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The cast of Clyde’s. Photos: Dahlia Katz, Lorne Bridgman
Canadian Stage shares our work on four stages spread across our great city.
The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Berkeley Street Theatre Complex bookend the vibrant St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood and run along what was once the shore of Lake Ontario. Our beautiful High Park Amphitheatre is nestled within the grassy hills and forests of our city’s most beloved park.
And the Winter Garden Theatre is located in the heart of Toronto’s bustling downtown core. Canadian Stage is grateful to be able to tell our stories on this bountiful land that we all share.
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Augusto Bitter Rafael
Jasmine Case Letitia
A Canadian Stage Production
Clyde’s
Cast
Sterling Jarvis Montrellous
Johnathan Sousa Jason
Creative
Lynn Nottage Playwright
Philip Akin Director
Rachel Forbes Set Design
Arianna Moodie Costume Design
Giulia D’Amanzo Head of Lighting
Jake Lacina Head of Audio
Brayden Crawford Technical Director
Marcela Prado Orozco Assistant Technical Director
Ming Wong
Costume Design Mentor
Leigh Ann Vardy Lighting Design
Jacob Lin Sound Design
Michael Kras Magic Direction & Design
Running Crew
Jackson Sayliss Head Carpenter
Wes Allen Head of Props
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Production
Janet Pym Head of Wardrobe
Daniela Aguilar Stitcher
Mary Spyrakis Head of Props
Sophia Walker Clyde
Peter N Bailey Dialect Coach
Anna Kaltenbach Stage Manager
Ada Aguilar Assistant Stage Manager
Frankie Bayley Apprentice Stage Manager
Susan Batchelor Head of Wardrobe
Maya Hall Pyrotechnician
Chynah Philadelphia Props Assistant
Quỳnh Diep Metcalf Foundation Intern
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*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local SC659
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Augusto Bitter – Rafael Craze (Tarragon); Anywhere But Here (Electric Company Theatre); CHICHO (TPM/Pencil Kit Productions – Dora Award); The Monument (Factory); Lear (Groundling Theatre Co.). Film/TV: “Billy the Kid” (MGM+); “Star Trek: Section 31” (Paramount+); “Hudson & Rex” (CityTV); “Hotel for the Holidays” (Amazon); “So Much Tenderness” (TIFF ‘22); “Coroner” (CBC). www.augustobitter.com
Jasmine Case – Letitia
A Profoundly… (Tarragon/Obsidian Theatre); FLEX (Crow’s/Obsidian Theatre, Dora Award); Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Obsidian/Crow’s Theatre); Truth (Young People’s Theatre, Dora Award). Jasmine’s born and raised in Toronto where she currently works and lives & is so excited to share this story with you!
Sterling Jarvis – Montrellous
Canadian Stage: Of Mice and Men, Helen Lawrence, The Wild Party, Crowns. Other theatre: Book of Mormon (Tour/Broadway); The Lion King (Mirvish); We Will Rock You (Mirvish); Driving Miss Daisy (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); Caroline or Change (Obsidian-Dora Award); 3 Sisters (Soulpepper). Film/TV: “The West Wing” (NBC), “The Bridge” (CBS), “Covert Affairs” (CW), “Suits” (NBC), “Degrassi” (CTV), “The Boys” (Amazon); “Law and Order Toronto” (City TV); “Zaboomafoo” (PBS Kids). Sterling has sung anthems for the Jays, Raptors, and Leafs. Thank you Sylvia and Aisha for all of your love!
Johnathan Sousa – Jason
Canadian Stage: Tartuffe. Other theatre: Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart, Candida, Doctor’s Dilemma, Desire Under the Elms (Shaw); Othello, Tempest, Front Page, Coriolanus, Napoli Milonaria, Tartuffe (Stratford). Film/TV: “Terror Comes Knocking,” “Reacher,” “Good Doctor,” “Murdoch Mysteries,” “Frankie Drake Mysteries.”
