RichaRd iii - Stratford Festival

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may 19 TO
SEPTEmBER 25, 2011
OPENS JUNE 2
Seana McKenna
RICHARD III
RichaRd iii
By William Shakespeare
directed by Miles Potter
Antoni Cimolino
General Director
Production support generously provided by
Sylvia D. Chrominska and Delia M. Moog
Des mcAnuff
Artistic Director

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Statecraft and Stagecraft
in Richard III
by Jane Freeman
Shakespeare wrote Richard III in the early 1590s,
and it was his first big hit. It was performed often
during his life and reprinted more frequently before
his death than any of his plays except Henry IV,
Part 1. Elizabethan audiences would have entered
the theatre knowing the story from several sources.
What they might not have predicted was that
seeing history through the eyes of a charismatic
villain could be so much fun.
The story they knew was dramatic. Richard,
Duke of Gloucester, an evil man with a twisted
character and a twisted back, wanted to be king
but he was not heir to the throne. Using subterfuge
and violence, he would remove all obstacles in his
path: his brother George, his brother King Edward’s
power-seeking in-laws, uncooperative noblemen
and – most infamously – his young nephews.
This unnatural monster would be rightfully killed
at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, the
Earl of Richmond, who would become the first
Tudor monarch, King Henry VII. We know, though
Shakespeare’s audience probably did not, that
several of the facts of Richard III’s famous villainy
are fictions, generated by the “Tudor propaganda
machine” for political gain.
Richard III is the fourth play in a series (the others
being the three parts of Henry VI) that tells the story
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Below | Director Miles Potter with MeMbers of the coMPany in rehearsal.
Facing page, From top| seana McKenna (richarD iii), roberta Maxwell
(Duchess of yorK) anD Martha henry (Queen Margaret); yanna Mcintosh
(Queen elizabeth) Following page | brenDan Murray (archbishoP) anD
wayne best (DuKe of bucKinghaM) with MeMbers of the coMPany;
seana McKenna; gareth Potter (richMonD) anD Director Miles Potter.
PhotograPhy by erin saMuell.
of the Wars of the Roses: the civil war between
the houses of York and Lancaster for the throne of
England. Richard starts the series as a loyal brother,
but by the third play he has revealed in soliloquy
both his desire to be king and the means by which
he hopes to succeed:
Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry “Content” to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions. . . .
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I’ll pluck it down.
– Henry VI, Part 3, Act III, scene 2
Like other theatrical Machiavels of the period,
all of whom draw on popular interpretations of
Machiavelli’s The Prince (published in 1532), Richard
is a quick-witted political strategist who is willing
to use immoral means to achieve his ends. He has
more lines than any other Shakespearean character
except Hamlet and speaks many of them directly
to the audience, thereby making us his confidants.
He is self-consciously theatrical: he performs roles
such as “loving brother” and “devout Christian” in

order to shape his public image and then turns to
us to review his virtuoso performances in private.
In this production, the dramatic irony of Richard’s
constantly shifting role-playing is heightened by a
casting of Richard that increases our awareness
of actor as Richard, and Richard as actor. As John
Jowett writes, “Richard III is conspicuously a
performance piece, and in many ways it is about
the nature of performance.”
Richard III presents historical events while
simultaneously teaching a moral lesson and
exploring the psychological fallout of civil war.
This tripartite focus is accomplished, in part,
through Shakespeare’s blending of the features of
chronicle history plays, medieval morality plays and
Senecan tragedies. Richard explicitly compares
himself to the “Vice” of the morality play: a comic
character, servant of the devil, who steps in and
out of the dramatic action to tell the audience of his
nefarious schemes. While the Vice is typically twodimensional,
however, Richard III is psychologically
complex. Lengthy Senecan-style soliloquies
deepen our understanding of Richard’s point of
view, while the chorus of lamenting women function
as chroniclers, “who understand and know”
(Jowett). The women’s wider perspective, like their
rhythmic language, sets them apart from the play’s
action even as they comment on it.
By combining theatrical traditions, Shakespeare
gives us a version of history that is both allegorical
and psychological. Richard’s famous deformity, for
example, is interpreted by the other characters
on stage as emblematic of his evil (as Sir Thomas
More suggested in his History of Richard III), while
Richard himself says it is the cause of his villainous
behaviour (a point of view explored by Freud in his
essay of 1916). Shakespeare breaks from tradition
by making his Richard both more misshapen and
more attractive than the Richard of the chronicles.
In doing so, he leaves it to actors and audiences to
interpret the relationship among Richard’s body, his
mind and his actions.
Throughout the sequence of Shakespeare’s
history plays, the focus of conflict gradually shifts
from battlefield, to boardroom, to bedroom. In
the early plays, the central conflict is between
the Yorks and the Lancasters. When Richard III
opens, however, the civil war is over, and the main
conflict is within the York family. As various factions
vie for power, “the conquerors / Make war upon
themselves, brother to brother, / Blood to blood,
self against self.” The shape-shifting secretive
Richard is not temperamentally suited for kingship,
and after he becomes king the power he has won
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slips away from him. In the words of Alexander
Leggatt, “Ironically, the role Richard has sought
so long is the one role he cannot effectively play.”
By the end of the play the central conflict is within
Richard himself. Unable to sleep, visited by dreams
and ghosts, his guilty conscience “hath a thousand
several tongues,” and every tongue condemns him
for a villain.
Richard is not the only one with a guilty
conscience. King Edward IV and the Duke of
Clarence are also haunted by past deeds – by
the thought that perhaps their ends did not justify
their means after all. The play is full of dreams
and prophecies, omens and ghosts, blessings
and curses. As Queen Margaret’s prophecies
come true, and the ghosts of the dead appear, it
seems that England’s unfolding history is part of a
providential plan. Richmond, who considers himself
God’s “captain,” will rid the world of the usurping
Richard. In doing so, he will return England to
political and moral health: the winter of Plantagenet
discontent will yield to the glorious summer of Tudor
rule. At least that’s the Tudor version of the story.
The play covers the historical events of 14 years,
starting with Edward IV’s restoration in 1471 and
ending with King Richard’s death in 1485. It is
perhaps not coincidental that in the middle of the
period presented, in 1476, the first printing press
arrived in England. In the century between the
historical events depicted and Shakespeare’s
writing, the story of the villainous Richard III had
spread through the Tudor chronicles, the first of
which, by Polydore Vergil, was commissioned by
Henry VII. Appearing in Richard III as Richmond,
Henry VII was known in Shakespeare’s time both
as the first Tudor monarch and as the grandfather
of Queen Elizabeth I, who was on the throne
when the play was written. Awkward questions
regarding whether Richard III’s right to the throne
was stronger than Richmond’s were put aside as
chroniclers retold history in a form that generated
patriotic pride.
This play about political manipulations – about
ends justifying means, as Machiavelli had written
– was based on politically manipulated historical
texts. Like the sources on which it is based,
Shakespeare’s Richard III draws our attention
to issues of representation and right rule at the
intersection of medieval and early modern world views.
Dr. Jane Freeman is a faculty member at the
University of Toronto and a member of the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival’s Senate.

Family Tree
Edward
the Black Prince
Richard II
(1377-99)
Henry V
(1413-22)
Henry VI
(1422-61, 1470-71)
Thomas
Duke of Clarence
Edward,
Prince of Wales
m.
m.
m.
The Story
Lionel
Duke of Clarence
Philippa
Plantagenet
Katherine
of France
Edward III (1327-77)
house of lancaster house of yorK
John
Duke of Bedford
m.
Margaret of Anjou
Anne Neville
Edmund Mortimer
3rd Earl of March
Owen Tudor
Humphrey
Duke of Gloucester
this simplified chart shows the relationships
between principal members of the english
royal family from edward iii to elizabeth i.
the names of historical personages who appear
as characters in Richard III are shown in boldface.
the dates in brackets indicate the reigns of
monarchs.
m.
Blanche
of Lancaster
Edmund Tudor
Earl of Richmond
m.
Henry Bolingbroke
Duke of Hereford,
later Henry IV
(1399-1413)
John Beaufort
1st Duke of Somerset
m.
