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Lucy Peacock 23rd season: Audrey in As You Like It and Nana in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Stratford: Over 55 productions include Masha (Three Sisters), Ursla the Pig Woman (Bartholomew Fair), Roxy (The Trespassers), Nurse (Romeo and Juliet), Grumio (The Taming of the Shrew), all characters (The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, tour to Vancouver Playhouse), Dolly (Hello, Dolly!), Anna (The King and I), Duchess (The Duchess of Malfi), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Rosalind (As You Like It, 1990, 2000), Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1989, 1993), Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Helena (All’s Well That Ends Well, 1988, 2002), Kate (The Taming of the Shrew), Regan (King Lear, Tony-nominated production). Training: National Theatre School. Et cetera: Celebrating 25 years married to Christopher. Proud mum of two gorgeous young men, Harry and Ben. Lucy is also “living the dream” as singer/guitar player in the local band the Trespassers. Christopher Prentice Second season: Second Forest Lord in As You Like It and Dion in The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: 2009/10 Chicago Fellow; Winwife, Bartholomew Fair, Pindarus, Julius Caesar, Fairy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elsewhere: Macbeth, Macbeth, King/Lavatch, All’s Well That Ends Well (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); Mercutio, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Robin Hood, Robin Hood (Oak Park Festival); Sebastian, The Tempest (First Folio); Hamlet, Hamlet, Jerry, The Zoo Story, Young Marlow, She Stoops to Conquer, Estragon, Waiting for Godot, Chaplain, Catch-22, Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing (Signal Ensemble Theatre, co-founder); Booth, Assassins (Boxer Rebellion); productions with American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Dramatists, Irish Rep, New Leaf, Next, Northlight, Sansculottes and Stage Left. As director: Old Wicked Songs, The Weir (Signal Ensemble Theatre). Film: Butterfly. Training: Birmingham Conservatory; Southern Methodist University (BFA cum laude). Jonathan Purdon Second season: Jaques de Boys in As You Like It, appears in The Winter’s Tale and understudy in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Stratford: Caithness in Macbeth, Flavius/Volumnius in Julius Caesar and Mr. Harris/ Mennonite Farmer in Rice Boy. Elsewhere: He has appeared in theatres across the country. Favourites include Cliff in Cabaret at the Sudbury Theatre Centre, Nick in Over the River and Through the Woods for Neptune Theatre, the Beast in Beauty and the Beast for Theatre New Brunswick, Soapy Smith in The Lion of the Yukon for Playbill Theatre and Greg in Corker for Theatre North West in British Columbia. Film/TV: Jonathan has also appeared in a variety of television shows and films and was most recently seen in the new hit television series Flashpoint. Training: He is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA acting program and was awarded the Dame Peggy Ashcroft scholarship to attend the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. Cara Ricketts Second season: Celia in As You Like It and Perdita in The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: Weird Sister in Macbeth, Portia in Julius Caesar and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elsewhere: Selected credits: Queen of Sheba in Wise Woman of Abyssinia (b current Theatre Company); Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun (Soulpepper, Theatre Calgary); Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CanStage); Saint Monica in Steven Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Canadian première, Birdland Theatre; five Dora Awards, including outstanding production); Antigone in Antigone: Insurgency (One Little Goat Theatre Company); a one-woman show called Domestic by d’bi young (Volcano Theatre’s Wrecking Ball); and Peggy Sue in Joseph Pierre’s Born Ready (Obsidian Theatre Company). Film/TV: Credits include Bonnie in The Gathering (Lifetime Network) and a pilot for CBS with Davis Guggenheim called The Tower. Training: Humber College. Melissa Rood 10th season: Assistant stage manager of As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Importance of Being Earnest, Twelfth Night, London Assurance, Into the Woods, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Guys and Dolls, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry V, Henry VI, The Seagull, Wingfield on Ice, Elizabeth Rex, Medea, Collected Stories, The School for Scandal, The Alchemist. Elsewhere: Recently: The Penelopiad Director’s Lab (Nightwood Theatre); Assassins (PAL benefit); touring Night to Ottawa and the Arctic (Human Cargo/National Arts Centre). Previously: Canadian Opera Company, Pacific Opera Victoria, Globe Theatre, Suddenly Dance, CanStage, Mump & Smoot, Green Thumb Theatre for Young People, Belfry Theatre, Haig-Brown Society, Princess Cruises and the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Training: Sheridan College. Et cetera: Board member of PAL Stratford. 