RichaRd iii - Stratford Festival

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.”