2026 Stratford Festival House Programs | Guys and Dolls

A MESSAGE FROM ANTONI CIMOLINO

THIS ROUGH MAGIC

The title above comes from a line in The Tempest, spoken by the sorcerer Prospero as he takes leave of his “so potent art” and embarks on a new phase of life.

Theatre itself is a magical art, paradoxically using illusion to tell us truth. Its magic is “rough,” not perfect: while it can lead us to a better understanding, it cannot dictate where we go from there. Yet this need to explore our existence through the mimicry of performance seems hardwired into us, an essential part of being human.

For my last season as Artistic Director, I have chosen to explore aspects of this strangely potent art we call the theatre.

From the amateur theatricals of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the double lives led by Jack and Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, role-playing is a recurring motif of the season. Iago, in Othello, masks his villainy in the guise of a concerned friend, while Willy Loman, in Death of a Salesman, turns illusion inward, in a desperate effort to convince himself that all is well in his world.

The characters in Guys and Dolls – who include a nightclub performer – are largerthan-life caricatures, yet we feel as if we know them. At the same time, Something Rotten!, revived by popular demand, puts Shakespeare himself on stage as it spins its

hilariously fanciful yarn about the creation of the very genre to which it belongs.

Dramatic illusion delivers a surprising narrative twist in The King James Bible Play, while Waiting for Godot questions both our place in the universe and our expectations of drama itself.

Saturday, Sunday, Monday uses eccentric characters worthy of commedia dell’arte to raise a serious question: how can we rediscover the magic within each of us? Meanwhile, The Tao of the World reimagines a classic Restoration comedy for a modern-day world of wealth and privilege – and shows that we all have roles to play in making society work.

Finally, while some adults may look askance at “playacting,” no children do, for it is how they learn to navigate the world. Our explorations begin in childhood, and so it is fitting that our play for young people, The Hobbit, itself takes the form of a quest toward maturity.

I hope you will join us on our own quest this season: a quest for laughter, tears, excitement and inspiration, as we pay affectionate homage to the power of theatre in all our lives.

2026 SEASON APRIL TO NOVEMBER

THE TEMPEST | GUYS AND DOLLS | SOMETHING ROTTEN! | WAITING FOR GODOT DEATH OF A SALESMAN | THE HOBBIT | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | OTHELLO THE TAO OF THE WORLD | THE KING JAMES BIBLE PLAY STRATFORDFESTIVAL.CA | 1.800.567.1600

ANTONI CIMOLINO Artistic Director

OUR THANKS

TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT:

2026 SEASON SPONSOR: OPHELIA LAZARIDIS

PROUD SEASON PARTNERS:

THEATRE SPONSORS

Festival Theatre Sponsor:

Daniel Bernstein & Claire Foerster

SEASON HOSTS

Chartwell

Support for the 2026 season at the Tom Patterson Theatre:

Steed Standard Transport Limited Yorkshire Tea

PERFORMANCE HOSTS

AISIN Canada Inc.

Burgundy Asset Management Ltd.

CJCS FM 107.1 & 2day FM 107.7

Famme & Co.

Highstreet Asset Management Inc.

Orr Insurance & Investment

Pazzo Pizzeria & Cafe Bouffon

NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT

Rhéo Thompson Candies

SJC Print

Stratford School of Interaction Design & Business

Sylvanacre Properties Ltd.

Wonderland Printing Limited

Woodbridge Investments Corporation

Support is generously provided by the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program.

THE BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PARTNER:

The Birmingham Conservatory is made possible by the support of the Birmingham Family, The Stratford Festival Endowment Foundation, Alice & Tim Thornton and the Department of Canadian Heritage. Support for the 2026 in-season work of Conservatory participants is generously provided by the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Fund and Alice & Tim Thornton.

THE LANGHAM DIRECTORS’ WORKSHOP

We extend our thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Philip & Berthe Morton Foundation.

EDUCATION SPONSORS

The Langham Directors’ Workshop is supported by RBC Foundation.

Tools for Teachers includes InterACTive Preshows, Study Guides and Stratford Shorts Sponsored by

Support for education initiatives is generously provided by 100 Women of Wilmot, The Martin Family and Laurie J. Scott. Support for the Teaching Stratford Program is generously provided by the Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation and the MEH Foundation. Theatre Arts Camp financial assistance is generously provided by the Laura J. Pogson Fund and The Nancy and George Taylor Theatre Arts Camp Financial Assistance Program.

THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF THESE CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR SUCCESS:

GUYS AND DOLLS PRODUCTION CO-SPONSORS:

Robert & Mary Ann Gorlin, Sylvia Soyka, Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen, and Peter & Carol Walters

This production is dedicated to the memory of Douglas Chamberlain, a member of the acting company for 20 seasons, remembered especially for his Gilbert and Sullivan roles.

This production is dedicated to the memory of Paul Shaw, who joined the company as a child actor and ultimately spent 15 seasons here as a dresser, production stage manager, director of production and company manager.

SYNOPSIS

Set in bustling Manhattan in 1949, Guys and Dolls follows a colourful cast of gamblers, showgirls and mission workers whose lives collide in unexpected ways. Nathan Detroit scrambles to secure a venue for his famed but illicit craps game, all while trying to keep the peace with his devoted fiancée, Miss Adelaide. To raise the money he needs for the game, Nathan makes a daring wager with slick high-roller Sky Masterson – a bet that sends Sky straight into the path of earnest missionary Sarah Brown. As schemes unfold and loyalties are tested, romance, chance and charm weave together in this classic musical comedy.

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT I

Overture

Opening/Runyonland

Fugue for Tinhorns

Follow the Fold

The Oldest Established

Follow the Fold – Reprise

I’ll Know

A Bushel and a Peck

Adelaide’s Lament

Guys & Dolls

Havana

If I Were a Bell

My Time of Day

I’ve Never Been In Love Before

The Raid

Additional Orchestrations by Michael Gibson

Danny Troob

ACT II

Entr’acte

Hot Box Fanfare

Take Back Your Mink

Adelaide’s Second

Lament

More I Cannot Wish You

The Crapshooters’

Dance

Luck Be a Lady

Sue Me

Sit Down, You’re

Rockin’ the Boat

The Guys Follow the Fold

Adelaide Meets Sarah

Marry the Man Today

Finale Act II

DAN CHAMEROY AND OLIVIA SINCLAIR-BRISBANE. PHOTO: DARIANE SANCHE.

CRAPSHOotERS, DOLLS an D THE ART O f

REINvENtiON

Guys and Dolls endures as a classic because every element shines. I know this as an actor, a director, a choreographer and an audience member. Each time I visit this magnificent show, I discover more. What a thrill it is to approach it with a new cast and new perspectives. As a student of this beautiful thrust stage, I find it deeply meaningful to adjust the storytelling of a production based on what both the script and the stage suggest. The opportunities allowed by this theatre make for a unique audience experience. They also bring tremendous joy to our cast and creative team.

And what a marvellous cast – exceptionally gifted artists devoted to their craft and always willing to try anything, at least once. Nearly everyone in Guys and Dolls is doing double duty in Something Rotten! The display of skill, experience and raw talent is extraordinary. We have a stage of legend that offers intimacy and grandeur in equal measure, and an inspired group of designers with boundless imagination and skill. We have an orchestra, powerful yet unseen, comprising some of the finest musicians in the country, who are more than ready to embrace the challenge of the score. I’m thrilled that we were able to once again secure the orchestrations

Michael Starobin made for the 1992 Broadway production that acknowledge the evolution of the musical since the opening of Guys and Dolls in 1950, and dance arrangements by Mark Hummel that celebrate the capabilities of contemporary dancers.

The magnificent book tops it off! Guys and Dolls is, without question, one of the finest pieces of musical theatre ever created. Branded a classic almost the instant it premièred, Guys and Dolls defies expectations. The very fact that crapshooters have a “ballet” gives me an opportunity to turn traditional ideas on their head. The “dolls” of the title are independent, employed and empowered, willing to negotiate with the “guys,” but always setting the terms.

Guys and Dolls offers a remarkably balanced view of the romantic transactions of this fabled Broadway bunch, and it does it with great joy and precision. The show’s economy is startling. There is nothing extra or out of place. Every word, every note, every step earns its keep

It’s worth noting that when Starobin – a prodigious talent who began his orchestrating career with Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George at age 27 – was asked to create new orchestrations for the ’92 production of Guys and Dolls, he insisted that his job was to expand and enrich the story in an emotional way. Sensitive to how our modern ears are accustomed to hearing recorded music, Starobin wanted to showcase the “live-ness” of the theatrical musical experience, especially evident with a big band. The night-to-night, moment-tomoment, never-to-be-repeated reality of the interaction of band, actors, singers and dancers creates an exhilarating and uniquely thrilling experience. I hope you enjoy the show as much as we enjoy sharing it with you.

Donna Feore Director and Choreographer

story and characters by DAMON RUNYON

Alfred Damon Runyon (1884-1946) grew up in Colorado before embarking on a journalistic career in New York. During World War II, he served as a war correspondent for Hearst newspapers, remaining with them as a columnist and sports writer, and eventually becoming one of the highestpaid newspapermen in New York City. Guys and Dolls was the title of his short story collection published in 1932. Subsequent collections included Blue Plate Special (1934) and Take It Easy (1938). He also collaborated with Howard Lindsay on the stage comedy A Slight Case of Murder (1935).

music and lyrics by

FRANK LOESSER

One of America’s great composers and lyricists, Frank Loesser (19101969) began his career during the Depression as a lyricist, contributing to Broadway revues and nightclub acts. His 1936 revue The Illustrator’s Show led to a Hollywood contract, during which he collaborated with composers like Burton Lane, Jule Styne, Arthur Schwartz and Hoagy Carmichael. Some of his film songs include “Two Sleepy People” and “I Don’t Want to Walk Without You.” During World War II, he wrote both words and music for “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.” After the war, he won an Oscar for “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (1949). He then wrote the music and lyrics for Where’s Charley? (1948), followed by Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956), Greenwillow (1960), and the Pulitzer–winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961).

book by JO SWERLING

Born in Russia in 1897, Jo Swerling was a playwright, screenwriter and vaudeville sketch writer. Mr. Swerling’s long career began as a reporter and feature writer in New York and Chicago.

book by ABE BURROWS

After studying to be a doctor and an accountant, Abe Burrows had a career in sales before becoming a successful radio script writer and writer/performer of musical parody numbers. His first Broadway libretto was Guys and Dolls, cowritten with Jo Swerling, with a score by Frank Loesser. Among the musicals for which he provided librettos are Can-Can and Silk Stockings (both with scores by Cole Porter), Make A Wish, Say, Darling and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (which he also directed; score by Frank Loesser). His non-musical plays include Cactus Flower (wrote and directed) and Forty Carats (directed).