Margaret
Beaufort
Henry Tudor
Earl of Richmond
later Henry VII
(1485-1509)
John Beaufort
Earl of Somerset
Henry VIII
(1509-47)
Edward Aumerle
2nd Duke of York
Edmund Beaufort
2nd Duke of Somerset
Edward IV
(1460-70,
1471-83)
Elizabeth
Woodville
Elizabeth Edward
Prince of Wales
later Edward V
(April-June 1483)
Elizabeth I
(1558-1603)
Henry Beaufort
Bishop of Winchester
(later Cardinal)
Anne Bullen
Edmund of Langley
1st Duke of York
Richard
Earl of Cambridge
Thomas Beaufort
1st Duke of Exeter
Cicely Neville
Duchess of York
George
Duke of Clarence
Richard
Duke of York
(The Princes in the Tower)
Thomas of Woodstock
Duke of Gloucester
Anne Mortimer
Richard
3rd Duke of York
Richard
Duke of Gloucester
later Richard III
(1483-85)
Anne Neville
A period of civil war in England (“the winter of our discontent”) has ended with the victory of the
York faction and the ascent to the throne of King Edward IV (“this son of York”). However, Edward’s
deformed youngest brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, disdaining this “weak piping time of peace,”
is already plotting the elimination of those who stand between himself and the crown – beginning
with his elder brother George, Duke of Clarence.
m.
m.
John of Gaunt Katharine Swinford
m.
m.
m.
m.
m.
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The Triumph of Evil
costuMe Designs for richarD by Peter hartwell.
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“And so they said that these matters be
Kings’ games, as it were,
Stage plays, and for the most part played
upon scaffolds.
And they that wise be would meddle no farther.”
– From Sir Thomas More’s
History of King Richard III
More wrote his history in 1513, twenty-eight years
after the death of the historical Richard, and long,
long before Shakespeare took up the story. Two
things struck me about More’s quote: one, that he
had already picked up the theme of theatricality,
and two, that his pun on scaffold was even more
meaningful then than now.
The earliest meaning of scaffold was a platform
where a performance of a mystery or morality play
might occur; its meaning as a place for executions
came later. Richard’s theatrical ancestors, the Vice
characters of those medieval plays, performed their
acts on those very scaffolds as they went about
their stated mission, to destroy virtue wherever they
found it. In order to do so, they would do anything,
assume any role, in order to suborn the natural
order and attempt the triumph of evil.
The great appeal of Vice, the appeal of the
villain, was so strong that this character survived
theatrically long after his pallid cousins Virtue
and Honesty and Plaindealing had faded into
the theatrical mists of time; in fact, his popularity
with audiences assured his survival well into the
Elizabethan era in the guise of such characters
as Richard and Iago and Don John (in Much Ado
About Nothing).
I believe that it is this theatrical heritage that
provides the character of Richard and the play
he shows up in with so much of its appeal. He
is not just a villain; he is The Villain as Actor,
willing to assume any role to achieve his ends.
He is an actor, playing an actor, sharing a secret
with his audience: “I am not what I appear to
be.” My second favourite quote concerning
Richard comes from the Polish critic Jan Kott:
“Richard is not; he just pretends to be.”
In small but significant flashes throughout the
play, Shakespeare appears to be semaphoring
a message to us. It comes and goes amidst the
twists and turns of political manoeuvring, amongst
the emotional turmoil of lies and manipulation,
throughout the emotional wreckage caused by
death and destruction. It is a simple message, but
as Shakespeare sensed, it bears repeating:
“All that is required for the triumph of evil is for
good people to do nothing.”
Miles Potter
Director
costuMe sKetch for richarD by Miles Potter.

Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Artistic Credits
Director Miles Potter
Designer Peter hartwell
Lighting Designer Kevin fraser
Composer Marc Desormeaux
Sound Designer Peter Mcboyle
Movement wendy allnutt
Fight Director Daniel levinson
Assistant Director sharon bajer
Assistant Designer sara brzozowski
Assistant Lighting Designer Jennifer lennon
Fight Captain wayne best
Stage Manager Janine ralph
Assistant Stage Managers Martine beland,
ivory seol
Apprentice Stage Manager Jessica stinson
Production Assistant genevieve Magtoto
Production Stage Managers Janine ralph,
Maxwell t. wilson
Technical Director sean hirtle
Cast
King Edward IV David ferry
Queen Elizabeth wife of King Edward IV yanna Mcintosh
Prince Edward, later King Edward V
sons of King Edward IV
teddy gough
Richard, Duke of York Jeremy harttrup
George, Duke of Clarence
Richard, Duke of Gloucester
later King Richard III
brothers of King Edward IV
Michael spencer-Davis
seana McKenna
Duchess of York mother of King Edward IV roberta Maxwell
Lady Anne widow of Prince Edward (son of King Henry VI),
and later wife of Richard, Duke of Gloucester bethany Jillard
Queen Margaret widow of King Henry VI Martha henry
Anthony Woodville, Lord Rivers brother of Queen Elizabeth David collins
Marquess of Dorset
sons of Queen Elizabeth
e. b. smith
Lord Grey Dion Johnstone
William, Lord Hastings Lord Chamberlain nigel bennett
Lord Stanley andrew gillies
Duke of Buckingham
wayne best
Sir William Catesby sean arbuckle
Sir Richard Ratcliffe oliver becker
Duke of Norfolk Richard, Duke of Gloucester’s followers
skye brandon
Sir James Tyrrel Paul fauteux
Thomas, Earl of Surrey Paul fauteux
Murderer shane carty
Henry, Earl of Richmond stepson of Stanley, later King Henry VII gareth Potter
Earl of Oxford David ferry
Sir James Blunt Richmond’s followers
David collins
Sir Walter Herbert shane carty
Cardinal Bourchier cyrus lane
Archbishop brendan Murray
Sir Robert Brakenbury Lieutenant of the Tower of London bruce godfree
Lord Mayor of London shane carty
Scrivener cyrus lane
Citizens laura condlln
carmen grant
claire lautier
Gentleman, Soldiers, Messenger, Coffin Bearers, Monks played by members of the company.
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costuMe Designs by Peter hartwell for laDy anne, Queen elizabeth anD
the DuKe of bucKinghaM with bucKinghaM's ghost.
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The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre
From General Director Antoni Cimolino and Artistic Director Des McAnuff
Thirty-two members of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2011 company have come out of our
professional training program, now known as the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre.
Founded in 1998, the Conservatory has helped to launch the careers of some of our leading young
actors, many of whom we have had the great pleasure of directing. Providing opportunities for young
Canadian artists is part of our mission at the Festival, and we hope you will find it as satisfying as we
do to watch their growth as they share the stage with some of the finest actors in the world.
Under the leadership of Martha Henry, the Conservatory is made possible by the support of the Birmingham
family, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Endowment Foundation and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
We thank them for helping us to nurture and support these talented artists in our 2011 company:
Understudies
oliver becker (Lord Stanley), skye brandon (Sir William Catesby,
Murderer), shane carty (Duke of Buckingham), David collins
(Lord Hastings), laura condlln (Queen Elizabeth), Paul fauteux
(Sir Robert Brakenbury), David ferry (Lord Mayor of London),
bruce godfree (Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Earl of Surrey), carmen
grant (King Richard III), ethan ioannidis (Duke of York), Dion
Johnstone (Sir James Tyrrel), cyrus lane (Lord Grey, Marquess of
Dorset, Lord Rivers), claire lautier (Lady Anne), brendan Murray
(King Edward IV, Duke of Norfolk), irene Poole (Queen Margaret,
Duchess of York), gareth Potter (Duke of Clarence), evan rueb
(Prince Edward), e. b. smith (Earl of Richmond, Cardinal),
Michael spencer-Davis (Archbishop).
Interval
there will be one interval of 20 minutes.
Audience Alert
this production includes haze.
Production Credits
Responsibilities backstage during the performance accomplished by:
Stage Carpenter Paul gorman
Master Electrician timothy hanson
Property Master alan hughes
Head of Sound Jim stewart
Wardrobe Mistress helen basson
Wardrobe Attendants John bynum, inez Khan,
Jane Mallory
Swing bonnie Deakin
Wigs and Makeup Show Head Julie scott
Wigs and Makeup Crew angela Moncur
Children’s Supervisors tracey coleman,
Jane Mallory
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to norman cruz, MD, Stratford;
Jennifer anderson, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto; brian
hands, MD, FRCS (C), medical voice consultant, Vox Cura voice
care specialists, Toronto; simon Mcbride, MCISc, MD, London
Health Sciences Centre Vocal Function Clinic, London; John yoo,
MD, London Health Sciences Centre, London.
Thank you to David Klausner.
Pianos tuned and maintained by Don stephenson.
Front cover image provided by steaMco., creative advertising
agency for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Front cover and
page 1 photography by andrew eccles.
