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donna Feore – director17th season: Director of Cyrano de Bergerac. Ms Feore’sStratford credits include Oklahoma! and Oliver! (director andchoreographer); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, My Fair Lady, Gigi,Gypsy, The Boy Friend, HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance(associate director); and Don Juan, Pericles, The ThreepennyOpera, The Three Musketeers and Alice Through the Looking Glass (choreographer).Other directing credits include It’s a Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage), Lecture onthe Weather and A Soldier’s Tale (Detroit Symphony Orchestra), Mozart: A Life inLetters (Toronto Symphony Orchestra) and Annie Get Your Gun (Massey Hall).She choreographed the Canadian Opera Company’s Oedipus Rex (Dora Award)and Siegfried. Film and television credits include Getting Along Famously (CBC);the opera films Romeo and Juliette and Don Giovanni Unmasked; the televisionmovies Eloise, Stormy Weather and Martin and Lewis; and the films Mean Girls andBeautiful Girl. Upcoming this fall, she will direct Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll for theCanadian Stage Company.Barbara Fulton – actor15th season: Lise in Cyrano de Bergerac and the Maid in TheImportance of Being Earnest. Since 1991 Barbara has played variousroles at the Festival, including Queen Elizabeth in The Taming ofthe Shrew, Fatima in Pentecost, Mrs. Sowerberry in Oliver!, Jack’sMother in Into the Woods, Mrs. Keller in The Miracle Worker, SisterHelena in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Queen Anne in The Three Musketeersand Fruma-Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof. Barbara has hosted and performed manyconcerts for the Festival’s Night Music series in the Paul D. Fleck Marquee. Shebegins this season’s series with songs from the Broadway musical repertoire,accompanied by pianist Alan Laing. Her CD of jazz standards is available in theTheatre Store.karen glave – actorStratford debut: First Sister in Macbeth and Duenna/MotherMarguerite in Cyrano de Bergerac. Karen is pleased to be a part ofthe Festival this season. As a proud graduate of George BrownTheatre School, her first professional job was Twelfth Night(CanStage, Dream in High Park). Other theatre credits includeThe Lady Smith (Theatre Passe Muraille), New World (Tarragon), The Winter’s Tale(Shakespeare in the Rough) and Steel Magnolias (Theatre Aquarius). Karen alsohas enjoyed numerous TV and film experiences including The Day After Tomorrow,Don McKellar’s Last Night, Da Kink in My Hair, The Hades Factor, Soul Food and Guiltby Association. Karen was also a member of the President’s Class at the BritishAmerican Drama Academy in Oxford, England, 2001, studying with John Barton,Fiona Shaw and David Leveaux. Karen is extremely grateful for the love andsupport of her family.kyle golemba – actorSecond season: A-Rab in West Side Story and appears in Cyranode Bergerac. Kyle is thrilled to be returning for this excitingseason! After closing Fuente Ovejuna and The Music Man last year,Kyle performed in Ross Petty’s Cinderella at the Elgin; assistantdirected Brigadoon at Sheridan College; produced As We Dream, acabaret in support of the LGBT Youthline; wrote a one-act play for his alma mater,Regina’s DIWC Young People’s Theatre; and spent some quality time with familyand friends. Career highlights (so far!) include Anne of Green Gables (Gilbert), TheSound of Music (Rolf ), White Christmas (ensemble), Anne and Gilbert (Roy) and thefilm Hairspray (Record Hop Dancer). Kyle also has a cabaret series at the GladstoneHotel with performer/musician Adam White, for which he received a GuthrieAward last fall. He would like to thank you sincerely for supporting live theatreand also send his love to his family, friends and D. www.kylegolemba.comstephen gartner – actorSixth season: Jodelet in Cyrano de Bergerac and understudy in TheImportance of Being Earnest. Stephen is honoured to be back atthe Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Selected credits for the Festival:King Lear, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens and DonJuan. For the Grand Theatre: Macbeth and George Bailey in It’s aWonderful Life. Toronto credits include Wallace Shawn’s A Thought in Three Parts(Groundwater Prod.) and an appearance in the Canadian Opera Company’s Fromthe House of the Dead. Film and TV: Blythe & Virginia (Shaftesbury Prod.), TheIncredible Hulk, Marvel Inc. and Abroad (CBC movie/pilot).graeme goodhall – actorStratford debut: Snowboy in West Side Story and appears in Cyranode Bergerac. Graeme is positively delighted to be performing inStratford’s 2009 season. Fresh from his second time around withBeauty and the Beast in Niagara Falls, Graeme is glad to be keepingit