Sophia Walker – Clyde
Canadian Stage: Slave Play. Other theatre: The House That Will Not Stand, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart (Shaw); FLEX (Obsidian/Crow’s); An Ideal Husband, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Private Lives, Casey and Diana (Stratford); additional credits include work with Soulpepper, Cahoots, Crow’s, and Blyth Festival. Film/TV: “Strange New Worlds”, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, “Mayor of Kingstown”, and “The Marsh King’s Daughter”. Sophia is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Theatre program, the Canadian Film Centre’s Actor’s Conservatory, and the Birmingham Conservatory at the Stratford Festival. Love to Gil and my family!
Lynn Nottage – Playwright
Lynn Nottage is a playwright and a screenwriter, and the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her recent work includes the libretto for Intimate Apparel: The Opera (LCT), the book for MJ The Musical (Broadway) and Clyde’s (Broadway, 2ST). Other work includes The Watering Hole (Signature), Floyd’s (Guthrie) the book for the musical The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater), Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Award), which moved to Broadway after a sold out run at The Public Theater, Mlima’s Tale (Lortel Award Nomination, Outer Critics Circle Nomination), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Drama Desk Nomination, Lilly Award), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Lortel Award), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Lortel Award Nomination, Drama Desk Nomination, Obie Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por’knockers and POOF!
She has also developed This is Reading, a performance installation at the Franklin Street, Reading Railroad Station in Reading, PA. She was a writer and producer on the first season of Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It, directed by Spike Lee.
Nottage is a Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant’’ Fellowship, Steinberg “Mimi” Distinguished Playwright Award, Doris Duke Artists Award and PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, among others. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Theater Hall of Fame.
Philip Akin – Director
Canadian Stage: Fat Ham, The Lehman Trilogy, Maanomaa: My Brother. AFBS Award for Volunteerism (2025); Canadian Stage Artistic Achievement Prize (2024); The Herbert Whittaker/CTCA Award for Distinguished Contribution to Canadian Theatre.
Rachel Forbes – Set Design
Canadian Stage: Slave Play, Topdog Underdog, Fairview, Choir Boy, New Monuments. Other theatre: Copperbelt, Da Kink in My Hair, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Brothers Size (Soulpepper Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors, Controlled Damage, The Bridge (Neptune Theatre); Treemonisha (Volcano Theatre); Of the Sea (Tapestry Opera/ Obsidian Theatre); Death and the King’s Horseman (Stratford Festival); Harlem Duet (Bard on the Beach); The Doctor’s Dilemma, Trouble in Mind, Victory, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt (Shaw Festival).
Arianna Moodie – Costume Design
a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone (Tarragon), Ella & Louis (Shaw), Associate Designer on Table for Two (Soulpepper), Assistant Designer on One Man, Two Guvnors (Shaw). Film/TV: Sam Fam (CFC), Astro & Azrael (CFC) and Music Videos including “Life of the Party” and “Matilda” by Housewife. Arianna was a member of Obsidian Theatre’s Young, Gifted & Black 2025 Cohort.
Ming Wong 黄慧明 – Costume Design Mentor
Canadian Stage: Public Enemy, Is God Is (Necessary Angel/Obsidian), The Inheritance, The Wizard of Oz, Fat Ham, Robin Hood. Other theatre: Piaf/ Dietrich (The Grand); Summer & Smoke, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Mirvish/Crow’s/Musical Stage), Flex, Trident Moon, Wights (Crow’s); A Strange Loop, Kim’s Convenience, Three Sisters (Soulpepper); Salesman in China, Rent (Stratford); Wait Until Dark, Candida, Just to Get Married, Trouble in Mind (Shaw). Upcoming: A Fine Balance (Crow’s), One For the Pot (Shaw), Come From Away (The Grand), The Tao of the World (Stratford). 2021 Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award recipient, 3-time Dora Award Winner. @mingwongdesign, www.mingwongdesign.com
Leigh Ann Vardy – Lighting Design
Canadian Stage: Fall On Your Knees. Other theatre: Controlled Damage (NAC); Mischief (Neptune/Tarragon); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Neptune/Mirvish); The Turn of the Screw (Pacific Opera); Guilt (Tarragon); Richard II, Hamlet 911 (Stratford). When not designing, Leigh Ann teaches and coaches at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Jacob Lin 林鴻恩 – Sound Design
Canadian Stage: Fat Ham, My Name is Lucy Barton. Other theatre: a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone (Tarragon), The Fiancee (WCT), Christmas Market (bCurrent/Crows), The House That Will Not Stand (Shaw Festival), Old Times (Soulpepper), The Wrong Bashir (Crow’s), Withrow Park (Tarragon), Dead Korean Girl Comedy Show (Seagull Collective), ABFE47 (Summerworks). Jacob Lin is a Sound/Lighting Designer based in Toronto. He was recently nominated for a Pauline McGibbon Award.