Skye Brandon 08/09
Evan Buliung 99
Shane Carty 03
Dan Chameroy 03
Laura Condlln 04
Victor Dolhai 10
Miranda Edwards 10
Josh Epstein 10
Martha Farrell 04
Paul Fauteux 02
Bruce Godfree 09/10
Carmen Grant 10
Ashleigh Hendry 10
Dion Johnstone 03
Chilina Kennedy 09
Sarah Kitz 10
Ian Lake 07/08
Amanda Lisman 09
Keira Loughran 05 (new plays)
Kennedy C. MacKinnon 99 (voice coach)
Brendan Murray 00
Paul Nolan 09
Trent Pardy 07/08
Gareth Potter 03
Christopher Prentice 08/09
Andrea Runge 09
Tyrone Savage 10
E.B. Smith 10
Evan Stillwater 04 (tailor)
Sara Topham 00
Dylan Trowbridge 10
Sophia Walker 05

Orchestra
Marc Desormeaux, Recorders/Zither/Mandolin/Bodhran/Keyboard
(playing Javanese Gamelan and other sampled world instruments).
Director of Production John tiggeloven
Production
Technical Director – Scenic Construction andrew Mestern
Wardrobe Manager anne Moore
Production Administrator cheryl bender
Assistant Technical Director David campbell
Technical Management Assistant Michael besworth
Administrative Assistant cindy Jordan
Design Coordinator alix Dolgoy
Resident Sound Designer Peter Mcboyle
Director of Music rick fox
Music Administrator Marilyn Dallman
Electronics Technologist chris wheeler
Transportation charlie fox, ian a. fraser,
Michael taylor, James thistle
Properties
Head of Properties Dona hrabluk
Assisted by eric ball, lucas commerford,
Ken Dubblestyne,
carolyn horley,
Michelle Jamieson,
shirley lee,
Jennifer Macdonald,
brian Mcleod, Dylan Mundy,
heather ruthig,
Jennifer stevens,
elizabeth thomas
Properties Buyer tracy fulton
Assistant Properties Buyer Penelope schledewitz
Scenic Art
Head Scenic Artist christopher Klein
Assistant Head Scenic Artist Daniel McManus
Assisted by Kevin Kemp, amparo Patterson,
lisa summers, laurie tomé,
Jo-anne Vezina, blair yeomans
Scenic Carpentry
Head Carpenter neil r. cheney
Lead Hand gary geiger
Assisted by Jeff baici, hal harley,
alex Kordics, John roth,
b.J. shaver, Mark smith,
brad stephenson
The Michael Langham Workshop for
Classical Direction
“The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction will continue
Michael Langham’s tradition of mentorship in a risk-free environment,
allowing directors to develop their craft with the rich history and evolving
artistry of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.”
– Des McAnuff
We extend our thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage,
the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation and Johanna Metcalf.
Participants in the
2011 workshop:
Sharon Bajer
Eric Benson
Dian Marie Bridge
Heather Davies
Alan Dilworth
Varrick Grimes
Thomas Morgan Jones
Rachel Peake
Andrew Shaver
Rachel Slaven
Lezlie Wade
Wardrobe
Head of Wardrobe bradley Dalcourt
Assistant Head of Wardrobe elizabeth copeman
Seasonal Wardrobe Supervisor linda sparks
Cutters Johanna billings, Mary logan,
luci Pottle
Junior Cutter Jennie wonnacott
First Hands wendy bendle, Joanne Davies,
laura snowden
Sewers Amelia berzins,
caroline broadley,
cindy brown, Diana brown,
samantha crossley,
lisa Di Quinzio, susan e. Dick,
evelyn gascho, anna lach,
Paulette laporte, Danna link,
Kelly Mcneely, Krista nauman,
Magdalene raycraft,
Joan scheerer,
Victoria shillington,
rebecca zimmerman
Bijoux/Decoration rebecca Dillow
Assisted by liane guttadauria,
tami MacDonald, Kathi Posliff
Boots and Shoes sarah cook
Assisted by Karen beames, Mark fetter,
Michael Karn, connie Puetz
Costume Painting lisa hughes
Dyeing sylvia Minarcin
Assisted by linda Pinhay
Millinery isabel bloor
Assisted by thea c. crawford,
helen flower, Kaz Maxine
Millinery Apprentice Melissa nurmi
Wardrobe Buyer Michelle ashbourne
Assistant Buyer caitlin luxford
Wardrobe Apprentice samantha aylsworth
Warehouse Supervisor Madonna Decker
Warehouse Assistant Valerie lariviere
Additional Costumes by Martino nguyen Designs
Wigs and Makeup
Head of Wigs and Makeup gerald altenburg
Construction Lead Hand Julie scott
Construction Crew erica croft-fraser, Dave Kerr,
barb newbery, alana scheel,
stanley wickens
Funding for artisan apprenticeships is provided by the William H.
Somerville Theatre Artisan Apprenticeship Fund, funded by the J. P.
Bickell Foundation, and by Robert and Jacqueline Sperandio.
A member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the
Stratford Shakespeare Festival engages, under the terms of the Canadian
Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian
Actors’ Equity Association. Stage crew, scenic carpenters, drivers, wigs
and makeup attendants and facilities staff are members of Local 357
of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
Wardrobe attendants are members of IATSE Local 924. Scenic artists are
members of IATSE Local 828. The Festival acknowledges with thanks the
co-operation of the Stratford Musicians’ Association, Local 418 of the
American Federation of Musicians.
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William Shakespeare
Playwright
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, William
Shakespeare was the eldest son of John
Shakespeare, a glover and tanner who rose to
become an alderman and bailiff of the town, and
Mary Arden, the daughter of a wealthy farmer. The
exact date of his birth is unknown, but there is a
record of his baptism on April 26. Since an interval
of two or three days between birth and baptism
would have been quite common, tradition has it
that he was born on April 23 – the same date as his
death 52 years later.
The young Shakespeare is assumed to have
attended what is now the Edward VI Grammar
School in Stratford, where he would have studied
ancient Roman literature in its original Latin. In 1582,
when he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway, a
farmer’s daughter who was eight years his senior.
Anne was pregnant at the time, and the couple’s
first daughter, Susanna, was born a few months
afterwards in 1583. Twins followed two years later:
a son, Hamnet, who died at the age of 11, and a
second daughter, Judith.
Nothing further is known of Shakespeare’s
life until 1592, by which time he was sufficiently
established as an actor and writer in London to be
the target of a literary attack by a jealous fellow
playwright, Robert Greene. Soon afterwards, an
outbreak of plague forced the temporary closure of
the theatres, and Shakespeare turned his attention
instead to his long narrative poems Venus and
Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. He also began
writing the Sonnets, a series of 154 love poems that
many believe to be at least partly autobiographical.
By 1594, Shakespeare was back in the theatre,
writing and acting for the Lord Chamberlain’s
Men. His income as one of the country’s most
successful dramatists enabled him, in 1597, to buy a
mansion back in Stratford, and in 1599 he became a
shareholder in London’s newly built Globe Theatre.
In 1603, Shakespeare’s company was awarded a
royal patent, becoming known as the King’s Men.
Possibly as early as 1610, the playwright retired
to his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, living there
until his death on April 23, 1616. He is buried in the
town’s Holy Trinity Church.
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the company
Wendy Allnutt
Second season: Movement for The Merry Wives of Windsor and Richard
III. Elsewhere: Master of Movement, Shakespeare’s Globe. Revival
choreographer, The Magic Flute (Welsh National Opera). Choreographer/
movement director, Royal National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange,
Mercury, Clwyd, Sphinx, BBC-TV. Actress: West End, RSC, tours of U.S.A,
U.K., Sweden. TV: Jennifer (Sorry), Wendy (Dear John), Charlotte Gaunt (The
Regiment), Cordelia (King Lear), Rough Justice. Film: Oh! What a Lovely War, When Eight
Bells Toll, Tales From Beyond the Grave, All Coppers Are, Priest of Love. Teaching: Head of
Movement, Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Stratford Conservatory; Colorado College;
Penn State/Colby (London); San Miniato; Rome. Directing: Watermans: Leave My Hair Alone.
Medieval mystery plays, restoration comedy, musical theatre. Training: Central School of
Speech and Drama. Et cetera: Son, Andrew McCormack, is a jazz musician and daughter,
Katherine McCormack, is a film unit publicist.