cool in both West Side Story and Cyrano. You may have caughthim on the small screen among the top 50 contestants on So You Think You CanDance Canada, as well as in numerous commercials, music videos and moviessuch as The Music Man. He owes most of his training to teachers Allain and DawnLupien of the Canadian Dance Company, and would like to thank his family for alltheir love and support.nicko giannakos – actorStratford debut: Luis in West Side Story and appears in Cyrano deBergerac. Born in Montreal, Nicko studied at the Academy of LesGrand Ballets Canadiens. After a couple of years in the ballet, hemade the switch to musical theatre, performing in many stageproductions in Quebec as well as on French television. Sinceleaving Montreal to perform in the world première of The Lord of the Rings inToronto, Nicko has performed across the country in such shows as Fiddler on theRoof (MTC) in which he played the Fiddler himself and Victor Victoria at Calgary’sStage West Theatre. Internationally, Nicko joined the cast of Dalida for a onemonthstay in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as performing for three months at RockBottom, a popular venue in Dubai’s Regent Palace Hotel. Nicko is pleased todebut at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and would like to thank his family andfriends for being so great!renate hanson – assistant stage manager10th season: Assistant stage manager of Cyrano de Bergeracand Zastrozzi. At the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Renate wasassistant stage manager of The Trojan Women, Love’s Labour’s Lost,King Lear, A Delicate Balance, Coriolanus, Don Juan, As You Like It, TheLark, Timon of Athens, King John, Troilus and Cressida, Antony andCleopatra, Henry VI: Revenge in France, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Lunatic, the Loverand the Poet, The Trials of Ezra Pound, Good Mother, Elizabeth Rex, Medea and TitusAndronicus. Credits include assistant stage manager of A Streetcar Named Desireand Cabaret (Grand Theatre), My Fair Lady (Manitoba Theatre Centre), Evita (MTC/Theatre Calgary) and Faust (Manitoba Opera). She was stage manager of Closerand Scrooge (Neptune Theatre) and Ethan Claymore (MTC/Richmond GatewayTheatre).12
douglas e. hughes – actorSecond season: Lignière in Cyrano de Bergerac and appears inMacbeth. Doug is pleased to be returning to Stratford after 21years. He was last here in 1988, when he appeared in King Lear,Twelfth Night, Oedipus and The Critic. He has worked in theatresacross the country, including 13 seasons as a member of theacting ensemble at the Shaw Festival, where he played such roles as La Hire inSaint Joan, Carmichael in Floyd Collins and Kulygin in Three Sisters. He was seenmost recently in CanStage’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life. Last summer heplayed Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at Huron Country Playhouse, and last springhe received a Dora award nomination for his work as Alfie Byrne in Acting UpStage’s production of A Man of No Importance. Doug is also an accomplishedplaywright, having penned three plays with his writing partner, Marcia Kash:Who’s Under Where?, A Party to Murder and Too Many Cooks.santo loquasto – designerSixth season: Designer of Cyrano de Bergerac. Santo Loquasto,designer for theatre, film, dance and opera, has won three TonyAwards and has been nominated 14 times. He has collaboratedwith Woody Allen on 24 films, including costume design for Zeligand production design for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway,for which he received Academy Award nominations. Recent stage designs areInherit the Wind, 110 in the Shade, Uncle Vanya, A Man for All Seasons and Waiting forGodot. He received the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaborationin 2002, was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004, received thePennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2006 and the Robert L.B. TobinAward for Lifetime Achievement in 2007.mike Jackson – actorSecond season: Swing in Cyrano de Bergerac. Mike appeared onBroadway in Chicago as well as the U.S. tours of both Chicagoand Susan Stroman’s Contact. He has appeared in Man of LaMancha and Cats (Drayton Entertainment). Other theatre creditsinclude Seussical, Oklahoma!, Joseph… (Theatre Aquarius), Grease(Stage West), West Side Story, Pippin, Swingstep (U.S. and Canada), Kiss Me, Kate,The Shooting of Dan McGrew, the Japanese tour of Anne of Green Gables and theGerman productions of both Cats and Starlight Express. TV/film credits includeMissing, Mariah Carey’s Glitter, Me and My Shadows… The Judy Garland Story,Gilmore Girls (pilot), Queer as Folk, Once Upon a Mattress and The Producers. He wasthe assistant choreographer of last season’s Cabaret and recently