“TAKE BACK YOUR MINK TAKE BACK YOUR

GUYS an D DOLLS

a musical fable of broadway based on a story and characters of DAMON RUNYON music and lyrics by FRANK LOESSER book by JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS

THE CAST

SKY MASTERSON

DAN CHAMEROY

SARAH BROWN OLIVIA

SINCLAIR-BRISBANE

NATHAN DETROIT

MARK UHRE

MISS ADELAIDE

JENNIFER RIDER-SHAW

NICELY-NICELY JOHNSON

STEVE ROSS

ARVIDE ABERNATHY

STEPHEN PATTERSON

LT. BRANNIGAN

NEHASSAIU deGANNES

GENERAL MATILDA CARTWRIGHT

STARR DOMINGUE

JOEY BILTMORE

ALEX KELLY

HOT BOX MC

CHAD McFADDEN

CARMEN (FEATURED CLUB DANCER)

BETHANY KOVARIK

GAMBLERS

BIG JULE

JUAN CHIORAN

BENNY SOUTHSTREET

GABRIEL ANTONACCI

RUSTY CHARLIE

DEVON MICHAEL BROWN

HARRY THE HORSE

HENRY FIRMSTON

ANGIE THE OX

JORDAN MAH

HOT BOX DOLLS

DIANE

CARLA BENNETT

LILY

BETHANY KOVARIK

MIMI

AMANDA LUNDGREN

CEE CEE

GRACIE MACK

MAGS

JAMIE MURRAY

PAM

ALI POWELL

MISSION BAND MARTHA

ALEXANDRA GRATTON AGATHA

BONNIE JORDAN CALVIN JEREMY CARVER-JAMES GUYS

SKINNY RICHIE ERIC ABEL

KNIFE O HALLORAN ALEX BATYCKI

DOPEY GOLDBERG

WADE PIERRE BULLER

DONNIE DICHOTOMY JEREMY CARVER-JAMES

BRANDY BOTTLE BATES

JARRET CODY

SCRANTON SLIM

JORDAN GOODRIDGE

LIVER LIPS LOUIE ALEX KELLY

JIMMY THE GREEK

CHAD McFADDEN

SOCIETY MAX

JASON SERMONIA

GANGSTERS, RUNYONLAND

CITIZENS, HAVANA DANCERS, BRIDESMAIDS, COPS: ERIC ABEL, ALEX BATYCKI, CARLA BENNETT, WADE PIERRE BULLER, JEREMY

CARVER-JAMES, JARRET CODY, JOSH DOIG, JORDAN GOODRIDGE, ALEXANDRA GRATTON, BONNIE JORDAN, ALEX KELLY, BETHANY KOVARIK, AMANDA LUNDGREN, GRACIE MACK, JORDAN MAH, CHAD McFADDEN, JAMIE MURRAY, ALI POWELL, JASON SERMONIA

SWINGS

JACQUELINE BURTNEY, CHRISTINE

DESJARDINS, ANTHONY

MacPHERSON, BRIAN ROSS, ZACHARY WILLIAMS

UNDERSTUDIES

NICELY-NICELY JOHNSON

ERIC ABEL

GENERAL MATILDA

CARTWRIGHT MICHELLE BARDACH

BENNY SOUTHSTREET ALEX BATYCKI

ARVIDE ABERNATHY JEREMY CARVER-JAMES

SARAH BROWN

ALEXANDRA GRATTON

MISS ADELAIDE

BONNIE JORDAN

SKY MASTERSON ALEX KELLY

NATHAN DETROIT JEFF LILLICO

LT. BRANNIGAN

AMANDA LUNDGREN CARMEN GRACIE MACK

HARRY THE HORSE

JORDAN MAH

BIG JULE, RUSTY CHARLIE

CHAD McFADDEN

ARTISTIC CREDITS

Director

Donna Feore

Choreographer

Donna Feore

Music Director

Franklin Brasz

Set Designer

Michael Gianfrancesco*

Costume Designer

Dana Osborne*

Lighting Designer

Bonnie Beecher*

Sound Designer

Haley Parcher*

Fight and Intimacy Director

Anita Nittoly

Orchestrations

Michael Starobin

Dance Arrangements

Mark Hummel

Executive Producer

David Auster

Creative Planning Director

Jason Miller

Casting Director

Ari Weinberg

* Indicated designers are members of the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.

Associate Director

Monique Lund

Associate Choreographer

Anthony MacPherson

Assistant Choreographer

Bethany Kovarik

Associate Conductor

Éric Charbonneau

Assistant Set Designer

Freddy Van Camp

Assistant Costume Designer

Paige Prystupa

Assistant Lighting Designers

Sruthi Suresan

Mathilda Kane

Assistant Sound Designer

Adam Campbell

Associate Fight Director

David Chinchilla

Co-Dance Captain and Intimacy Captain

Bethany Kovarik

Co-Dance Captain

Anthony MacPherson

Fight Captain

Gabriel Antonacci

Stage Managers

Michael Hart

Cynthia Toushan

Assistant Stage Managers

Stephanie Bignell

Holly Korhonen

Théa Pel

Production Stage Manager

Krista Blackwood

Production Assistant

Katherine Hunter

EDI Consultant

Art & Soul Consulting LLC, Kira Troilo

Technical Director

Greg Dougherty

Conductor

Franklin Brasz

Flute / Piccolo / B♭ Clarinet / Alto Saxophone / Orchestra

Supervisor

Garrett Hack

Flute / B♭ Clarinet / Alto

Saxophone

Michele Jacot

Oboe / English Horn / B♭ Clarinet / Tenor Saxophone

Dennis Kwok

B♭ and Bass Clarinet / Tenor Saxophone

Gary Kidd

Bass Clarinet / Bassoon / Baritone Saxophone

Pol Coussée

Principal B♭ Trumpet / Flugelhorn

Philip Seguin

B♭ Trumpet

Mary Jay

B♭ Trumpet

Larry Larson

Horn

Marie-Sonja Cotineau

Tenor and Bass Trombone

Janice Owens

Concertmaster

Andrew Chung

Violin

Jessica Elliotson

Viola

Jody Davenport

Cello

Ben Bolt-Martin

Bass

Michael McClennan

Percussion

Graham Hargrove

Drum Kit

David Campion

Keyboard/Associate

Conductor

Éric Charbonneau

Keyboard

Darryn de Souza

Rehearsal Drummer

David Campion

Rehearsal Pianists

Éric Charbonneau

Darryn de Souza

David Terriault

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Keyboard Programmer

Wayne Gwillim

Associate Keyboard Programmer

Stephan Ermel

Music Preparation

Michael McClennan

FANFARE MUSICIANS

Soprano Herald Trumpet / Fanfare Leader

Mary Jay

Soprano Herald Trumpet

Philip Seguin

Soprano Herald Trumpet

Marie-Sonja Cotineau

Bass Herald Trumpet

Janice Owens

Parade Snare Drum

Graham Hargrove

Director of Music

Franklin Brasz

Music Administrator

Janice Owens

Special thanks to Michael Starobin, Michael David / Dodger Properties, Dr. Jennifer Anderson, MD, MSc, FRCSc, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto; Darcy Trefiak, PT, B.Sc.P.T., FCAMPT, Physiotherapy Alliance, Flex Physiotherapy, Marilyn Holmes PT, FCAMPT, The Movement Centre; Lisa Parker, RMT, Stratford; Dr. Simon McBride, MCISc, MD, London Health Sciences Centre - Vocal Function Clinic; Fowler-Kennedy Sports Medicine Clinic, London; Dr. Leigh Sowerby, MD, MHM, FRCSc, St. Joseph’s Hospital, London; Dr. Benjamin van der Woerd, MD, FRCSc, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton; Dr. John Yoo, MD, Dean of the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry - London Health Sciences Centre; Dr. Thomas Verny, MD, DHL, DPsych, FRCPC, FAPA, Stratford; Dr. Christine Ly, MD, Stratford, Dr. P. Neilsen, Goderich; Dr. Laurel Moore, MD, Dr. Sean Blaine, MD, Dr. Erin Glass, MD & Dr. Jacob Matusinec, MD, STAR Family Health Team, Stratford. Pianos tuned and maintained by Stephenson Concert Group. Cymbals provided by Dream Cymbals. UDRUM kit equipped with Evans drumheads.