Sean Arbuckle
10th season: Sir William Catesby in Richard III and Saturninus in Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: Cabaret (Cliff), Three Sisters (Tuzenbach), The
Winter’s Tale (Camillo), The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio), Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? (Nick), The Swanne (Leopold/Popple), Twelfth Night
(Orsino), London Assurance (Dazzle), Macbeth (Banquo), The Trojan Women
(Talthybius), Electra (The Beggar), As You Like It (Oliver), The Tempest
(Antonio), Timon of Athens (Alcibiades). Elsewhere: Broadway: The Importance of Being
Earnest. National tour: Copenhagen. Regional: The Turn of the Screw (Grand Theatre);
Phèdre (ACT); Humble Boy, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Pioneer Theatre Company); The
Magnificent Ambersons (Indiana Rep); The Spitfire Grill (George Street Playhouse – world
première); King John (Shakespeare Theatre Company); The Triumph of Love (Walnut Street);
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Dallas Theater Center); Woman in Mind (Berkshire
Theatre Festival). TV: Law & Order, Sex and the City, Hope and Faith. Training: Juilliard.
Sharon Bajer
Second season: Assistant director of Richard III. Stratford: Assistant director
of The Two Gentleman of Verona. Elsewhere: Directing: To the Country
(Winnipegger Ensemble); Bloodless (White Rabbit); Our Country’s Good,
Road (ABC); You in the Shadow, Prince of Paupers (MCIC). Playwright:
Burnin’ Love, Hersteria, Molly’s Veil, To the Country, Scrabble for the Apple.
Acting: Top Girls, Steel Magnolias, Angels in America, Humble Boy, Of Mice
and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Our Country’s Good, Les Belles-Soeurs (Royal Manitoba Theatre
Centre); Six Degrees of Separation (Canadian Stage); The Weir (Belfry); The Stone Angel
(National Arts Centre); Molly’s Veil, Boeing-Boeing (FAST); Going Home (Haifa/Tel Aviv); over
20 shows at Prairie Theatre Exchange. Training: Graduate of Studio 58. Awards: Nominated
for Merritt Award (actress/Boeing-Boeing), Blizzard Award (actress/Children of My Heart and
Betty), Manitoba Writers’ Guild (Molly’s Veil). Website: sharonbajer.com.
Oliver Becker
Third season: Sir Richard Ratcliffe in Richard III and Cuirette in Hosanna.
Stratford: Peter Pan, King of Thieves, Cyrano de Bergerac, Zastrozzi.
Elsewhere: The Seafarer, The Diary of Anne Frank (MTC); Woman in White
(Aquarius); Beyond Mozambique, Better Living, Escape From Happiness,
The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (Factory); Wild Mouth, Sideman, Soldier’s
Heart (Tarragon); The Pillowman (Birdland); Frozen (Citadel); A Whistle in
the Dark (Company Theatre, Toronto); Hamlet, The Bear, La Ronde (Soulpepper); Cherry
Docs, Macbeth (Grand); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Centaur); The Weir, The Beauty Queen of
Leenane (Canadian Stage); Playboy of the Western World (Shaw Festival). Film/TV: Oliver is
a series regular in The Line (TMN) and Rent a Goalie (Showcase). Other TV: Queer as Folk,
Street Time, Odyssey 5 (Showtime), Salem Witch Trials (CBS), Chasing Cain (CBC). Et cetera:
Oliver is very pleased to be back at the Festival for a third season.
Martine Beland
13th season: Assistant stage manager of Richard III and Shakespeare’s
Will. Stratford: Production stage manager: Avon Theatre (2004-2006).
Stage manager: Birmingham Conservatory (2003 and 2005), Fuente
Ovejuna, Pentecost, Don Juan, The Elephant Song/The Human Voice, The
Birds, Quiet in the Land. Assistant stage manager: Dangerous Liaisons,
Peter Pan, Bartholomew Fair, Phèdre, Othello, Richard III, Henry IV, Part
1, Falstaff, Measure for Measure, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About
Nothing, Carousel and Treasure Island. Elsewhere: Stage manager: 15th Asian Games; Billy
Bishop Goes to War, Hedda Gabler, The Matchmaker, Tartuffe, She Stoops to Conquer, A
Flea in Her Ear (Atlantic Theatre Festival); Beauty and the Beast, The Affections of May, Loot,
A Moon for the Misbegotten, Salt-Water Moon (Theatre New Brunswick); Three Tall Women,
All Fall Down, Broadway Bound (Grand Theatre). Film: Script supervisor: The 4th Floor and
Frozen in Fear.
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Nigel Bennett
Second season: Doctor Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Lord
Hastings in Richard III. Stratford: Peter Pan, King of Thieves. Elsewhere:
Nightwood: That Face. MTC/Mirvish: Medea. Neptune: Scrooge, Art, Closer,
Hamlet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Retreat from Moscow, A Few Good
Men, The Price, The Goat, The Sound of Music, Blue/Orange, Betrayal.
Grand, London: Kingfisher Days. ATF: Blithe Spirit, Three Sisters. Ship’s
Company: The Parrsboro Boxing Club. Citadel, Edmonton: Kafka’s Dick. Wyndham’s (London,
England): The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. Film/TV (among others): The Border, Lexx,
Forever Knight, At the Hotel, Psi Factor, Strike, Murder at 1600, The Skulls, Narrow Margin,
Murdoch Mysteries, The Kennedys, Counterstrike, The Sea Wolf. Radio: Backbenchers.
Awards: Gemini, best supporting actor, 1996; ACTRA Maritimes Award, best actor, 2008 and
2009. Other: Co-author, Keeper of the King, His Father’s Son, Siege Perilous. Website: www.
blackhatstation.com.
Wayne Best
16th season: Duke of Buckingham in Richard III and appears in Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: Boatswain (The Tempest), Antonio (The Two
Gentlemen of Verona), Caliban (The Tempest), Mercutio (Romeo and
Juliet), Leontes (The Winter’s Tale), Fluellen (Henry V), Victor (Private Lives),
Horatio (Hamlet), Astrov (Uncle Vanya), Macduff (Macbeth), Gratiano (The
Merchant of Venice), Cornwall (King Lear), Grumio (The Taming of the
Shrew), Enobarbus (Antony and Cleopatra), Ben (Good Mother), Maurice (In the Ring), Le Bret
(Cyrano de Bergerac). Elsewhere: Carl (Heaven), Abbott (Inexpressible Island), Antonio (The
Tempest), Brutus (Julius Caesar), Billy (The Collected Works of Billy the Kid), Johnny Regan
(Balconville), Captain Keller (The Miracle Worker), Quinn (The Affections of May), Jacob
Mercer (Of the Fields, Lately), Jacob Mercer (Salt-Water Moon).
Skye Brandon
Third season: Duke of Norfolk in Richard III and Bassianus in Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar and Bartholomew Fair. Elsewhere:
Reflections/The Little Prince, Mary’s Wedding (Dancing Sky Theatre); The
Pillowman, Fat Pig (Wild Side Productions); Henry IV, Part 1, The Tempest,
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Chimera
(PTE); Julius Caesar, The Shape of Things (Theatre Ecstasis); Twelfth Night (Globe Theatre);
The Coronation Voyage, It’s All True (Last Exit Theatre). Directing credits include Pageant
(Last Exit) and The Busy World is Hushed (Northern Light Theatre). Radio: Yann Martel’s The
Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (CBC). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, ACT
(San Francisco), U of S (BFA Honours). Awards: SAT Award (Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist,
Dancing Sky), Sterling nomination (The Credeaux Canvas, Northern Light), Equity Emerging
Artist 2005.
Sara Brzozowski
Third season: Assistant designer of Richard III. Stratford: Wardrobe
apprentice 2010; stitcher for Cyrano de Bergerac, Macbeth, The
Importance of Being Earnest, The Trespassers, Zastrozzi and Rice Boy.
Elsewhere: Fashion designer in Redefining Design, 2008 (Kool Haus),
dresser for Corset Fashion Show, 2010 (Creativ Festival). Training:
Advanced Diploma in Fashion Arts, Seneca College. Awards: Dama Lumley
Bell Award for recognition of achievement in production crafts, 2010. Et cetera: Sara sends
her warmest thanks to the family and friends who have shown her their tremendous support.