Michael Kras – Magic Direction & Design
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Canadian Premiere & North American Tour); Versus (QuipTake/Theatre Centre); Richard III (Caravan Farm Theatre); Franklin’s Key (Pig Iron Theatre). Michael is also a playwright, known for the Voaden Prize winner The Team (ECT), No Big Deal (Roseneath Theatre) and more.
Peter N Bailey – Dialect Coach
Peter has worked as an actor for the past twenty years. In 2020, he began his journey as a voice and dialect coach. He is a recent graduate of the Patsy Rodenburg Academy, and a registered PRA voice associate.
Anna Kaltenbach – Stage Manager
Canadian Stage: Maanomaa My Brother, Topdog/Underdog, Lehman Trilogy, Hamlet, My Name Is Lucy Barton, Fat Ham, Romeo & Juliet, A Doll’s House, Clyde’s. Other theatre: Anahita’s Republic (Bustle&Beast); Dana H (Crow’s); Chloe=Catalyst, King’s Playlist (Culchahworks); Bright Star workshop (GTP); Wake (Persephone); Chew (Project:Humanity); Truth (YPT). Anna stage managed Motown Broadway & West End, eight Broadway tours, for Broadway Asia, and at various regional US theatres.
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Canadian Stage: Is God Is (Obsidian, NAC), New Monuments (CBC), Solaris. Other theatre: As I Must Live It (TPM); Life After (Yonge Street Theatricals/Mirvish); Table for Two, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Art, 88 Keys, August Osage County, Noises Off (Soulpepper); Rosmersholm, Wedding Party (Crow’s); Into the Woods (TIFT); Vierge (Factory); Spectators’ Odyssey – o dell’Inferno (DLT/TOLive); 1939 (Stratford Festival); White Girls in Moccasins (Manidoons/ Buddies); Private Eyes (lemonTree/Lieutenant Governor of Canada); The Runner (Human Cargo); School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play (Obsidian/Nightwood); Munschtime! (YPT); Tributaries (LuminaTO 2017).
Frankie Bayley – Apprentice Stage Manager
Romeo & Juliet, The Barber of Seville (Canadian Opera Company); The Born-Again Crow (buddies in bad times/Native Earth); Romeo & Juliet: & Action! (Crossroads Theatre). Frankie is very excited to make their debut at Canadian Stage!