“A LADY DOESN’T WANDER ALL OVER THE ROOM AND BLOW ON SOME OTHER GUY’S DICE

BACKSTAGE

Head Carpenter

Scott Schmidt

Alternate

Craig Geiger

Head Electrician

Mick McDonald

Alternate

Hilary Pitman

Head Property

Rory Feore

Alternate

William Malmo

Head Sound

Craig Goddard

Alternate

Ben Norman

PRODUCTION

Director of Production

Elissa Horscroft

Head of Design

Michael Walton

Technical Director

– Festival Theatre

Robbin Cheesman

Technical Director

– Avon Theatre

Eleanor Creelman

Technical Director

– Tom Patterson Theatre

Greg Dougherty

Head Automation

Cameron Jolliffe

Alternate

Rob Sadai

Crew

Jeff Buck

Rick Dobbie

Verne Good

William Grift

Rob Hamilton

Scott King

Allan Laidman

Wayne Nero

Kirk North

Kevin O'Callaghan

Terry O'Hanley

Chase Robbs

Jennifer Schamehorn

Wardrobe Head

Heather Ward

Wardrobe Attendants

Shiela Filshie

Cvetka Fujs

Mike Karn

Jessica Lowrie

Janeena Morris

Emma-Leigh Simonot

Heather Sinclair

Alina Subrt

Wigs and Makeup Show Head

Tracy Frayne

Wigs and Makeup Crew

Camesha Johnson

Taraleigh Wallace

Ty Wilson

Wigs and Makeup Swing

Mary “Red” Stasiuk

Technical Director

– Studio Theatre

Tristan Goethel

Technical Director

– Scenic Construction

Andrew Mestern

Scene Shop Manager

Sean Hirtle

Associate Technical Director

Andrew Clemens

Production Administrator

Miranda McLachlan

Production Administrative

Assistant

Christin Bossenberry

Technical Management

Assistant

Michelle Angela King

Head of Sound Design

Ranil Sonnadara

Design Coordinator

Lindsay Forde

Transportation

Greg Lamure

Peter Pasyk

Mike Peleshok

James Thistle

PROPERTIES

Head of Properties

Dona Hrabluk

Lead Builder

Jennifer Macdonald

Assisted by

Matthew Burgess

SCENIC ART

Head Scenic Artist

Duncan Johnstone

Kameron Doyle

Shirley Lee

Dylan Mundy

Danielle Poirier

Haley Richards

Lee Summers

Katelyn Vere

Edwin Wentworth

Properties Buyer

Ariel Slack

Assistant Properties Buyer

Kris Nuhn

Assistant Head Scenic Artist

Michael Wharran

Assisted by

Thomas Lappano

Claire Scott

Lee Summers

Blair Yeomans

SCENIC CARPENTRY

Head Carpenter

Ryan Flanagan

Assistant Head Carpenter

Paul Cooper

Lead Hand

Mark Smith

Head of Automation

Ian Phillips

COSTUME

Costume Director

Michelle Ashbourne

Associate Costume Director

Amy McDougall

WARDROBE

Costume Buyers

Isabella Redgate

Jennifer Smith-Windsor

Erin Michelle Steele

Cutters

Johanna Billings

Kim Crossley

Terri Dans

Anna Farquharson

Lela Stairs Murphy

Jennie Wonnacott

First Hands

Monica Berg

Shona Humphrey

Karen Merriam

Krista Nauman

Emma Pawluk

Georgina Schinkel

Sewers

Sabrina Abballe

Erin Babury

WAREHOUSE

Warehouse Coordinators

Sandy Davis

Jennie Wonnacott

Assisted by Shayne Adair

Simon Aldridge

Phillip Bühler

Samuel Claveau

Jeremy Cox

Elizabeth Heaslip

Chad Hunt

Paul Hyde

Kevin Kruchkywich

Joe Lanza

John Nuell

John Roth

Jody Satchell

Mark Smith

Cliff Tipping

ACti NG COMPANY

2026: Robin in  Something Rotten! and appears in  Guys and Dolls 10th season. Stratford: Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!,  La Cage aux Folles, Spamalot, Frankenstein Revived, Chicago, Here’s What It Takes, Billy Elliot, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls,  Romeo and Juliet,  A Chorus Line,  The Hypochondriac Elsewhere:  Chris, Mrs.  (Winter Garden); Peter’s Final Flight (Ross Petty Panto); Joseph and the Amazing… (Theatre Aquarius); Funny Girl  (Segal Centre);  Anne of Green Gables,  Alice…Looking-Glass, Canada Rocks  (Charlottetown Festival);  Cats (Mirvish/Panasonic).  Film/TV:  Romeo and Juliet (2017),  Full Out  (Netflix),  Big Fun Weeknights  (YTV),  Get Up ’N Move  (Revolver Films). Awards: Max Helpmann Award, Maureen Forrester Award, Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival); Amy Wallis Scholarship (Charlottetown Festival); gold and silver medals (International Tap Dance Championships). Online: @EricMackAbel. Et cetera: Thanks to my family, Krista, Bruce and the TH gang for all their support.

Head of Wardrobe

Allie Marshall

Assisted by Maddison Bell

Caitlin Luxford

Dana Osborne

Julia Beke

Monica Berg

Amanda Boni

Rachel Bühler

Natalie Crittenden

Eve Diemand

Allison Erb

Bonnie Getty

Clara Hopkins

Katie Jetter

Eli Jorgensen

Anna Lach

Jessica Lowrie

Mary-Lou Mason

Holly Matthews

Julia Nelham

Eleanor Nielsen

Mary Patterson

Rhiane Persaud

Jennifer Snowsill

Simona Touma

Hailey Urbanoski

Costume Coordinator

Maya Holmes

Sonya Vallis

Michelle Warren

Ty Wilson

Anna Yaworski

Christine Yundt

Amy Zandstra

Bijoux/Decoration

Tami MacDonald

Assisted by Lacie George

Jennifer Howard

Kathi Posliff

Boots and Shoes

Sarah Spence Cook

Assisted by April Burns

Michael Karn

Connie Puetz

Laura Wemyss

Warehouse Assistant

Pamela Coneybeare

WIGS AND MAKEUP

Wigs and Makeup

Venue Heads –

Festival Theatre

Tracy Frayne

Avon Theatre

Erica Croft

Tom Patterson Theatre

Mallory Reeves

Wigs and Makeup Show Head

Tracy Frayne

Construction Crew

Teddi Barrett

Erica Croft

Tracy Frayne

Roxane Jodoin

Paint and Dye

Sylvia Minarcin

Linda Pinhay

Assisted by Penelope Schledewitz

Millinery

Kaz Maxine

Assisted by

Truly Carmichael

Lilian Gibson

Jennifer Howard

Monica Viani

Additional Costumes by Elizabeth

Mastrandrea

Evan Stillwater

Wardrobe Assistant

Mairead Canning

Angela Moncur

Sherri Neeb

Mallory Reeves

Alana Scheel

Julie Scott

Chris Vaughan

Melissa “Maloo” Veal

2024

2026: Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls and appears in Something Rotten! 13th season. Stratford: Amiens in As You Like It, Coop in Forgiveness, Peter in Something Rotten!, Gord in The Diviners, Romeo in Play On!, Al in A Chorus Line, Henrik in A Little Night Music, Rolf in The Sound of Music. Appeared in Chicago, King Lear, Rent, Billy Elliot, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls,  Fiddler on the Roof and Tommy Elsewhere: Johnny alternate in American Idiot (first U.S. tour); Hank in Jersey Boys (Dancap); Gilbert in Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown). Film/TV: Captain von Trapp in The Pacifier. Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Etobicoke School of the Arts. Online: @GabrielNacci. Et cetera: Thanks to Stratford and Colin McMurray. This season is dedicated to Gabe’s beautiful wife Robin and their kitty Dusty Rose.

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2026: Standby in Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Second season. Stratford: The Diviners, Something Rotten! Elsewhere: Anne of Green Gables, Mamma Mia! (WCT); Rez Gas, Billboard in Concert: 1986 (Capitol Port Hope); The Secret to Good Tea (NAC/Grand); Pollyanna, Maggie, Mamma Mia! (Theatre Aquarius); Anne of Green Gables, I’m Every Woman, Tell Tale Harbour, Maggie (Charlottetown Festival); Elf (Grand); Peter Pan (Carousel Theatre); Children of God (Segal Centre, Citadel); Beauty and the Beast, Mamma Mia! (Arts Club); Les Misérables (Chemainus Festival). Film/TV: Motherland: Fort Salem (Freeform), Dancing Through Christmas (Lifetime), First Native and Borderline (Orca Cove). Voiceover: Spirit Rangers (Netflix), Skookum and Chums (Telus), Barbie web shorts (Mattel). Live music: Vocalist for Indigenous music groups M’Girl and Tillicum Shantie. Training: Bachelor of Performing Arts from Capilano University. Online: MichelleBardach.com, @michyb123. Et cetera: Much love to EV and huge thanks to TH!

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Anything Goes, La Vie En Rose, White Christmas 2025 and 2022 (Shaw Festival); Jersey Boys, Munschables, Anne of Green Gables 2024 and 2022 (Charlottetown Festival); White Christmas, Newsies (Drayton Entertainment); The Little Mermaid (Persephone Theatre); Let’s Dance! (Terra Bruce Productions); And I Never Stopped Dancing (Smile Theatre); Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Sunday in the Park with George (Eclipse Theatre); Grow (Canadian Music Theatre Project). Training: Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance from Sheridan College. Online: @alex_batycki. Et cetera: Many thanks to the TH crew, and much love to my Mom and family for everything they do.

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! 11th season. Stratford: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Annie, Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Frankenstein Revived, Carousel, The Adventures of Pericles, Crazy for You, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 42nd Street, Much Ado About Nothing, West Side Story, A Funny... Forum, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, The King and I Elsewhere: Chris, Mrs. (Winter Garden); Holiday Inn (Shaw); Return to Grace, A Funny... Forum (Mirvish); multiple seasons for Drayton Entertainment, Theatre Aquarius and Neptune Theatre. Film/TV: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Next Step, Hellcats, Slings & Arrows, Honey Choreography, TV: SEE, Man Seeking Woman, six TV commercials; Pacific Rim (associate choreographer); Degrassi: Next Class, Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (assistant choreographer). Choreography, theatre: Elf: the Musical (Neptune), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Adventures of Pericles (Stratford), Holiday Inn (Shaw, assistant choreographer). Online: @carlabennettshara.