Shane Carty
Seventh season: Lord Mayor of London in Richard III and understudy
in The Homecoming. Stratford: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About
Nothing, The Duchess of Malfi, The Brothers Karamazov, Peter Pan, Present
Laughter, King of Thieves, Measure for Measure, Sticks & Stones, My Fair
Lady, The Threepenny Opera, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Taming
of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Swanne. Elsewhere:
Tom’s A-Cold (NextStage); This Is How It Goes (Neptune); Einstein’s Gift, It’s a Wonderful
Life, The Wizard of Oz (Grand); Treasure Island (Theatre New Brunswick); Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead (Touchmark); Sweeney Todd, A Year With Frog and Toad (Sudbury
Theatre Centre); Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Les Misérables, Hay Fever, The Red Priest
(Thousand Islands); A Christmas Story (Theatre & Company); Sticks & Stones, The Mikado
(NAC); Beauty and the Beast (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Romeo and Juliet (Resurgence).
Training: Queen’s University, Birmingham Conservatory.

David Collins
Fourth season: Lord Rivers in Richard III and appears in Titus Andronicus.
Stratford: Recent: Francisco (The Tempest), Host (The Two Gentlemen of
Verona), Seyton (Macbeth), Publius (Julius Caesar), Apothecary (Romeo
and Juliet), Theodotus (Caesar and Cleopatra). Elsewhere: Shakuntala
(Premiere Dance Theatre); The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
(Mirvish); The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Donut City (Canadian Stage);
Pusha Man, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Theatre Passe Muraille); The Taming of the Shrew
(ShakespeareWorks); Top Gun the Musical (Factory Theatre/N.Y.C.); El Paso (Factory); Romeo
and Juliet (Shakespeare in Action); Walls (VECC). He is a founding member of Obsidian
Theatre Company. Film/TV: Trojan Horse, 11Cameras, ReGenesis, Owning Mahowny, Shoot
’Em Up, The Incredible Hulk, MVP, Warehouse 13, Nurse.Fighter.Boy, The Listener, Rookie
Blue, XIII, Stag, Against the Wall. Training: MFA, York University. Awards: Dora nominations
for Twilight Café and The America Play.
Laura Condlln
10th season: Mistress Margaret (Meg) Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor
and appears in Richard III. Stratford: Favourite credits include Peter Pan
(Mrs. Darling), King of Thieves (Polly), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena),
Shakespeare’s Universe (Her Infinite Variety) – conceived and directed
by Peter Hinton – (the Moll), Pentecost (Amira), The Liar (Clarice/Lucrece/
Sabine), The Duchess of Malfi (Cariola), As You Like It (Audrey), Henry IV,
Part 1 (Lady Mortimer), Timon of Athens (Phrynia) and Cymbeline. Elsewhere: Having Hope
at Home, Marion Bridge (Globe Theatre, Regina), A Christmas Carol (The Grand Theatre) and
Over the River and Through the Woods (Theatre Aquarius). Training: Laura holds a BFA from
the University of Windsor and is a graduate of the Birmingham Conservatory (2005). Awards:
Recipient of the Mary Savidge Award, Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Marc Desormeaux
Ninth season: Composer for Richard III and Shakespeare’s Will. Stratford:
The Winter’s Tale, Three Sisters, The Trojan Women, The Glass Menagerie,
The Lark, The Taming of the Shrew. Elsewhere: Orpheus Descending
(Mirvish/MTC); The Drawer Boy (Mirvish/MTC, national tour, Vienna English
Theatre); Othello, Much Ado (Chicago Shakespeare); Written on Water
(Canadian Stage/NAC); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Proof, A Streetcar
Named Desire (MTC/Citadel); Summer and Smoke, Pygmalion, A Room of One’s Own (Shaw
Festival); Zadie’s Shoes (Mirvish/Factory); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet, The Vaudevilles
of Chekhov (NAC); The Syringa Tree (Grand/GCTC). Radio: Romeo and Juliet, A Room of
One’s Own, Stephen and Mr. Wilde (CBC). Awards: Nominations: Jeff, Jessie, Sterling, two
Doras. Et cetera: Creator/featured actor (Chet Baker) of Time After Time (GCTC). Composer/
playwright of Cyberia (NAC 1997). Co-writer/performer of Brigit’s Reel with fiddler Trish
Barclay.
Paul Fauteux
Second season: Sir James Tyrrel in Richard III and Lucius in Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: Cecco in Peter Pan and Stringer in King of
Thieves. Birmingham Conservatory. Elsewhere: The Ends of the Earth /
Belfry Theatre; The Pillowman, Tillsonburg / Canadian Stage, Scorched
/ Tarragon Theatre and NAC; That Time / Theatre Centre; Dr. Chekhov:
Ward 6 / Factory Theatre; Cringeworthy, Boxhead and The Kabbalistic
Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tzaddik / Theatre Passe Muraille; Kaspar / Go Chicken Go.
Film/TV: Committed, Rookie Blue, The Sea Wolf, This Is Wonderland, Missing, Flashpoint,
Hustle: The Pete Rose Story, Chasing Cain, Due South, L’Ombre de l’épervier. Radio:
Dean Donaldson on CBC radio drama Afghanada. Training: UVic and the National Theatre
School of Canada. Awards: Five Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. One ACTRA Award
nomination. Et cetera: Paul lives in Toronto with his wife, Camille, their son, Hanlon, and their
daughter, Illia.
David Ferry
Fifth season: King Edward IV in Richard III and Marcus Andronicus in Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: Prince Hal in Henry IV, Part 1; Dogberry in Much Ado;
Dumaine in Love’s Labour’s Lost; Fair Liberty’s Call; Ahab in Moby Dick.
Elsewhere: Most recently he reprised his Dora-nominated performance
in Eternal Hydra (Crow’s Theatre) and was praised for his work in Blasted
(Buddies in Bad Times). He won a 2009 Dora (best actor) for his work in
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and the Critics Choice best-actor award in Victoria for his
Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Film/TV: His second season of Dan for Mayor is airing
now on CTV. Awards: He has also won a best-director Dora and a best-lighting Dora. Et
cetera: David has directed in Canada and in Italy, most recently with the première of Daniel
MacIvor’s Inside. Website: www.davidferryactor.com.
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Kevin Fraser
25th season: Lighting designer of Richard III and Shakespeare’s Will.
Stratford: Stratford designs include Evita, Peter Pan, Forum, West Side
Story, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Music Man, Cabaret, My
One and Only, To Kill a Mockingbird, Shakespeare’s Will, South Pacific,
The Glass Menagerie, Guys and Dolls, Inherit the Wind and many more.
Elsewhere: Kevin has designed lighting for many theatre and opera
productions across Canada. Recent credits include Medea at the Canon Theatre in
Toronto (Mirvish Productions), Jake and the Kid (Theatre Calgary), Sweet Charity (Drayton
Entertainment) and Acis and Galatea (Toronto’s Opera Atelier). Training: Kevin is a graduate
of Ryerson Theatre School. Awards: Kevin has received five Dora Mavor Moore Award
nominations (Toronto) and one Jessie Richardson Award nomination (Vancouver). Et cetera:
Member of Associated Designers of Canada.
Andrew Gillies
Fourth season: Hugh Evans in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Lord
Stanley in Richard III. Stratford: Islander in The Tempest, Panthino/Outlaw
in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Orlando in As You Like It, Macduff in
Macbeth, Valère in Tartuffe, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Benvolio
in Romeo and Juliet. Elsewhere: Hamlet in Hamlet (Vancouver Playhouse),
Cyrano in Cyrano (Royal Alex), Tony Blair in Stuff Happens (Royal Alex),
General Burgoyne in The Devil’s Disciple (Neptune). Fourteen seasons at the Shaw Festival.
Theatre Calgary, ATP, National Arts Centre, Tarragon Theatre, Necessary Angel, Canadian
Stage. Manitoba Theatre Centre, including Frank in Educating Rita, 2010. Film/TV: The
Virgin Suicides, Wild Girl, That Touch of Pink, The Associates, Paradise Falls, Flash of Genius.
Training: Simon Fraser University. Awards: Best-actor nominations: Andrew Allen Award for
radio, Dora for theatre. 2009 Merritt Award (best supporting actor) for The Devil’s Disciple
(Neptune).