choreographedThe Producers and Little Shop of Horrors (Stage West) and Kiss of the Spider Woman(TIFT) as well as appearing as a choreographer on Triple Sensation. “Love to MK.”Josie marasco – actorStratford debut: Anybodys in West Side Story and Flower Sellerin Cyrano de Bergerac. Josie is honoured and overjoyed to be amember of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival this season. As adancer, singer and actor, favourite credits include Anne of GreenGables, Canada Rocks and Something Wonderful (CharlottetownFestival), Chicago (Neptune Theatre) and extensive work as a featured performerin festivals throughout North America and Europe. A graduate of RAPA (TripleTheatre Award), Josie’s work as a stuntwoman was most recently seen on CTV’sFlashpoint. In addition, Josie is a dance instructor as well as a certified BikramYoga instructor. Josie lives in the Toronto Beach with her dear husband, Thom.roy lewis – actorEighth season: Old Man in Macbeth and Bellerose/Renaudot/Bertrandou in Cyrano de Bergerac. Stratford credits includeMontague in Romeo and Juliet, Achillas in Caesar and Cleopatra,Reverend Sykes in To Kill a Mockingbird and Cyclops in The Odyssey.He was recently seen as Baron Van Swieten in Amadeus. Hecontinues to work across the country as an actor and is pleased to be workingat the Festival again. He has worked at the Shaw Festival and the NationalArts Centre. He is a founding member of the Obsidian Theatre Company andShakespeare in the Rough. Acting roles of note include the Stage Manager in OurTown, Prospero in The Tempest, Posthumus in Cymbeline, Lysander in A MidsummerNight’s Dream, Lightbourne in Edward II, Norfolk in A Man for All Seasons and Mr.Visconti in Travels with My Aunt. Directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,The Tempest, Cymbeline and Waiting for Godot.matthew mcCabe – actorStratford debut: Page/Young Cadet in Cyrano de Bergerac.Matthew is extremely excited about being a part of the StratfordShakespeare Festival this season. He has enjoyed theatre withvarious programs around Stratford including “Acting Out” and“Playmakers!”, as well as participating in school plays such as Oliver!Matthew plays basketball and volleyball and is a grade eight student at NorthEasthope Public School. He would like to thank his teachers, family and friends fortheir continued support.amanda lisman – actorStratford debut: Second Sister in Macbeth, Roxane in Cyranode Bergerac and Julia in Zastrozzi. Amanda was born and raisedin Victoria, B.C., where she received her BA in anthropology atthe University of Victoria. She obtained her BFA in acting at theUniversity of Alberta in 2007. Amanda was a participant in theinaugural Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Program. Selected credits: ElizabethBennet in Pride and Prejudice (Citadel Theatre); The Cherry Orchard, Crimes ofthe Heart, King Lear (Studio Theatre); Unity 1918, [sic], Lieutenant Nun (TheatreSKAM); Dancing at Lughnasa, Steel Magnolias, Rebecca (Victoria Theatre Guild);Silverwing (Kaleidoscope Theatre); and sketch comedy performances with AtomicVaudeville. Amanda thanks Janet, Alex and Jack for their love and support.Jacques monfiston – actorStratford debut: Indio in West Side Story and d’Artagnan in Cyranode Bergerac. Jacques originates from Ottawa but currently lives inToronto. Credits include Big Band Beat, Encore (Tokyo Disney), Cats(Neptune Theatre), My Fair Lady (TIP) and Helix Dance Project (LindaGarneau). Jacques has done numerous industrials, commercialsand corporate events, including work for the Bell Mobility Celebrity Gala, RadioShack and Coca-Cola. He can be seen in the movie Repo, starring Paris Hilton.Jacques was the Canadian judge at the National Tap Dance and ShowdanceChampionships in Germany. He was part of the gold-winning Dance WorldChampion Team in 2001 and 2002, choreographed by Matthew Clark. Jacques hastravelled the world to conduct workshops and do choreography and has learnedto expand his mind to stretch his limits to the max. “Thank you to my family andfriends for their love and support.” www.jacquesmonfiston.com13
Page 1 and 2: Festival TheatreMAy 29 To NovEMBER
Page 3 and 4: A Cosmos of CreativityShakespeare l
Page 5 and 6: the opening scene, which tellingly
Page 7 and 8: French history. In the land of revo
Page 9 and 10: The CastCyrano de BergeracColm Feor
Page 11 and 12: ProductionDirector of ProductionPro
Page 13: donald Carrier - assistant director
Page 17 and 18: steve ross - actorSixth season: Rag
Page 19 and 20: A Salute to Our DonorsWe extend hea
Page 21 and 22: Annual Donors (Reflects gifts made
Page 23 and 24: Annual DonorsDr. & Mrs. Greg Johnst
Page 25 and 26: RECOGNIZES THE OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC
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