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donald Carrier – assistant directorNinth season: Assistant director of Cyrano de Bergerac. Last at theFestival in 2006 when he played Sir Andrew Aguecheek (TwelfthNight) and Sicinius (Coriolanus). Stratford credits include Orlando(As You Like It), Bassanio (The Merchant of Venice), Lucio (Measurefor Measure), John Worthing (The Importance of Being Earnest)and Charles Surface (The School for Scandal). Most recently: Noises Off (ClevelandPlayhouse/Jupiter Theatre), Twelfth Night (Resurgence Theatre), Shining City(Studio Theatre, Washington, D.C.), Lincolnesque (Cleveland Playhouse) andRichard III (Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.) Also two seasons at ShawFestival, MTC, NAC, Neptune Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Chicago ShakespeareTheatre, Intiman Theatre and Huntington Theatre. Directing credits includeTwelfth Night, Les Belles-Soeurs, Habeas Corpus, The Love Stories (Jessie nomination)and associate director for Ha’penny Bridge (workshop). Television credits includeGuns, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Earth: Final Conflict and Traders. Don’s musical,Evangeline, written with Anaya Farrell, was presented at the Studio in 2003.todd Charlton – sound designer12th season: Sound designer of Macbeth, Three Sisters, Cyrano deBergerac and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mr. Charlton has beendesigning sound for over 20 years. He counts himself lucky to haveworked with so many talented, generous and inspiring people.Last year you may have heard his work on Romeo and Juliet, PalmerPark, Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew. Stratford highlights include Of Mice andMen, Ghosts, The Swanne (all three parts) and Elizabeth Rex. Recent work includesScorched (Tarragon), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Adeona Productions) andIntimate Apparel (Obsidian). He is the resident sound designer at the Blyth Festival,Eric Coates’s success story just down the road. Todd also teaches at and designsfor Sheridan College, where he has done West Side Story, Gypsy, Company andseveral other Broadway hits. He has been nominated for four Dora Mavor MooreAwards, is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and lives happily inStratford with his wife, Melissa, and his three boys, Harper, Jack and Devlin.Brandon espinoza – actorStratford debut: Riff in West Side Story and understudy in Cyrano deBergerac. Broadway: Gypsy (Dir. Sam Mendes), Big, Les Misérables,Will Rogers Follies. Off-Broadway: Anton Dudley’s Substitution(The Playwrights Realm), Lucy Thurber’s Scarcity (Atlantic TheaterCompany), Tea and Sympathy (The Keen Company), CaptainsCourageous (Manhattan Theater Club; Drama League Honoree/Nominee).Other: Not Waving (NY Summer Play Festival ‘07), Saved! (Playwrights HorizonsWorkshop), Myth (Eugene O’Neill Festival) and College: The Musical (NYMF). Film:Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God… Be Back By Five (screenplay: JonCryer). “Special thanks to my parents, Jeff, Elizabeth, friends and Abrams Artists fortheir support. Thanks to Gary and Sergio for the opportunity. For Grandma andGrandpa Wolff.”martha Farrell – actorSixth season: Sister Claire in Cyrano de Bergerac and understudy inThe Importance of Being Earnest. A graduate of Sheridan CollegeMusic Theatre Performance Program (2001), the BirminghamConservatory for Classical Theatre (2005) and Happily Married(2008), Martha returns to the Festival, grateful to be part of thiswonderful company. A Maritimer born and raised, she now makes her home inStratford with her husband, Gordon. “Love to my family that keeps growing.”gareth Crew – assistant lighting designerFifth season: Assistant lighting designer of Macbeth, West SideStory, Cyrano de Bergerac and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 2009marks Gareth’s fifth season at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival,and his first at the Festival Theatre. He previously worked at theAvon Theatre, assisting designers Kevin Fraser, Michael J. Whitfieldand Robert Thomson. Gareth has also designed lighting for shows across Ontario;his favourite design credits include original lighting designer for Evil Dead: TheMusical (Beyond Chutleigh/Duelling Egoes), Jonathan Munro’s Variations on aNervous Breakdown (Talk is Free Theatre), Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief(Portrait Productions) and the Canadian première of Jerry Springer: The Opera (HartHouse Theatre), which will be remounted this fall. Gareth is a graduate of RyersonTheatre School.Bona duncan – stage managerNinth season: Stage manager of Cyrano de Bergerac and Zastrozzi.Previously at the Festival, Bona was the production stage managerat the Avon Theatre, stage manager of All’s Well That Ends Well,Fanny Kemble, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Electra, The ScarletPimpernel, The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet and assistantstage manager of The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night andAs You Like It. Before coming to Stratford, Bona was resident stage manager atCanStage in Toronto for four seasons. She has also stage-managed at Soulpepper,The Grand Theatre, the National Arts Centre, the Piggery Theatre, the ManitobaTheatre Centre, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Citadel Theatre, the TarragonTheatre and the Centaur Theatre. She is a graduate of the technical productionsection of the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a BA from Bishop’sUniversity. Bona lives in Stratford with her husband, Dan, and their daughter,Georgia.Colm Feore – actor16th season: Macbeth in Macbeth and Cyrano de Bergerac inCyrano de Bergerac. Colm Feore’s previous Stratford credits includeCoriolanus, Fagin, Hamlet, Romeo, Richard III, Iago, Petruchio andHenry Higgins (My Fair Lady). In 2005 he played Cassius oppositeDenzel Washington in Julius Caesar on Broadway, and receivedthe St. Clair Bayfield Award. Film credits include Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, BonCop, Bad Cop (Genie nomination), The Perfect Son (Genie nomination), Chicago,The Chronicles of Riddick, The Red Violin (Jutra Award), The Exorcism of Emily Rose,Paycheck, The Sum of All Fears, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Genienomination), The Caveman’s Valentine, City of Angels and Face/Off and theupcoming The Trotsky. For television, Colm can currently be seen as Henry Tayloron 24 and the upcoming The Listener. Other credits include Trudeau (Gemini andMonte Carlo Television Festival awards), The West Wing, Boston Public, Nuremburg,The Day Reagan was Shot, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon, And Starring Pancho Villa asHimself, Slings and Arrows and Julius Caesar in ABC’s mini-series Empire.thomas Feore – actorStratford debut: Page/Young Cadet in Cyrano de Bergerac. Thomasis excited to be at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in his firsttheatre production. He enjoys playing guitar and piano, bothclassical as well as jazz. He also enjoys playing tennis, volleyballand snowboarding. He has attended the Ontario EducationLeadership Centre as well as Camp Olympia and Camp Celtic. This past fallThomas was one of four students selected by his school to attend the 2008National “Me to We” conference in Toronto, which promotes social awareness. Heis thrilled to watch and learn from all the great actors at the Stratford ShakespeareFestival this year, but most importantly he is really looking forward to being ableto eat real food on stage at every show!11