Bruce Godfree
Fourth season: Sir Robert Brakenbury in Richard III and Demetrius in
Titus Andronicus. Stratford: Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Lysander), Macbeth, Julius Caesar (Titinius), Hamlet
(Laertes), The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well. Elsewhere:
In the U.K.: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men);
Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Avery in Charlotte’s Web, Tom
in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Duke’s Theatre, Lancaster); Edgar in King Lear (Royal
Shakespeare Company); Luka in Sitting Pretty (Really Useful Group); and Kip in Tennessee
Williams’s Something Cloudy, Something Clear (U.K. première, Finborough Theatre). In
Canada: The Fantasticks (Chester Playhouse); Dickon in The Secret Garden, Gavroche in
Les Misérables (Neptune Theatre); and Hank in Marvin’s Room (Festival Antigonish). Film:
The Magic of Marciano, Parsley Days. Radio: Peyton Place (BBC Radio 4), The Family Canoe
(CBC). Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Teddy Gough
Stratford debut: Prince Edward in Richard III. About Teddy: Teddy lives in
Stratford and is completely delighted and grateful to have the opportunity
to act on the Stratford Shakespeare Festival stage. Teddy is an all-Canadian
boy who loves hockey and reading late into the night, and spending time
with his friends, his sisters, Anna and Enya, his little brother, Ivan, and the
best dog in the world, Doug. He would like to thank his family for all their
awesome support.
Carmen Grant
Stratford debut: Appears in Richard III and Titus Andronicus. Elsewhere:
Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Kent (King Lear) (Calgary); Lady
Macduff (Macbeth), Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Phebe (As You Like
It) (Halifax); Viola (Twelfth Night) (Globe Theatre); title role in The Miracle
Worker (LKTYP); Ruth (Zadie’s Shoes) (ATP); Catherine (Proof) (Neptune); The
Syringa Tree (Neptune, Belfry, MTC, Grand); Catherine (Doc) (Soulpepper).
Training: Mount Royal College, National Theatre School, Birmingham Conservatory. Awards:
Dora nomination (The Miracle Worker), ATP Rising Star (Zadie’s Shoes), Merritt Award (The
Syringa Tree). Et cetera: Carmen is deeply grateful for the generosity of her teachers,
colleagues, friends and family who have supported and encouraged her through some
profoundly difficult years in this business. She is ecstatic to be working at the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival and to be understudying the roles of Richard in Richard III and Tamora
in Titus Andronicus.
Jeremy Harttrup
Stratford debut: Duke of York in Richard III. Elsewhere: Malcolm in
Hollywood Arms (Elmira Theatre Company); Bubba in Bubba Begonia,
You’ll Be Sorry (Growing in the Arts), based on the book by Gerry O’Brien;
Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (classroom production). Film/TV: Clyde in
the web series Mind’s Eye (www.mindseyeseries.com), feature voice for
short animation (in pre-production, Animotion Arts). Training: Growing in
the Arts, Kitchener. Et cetera: Jeremy has always loved to perform and was bitten by the
acting bug while making videos produced by his older brother. Jeremy would like to thank
Mom, Dad, Vincent, Lindsay, his grandparents and extended family for all their help and
encouragement. Thanks also to Gita Ashley and Krista Hovsepian who helped so much
along the way!
Peter Hartwell
Ninth season: Designer of Richard III and Shakespeare’s Will. Stratford:
King of Thieves, Fuente Ovejuna, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus
Descending, The Threepenny Opera, Good Mother, Inherit the Wind,
Medea and the set for Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: Shaw Festival: Serious
Money, The Cherry Orchard, The Entertainer, The Devil’s Disciple, A Month
in the Country, An Inspector Calls, Summer and Smoke, Waste. Across
Canada: The Globe, Canadian Stage, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Neptune, Alberta Theatre
Projects, Centaur and Belfry; in England: the Royal Court Theatre (Cloud Nine, Top Girls,
Serious Money, Our Country’s Good, Aunt Dan and Lemon and King Lear), the National
Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera, Joint Stock and the
West End; in the U.S.: New York Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Folger Theatre,
Steppenwolf Theatre and Guthrie Theater. Training: Sadler’s Wells Theatre Design School.
Martha Henry
37th season: Queen Margaret in Richard III. Director of the Birmingham
Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Stratford: First season 1962: Miranda
to William Hutt’s Prospero; Lady Macduff in Christopher Plummer and Kate
Reid’s Macbeth. Subsequently: Titania, Helena (Dream and All’s Well),
Luciana, Cressida, Viola, Countess of Rossillion, Cymbeline’s Queen, Lady
Anne, Queen Eleanor, Cordelia, Goneril, Rosaline, Princess of France,
Thaisa, Desdemona, Lady Macbeth, Widow, Doll Tearsheet, Lady Percy, Joan la Pucelle,
Constance, Phrynia, Isabella, Beatrice, Paulina, Volumnia. Also: Yelena (Uncle Vanya), Sister
Jeanne (The Devils), Olga (Three Sisters), Mary Tyrone (Long Day’s Journey Into Night),
Martha (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Mrs. Alving (Ghosts), Dunyasha/Ranyevskya (The
Cherry Orchard), Elizabeth Proctor (The Crucible), Agnes (A Delicate Balance), Linda Loman
(Death of a Salesman). Elsewhere: Artistic Director, Grand Theatre, London, Ontario, 1988-
1994. Awards: Equity Lifetime Member; Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement, Sterling,
Gemini, Genie awards; Order of Ontario; Companion of the Order of Canada.
Ethan Ioannidis
Stratford debut: Understudy in Richard III. Elsewhere: Narrator in Beauty
and the Beast Jr. (Registry Theatre and Cambridge Arts Theatre); Mr. Mayor
in Seussical Jr. (Registry Theatre); Sultan in Aladdin Jr. (Registry Theatre). Et
cetera: Ethan is excited to be a part of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival
for the first time.
Bethany Jillard
Second season: Lady Anne in Richard III and Young Kate/Tanya in The Little
Years. Stratford: Cécile Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons and appeared
in Peter Pan. Elsewhere: Miss Julie in After Miss Julie (MTC Warehouse);
My Name is Rachel Corrie (Theatre PANIK); Brooke in How It Works
(Tarragon); Mia in That Face (Nightwood/Canadian Stage); Peaseblossom
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, Hero in Much
Ado About Nothing and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Driftwood Theatre Group); Tina in Tough!
(Factory); Adele in A Man of No Importance (Acting Up Stage); fIBBER (Theatre Gargantua).
Film/TV: If I Were You (Paragraph); Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury); Bloodletting and
Miraculous Cures (TMN/Shaftesbury); Rookie Blue (ABC/Global). Awards: In 2010, Bethany
was honoured by the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association with the Stage West – Equity
Emerging Theatre Artist Award.

Dion Johnstone
Seventh season: Lord Grey in Richard III and Aaron in Titus Andronicus.
Stratford: Caliban (The Tempest), Valentine (The Two Gentlemen of Verona),
Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Macduff (Macbeth), Octavius (Julius
Caesar), Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird), Edmund (King Lear), Orlando
(As You Like It), Iachimo (Cymbeline), Orestes (Electra and The Flies), King
John, Timon of Athens, The Swanne, part two, Agamemnon. Elsewhere:
George (A Raisin in the Sun) (Soulpepper); Boromir (The Lord of the Rings) (Mirvish
Productions, world première); Davey Battle (Take Me Out, Canadian première) (Canadian
Stage); Octavius (Antony and Cleopatra), Richmond (Richard III) (Bard on the Beach). Film/
TV: Guest-star and principal roles include Sea Wolf (mini-series), Ice Twisters (TV movie), The
Core, Stargate SG-1. Training: BFA (acting), University of Alberta; Birmingham Conservatory
for Classical Theatre.
Cyrus Lane
Second season: Cardinal Bourchier in Richard III and Mutius in Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: King of Thieves, Peter Pan. Elsewhere: Ferdinand
in Rock ’n’ Roll (Canadian Stage and Citadel Theatre); Habeas Corpus,
Take Me Out, Amadeus, Sweeney Todd (Canadian Stage); Valentin in
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Talk Is Free Theatre); Charlie Brown in You’re
a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre); Step Right Up!
(Theatre Orangeville); The Mercy Seat (Alchemy Theatre); Mickey in Blood Brothers (Theatre
Aquarius); SARSical and An Inconvenient Musical (Factory Theatre); Lord of the Flies, The
Doctor’s Dilemma, Uncle Vanya and SS Tenacity (Shaw Festival). Film/TV: The Summit (CBC),
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning. Recordings: Voices on video games Resident
Evil: Outbreak, Onimusha 2 and Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft). Training: London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art. Et cetera: “Love to Joanne and Eliza.”
Claire Lautier
Third season: Tamora in Titus Andronicus and appears in Richard III.