GABRIEL ANTONACCI

MICHELLE BARDACH (SHE/HER)

ALEX BATYCKI (HE/HIM)

CARLA BENNETT

BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY,

COMPANY ACti NG

DEVON MICHAEL BROWN (HE/HIM)

2026: Rusty Charlie in Guys and Dolls and appears in Something Rotten! Ninth season. Stratford: Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage aux Folles, Something Rotten!, Henry Clerval in Frankenstein Revived, Brother Maynard in Spamalot, Chicago, Nelson Green in Wedding Band (The Meighen Forum), Billy Elliot, Tommy Djilas in The Music Man, Romeo in R&J Remixed (workshop), Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, Frankenstein (workshop). Elsewhere (selected): Chris, Mrs. (Winter Garden Theatre); Joseph…Dreamcoat (Theatre Aquarius); national tour of Laurier (Confederation Centre/Theatre New Brunswick); Shrek the Musical (Rainbow Stage). Film/TV: Max in The Next Step; Mia Michaels Live; MuchMusic Video Awards. Training: Bachelor of English Language and Literature from Queen’s University. Online: @thedevonbrown. Et cetera: I met my wife while doing Guys and Dolls almost 10 years ago, so this show has a special place in my heart. This one’s for you, Green. I love you.

WADE PIERRE BULLER (THEY/SHE/HE)

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Swing in Something Rotten! Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Ensemble/Tumbler, understudy Ed in Toronto’s recent company of Disney’s The Lion King (Mirvish Productions); Ensemble/Tumbler with the inaugural cast of Beetlejuice: The Musical onboard the Norwegian Viva (Norwegian Cruise Line); Swing in 9 to 5: The Musical (Pace University); Woof in Hair: The Tribal Love-Rock Musical (BrownCow Collective); CS Grandstand Shows (The Calgary Stampede). Training: Pace University’s BFA Musical Theatre program, The Young Canadians School of Performing Arts, Calgary Gymnastics Centre. Online: @wadebu. Et cetera: Wade is thrilled to be making their Stratford Festival debut among this incredible 2026 acting company and is honoured to share the music, movement and joy explored here at the Festival Theatre with each and every one of you! Thanks for being here.

JACQUELINE BURTNEY (SHE/HER)

2026: Appears in The Tempest and Swing in Guys and Dolls. Fourth season. Stratford: Wendy and Peter Pan (Mrs. Darling), Carousel (Louise), Monty Python’s Spamalot, Pericles, Camelot, Jesus Christ Superstar. Broadway: Jesus Christ Superstar. First national tours: Matilda, Anything Goes (Purity). La Jolla Playhouse: Jesus Christ Superstar Stratford Festival/Mirvish: A Funny Thing Happened... Elsewhere: White Christmas, Kiss Me, Kate (Drayton Entertainment); Something Bubbled, Something Blue (TIFT); Beauty and the Beast (Globe Theatre); Never Swim Alone (GDTP); Cinderella, The Little Mermaid (Ross Petty Productions). Online: jacksonben.com, @jacksonbendesigns. Et cetera: Being an actor and having a toddler is virtually impossible without the support and sacrifices from our loved ones. My husband sacrificed it all to care for our daughter so that I could be in this season, and I will never be able to thank him enough. Eric, thank you for helping make these three dreams come true. You are it.

JUAN CHIORAN

2026: Big Jule in Guys and Dolls and Brother Jeremiah in Something Rotten! 19th season. Stratford: Something Rotten!, La Cage aux Folles, Front Page, Paradise Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Treasure Island, Chorus Line, A Little Night Music, Henry V, Much Ado, The Misanthrope, Twelfth Night, Kiss Me, Kate, Evita, Bartholomew Fair, Three Sisters, All’s Well, Shrew, As You Like It, Hamlet, Dracula, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Man of La Mancha Elsewhere: Citadel Theatre, Podium Concerts, Coalmine, Shaw Festival, Factory Theatre, Acting Up Stage, CanStage, Chicago Shakespeare, Tarragon, NAC, Mirvish. Film/TV: The Boy in the Iron Box, God of Frogs, Murdoch Mysteries, Mother Father Sister Brother Frank, Hudson & Rex, Mother of All Shows, Intersection, Sneakerella, Six Guns for Hire Voice: Elinor Wonders Why, Paw Patrol, Around the World in 80 Days Training: BFA, University of Alberta. Awards: Dora, Gemini, Jefferson, Ovation, Carbonell, Toronto Theatre Critics. Online: @chioranada.

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Swing in Something Rotten! Third season. Stratford: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Annie, Something Rotten!, The Diviners Elsewhere: Shrek (TUTS); Crazy for You (The Gateway); Twist and Shout, Footloose (Chemainus Theatre); Mary Poppins (Arts Club and YPT); Mamma Mia! (Arts Club and Stage West); Beauty and the Beast (Capitol Theatre); The Tempest (Banff/Citadel); Chicago (Globe); The Prom, Evita (Drayton); Joseph and ... (Tweed & Co.). Film/TV: Christmas Movie Magic, Phil: A Tale of Flossing and Plumbing, When Calls the Heart, Centre Stage: Dance Camp, Rags. Online: @jarretcody. Et cetera: Jarret is also an accomplished dance instructor and choreographer who loves nothing more than to share his passion for movement and storytelling. He sends love and gratitude to everyone at da Costa Talent, his family and Joey for their unending support.

NEHASSAIU de GANNES

2026: Lt. Brannigan in Guys and Dolls and Lady Clapham in Something Rotten! Second season. Stratford: Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Anne of Austria in The Three Musketeers. Elsewhere (selected): GNIT, The House That Will Not Stand, Tons of Money, Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery of The Human Heart (Shaw Festival); Fat Ham, Necessary Angel’s Moonlight Schooner (Canadian Stage); The High Ground (Arena Stage); Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth); Simon Godwin’s Much Ado (STC); Is God Is (Soho Rep.); Measure for Measure, Intimate Apparel, Or, (Shakespeare & Co.); Our Town, Romeo and Juliet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Kings (Studio Theatre); Sweat, Three Musketeers (CPH); Sweat, Never Not Once (Theatre Aquarius); King Lear (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Proof, The Skin of Our Teeth (Trinity Rep). Film: Krystal Rullan, Equal Standard (Prime Video). Awards: Berkshire Theatre Award; The Wall Street Journal “Best Actor” national citation. Online: nehassaiu.com. Et cetera: Joyous resilience!

CHRISTINE DESJARDINS (SHE/HER) JEREMY

2026: Calvin in Guys and Dolls and Minstrel in Something Rotten! Second season. Stratford: Something Rotten! and La Cage aux Folles Elsewhere: Come From Away (Australian national tour/Mirvish); Treemonisha (Volcano Theatre); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Segal Centre/ RMTC); Rock of Ages, Rocky: The Musical, Ghost: The Musical, Hairspray, Joseph…, Red Rock Diner (Drayton Entertainment); Alberta Kitchen Party (Alberta Theatre Projects); 9 to 5 (Citadel Theatre); Back in ’59 (TIP); Hairspray (Theatre Aquarius); Shrek (Globe Theatre/Drayton Entertainment); Porgy and Bess (Opera de Montréal); and four seasons at the Shaw Festival. Film/TV: Madam C.J. Walker (Netflix/Warner Bros.). Training: McGill University’s Schulich School of Music for Vocal Performance. Awards: Betty Mitchell Awards for Outstanding Ensemble and Production of a Musical (Alberta Kitchen Party, 2022, performer/cowriter). Online: @jcarverjames. Et cetera: Special thanks to the friends, family and Talent House team for their ongoing love and support.

BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2003

2026: Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls and Nostradamus in Something Rotten! 18th season. Stratford: Oliver Warbucks in Annie, Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, The Diviners, Chicago, Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, The Winter’s Tale, A Funny Thing Happened..., West Side Story, Oklahoma!, Cymbeline, Camelot Elsewhere: Fifteen Dogs (Crows/Mirvish); The Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare); A Little Night Music (Koerner Hall); Life After, The Wild Party (Musical Stage); Toronto/U.S. national tour of Matilda – Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award (Mirvish/Dodger); Of Human Bondage, Idiot’s Delight (Soulpepper); Company (Theatre 20); The Wizard of Oz, The Arsonists (Canadian Stage); The Magic Fire (Shaw); Beauty and the Beast –Dora Award, The Drowsy Chaperone (Mirvish). Voice over: Saving Me, Super Why, Mittens and Pants, Hotel Transylvania, Paw Patrol. Awards: Multiple ACTRA, Dora and CSA nominations. Online: @danchameroy. Et cetera: Love to Christine and Olivia.

2026: Appears in Something Rotten! and Swing in Guys and Dolls. Fifth season. Stratford: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Annie, Rent, A Wrinkle in Time, Chicago, The Music Man, The Rocky Horror Show and Jacob Two-Two (workshop). Elsewhere (selected): Grease, Flashback Fever (Mayfield Dinner Theatre); Anne of Green Gables, The Drowsy Chaperone (Charlottetown Festival, 2020); Hairspray (Theatre Aquarius); Beauty and the Beast, My Fair Lady (Port Hope Festival); Aladdin (Drayton Entertainment); 42nd Street, Oklahoma!, A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar (SCC). Training: Music Theatre Performance at St. Clair College. Online: @christine.desjardins. Awards: Jean A. Chalmers (SF), Overall Achievement (SCC), Triple Threat (ACS). Et cetera: Thanks to my amazing family for always believing in me and the gang at TH. Big love to my JMah, who I’m so grateful to be sharing another season with. For Charlie – always.

