarius). Film/TV: Assistant choreographer for The Doodlebops.Training: Graduate of Sheridan College’s music theatre performance program. Awards:Recipient of a 2008 Tyrone Guthrie Award, Masques des Arts award for best Englishproduction for Cabaret (SBCA) Et cetera: Eran sends much thanks and love to her newhusband, Cory, as well as Mom, Pops and KK for their ceaseless support.Laura GardnerFourth season: Assistant costume designer of Kiss Me, Kate. Stratford:Assistant set and costume designer for West Side Story, The Music Man andTo Kill a Mockingbird. Elsewhere: Costume designer of Orson’s Shadowand The Scene (Pilot Group); associate costume designer of The Mill, parts1 and 2 (Theatrefront); wardrobe co-ordinator of Antigone (Soulpepper);production designer of The Great Gatsby (adapted and directed by DavidRotenberg); set designer of the 2009 Siminovitch Prize award ceremony; set designerfor Gorey Story (Thistle Project); set designer for Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and AMidsummer Night’s Dream (Classical Theatre Project); cutter for Snow White, Cinderella andRobin Hood (Ross Petty Productions). Training: BFA, York University, theatre production anddesign program.Douglas E. HughesThird season: Harry Trevor in Kiss Me, Kate and appears in Evita. Stratford:Lignière in Cyrano de Bergerac, Oswald in King Lear, Tiberias in Oedipus.Elsewhere: Feldzieg in The Drowsy Chaperone (MTC), Dennis in It’s aWonderful Life (CanStage), Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (Huron CountryPlayhouse), Alfie Byrne in A Man of No Importance (Acting Up Stage), 13seasons at the Shaw Festival. Awards: Dora nomination for A Man of NoImportance. Et cetera: Doug is also an accomplished playwright. His first two plays, Who’sUnder Where? and A Party to Murder (both written with Marcia Kash), are published by SamuelFrench and have been produced around the world and in a number of translations.Nicko GiannakosSecond season: Swing in Kiss Me, Kate and appears in Evita. Stratford:Luis in West Side Story, Cyrano de Bergerac. Elsewhere: Houdini (TheatreOutremont), Fiddler on the Roof (MTC), Seven Senses (Rock Bottom, Dubai),Victor/Victoria (Stage West), The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish), Cabaret (SegalCentre), Dalida... une Vie! (Lahoud Theatre, Lebanon), CinemaShow (U.S.tour), La Magie de Broadway (Box Office Theatre). Film/TV: Nicko has dancedon many French television shows for CBC/Radio Canada, such as the hit program Tout SurMoi! Training: Academy of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. Awards: Award of Excellence(GBC), 2009 Tyrone Guthrie Award. Et cetera: Nicko would like to thank his family andfriends for their undying love and support!Mike JacksonThird season: Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me, Kate and appears in Evita.Stratford: Cyrano de Bergerac, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and assistantchoreographer of Cabaret. Elsewhere: Chicago (Broadway and U.S.tour); Contact (U.S. tour); Man of La Mancha, Cats, Robin Hood (DraytonEntertainment); Seussical, Oklahoma!, Joseph… (Theatre Aquarius); Grease(Stage West); West Side Story, Pippin, Swingstep (U.S. and Canada); Kiss Me,Kate (Sunshine Festival); The Shooting of Dan McGrew, Anne of Green Gables (CharlottetownFestival); Cats and Starlight Express (Germany). As a choreographer: The Producers, Little Shopof Horrors (Stage West); Kiss of the Spider Woman (TIFT). Assistant choreographer: Cabaret,The Full Monty (Stage West). Film/TV: Missing, Glitter, Me and My Shadows, Gilmore Girls (pilot),Queer as Folk, Once Upon a Mattress, The Producers, Triple Sensation (choreographer).Et cetera: “Continuing thanks to Michael, Belinda, Pam and Danielle.”11
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