Stratford: Silvia (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Ceres (The Tempest), Aricie
(Phèdre). Elsewhere: N.Y.C.: Isabella (Edward the Second), Duchess (The
Revenger’s Tragedy) (Red Bull Theatre); The Dining Room (Keen Company);
Hedda Gabler (Broadway); Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center). Regional/
International: Aricie (Phèdre) (ACT); Lady Anne (Richard III), Roxane (Cyrano)
(Shakespeare Theatre Company); Princess of France (Love’s Labour’s Lost) (RSC and
Shakespeare Theatre Company); and many others across the U.S. Film: Margarita, My Soul
to Take, Ghost Town, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Elf, House of D, By Courier (Academy
Award nomination, 2001). TV: 3lbs, Grey’s Anatomy, Numb3rs, Law and Order, All My
Children, Guiding Light. Training: Honour graduate, Duke University and Juilliard. Awards:
Drama Desk (The Dining Room), William Shakespeare Award (as member of Shakespeare
Theatre Company), Michel and Suria St. Denis Award, John Houseman Award.
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Jennifer Lennon
Second season: Assistant lighting designer of Richard III and Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Kiss Me, Kate and Evita.
Elsewhere: Lighting designer of Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in Action);
Gingerbread Guy (Cow Over Moon Children’s Theatre); Almost, Again (Go
Go Go Productions); Double Double (Caterwaul Theatre); The Penelopiad
Director’s Showcase (Nightwood Theatre); Nursery School Musical (Fence
Post Productions); Dog Sees God, Good As New Festival, Autobahn (Fly By Night Theatre);
and The Bewitched (Theatre@York). Assistant lighting designer of Hairspray (Charlottetown
Festival); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz (Grand
Theatre); Intimate Apparel (Obsidian Theatre/Canadian Stage); and That Face (Nightwood
Theatre/Canadian Stage). Training: BFA, Theatre Production and Design, York University.
Daniel Levinson
Third season: Fight director of Richard III and Jesus Christ Superstar and
stunt coordinator of The Grapes of Wrath. Elsewhere: A certified fight
master with Fight Directors Canada, Daniel is the owner of Rapier Wit,
Canada’s oldest stage combat school, and is a founding member of the
Riot ACT stunt team. He has fight-directed for such companies as Volcano
Theatre, Canadian Stage, Actors Repertory Company, ACT Productions,
Shakespeare in the Square, Factory, Tarragon, Shakespeare in the Rough and RBC Festival
of Classics. He teaches stage combat internationally, and is the resident stage combat
instructor at Sheridan College, University of Toronto at Mississauga and Canadore College.
Workshop highlights: Fight Directors Canada National Workshop (Banff, Victoria, Toronto,
Montreal), Boston University, Arcadia University, the International Scuola Brancaleoni Stage
Combat Workshop (Italy) and the Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop
(Banff). Training: Daniel holds a BFA (acting) from York University. Websites: www.rapierwit.
com and www.riotact.ca.
Roberta Maxwell
15th season: Duchess of York in Richard III and Nurse in Titus Andronicus.
Stratford: Began her career as apprentice under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and
Michael Langham (1957). Roles: Oenone, Lady Macbeth (Des McAnuff,
director), Rosalind, Nina (The Seagull 1980/Robin Phillips). Broadway:
Equus, Our Town, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Othello, The Merchant.
Off-Broadway: Three Sisters (2011/CSC), Richard III, Ashes, Stevie (MTC),
The Cripple of Inishmaan (N.Y. Public). Regional U.S.: Ahmanson Theatre (Pygmalion), Old
Globe (Othello, Rashomon), Seattle Repertory (Saint Joan), the Guthrie Theater, Connecticut
Shakespeare (Juliet), ACT (Phèdre), Lincoln Center (The Plough and the Stars). Films:
Brokeback Mountain, Dead Man Walking, Philadelphia, Popeye, Psycho 3. TV: Warehouse
13, Rookie Blue, Mourning Becomes Electra (PBS), Law & Order. Awards: Two Obies (A
Whistle in the Dark, Ashes), Drama League Award (Slag), Helen Hayes nomination, Villager
(Mary Stuart, director Des McAnuff), Carbonelle (Lettice and Lovage, starring Julie Harris).
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Peter McBoyle
16th season: Resident sound designer of the Stratford Shakespeare
Festival. Sound designer of Camelot, Richard III and Shakespeare’s Will.
Stratford: Favourites include The Tempest, Jacques Brel..., Kiss Me, Kate,
West Side Story, Bartholomew Fair, Julius Caesar, Fuente Ovejuna, Krapp’s
Last Tape, Oklahoma!, Pentecost, Oliver!, King Lear and Fiddler on the
Roof. Elsewhere: Highlights include Sinatra Dance With Me (Vegas); Come
Fly Away (Broadway); High Society, Gypsy (Shaw); Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast,
Cabaret (Citadel); Fire, Little Shop of Horrors, The House of Martin Guerre (CanStage);
The Wrong Son, Trying, Mary’s Wedding (NAC); Medea, Orpheus Descending (MTC/
Mirvish); Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood, Cinderella (Ross Petty); Barrymore (Toronto
and Broadway). Training: Bachelor of Music and Masters in sound recording from McGill.
Awards: Suzi (Atlanta) for Come Fly Away and a Dora nomination for Fire. Et cetera: “Special
thanks to Meghan, Ella and Beatrice for all their love, patience and encouragement.”
Yanna McIntosh
Seventh season: Queen Elizabeth in Richard III and Grace in The Little
Years. Stratford: Hermione, Mme. Volanges (Dangerous Liaisons),
Lady Macbeth, Titania, Helen (The Trojan Women), Maria, The Illusion.
Elsewhere: Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood); Cloud 9 (Mirvish); Condoleezza
Rice in David Hare’s Stuff Happens (Studio 180); Mary in Mary Stuart,
Phèdre (Soulpepper); Colleen Wagner’s The Monument (Obsidian); title
roles in Hedda Gabler (Volcano) and Florence Gibson’s Belle (Factory/NAC); The Syringa
Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Canadian Stage);
Michael Healey’s Generous, Hare’s Skylight (Tarragon – Dora Award); Valley Song (New
Globe – Dora Award ); Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Bear (NAC); André Alexis’s Lambton Kent
(Volcano/Edinburgh Festival); Tartuffe (ART); Trace (co-writer/performer); guest teacher/
director (National Theatre School; Humber College). Film/TV: XIII; The Line (TMN); This Is
Wonderland, Riverdale (CBC); Doomstown (CTV – Gemini Award); The Sentinel, John Q,
Finn’s Girl, A Raisin in the Sun.
Seana McKenna
20th season: Richard III in Richard III and Anne Hathaway in Shakespeare’s
Will. Stratford: Forty productions including Dangerous Liaisons, Medea,
Phèdre, Trojan Women, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Private Lives,
Fallen Angels, Night of the Iguana, Good Mother and twenty Shakespeares.
Elsewhere: In an illustrious career spanning over 30 years, she has
portrayed some of the most interesting women in dramatic literature:
Blanche Dubois, Cleopatra, Eliza Doolittle, Maggie the Cat, Hedda Gabler, Billie Dawn and
Lady Gay Spanker. Recently, her acclaimed performance in The Year of Magical Thinking
toured from the Belfry to the Tarragon and Ottawa’s NAC. Awards: Doras: Saint Joan
(Theatre Plus), Orpheus Descending (MTC/Mirvish), Valley Song (director, New Globe). Jessie:
Wit (Vancouver Playhouse/Canadian Stage). Genie: The Hanging Garden. Honorary MFA
in Acting from San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre. Etc.: She lives happily in
Harrington, Ontario, with husband Miles, son Cal and two indolent cats.
Brendan Murray
Third season: Archbishop in Richard III and Chiron in Titus Andronicus.
Stratford: The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VI (parts one and two), Henry V,
Twelfth Night, Inherit the Wind. Elsewhere: Title role in Hamlet (Resurgence/
Richmond Hill Centre); Hannay in the Canadian première of The 39 Steps
(Thousand Islands Playhouse); Hook in Peter Pan, Father Flynn in Doubt,
A Christmas Carol (Globe); The Glass Menagerie (Red Barn); The Woman
in White (Aquarius); Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (BeMe Theatre, Munich);
Salt-Water Moon, directed by David French (Charlottetown Festival); Lucy, Twelfth Night
(Canadian Stage); Relatively Speaking, Proof, Macbeth (Grand); Long Day’s Journey Into
Night (Centaur); Love’s Labour’s Lost (NAC); Descent (Passe Muraille); The Comedy of Errors,
Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre by the Bay); Goodnight Disgrace (Postscript); Measure
for Measure, Blue/Orange (Citadel). Training: George Brown Theatre School, Birmingham
Conservatory for Classical Theatre.
Irene Poole
Third season: Kate in The Little Years and understudy in Richard III.
