RichaRd iii - Stratford Festival

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.