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Swing in Something Rotten! Third season. Stratford: Chantal in La Cage aux Folles, Swing in Something Rotten!, Prince Herbert in Monty Python’s Spamalot, Swing in Frankenstein Revived. Elsewhere: Pinocchio in Shrek, Mamma Mia! (Drayton Entertainment); Tin Man/Iron Man in The Lion of Oz, Prince in Cinder-Ellie, Mamma Mia! (Tweed and Co.); Mamma Mia! (Mayfield); Fender in Hairspray (Theatre Aquarius); LeFou in Beauty and the Beast (Globe Theatre); Pavlo in Kamp (Eastern Front Theatre/Neptune Theatre); Rock of Ages (Stage West Calgary); Beauty and the Beast (Capitol Theatre); Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Ensemble in Canada Rocks!, Mamma Mia! and Tommy Sloane for three seasons in Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival). Training: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance Dance from Toronto Metropolitan University. Online: @doigjosh.

JARRET CODY

COMPANY ACti NG

2026: General Matilda Cartwright in Guys and Dolls and Bea Bottom in Something Rotten! Third season. Stratford: Bea, Something Rotten!; Jacqueline, La Cage; Crystal, Little Shop; Ensemble, Billy Elliot. Shaw (selected): Sally understudy, Me and My Girl; Grace, An Octoroon. Elsewhere (selected): Hannah, Come From Away (You Are Here); Connie, Red Velvet (Crow’s); Safiya, Dixon Road; Retold (MSC); Ma understudy, Room; Dynamite, Hairspray (Mirvish); Vonzia (originated), Oil and Water (NAC); Lorrell, Dreamgirls (Arts Club); Mrs. Corry, Mary Poppins, Binti, Binti’s Journey (YPT); Charlaine, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (CanStage); Narrator, Cookin’ at the Cookery (Citadel, ASF); The Adventures of a Black Girl... (Harbourfront). Film/TV: Hudson & Rex; A Change in Heart; Puppy Master, Odd Squad; Pearl, Hairspray; 4Tone, 4Square Resident director: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (European/Broadway tours). Awards: Dora – Red Velvet, Dixon Road. Online: @starrdomingue, @6love_apparel; youtube.com/@TheBlacktorsStudio; starrdomingue.wixsite.com/-starrdom. Et cetera: Luv 2 God, Mom, Fam, Kurty, SG and KC.

FIRMSTON (HE/HIM)

2026: Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls and Nigel Bottom in Something Rotten! Eighth season. Stratford: Bert Healy in Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nigel Bottom in Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Historian/Not Dead Fred in Monty Python’s Spamalot, A Wrinkle in Time, Chicago, Here’s What It Takes, Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, The Music Man, Rocky Horror Show, The House of Martin Guerre Elsewhere: Tim in Chris, Mrs., Doody in Grease (Winter Garden); Sondheim (New Stages); Camelot (Drayton Entertainment); Anne of Green Gables (Grand Theatre); What a Wonderful World (VPP); Carnival Cruise Lines; Grand Theatre HSP (four seasons). TV: Murdoch Mysteries Awards: John Hirsch Award (Guthrie). Recording: Chris, Mrs. (original cast recording). Training: Canada’s National Ballet School, Dance Steps, Beal, PA. Online: @thefirmstonator. Et cetera: Love to my parents, my wife Ash and Jenny. Huge thanks to TH and all of the mentors who have helped along the way.

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Fourth season. Stratford: Mercedes in La Cage aux Folles, appeared in Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten! and Chicago. Elsewhere: Barry Belson in Jersey Boys (Citadel Theatre); Wally Patton in Sh-Boom!, Drifter in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man (Drayton Entertainment); Frank in In Studio: The Words and Music of Britta Johnson (Theatre Sheridan); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Oliver (Theatre Norfolk). Training: Sheridan College Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre. Awards: Dance Award, Vocal Music Award (Sheridan College); Guthrie Award (Stratford Festival). Et cetera: Special thanks to the awesome team at TH, my family, friends, Diggs and Jada.

2026: Martha in Guys and Dolls and Swing in Something Rotten! Second season. Stratford: La Cage aux Folles, Something Rotten! Elsewhere (selected): Lucy in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Anything Goes, Brigadoon, Playboy of the Western World, On the Razzle, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (2022 and 2025), Damn Yankees (Shaw Festival); The Louder We Get! (Theatre Calgary); Anne of Green Gables, Jesus Christ Superstar, House of Martin Guerre in concert (Charlottetown Festival); Starlight Tours (Canadian Music Theatre Project). Film (selected): Almost There (Sorel Productions); Five Days at Memorial (ABC Signature); Encounter: UFO (Eyewitness: UFO, Saloon Productions); “Every Little Brunette” (music video); “Still Call You Mine” – Famba (Sony Music Canada). Training: Hon. Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Sheridan College. Awards: Highest Achievement in Dance 2014-2017, Sheridan College. Online: @alex_gratton. Et cetera: To the people I call my family: I love you forever.

2026: Agatha in Guys and Dolls and appears in Something Rotten! 11th season. Stratford: Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!, Hunyak/Velma understudy in Chicago, Judy/Cassie understudy in A Chorus Line, The Rocky Horror Show, dance captain/Mrs. Dunlop in The Music Man, Carmen/Adelaide understudy in Guys and Dolls, Petra understudy in A Little Night Music, Crazy For You, Carousel Elsewhere: Rockette in Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Peter’s Final Flight (Ross Petty Panto), Joseph and the Amazing... (Drayton Entertainment), Dancer in Siegfried (Canadian Opera Company), Cabaret (FV, Tandem Productions). Film/TV: Dancer in Warehouse 13, Dancer in Locke & Key (Netflix). Online: @bonbondancer. Et cetera: Bonnie would like to thank her family, partner and da Costa for all the support. “MOM...this is for you!”

2026: Joey Biltmore in  Guys and Dolls and appears in  Something Rotten! Third season. Stratford: Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!, La Cage aux Folles Elsewhere: Rocky Balboa in Rocky: The Musical, Prince William in Sleeping Beauty: The Panto, Mikey Thomas in Shear Madness, West Side Story (Drayton Entertainment); Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (Globe Theatre); Jersey Boys, Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Stage West); Mamma Mia!, Crazy For You, A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, Evangeline (Citadel); Usnavi in In the Heights, Judas in Godspell (Theatre Sheridan). Film/TV: Brave Rebel Army, Dark Side of the 2000s Training: Sheridan College BMTP; Banff/Citadel Professional Training Program. Online: @aakelly. Et cetera: Endless love to my boys Jude and Nash, pup Blue and beautiful wife Shelley.

2026: Carmen, co-dance captain and assistant choreographer of Guys and Dolls and assistant director and assistant choreographer of Something Rotten! 10th season. Stratford: Annie, Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Frankenstein Revived, Liz in Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, A Chorus Line, A Little Night Music, Crazy for You, The Beaux’ Stratagem Elsewhere (selected): Return to Grace (Fallsview Casino and Thailand); Chicago, The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan (Drayton); Joseph…, Beauty and the Beast (Theatre Aquarius); Dance Legends (Drayton, Grand Theatre). Film/TV (selected): Just Short of Reality (StratFest@Home), The Boys, What We Do in the Shadows, Warehouse 13, Hellcats, L.A. Complex, Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure Training/teaching: Music Theatre Performance (Sheridan); certified yoga instructor and mentor to dancers. Online: @bethanykovarik. Et cetera: Go after your dreams! Family and friends: Thank you for everything. Love to my fiancé Chad, Mom, Dad, Ryan, Andrea, James, Matteo and Talent House.

2026: Shakespeare in Something Rotten! and understudy in Guys and Dolls. Fourth season. Stratford: Ralph MacLean in Forgiveness, Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet. Elsewhere: Jeff has performed in theatres across North America, including Soulpepper (23 productions, including Of Human Bondage and Spoon River at Signature Theatre, Off-Broadway); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Shaw Festival (five seasons); Crow’s Theatre, Canadian Stage, Tarragon, Passe Muraille, Factory, Buddies in Bad Times, Musical Stage Company, Mirvish/Studio180, MTC, Citadel, Grand, Aquarius, NAC, Theatre Calgary, ATP, YES Theatre, TIFT. Film/TV: Coffey in Netflix’s Locke & Key, On the Basis of Sex, Designated Survivor, Murdoch Mysteries, Hudson & Rex, Nurses Awards: Dora for Outstanding Performance: The Light in the Piazza. Five additional individual Dora nominations. Et cetera: Love and gratitude to Kimwun and my family.

2026: Mimi in Guys and Dolls and appears in Something Rotten! Fourth season. Stratford: Lily St. Regis in Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!, La Cage aux Folles, Annie in Chicago. Elsewhere: Sister Rice in The Amen Corner, Ensemble in Gypsy, Daphne/Ensemble in Holiday Inn (Shaw Festival); Jovie in Elf the Musical, Cinderella understudy/Ensemble in Cinderella (Neptune Theatre); Ensemble in Guys and Dolls (Capitol Theatre); Michelle/Ensemble/ Deena understudy in Dreamgirls (Lower Ossington Theatre); Calonice in Lysistrata (2017 Toronto Fringe Festival); Lulu’s New in Town (New York Musical Theatre Festival). Film/TV: The Boys, Children Ruin Everything, Frankie Drake Mysteries, Spin Online: @damanda_13. Et cetera: Forever blessed with the love and support from my family and friends. I miss you, Daddy. To my sweet pup, Einarr xx. CHEERS 10 Talent!

MÉTIS NATION OF ALBERTA

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Fifth season. Stratford: Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Frankenstein Revived, Chicago. Elsewhere: Lucille in Controlled Damage (Grand Theatre). Choreography: Assistant choreographer – The Diviners (Stratford); associate choreographer – Fame (Randolph). Film: A Way of Life (RobertsonFilms). Training: Randolph College for the Performing Arts. Awards: Randolph College Triple Threat Award and Governor General Award, Citizen of the Year (Sylvan Lake, Alberta). Online: @graciemackk. Et cetera: For my mom and dad, my brother and sister and always for Tia. Gratitude for Stephen and the team at da Costa. As always, love to David.