Previous seasons: Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Olga in Three
Sisters. Elsewhere: Bethune Imagined, Escape from Happiness, Better
Living, Fighting Words, The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (Factory Theatre);
Age of Arousal (Alberta Theatre Projects); Possible Worlds, directed by
Yoshi Oida (Canadian Rep); The Game of Love and Chance (STC); Wuthering
Heights (Theatre Aquarius); Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Talley’s Folly, Salt-Water Moon (Resurgence Theatre). Film/TV: Breakout
Kings with Academy Award-winning director Gavin Hood (A&E), Republic of Doyle (CBC),
Rookie Blue (CTV). Awards: Dora Awards for Outstanding Performance in The Last Days of
Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre), The Leisure Society (Factory Theatre). Directing: Canadian
première of David Mamet’s Romance (Pilot Group, Berkeley Street Theatre). Et cetera: “Love
to my amazing guys.”
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Gareth Potter
Eighth season: Earl of Richmond in Richard III and Hosanna in Hosanna.
Stratford: Ferdinand in The Tempest, Proteus in The Two Gentlemen of
Verona, Malcolm in Macbeth (twice), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Nathaniel
in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Edgar in King Lear, Gratiano in The Merchant of
Venice, Pierrot in Don Juan, Cromwell in Henry VIII. Elsewhere: Simon/
Wahab in Scorched (Citadel/Tarragon), Pierrot in Don Juan (Théâtre du
Nouveau Monde), Narrator in The Rape of Lucrece (Theatre Ste. Catherine), Henry V in Henry
V (Gravy Bath), Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Elysian). Training: National Theatre
School, John Abbott College, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards:
Michael Mawson Award, Chalmers Training Award. Et cetera: Gareth is from Ste. Anne Des
Lacs, Quebec.
Miles Potter
11th season: Director of Richard III and Shakespeare’s Will. Stratford:
Director: Medea, Romeo and Juliet, Good Mother, The Taming of the
Shrew, The Glass Menagerie, Orpheus Descending, Shakespeare’s Will.
Miles’s first season at Stratford was as an actor playing Caliban in John
Hirsch’s production of The Tempest. He also fondly remembers appearing
in the première of Elliott Hayes’s Homeward Bound and Michael Langham’s
second version of Timon of Athens. Elsewhere: Productions at virtually all of Canada’s major
theatres, including 16 productions for the Manitoba Theatre Centre and three commercial
shows for Mirvish Productions. Awards: Dora Award (Toronto): The Drawer Boy; Jessie
Award (Vancouver): The Taming of the Shrew. Teaching: National Theatre School, University
of Ottawa, George Brown College, University of Missouri at Kansas City, Dalhousie. Et
cetera: When not working, Miles lives in the Ontario village of Harrington with Seana and
Cal.
Janine Ralph
21st season: Production stage manager of the Tom Patterson Theatre.
Stage manager of Richard III. Stratford: Janine is delighted to return to the
Festival from Singapore. She was production stage manager for the Tom
Patterson Theatre for two seasons, and stage-managed Ever Yours, Oscar
and There Reigns Love at that time. In the past Janine has stage-managed
a variety of shows at both the Avon and Festival theatres, including The
Gondoliers, Gypsy, Carousel, Henry V, An Enemy of the People, One Tiger to a Hill and
Henry VIII. Elsewhere: Janine stage-managed Voyage de la Vie for Resorts World Sentosa
in Singapore and production-managed Pinocchio: The Musical for Singapore Repertory
Theatre, Singapore. She has also worked on the Asian Games’ ceremonies in Qatar; in a
variety of theatres in Ontario, including Young People’s Theatre, Toronto; and also for BBC
TV in England.
Evan Rueb
Stratford debut: Understudy in Richard III. Elsewhere: Pirate in The Pirates
of Penzance, Soldier in Mulan. Film/TV: Young boy in CKCO-TV commercial.
Et cetera: Evan is very pleased and excited to be a part of the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival. He sends many thanks to his family for all their love
and support.
Ivory Seol
Second season: Assistant stage manager of Richard III and The Little
Years. Stratford: Book ASM, Evita. Elsewhere: Stage manager of One of
Ours, The Father, Betrayal, Death of a Salesman, Essay/The Russian Play
and Lebensraum (WJT); The Cure for Everything (Theatre Passe Muraille);
An Illustrated History of the Anishnabe, 2009 tour (MTYP). Assistant stage
manager of Guys and Dolls, Brigadoon, Country Legends and Me and
My Girl (Drayton Entertainment); Age of Arousal (TPM). Film/TV: Assistant script supervisor
for Falcon Beach, season three; key production assistant/third assistant director for Elijah;
locations PA on various films and TV shows from 2003 to 2008. Et cetera: “Thank you to my
mother for her neverending support.”

E.B. Smith
Stratford debut: Marquess of Dorset in Richard III and Alarbus in Titus
Andronicus. Elsewhere: Chicago Shakespeare Theater – Seyton in
Macbeth, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet; First Folio Theatre – Macduff
in Macbeth; Karamu House Theater – King in King Hedley II (Cleveland
Scene, Best Production of 2007), Moustique in Dream on Monkey
Mountain, Junior in Before it Hits Home. Other credits include work at the
Cleveland Play House, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Theater Wit in Chicago, and two
seasons at the Great Lakes Theater Festival. Film/TV: The Beast (Sony Pictures Television),
Ask Gilby, Maybe By Then and Thunder Bay (PBS-TV). Training: Studied acting at Ohio
University and the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Et cetera: E.B. dedicates
his work to Moira, his parents and grandmother, and to the memory of his Papa, who will
always be in the front row.
Michael Spencer-Davis
Third season: Duke of Clarence in Richard III and Clown in Titus Andronicus.
Stratford: Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bartholomew Fair,
Shakespeare’s Universe. Elsewhere: Recent credits include Romeo and
Juliet, Nativity (National Arts Centre); Lawrence and Holloman (Persephone
Theatre/Prairie Theatre Exchange); As You Like It (Citadel); Sexy Laundry
(Globe Theatre). Other credits include Medea (Manitoba Theatre Centre/
Mirvish); Macbeth, Othello (NAC/Citadel); And All For Love, Twelfth Night (NAC); The Elephant
Man, The Stone Angel, The Tempest, Heaven, The Beard of Avon, Twelfth Night, Unless,
Amadeus (Canadian Stage); The Real Thing, Humble Boy (MTC); apple (PTE); Via Dolorosa
(Winnipeg Jewish Theatre); Blithe Spirit, Einstein’s Gift (Citadel); The File (SummerWorks);
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival of Classics); A Phoenix Too Frequent (Touchmark
Theatre). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Flash of Genius, The Eleventh Hour, Street Time and
Canada: A People’s History.
Jessica Stinson
Second season: Apprentice stage manager of Richard III and Titus
Andronicus. Stratford: Production assistant, Studio Theatre: Do Not Go
Gentle, King of Thieves, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Elsewhere:
Apprentice stage manager: Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Last Five Years, Dry Streak,
The Syringa Tree (The Grand Theatre); Mending Fences, Harvest, Animal
Magnetism (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (The Driftwood Theatre Group);
Mask and Madness in Macbeth (Shakespeare in Action). Stage manager: Rhinoceros
(Theatre@York). Assistant stage manager: Paradise by the River (Shadowpath Theatre
Productions), The Pirates of Penzance (The Grand Theatre). Training: Jessica is a graduate of
the York University Theatre Program with a double specialization in Production and Theatre
Studies. Et cetera: Jessica would like to thank her family for all of their support.
Maxwell T. Wilson
13th season: Production stage manager of the Tom Patterson Theatre.
Stage manager of Hosanna. Stratford: Productions of Peter Pan; A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Avon Theatre 2009 and
Toronto’s Canon Theatre 2010-11); Cabaret; South Pacific and My One
and Only (director Michael Lichtefeld); The Winter’s Tale (director Brian
Bedford); Death of a Salesman (starring Al Waxman and Martha Henry);
Timon of Athens (director Michael Langham). Elsewhere: Max’s career spans 25 years
including work with the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Opera, Opera Ontario, Opera Atelier,
the Canadian Opera Company, Canadian Stage, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People
and Mirvish Productions on The Who’s Tommy (director Des McAnuff). Training: BA dramatic
arts, University of Lethbridge. Et cetera: Venues coordinator for the Toronto International
Film Festival, 2002 to 2004. He is webmaster for the Southern Ontario Orchid Society (www.
soos.ca) and Ravenvision Photographic (www.ravenvision.ca).
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