14 Tom Rooney Third season: Duke Frederick/Duke Senior in As You Like It, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale and Narrator in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Stratford: Porter in Macbeth, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Horatio in Hamlet, Lavache in All’s Well That Ends Well. Elsewhere: Recent theatre: Michael Healey’s Courageous (Tarragon); My Mother’s Feet (Munich, Germany); Hairspray (New York and Toronto); Benevolence, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion (Tarragon); I Am My Own Wife (Vancouver Playhouse); Homechild, Rice Boy (CanStage); title role in Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale (NAC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Citadel Theatre); The Tempest (Globe Theatre); Othello (Persephone Theatre); Romeo et Juliette, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Angels in America (ATP). Film/TV: Three seasons as Crown Attorney David Kaye on CBC’s This Is Wonderland (two Gemini nominations), The Gilda Radner Story, The Day After Tomorrow, Everest ’82 (CBC miniseries) and Flash of Genius. Michael Roth Third season: Composer and musical director for As You Like It and composer for The Tempest. Stratford: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. Film/ TV: Music director, Disney’s The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman, composer); composer, Jews and Baseball (PBS documentary, theatrical release); Your Name Here (with Bill Pullman). Theatre: Over 250 productions. Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (Daniel Sullivan, director), A Walk in the Woods (also PBS). Off-Broadway: Dinner With Friends, The Persians, many others. With Tom Stoppard, Carey Perloff, American premières of Indian Ink, The Invention of Love; with Culture Clash, The Birds; with Mac Wellman, The Allegory of Whiteness (Humana Festival); resident composer, La Jolla Playhouse. Recordings: Their Thought & Back Again (opera) and work-in-progress with Alice Ripley, available via myspace.com/rothmusik and iTunes. Et cetera: With Randy Newman, orchestrating Faust, editing five anthologies; music/sound for the UN’s Landmine Safety DVD. His work at Stratford is dedicated to his old friend Nicholas Pennell. Andrea Runge Second season: Rosalind in As You Like It and Mopsa in The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest and Sister Marthe in Cyrano de Bergerac. Elsewhere: Frost/Nixon (Canadian Stage/ Playhouse Theatre); Between Friends (Lighthouse Festival Theatre); Bluebeard (GromKat); Cloud 9, Loves and Hours, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Pennsylvania Centre Stage); Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); A Man for All Seasons, The Coronation Voyage (Globe Theatre). Film/TV: Corner Gas, Incredible Story Studio, Sliced, The Risen and Try to Remember. Radio: The Beginning of the End of the World; Killjoy Was Here; Youth Poetry (CBC). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; MFA in acting from Pennsylvania State University; BFA in acting from the University of Regina. Brian Scott 16th season: Stage manager of As You Like It and assistant stage manager of The Tempest. Stratford: For the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brian has stage managed King Lear, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Country Wife, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Waiting for Godot, The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Fitting Confusion, London Assurance, Noises Off, Private Lives, Present Laughter, Into the Woods, Romeo and Juliet and last season’s Macbeth. Elsewhere: Stage management credits include Medea (MTC/Mirvish Productions); King Lear (Lincoln Center); Don Carlos, The Duchess of Malfi, Epicoene and Coriolanus (Shakespeare Theatre). Et cetera: Brian lives in Stratford with his partner, Francesca Callow, and their young sons, Orlando and Inigo. Mike Shara Second season: Oliver in As You Like It and Young Shepherd in The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: The Importance of Being Earnest, Cyrano de Bergerac. Elsewhere: The Doctor’s Dilemma, Nothing Sacred, Picnic, Hay Fever, Candida, Hobson’s Choice, Rutherford and Son, The Plough and the Stars (Shaw Festival); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (MTC); Take Me Out, It’s A Wonderful Life (CanStage); An Inspector Calls (Theatre Calgary); Richard III, The Cherry Orchard, Caesar and Cleopatra (Citadel Theatre); Our Town, The Play’s the Thing, The Way of the World, Black Comedy, Platonov (Soulpepper); Anatol (Vancouver Playhouse); Skylight (NAC); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Theatre Aquarius); Mojo (Theatrefront). Film/TV: Little Mosque on the Prairie (CBC), The Call (CBC), The Gathering (Lifetime), Queer as Folk (Showtime), Due South (CTV), Show Me Yours (Showcase). Et cetera: Mike encourages all fellow sports fans to check out his web site, localsportsgenius.com, and try to top his score.