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Yvonne Catty
Wendy Cecil
Susan Chapman
Peter Chiddy
Ann Chisholm
Debbie
Coull-Cicchini
Gary Crawford
Susan Crocker
Patti
Cunningham
Gord Cunningham
Irene David
Rupinder Dhillon
Brian Doyle
James Egan
Rita Eskudt
Doone Estey
Huw Evans
Kathleen Freeman
Elizabeth Frise
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Joan Goldfarb
Helena Gottschling
Sharon Gregg
Barbara Hackett
Jon Hagan
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Barbara Hejduk
Kathleen Hermant
Peter Hickman
David Hilton
Nicole Holder
Billie Holiday
Lee Howe
Drew Huffman
Lawson Hunter
Dominique Hussey
Brian Imrie
Linda Intaschi
Anna Jarmain
Peter Jelley
Terry Jenkins
Warren Jestin
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Edward Kerwin
Kevin Kimsa
Michael John
Langtry Kirby
Phil Ladouceur
Ron Lalonde
Adrian Lang
Jim Leech
Marjorie Lenz
Barry Leon
Janet Lindsay
Cheryl Longo
Fernando Lopez
Susan Lowe
Peter Lyman
Bruce Macdonald
William MacDonald
William MacKinnon
Harry
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Jason Martin
Fabio Mascarin
Marc Mayer
Richard McCoy
Sean McMahon
Brian Mikulinski
Aaron Marvin
Mildrad
Ingrid Minott
John Montesano
Adrian Montgomery
Ellen Moore
Peter Morin
Doug Murphy
Derek Nelson
Joanne Niblock
Anne Marie O’Donovan
John Ozikizler
Maureen Parkinson
Penny Partridge
Paul Pellegrini
Vanessa Pfaff
Emmanuel Pressman
Frances Price
Sanjiv Purba
Leonard Racioppo
Kyle Rae
Gabrielle Richards
James Riley
W. Brian Rose
David Rosenbaum
Jennifer Rowe
Robert Rowe
Barry Rowland
Joy Rychlik
Paul Sabourin
Erik Sande
Susan Scace
Vincenza Sera
Mary Anne
Shaw
Melanie Shishler
Evan Siddall
Margaret Sims
Drew Sinclair
Samena Sissons
Monika Skiba
James Slater
David Staines
Lorne
Stephenson
Heather Street
Daniel Sullivan
Avery Swartz
Jean Taillon
Noreen Taylor
Timothy Thompson
George Kennedy
Thomson
Mark Tonnesen
Margaritta Topielski
Benjamin Trister
Lucy Troisi
Antoinette Tummillo
Dori Tunstall
Raj Uttamchandani
Chip Vallis
John van Nostrand
Stuart Watson
Scott Wetmore
Cecilia Williams
Arlene Willis
Susan Willmot
Jos Wintermans
Susan Wortzman
Cynthia Young
Irene Zaguskin
Paul Zed
Ron Ziola
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Navin Bhat
David Bronskill
Adam Burke
Eileen Costello
Jamie Crotin
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Brendan Healy Artistic Director
Monica Esteves Executive Director
Daniel Bennett Director of Production and Facilities
Melysa Rogen Director of Marketing and Communications
Heather McMartin Director of Development and Campaigns
Beth Toombs Director of Finance and Administration
Artistic
Lynanne Sparrow Producer
Jordan Laffrenier
Associate Artistic Director
Laurie Merredew Assistant Producer
Maple Tam Vice Chair & Secretary
Councillor Paula Fletcher
Diane Hatch
Colin Hennigar Nina Josefowitz
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Sunitha Rai Manager, Payroll Administration and HR Support
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Ruth-Anne Yiu
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Conor Copeland Ticketing and Audience Services Manager
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Adam A
Peter Genoway
Elyssia Giancola
Mima Higashi
Alex Jackson
Naomi Kaplan
Mackenzie Kerr
Colette Mbariko
Seamus Murphy
Sydnie Phillips
Giovanna Rossi
Veronica Schmeiser
Sienna Singh
Miriam Sossin
Mya Wong
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Jeremy Opolsky
James Spearing
Daniel Sinniah
Julie Sutherland Vandana Taxali
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Brayden Crawford Technical Director
Meg Woods
Production & Site Manager
Matthew Hadley Building Operations Manager
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Ian Kowalski
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Gil Ruston Head Technician
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Fall On Your Knees (2023). Photo by Dahlia Katz Set Design: Camellia Koo. Costume Design: Judith Bowden, Joyce Padua
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Jessica B. Hill, Praneet Akilla, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Mike Shara, Caroline Toal. Photo: Elana Emer. Wine in the Wilderness Virgilia Griffith, Mazin Elsadig. Photo: Dahlia Katz. Cabaret. Allan Louis. Photo: Elana Emer. Rogers V. Rogers. Tom Rooney. Photo: Dahlia Katz. Creditors. Gregory Prest, Kristen Thomson, and Paul Gross. Photo: Dahlia Katz. Sex in the ‘80s. Kate Hennig, Oliver Dennis, Jacob MacInnis, Heeyun Park. Photos: Dahlia Katz. Cinderella.
Photo: Dahlia Katz. Raised by Women. Keith Barker. Photo: Dahlia Katz.