ALEX KELLY (HE/HIM)

BETHANY KOVARIK

HENRY

JEFF LILLICO

AMANDA LUNDGREN ALEXANDRA GRATTON

GRACIE MACK

BONNIE JORDAN

COMPANY ACti NG

ANTHONY M ac PHERSON

2026: Swing, co-dance captain, associate choreographer of Guys and Dolls and understudy, associate choreographer of Something Rotten! Fourth season. Stratford: Annie, Something Rotten!, La Cage aux Folles, Spamalot, Frankenstein Revived. Elsewhere: Matilda (first national tour, Mirvish); The Wizard of Oz (first national tour, Mirvish); Peter Pan in Wonderland (Ross Petty); five seasons at the Charlottetown Festival; Mamma Mia! (Grand); Rock of Ages (Drayton); Elf, Mary Poppins (Aquarius); West Side Story (Vancouver Opera). Choreography: Assistant choreographer – Annie (Stratford); A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary). Associate choreographer – Mamma Mia!, Kronborg (Charlottetown). Choreographer – Good Grief (Ship’s Company); Sugar Highs (season 1, Emotion); Assassins, Metamorphoses (Sheridan). Film/TV: Sullivan’s Crossing (CTV); Washington Black (Disney/Hulu); FROM (Epix); The Sinner (USA). Awards: Lindsay Thomas Award (Stratford); Alan Lund Dance Award (Charlottetown); Brian Linehan Triple Threat Award (Sheridan College: 2008-10). Online: @armacpherson. Et cetera: Big love and thanks to TH, Donna, Flea and my family out East.

2026: Angie the Ox in Guys and Dolls and appears in Something Rotten! Eighth season. Stratford: Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Chicago, Billy Elliot the Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, A Chorus Line, The Hypochondriac, Walker Rhodes (workshop). Elsewhere: Salesman in China (NAC); Holiday Inn, White Christmas, Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Anne of Green Gables, Jesus Christ Superstar (Charlottetown Festival); Rock of Ages (Elgin Theatre); Mary Poppins (YPT); West Side Story (Citadel Theatre); Clara’s Dream, Shumka at 50! China tour (Shumka/SPI Productions).

Film/TV: Mother of All Shows, Canada’s Got Talent season 2. Training: Grant MacEwan University, Theatre Arts. Online: @Djmah5. Et cetera: Jordan would like to thank everyone at The Talent House, his family, friends and mentors for all the incredible support. A special thanks to my rock, my love, Christine. This season is dedicated to my little bub Charlie, till we meet again.

2026: Hot Box MC in Guys and Dolls. 12th season. Stratford: Chicago (Fred Casely), Billy Elliot (Mr. Wilkinson), Guys and Dolls, Romeo and Juliet, A Chorus Line (Don), As You Like It, The Sound of Music, Carousel, Crazy for You, Man of La Mancha, The King and I, Anything Goes, Hello, Dolly!, Into the Woods, Oklahoma!, My One and Only Elsewhere (selected): Kiss Me, Kate (Gremio); U.S. tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mary Poppins (Valentine); Brigadoon (Harry Beaton); Dance Legends (Drayton). Performed across Canada and internationally at COC, Stage West, Grand Theatre, Citadel, Theatre Calgary, MTC, Charlottetown, Tokyo Disneyland, Ballet Jörgen. Film/TV (selected): Hairspray, A Christmas Dance Reunion, Just Short of Reality (StratFest@Home). Awards: Just Short of Reality multiple film festival awards, Brian Macdonald Choreographer Award (2023). Other: Dance Canada Convention – director. Online: @chad910. Et cetera: Love to my family and fiancée, Bethany.

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Fifth season. Stratford: Star-To-Be in Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!, La Cage aux Folles, The Music Man, Oliver! Elsewhere: Josie Pye in Anne of Green Gables – The Musical, Tell Tale Harbour, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kronborg – The Hamlet Rock Musical, Mamma Mia! (Charlottetown Festival); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Elf: The Musical, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia! (Grand Theatre); The Sound of Music (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Spring Awakening (Argyle Theatre). Film/TV: Paranormal Revenge (CTV Sci-Fi); Dark Side of the Ring (Vice TV). Training: Pace University, BFA Major in Musical Theatre, minor in Commercial Dance. Awards: Lindsay Thomas Award (Stratford Festival), Peter Mews Award (Charlottetown Festival). Online: jamiemurray.ca, @jamiemurr. Et cetera: Love and thanks to the TH team, my pup Rory and my family for their constant love and support!

2026: Arvide Abernathy in Guys and Dolls and understudy in Something Rotten! 10th season. Stratford: Roosevelt, Lt. Warden (Annie); Ensemble, Lawrence u/s (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels); Fogarty, Harrison (Chicago); Unicorn, Ensemble (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe); Mr. Erlanson (A Little Night Music), Giorgio (Passion), Sam (Crazy for You), Barber (Man of La Mancha), Captain Walker (Tommy), Snoopy (Charlie Brown), Mordcha (Fiddler on the Roof), Wanderlust, Camelot, Jesus Christ Superstar, As You Like It, Jacques Brel Elsewhere: Jackie (Wild Party), Marvin (Falsettos) – Acting Up Stage; Sir Galahad (Spamalot), Che (Evita), Chris (Miss Saigon) – Drayton; Bob (White Christmas) – MTC, Neptune; Freddy (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) – North American tour; Marius (Les Misérables) – Broadway; Laurie (Little Women) – first U.S. national tour; Bobby Strong (Urinetown) – Canadian Stage; Jerry (The Full Monty) – Stage West. Et cetera: RHW3.

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and Swing in Something Rotten! Second season. Stratford: Ensemble in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Swing in Annie Elsewhere: Ensemble/dance captain in Cinderella (Neptune Theatre); Swing in White Christmas (Shaw Festival); Debra in Let’s Dance! The Musical (Terra Bruce Productions); Maria/choreographer in The Sound of Music (Highlands Summer Festival); Performer/Serenader in And I Never Stopped Dancing (Smile Theatre); Featured Singer in the Yellowpoint Christmas Spectacular (Razzle Dazzle Productions); Ensemble/Bowery Beauty in Disney’s NEWSIES (Theatre Under the Stars); Ensemble in Head Over Heels, Concord Floral, Tiny Tenement of Terrors (Sheridan College, Music Theatre). Training: Sheridan College, Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre ’22. Online: @ali__powell. Et cetera: Thanks to the TH team for their endless support! All my love to Mum, Dad, Dave and Jason – who push me to try and catch me when I fall.

2026: Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. 16th season. Stratford: 16 seasons, including Grace Farrell in Annie, Lady of the Lake in Monty Python’s Spamalot, Velma Kelly in Chicago, Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, Maggie in A Chorus Line, Sally Simpson in Tommy, Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street Elsewhere: Most recently, Jennifer was a guest soprano with Niagara Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed on stages across the country, including the Shaw Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Charlottetown Festival, Grand Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Drayton Entertainment, Ross Petty Productions and YES Theatre. Training: Music Theatre Performance (Sheridan), Acting (Red Deer College). Et cetera: Love to Robert and my amazing Jo, Gubby and Papa. Thanks as ever to Bruce and TH.

2026: Appears in Something Rotten! and Swing in Guys and Dolls. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Frozen (Theatre Aquarius); Bring It On – The Musical (Globe Theatre); Cinderella Pantomime (Torrent Productions); Anne of Green Gables – The Musical, Jersey Boys* (Charlottetown Festival 2022, 2024*); Billy Elliot (Neptune Theatre); Damn Yankees (Park Playhouse, NY); Swing! The Broadway Musical (NCL); Oliver (Neptune Theatre); Wizard of Oz (Theatre Antigonish). Film/TV: Kindness (CFC); Backstage (Family Channel); Mr. D (CBC); Sex! With Hot Robots (short film); Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas (CBS); The Elizabeth Smart Story (Lifetime). Online: @brianross111. Et cetera: Brian is excited to make his Stratford debut in the 2026 season and would like to give special thanks to his family in Nova Scotia for their constant support. Also, thanks to everyone at the Festival, his agents at 10 Talent Management and all the coaches who helped get him here today!

2026: Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls and Shylock in Something Rotten! 23rd season. Stratford: As You Like It, La Cage, Something Rotten!, Grand Magic, Richard II, Love’s Labour’s…, Chicago, Finally There’s Sun, Rocky Horror, Guys and Dolls, The Lion, the Witch…, Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, Alchemist, Crazy for You, Tommy, Grapes of Wrath, Kiss Me, Kate, Cyrano, Mockingbird, The Odyssey, Dream, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus Elsewhere: Waitress (RMTC); 12 Dinners, Life Without, goldfish (Here For Now); Every Brilliant Thing, The Foursome, For the Pleasure… (New Stages); Fleeto, Oh, the Humanity, 4th Graders (Tiny Room); London Road, Indian Ink, Into the Woods, Dream (CanStage); Assassins (TIFT); Frog and Toad (MTYP); Orson’s Shadow (Pilot Group); A New Brain (Musical Stage); Shrek, A Christmas Story (Grand); The Producers (Mirvish/Neptune); Seussical, Sylvia (Aquarius); The Three Musketeers (Chicago Shakespeare); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Citadel), Three Sisters (ATF).

2026: Appears in Guys and Dolls and appears in, dance captain of Something Rotten! 13th season. Stratford: Annie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Rotten!, La Cage…, Spamalot, Frankenstein Revived, Chicago, Billy Elliot, Little Shop…, Rocky Horror, Music Man, Chorus Line, Sound of Music, Carousel, Crazy for You, Man of La Mancha, JCS, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes. Elsewhere: Miss Saigon, JCS (Broadway); Lion King (Mirvish/Las Vegas); Dirty Dancing, We Will Rock You (Mirvish/tour); Yoshimi (La Jolla); Holiday Inn (Shaw); Siegfried (COC); West Side Story (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast (Drayton); Shrek (Grand); Chris, Mrs. (Boldly). Film/TV: Tony Awards, Daytime Emmys, Dancing with the Stars, Regis & Kelly, Marilyn Denis, Tim Hortons, Virgin, Blue’s Clues, Honey, Chicago Choreography: Discover… (Stratford); … Road Trip (HSP). Assistant: Chicago (Stratford); The Boys (Amazon). Awards: Derek F. Mitchell and Brian Macdonald. Et cetera: Love to family, friends, T House, Mélanie and Léon.