Siobhán Sleath Fourth season: Lighting design execution for Kiss Me, Kate. Assistant lighting designer of As You Like It, The Tempest and Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Trespassers, Rice Boy, Zastrozzi, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Comedy of Errors and My One and Only. Elsewhere: Lighting design for Back to X (Larchaud Dance Project); Confl uence, Tirtha and Frida and Herself (Anandam Performance Group); Les Belles-Soeurs and The Killing Game (Randolph Academy); Bluebeard (GromKat Production Ltd.), Fat Pig (Geek Girl Productions); Disciples (DMT Productions); and Anowa (AfriCAN Theatre Ensemble). Associate lighting design for Anne and Gilbert: The Musical (Campbell Webster Entertainment). Siobhán also worked on Nuit Blanche 2008, designing the lighting score for Brendan Fernandes’s installation Future (…---…) Perfect. Training: BFA in theatre production from York University. Tristan Tidswell Stratford debut: Assistant lighting designer of As You Like It, Do Not Go Gentle, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and King of Thieves. Elsewhere: Lighting designer of Thoroughly Modern Millie (Clarkson Music Theatre); The Frog Prince (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre); Cinderella (Brampton Lyric Opera); Choreographic Works 2009, The Three Birds, Choreographic Works 2008 (Ryerson Theatre School); In Transit (Only Human Dance Collective). Assistant lighting designer of La Bohème (Canadian Opera Company). Training: BFA, Ryerson Theatre School. Awards: 2009 Wally Russell Lighting Internship and Scholarship with the Canadian Opera Company. Brian Tree 21st season: Adam in As You Like It and Old Shepherd/Archidamus in The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: Humphrey Wasp (Bartholomew Fair), Erronius (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Costard (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Touchstone (As You Like It), Stephano (The Tempest), Joxer Daly (Juno and the Paycock), Mr. Dussel (The Diary of Anne Frank), Mr. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Dolly Spanker (London Assurance), Oswald (King Lear, also Lincoln Center, New York), Caversham (An Ideal Husband), Holofernes (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Peter Quince (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and many others. Elsewhere (highlights): Michael (Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me), Kemp (Vigil) –Tarragon Theatre; Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) – CanStage; Harry (The Sum of Us) – Belfry Theatre; Jim (Passion) – Bastion and Grand Theatre; the Player (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) – Touchmark. Film/ TV: Billable Hours, La Femme Nikita, Traders, Forever Knight, Street Legal; eight productions of A Taste of Shakespeare. Lezlie Wade Second season: Assistant director of As You Like It. Stratford: Assistant director, Fuente Ovejuna. Elsewhere: Glorious (Stage West); resident director, The Toxic Avenger (Dancap); Dog Sees God (Rubinoff Productions); A Man of No Importance and Elegies (Acting Up Stage Co.); assistant director, Mack and Mabel, Summer and Smoke (Shaw Festival); The Yalta Game (Shaw Festival); assistant director, Miss Julie (Soulpepper). Upcoming: Voice of the Turtle (Classical Theatre Festival). Awards: Dora nomination, best director, A Man of No Importance; two-time Pauline McGibbon nominee; Guthrie Award 2007. Other: Lyricist in Lehmen Engle BMI workshop, New York City. Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Training: George Brown Theatre School and Neighborhood Playhouse. Web Site: www. lezliewade.com. Michael Walton Sixth season: Lighting designer of As You Like It, The Tempest and King of Thieves. Stratford: Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet. Assistant designer of nine productions including Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, Orpheus Descending, King John and Timon of Athens. Elsewhere: Mimi (or a Poisoner’s Comedy), East of Berlin, Generous (Tarragon Theatre); The Year of Magical Thinking (Belfry Theatre); The Last Five Years, The Drawer Boy, Sexy Laundry, Moonlight and Magnolias, Over the River and Through the Woods (Grand); White Christmas, Oliver!, Blood Brothers (Theatre Aquarius); ’Night Mother (Soulpepper); A New Brain (Acting Up Stage); Off ensive Shadows (Studio 180); Norway.Today, Tiny Dynamite (Theatre Smash); Oliver!, This Is How It Goes (Neptune); The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, The Last Five Years (MTC); The Vertical Hour (PTE); associate special eff ects designer, The Lord of the Rings (Kevin Wallace Inc.; London and Toronto). Abigail Winter-Culliford Fourth season: Appears in As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale. Stratford: Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, Moth in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Mooncalf in Bartholomew Fair and Moth in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Elsewhere: Gretl in The Sound of Music and Amaryllis in The Music Man (Royal City Musical Theatre), Anna in Mister God, This Is Anna (Whiterock Playhouse), Chip in Beauty and the Beast (Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver). Film/TV: The Collectors, Sanguine, The Fog. Awards: She was the 2008 recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie/Mary Savidge Award. Et cetera: Abigail loves to dance and enjoys choreographing her own pieces; she recently completed her grade nine ballet exam. She is also a step dancer and singer, plays violin and remains the inventor of duct-tape objects! “Thanks, Mom and Dad, for ALL you do for me.” Don’t Miss... Brent Carver in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Production Conception, English Lyrics and Additional Material by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman Based on Jacques Brel’s Lyrics and Commentary Music by Jacques Brel Directed by Staff ord Arima May 14 to September 25 Opens June 11 Tom Patterson Theatre Order online at stratfordshakespearefestival.com or call us at 519.273.1600 Brent Carver. Photo by Andrew Eccles 15
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