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Alana hawley – actor
Second season: Grace Wellborn in Bartholomew Fair, Fairy in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and appears in Julius Caesar. Alana was
last seen in the 2008 Stratford Shakespeare Festival season as
the Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Past theatre credits
include Zanda in The Clink and Flaminia in The Double Inconstancy
(Studio Theatre), Flora in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (University of Alberta), Regan
in King Lear, Kitty Packard in Dinner at Eight, Anna in Anna Karenina, Third Witch
in Macbeth (Prince George Playhouse) and Ophelia in Hamlet (Vanier Hall/Prince
George Symphony Orchestra). Musical theatre credits include Oliver! (Prince
George Playhouse) and Grease (St. Albert’s Children’s Theatre). She has studied
film and television with Tarlington Training (Vancouver, B.C.). Alana is a 2007
graduate of the University of Alberta BFA acting program. Love and thanks to her
family, friends and mentors for their continued love and support.
peter James haworth – actor
Fourth season: Solomon in Bartholomew Fair and understudy in
Three Sisters and Phèdre. Peter James Haworth has performed in
more than 60 plays throughout Canada. He starred as Antony
in Antony and Cleopatra in Vancouver for Bard on the Beach. He
played Hortensio in ShakespeareWorks’ The Taming of the Shrew
and Antonio in MTC’s The Tempest. In the first season of Soulpepper, he played
Philinte in The Misanthrope. He performed in three productions of A Walk in the
Woods. In 2000, he played the title role in Stolen Lives: The Albert Walker Story
for the Blyth Festival. Other plays include Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Dinner with
Friends and A Kind of Alaska. Peter was the assistant director on The Cherry Orchard
at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he also performed in 1984-5. Among
his numerous television and movie credits are The Breeder, Hollywoodland, Murder
at 1600, Jett Jackson and The State Within. He is a member of the artistic board of
Actors Repertory Company.
colin heath – actor
Stratford debut: Tinderbox-man/Northern in Bartholomew Fair,
Cobbler in Julius Caesar and appears in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Theatre credits include The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish);
The Overcoat (CanStage/Vancouver Playhouse/world tour); Le
Cirque Réinventé (Cirque du Soleil); The Number 14 (co-writer –
Axis Theatre/World Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CanStage); Crazy for You
(Mirvish); Beauty and the Beast (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Sweeney Todd (Arts Club);
Flying Blind (Axis); Molière (Tarragon); and several shows with Bard on the Beach,
Leaky Heaven Circus (founding member) and Caravan Farm Theatre, for whom he
has written two musicals, Man From the Capital and The Apple Orchard. Colin’s play
For Art’s Sake has had several productions across Canada. TV credits include The
Tin Man, Voyage of the Unicorn and Stargate SG-1. Upcoming: Colin is co-writing an
adaptation of Don Quixote with Peter Anderson (Axis/Centaur/Arts Club). “Love to
all my Beaudoin ladies!”
randy hughson – actor
Second season: Jordan Knockem in Bartholomew Fair and Senex
in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Last season:
Second Gravedigger (Hamlet), Hortensio (The Taming of the Shrew)
and Interpreter (All’s Well That Ends Well). Recently: Buried Child
(NAC/Saidye Bronfman). Randy has performed leading roles in
theatres across Canada including the Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Theatre
Passe Muraille, CanStage, Soulpepper, Necessary Angel, Manitoba Theatre Centre,
Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Arts Club (Vancouver), NAC, Neptune
Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Blyth Festival, Theatre Calgary and Vancouver Playhouse.
He has toured the country in shows including High Life, Earshot and Half Life.
He has been nominated for 10 Dora Awards, three Sterling Awards, one Betty
Mitchell Award and three Jessie Awards and received one of each. He has worked
extensively in film, TV and radio, garnering a Gemini nomination and a Golden
Sheaf award. “Love to Melissa.”
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robert king – actor
17th season: Ferapont in Three Sisters, Fruitmonger/Puppy in
Bartholomew Fair and Milton in The Trespassers. Stratford credits
include The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, The Merchant of
Venice, The Donnellys: Sticks & Stones, Quiet in the Land, Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof, Of Mice and Men, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V,
Henry VI, Richard II, Richard III, Coriolanus, Pericles, King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Twelfth Night, Home, Tempest-Tost, Julius Caesar and The Swanne, among
others. Robert was in the Blyth Festival’s production of Innocence Lost in 2008,
and Drayton Festival’s production of The Drawer Boy. Other theatre credits include
A Streetcar Named Desire, Observe the Sons of Ulster, The Crackwalker, On the Job,
Garrison’s Garage, County Hearts, The Melville Boys and many more. He has also
performed in radio, television and film. Robert lives in Stratford with his lovely
wife, Peggy, and children, Mary and Lawrence.
ian lake – actor
Second season: Trouble-all in Bartholomew Fair, Artemidorus/
Strato in Julius Caesar and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. Ian is delighted to return for another exciting season at
the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Last year was a thrilling season
that saw him playing Berowne in Michael Langham’s production
of Love’s Labour’s Lost and understudying Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare
credits include Orsino in Twelfth Night, sharing the title role in Macbeth (BCC),
Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing (Resurgence), Sebastian in Twelfth Night and
Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (NTSC). Other favourites are Les Deux Aveugles, Star
Quality (Theatre Lac Brome), First Venticello in Amadeus (Segal Theatre), Lost Heir,
Schoolhouse (Blyth Festival), Creon in Oedipus Rex (Gravy Bath, Montreal), Don
Homenides in A Flea in Her Ear and Svidrigailov in Crime and Punishment (NTSC). In
2007 Ian produced and acted in a short film entitled SPIT; he is currently working
on a screenplay with fellow actor Jeff Lillico about their recent travels through
Central America. Ian is also a graduate of the National Theatre School.
claire lautier – actor
Stratford debut: Maid in Three Sisters, Rich Lady in Bartholomew
Fair and Aricie in Phèdre. Claire has played leading roles in New
York, across the U.S. and abroad. New York: Isabella in Edward the
Second, Duchess in The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theatre); The
Dining Room (Keen Company, Drama Desk Award); Hedda Gabler,
Chaucer in Rome (Broadway and Lincoln Center). Regional and international:
Lady Anne in Richard III, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac (Shakespeare Theatre
Company); Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost (Royal Shakespeare Company
and Shakespeare Theatre Company); and others including Baltimore CenterStage,
Westport Country Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St.
Louis, Pittsburgh Public Theatre and New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Film: 25/8,
Ghost Town, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Elf, House of D, the short film By Courier
(Academy Award nomination, 2001). TV: 3lbs, Grey’s Anatomy, Numb3rs, Law and
Order, Law and Order: SVU, All My Children and Guiding Light. She is an honour
graduate of Duke University and the Juilliard School.
Dawson lott – actor
Stratford debut: Visitor in Bartholomew Fair. Dawson is very excited
about being in Bartholomew Fair. At the age of four he decided
he wanted to be an actor. He takes piano, vocal and dance
lessons and is involved in choirs both at school and at church.
Each summer he looks forward to Acting Out, a musical-theatre
camp. Theatre credits include Winthrop in The Music Man (Stratford Community
Players), Ensemble in Carousel (The Community Players of New Hamburg) and
Pennywinkle in Rats (a school musical), and he was to play Chip in Beauty and the
Beast (Stratford Community Players), which, unfortunately, was cancelled. Dawson
is nine years old and is in Grade 4 at Anne Hathaway PS. “I would like to thank my
mom and dad for their love and support and my little sister, Courtney, for letting
me put on shows for her.”