ALI POWELL (SHE/HER)

JENNIFER RIDER-SHAW

JORDAN MAH

BRIAN ROSS (HE/HIM)

CHAD M c FADDEN

STEVE ROSS

JAMIE MURRAY (SHE/HER)

JASON SERMONIA

STEPHEN PATTERSON

ACti NG COMPANY

OLIVIA SINCLAIR-BRISBANE

BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATORY, 2024

2026: Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls and Portia in Something Rotten! Fourth season. Stratford: Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, As You Like It, Dangerous Liaisons, Portia in Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Joanne in Rent, Richard II. Elsewhere: Vicky in Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Gloria in Damn Yankees, White Christmas, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shawground, 1922 in Concert, Charley’s Aunt (Shaw); Home For the Holidays (Theatre Aquarius); Emcee in Cabaret, Finding Black Joy (Grand Theatre); Dyanne in Million Dollar Quartet (Capitol Theatre); Sophie in Mamma Mia! (Rainbow Stage). Voiceover: We the Culture (Facebook). Training: Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Sheridan College; H.B. Beal Secondary and C.C.H. Online: @oliviasinclairbrisbane. Et cetera: Olivia dedicates this season to her amazing support system, her family, both chosen and biological, her friends and mentors. To anyone moving through life with bravery, joy, kindness and deep love.

MARK UHRE (HE/HIM)

2026: Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls and Nick Bottom in Something Rotten! Seventh season. Stratford (selected): Rooster Hannigan in Annie; Nick Bottom in Something Rotten!; Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man; Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls; Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore. Broadway: Enjorlas in Les Misérables Elsewhere (selected): Shaw Festival company member (seven seasons); Sky in Mamma Mia! (Mirvish); The Donnelly Trilogy: Sticks and Stones, St. Nicholas Hotel, Handcuffs (Blyth); Elmer Woods in Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep); Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bert in Mary Poppins, Seeds of Self, The Last Five Years (Grand); Avram in Indecent (Segal Centre); Tom Watson in Parade (Musical Stage); Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods (Neptune); Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof (RMTC); Just So (Globe). Training: Guildford School of Acting, England. Online: @markuhre. Et cetera: Mark is also a painter and published illustrator.

ZACHARY WILLIAMS

2026: Swing in Guys and Dolls. Stratford debut. Zachary is a Jamaican-Antiguan performer born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He began his training in the competitive dance circuit with Turning Pointe Academy of Dance. He attended Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts and the School of Cadence Ballet to further his training in ballet and modern dance. He later moved to New York City to complete a BFA in dance and a minor in business at NYU. He has also trained with Alvin Ailey and The Royal Ballet in London, England. Post graduation, he joined the cast of Disney’s The Lion King that played at the Princess of Wales Theatre under Mirvish Productions. Zachary is elated to be a part of the 2026 season with the Stratford Festival and to continue telling stories through movement. Online: @zach_cj.

“LUCK BE A LADY TONIGHT.”

ARtiSTIC COMPANY

BONNIE BEECHER

2026: Lighting designer of Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! 14th season. Stratford: Pride and Prejudice, Of Mice and Men, Ghosts, Timon of Athens, Henry V, Duchess of Malfi, Hosanna, John Gabriel Borkman, The Changeling, The Crucible, Paradise Lost. Elsewhere: Lighting designer for major theatres across Canada and many venues internationally. Recent productions include: Mary Queen of Scots (Scottish Ballet), Lady Macbeth (Dutch National Ballet), The Welkin (Soulpepper), Bend (Aszure Barton), Death of a Salesman (Citadel Theatre), Procession (National Ballet of Canada), Cinderella (Ballet Ireland) and Robin Hood Panto (Canadian Stage). Upcoming: Happy Days (Soulpepper), Ten Days in a Madhouse (Tapestry Opera). Online: bonnie-beecher.squarespace.com.

2026: Assistant stage manager of Guys and Dolls. Second season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager, Annie Elsewhere: Grease, Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages, Fiddler on the Roof, Evita, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Good Ol’ Country Gospel, Fiddler on the Loose, Annie, Rocky: The Musical, Holiday Inn, Sexy Laundry (Drayton Entertainment); Hairspray (Theatre Aquarius). Et cetera: A heartfelt thank you to my family and friends for their unwavering support. A special thank you to my fiancé, Ryan, for his unconditional love and to his shoulder for always being there to lean on.

KRISTA BLACKWOOD

2026: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre. 12th season. Stratford: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre (2023-2025). Assistant stage manager of Chicago, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, Romeo and Juliet, A Chorus Line, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Sound of Music, Crazy for You and Fiddler on the Roof. Elsewhere: Come From Away (Rubinoff/ACC); Tell Tale Harbour, Anne of Green Gables – The Musical (Charlottetown Festival); The Hockey Sweater (Segal Centre/NAC); The Candidate (Citadel Theatre); Hamlet (Perchance Theatre); Into the Woods (Opera on the Avalon); Glenn (Soulpepper); The Mill, Parts 1 to 4 (Theatrefront); Peter and the Starcatcher, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Western Canada Theatre); It’s a Wonderful Life, The Rocky Horror Show (Theatre New Brunswick); Shakespeare in Love, Happy Days (Neptune Theatre); Generous (Tarragon Theatre).

2026: Music director of Guys and Dolls and director of music for the Stratford Festival. 17th season. Stratford: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage aux Folles, Rent, Chicago, Billy Elliot, Music Man, Little Night Music, Funny Thing Happened..., Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me, Kate, Evita, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance. In concert: Why We Tell the Story, Fantasticks, Passion, Next to Normal, Up Close and Musical (StratFest@Home). Elsewhere: Show Boat, Ragtime, Lion King (Toronto/U.S. tours); Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Lloyd Webber’s Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music, Lord of the Rings (Mirvish); Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Meridian Hall); Annie Get Your Gun (Massey Hall); Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper); London Symphonia’s Enchanting Broadway; Birmingham Conservatory (vocal coach), American Boychoir School, Illinois and Dorian Opera theatres. Recordings: Carousel, Crazy for You (Stratford Festival); The Voice Next Door (Marcus Nance). Training: Vocal Coaching/Accompanying, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2026: Associate sound designer of The Tempest, assistant sound designer of Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Fifth season. Stratford: The Art of War, The Goat… (sound designer); Dirty Rotten…, Get That Hope, Richard II (associate sound designer); Annie, Something Rotten!, La Cage…, Frankenstein Revived, Rent, King Lear, Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago, Hamlet, Death and the King’s… (assistant sound designer). Elsewhere: Sound designer for Reproduktion (Here For Now); The Wind Coming Over the Sea, Radio Town…, Resort to Murder, A Huron County Christmas Carol (Blyth); Jack! A Beanstalk Panto (Capitol); associate sound designer for Orphée+ (Edmonton Opera); composer for MOEM-BODY, Alone Together, Four, What Happened (Human Body Expression); Lasterday (Kaeja d’Dance); A Sonata Of Shadows (CCDT); orchestra for Shrek – The Musical, 42nd Street, Singin’ in the Rain, Piaf/Dietrich, Ain’t Too Proud (Mirvish); percussionist with TorQ Percussion Quartet and Ladom Ensemble. Recording: Debut album, Guess I’m a People Too, available on all platforms.

STEPHANIE BIGNELL

MARK UHRE AND JENNIFER RIDER-SHAW. PHOTO: DARIANE SANCHE.

FRANKLIN BRASZ

ADAM CAMPBELL (HE/HIM)

COMPANY ARtiSTIC

2026: Associate conductor of Guys and Dolls. Ninth season. Stratford: Associate conductor and keyboard for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, La Cage aux Folles, Rent, Chicago, Billy Elliot, The Music Man. Accordion for La Cage aux Folles; keyboard for Something Rotten!; rehearsal pianist for HMS Pinafore; music director for Birmingham Conservatory’s presentation of The Winter’s Tale and The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Shakespeare School’s Musical Theatre Intensive. Elsewhere: Conductor of the Stratford Symphony Youth Orchestra. Keyboard for Elf: The Musical (Grand Theatre). Associate conductor of Call It Love (Eclipse Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Opera on the Avalon). Music director of Susannah (Peck Productions and London Community Players); JUDY: Stonewalled! (LINK theatre); Company (Music Theatre on the Thames); Street Scene (Halifax Summer Opera Festival).

2026: Associate fight director of the 2026 season. Fifth season. Stratford: Wendy and Peter, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Monty Python’s Spamalot, King Lear, Richard III, Little Women Elsewhere: Blues in the Alabama Sky, Major Barbara, Candida (Shaw Festival); Hamlet (Hit and Myth Productions); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in High Park); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet (National Theatre School). Acting: FUBAR, The Fabric of Christmas, My Husband Hired a Hitman, The Last Woman Who Lived Here, Chucky, Mayor of Kingstown, Reacher, Revenge of the Black Best Friend, The Hot Zone. Stunts: The Boys, Dark Matter, Kill Joys, Teen Titans, Lucky Day, Amazing Race Canada, Frankie Drake Voiceover: Far Cry 6, Pinkalicious and Peterrific Training: Humber Theatre Performance program, various martial arts, Pro Actors Lab in Toronto. Online: @davidchinchillaofficial.

2026: Director and choreographer of Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Artistic associate for musical theatre development for the Stratford Festival. 30th season. Stratford: Ms. Feore is the recipient of the 2025 Stratford Festival Legacy Award. Director and choreographer of Annie (the longest-running show in Festival history), Something Rotten!, Chicago, Billy Elliot the Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, The Madwoman of Chaillot, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Charlie Brown, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oklahoma!, Oliver!, Crazy for You. Elsewhere: As director and choreographer: Goodspeed Opera House’s critically acclaimed world première, Summer Stock, now Get Happy (Connecticut Critics Circle Award), The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (5th Avenue, Seattle); The Hockey Sweater: A Musical (NAC, Segal Centre). As director: Bernhardt Hamlet (Goodman Theater, Chicago); Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NACO); Yorkville (Blyth Festival); The Very Best of Broadway with Audra McDonald and Marvin Hamlisch; Rock ‘N’ Roll, It’s A Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage); Lecture on the Weather, A Soldier’s Tale with F. Murray Abraham (Detroit Symphony Orchestra); Mozart: A Life in Letters (Toronto Symphony Orchestra); Annie Get Your Gun (Massey Hall). Creative producer of Undisrupted (NAC/CBC Gem). Creative producer/director of Life Reflected (world première NACO with Canadian and European tours). Choreography: Siegfried (Canadian Opera Company/Opéra National de Lyon); Tosca, Red Emma, Oedipus Rex (Dora Award) (COC). Film/TV (selected): Politics is Cruel, Mean Girls, Eloise, Martin and Lewis, Stormy Weather, Romeo and Juliette, Don Giovanni, Feast of All Saints Et cetera: I want to thank my family for their unconditional love and support.

MICHAEL GIANFRANCESCO (HE/HIM)

2026: Set designer of Guys and Dolls and set and costume designer of Something Rotten! 22nd season. Stratford: Richard II, Chicago, Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, The Music Man, The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Hosanna, The Comedy of Errors, An Ideal Husband – set; Annie, The Crucible, A Chorus Line, Bunny, The Sound of Music, Christina, The Girl King, Taking Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Edward II, The Triumph of Love – set and costume. Elsewhere: Emma Bovary (National Ballet of Canada), Jasper (Signature Theatre, Off-Broadway) – set and costume; Embrasse (Théâtre du Nouveau Monde), La Dame Aux Camélias (Les Grands Ballets), Hadrian (Canadian Opera Company) – set; Hamlet (Ex Machina/Côté Danse) and for Ricciardo e Zoraide (Rossini Festival, Italy) – costume.

2026: Stage manager of Guys and Dolls and assistant stage manager of The Tempest. 30th season. Stratford: Multiple productions, including Dangerous Liaisons, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Casey and Diana, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, The Duchess of Malfi, The Swanne Trilogy Elsewhere: Ruby and the Reindeer (Here For Now); Casey and Diana (Theatre Aquarius/RMTC); A Christmas Story, the Musical (Theatre Aquarius); Casey and Diana (Soulpepper); Angels in America (That Theatre Co./Buddies); Fall On Your Knees (Canadian Stage/Neptune/NAC/Grand); Heisenberg, Liv Stein (Canadian Stage); Constellations (Centaur/ Canadian Stage); Body Politic (Buddies); The Death of the King (Modern Times); The Winter’s Tale (Groundling); Bombay Black (Factory); Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary (Pleiades); Saint Carmen of the Main (NAC/Canadian Stage); Mother Courage and Her Children (NAC/MTC); Fully Committed, Silence, The Importance of Being Earnest (Grand); Wit (Centaur); Hamlet (Neptune).

2026: Assistant lighting designer of The Tempest, Guys and Dolls, Something Rotten! and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Second season. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Annie, As You Like It, Ransacking Troy. Elsewhere: Lighting designer: Killing Time: A Game Show Musical (Mixtape Projects), Cymatix (Citadel + Compagnie), Ursa: A Folk Musical (The Uncommon Folk Collective), Uncovered: Fleetwood Mac & The Eagles (Musical Stage Company), Insert Clown Here (Parlous Theatre), Concord Floral (Puckers Theatre Co.), IRIS (says goodbye) (Mixtape Projects). Assistant/associate lighting designer: Fall For Dance North (2024, 2025), PUS (Road Trip Collective), Spring Mix 2024 (Citadel + Compagnie). Training: BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University for Performance Production and Design. Canadian Green Alliance 2024 Green Mentorship Recipient. Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award Recipient 2025. Online: mathildakane.com. Et cetera: Love to Laur and Juno.

2026: Assistant stage manager of Guys and Dolls and Waiting for Godot. 25th season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Wendy and Peter Pan; Spamalot; Wrinkle in Time; Richard III; The Miser; Rez Sisters; Little Shop of Horrors; Rocky Horror Show; Timon of Athens; Madwoman of Chaillot; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; A Little Night Music; The Taming of the Shrew; Love’s Labour’s Lost; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Blithe Spirit; Charlie Brown; Merry Wives of Windsor; Kiss Me, Kate; Dangerous Liaisons; The Importance of Being Earnest; Cabaret; My One and Only; South Pacific; Oliver!; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Edward II; The Count of Monte Cristo; Anything Goes; Henry VI Awards: Recipient of the Tanya Award and four Guthrie Awards. Et cetera: Holly would like to thank Steve and Jackson for all their love and support.

2026: Associate director of Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! 15th season. Stratford: Associate director of Annie and Something Rotten! Appeared as an actor in over 20 productions, including The Music Man, Julius Caesar, The Sound of Music, Man of La Mancha, Crazy for You, Tommy, Elektra, Camelot, Kiss Me, Kate and others. Elsewhere: Monique has performed from coast to coast in Canada and the U.S. for the past 35 years, including many Canadian premières with Mirvish Productions (Crazy for You, Tommy, Mamma Mia!, The Lord of the Rings). She played the role of Donna with the Broadway touring production of Mamma Mia! for a sold-out, two-year run. Most recently, she has worked as a director, designer and dramaturge on several plays with Here For Now Theatre. Et cetera: Many thanks to Donna Feore for inviting me on this journey, and much love to Mark, Charlotte and my entire family.

2026: Fight and intimacy director of the 2026 season. Ninth season. Fight and intimacy director (selected): Moonlight Schooner, Robin Hood, Slave Play, Fat Ham, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hamlet, Fairview (CanStage); The Comeuppance, The Welkin, WILDWOMAN, Three Sisters (Soulpepper); Groundhog Day (YES); CRAZE (Tarragon); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Perchance); The Bidding War, Wights, Bad Roads, Prodigal (Crow’s); The Green Line, Roberto Zucco, Angels in America (Buddies in Bad Times); Jesus Christ Superstar (Here for Now); Hamlet (The Rose); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (TIP); Fall on Your Knees (CanStage/ NAC). Stunt performer/actor credits (selected): Copenhagen, Twisted Metal S2, Law & Order Toronto, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, The Boys, Handmaid’s Tale Upcoming theatre projects: Witch (Soulpepper). Online: anitanittoly.com.

MICHAEL HART

ÉRIC CHARBONNEAU (HE/HIM)

MATHILDA KANE (SHE/THEY)

DAVID CHINCHILLA

DONNA FEORE

ANITA NITTOLY

HOLLY KORHONEN

MONIQUE

ARtiSTIC COMPANY

2026: Costume designer of Guys and Dolls. 25th season. Stratford (selected): Sense and Sensibility, Frankenstein Revived, Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls, Timon of Athens, Henry IV, Part 1. Elsewhere (recent): Procession (National Ballet); Standard Deviation (New York City Ballet); The Lehman Trilogy (Canadian Stage); Elf the Musical, Mary Poppins (Grand Theatre); Skyward (National Ballet/Alberta/Orlando Ballet); Bernhardt/Hamlet (Goodman, Chicago); 9 to 5 the Musical, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Citadel); A Christmas Carol (Ross Petty); The Hound of the Baskervilles, Androcles and the Lion (Shaw); Flight, The Barber of Seville (Pacific Opera/Opéra de Québec); Art, Picture This, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts I, II, III) (Soulpepper). Awards: Two Dora Awards, one Sterling Award; 2012 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award. Online: danaosborne.ca, @danaodesigns. For Mom and Dad.

HALEY PARCHER

2026: Sound designer of Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! Third season. Stratford: Something Rotten! and Annie Elsewhere (recent designs): Broadway: Monty Python’s Spamalot. Off Broadway/tour: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Off Broadway, New World Stages); Monty Python’s Spamalot (North American national tour). Regional: Schmigadoon!, NINE, Bye Bye Birdie, Tick, Tick… Boom!, Sunset Boulevard and Guys and Dolls (Kennedy Center); Bull Durham (Papermill Playhouse); Waitress, Mary Poppins, Something’s Afoot, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, The Wiz, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (The 5th Avenue Theatre); The Last 5 Years (A Contemporary Theatre); High Society (Ogunquit Playhouse); Cabaret (The Old Globe); Mamma Mia! (Village Theatre); How Can I Love You (Cave B); We’ve Battled Monsters Before, Violet (ArtsWest). Et cetera: Love to Hannah and her family.

2026: Assistant stage manager of Guys and Dolls. Third season. Stratford: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dangerous Liaisons, Something Rotten! Elsewhere (selected): Gypsy, A Grand Night for Singing, Gem of the Ocean, Just to Get Married, Cyrano de Bergerac, Desire Under the Elms, Trouble in Mind, Shawground, Fairground, Gatsby’s Jazz, Sonny’s Blues, Getting Married, Mythos, The Magician’s Nephew, Wilde Tales, 1979, Sweeney Todd, The Next Whisky Bar, Top Girls, Our Town, Peter and the Starcatcher (Shaw Festival); Little Red Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions); 1979 (1979 Productions); A Christmas Carol (Soulpepper); Armide, Persée (Opera Atelier, Royal Opera House of Versailles); Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera Atelier); Educating Rita, She Loves Me (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Blue/Orange, The Winter Wonderettes (Theatre Kingston). Training: BA (Hons), B.Ed (Queen’s University).

PAIGE PRYSTUPA (SHE/HER)

2026: Assistant costume designer of Guys and Dolls. Second season. Stratford: Assistant set and costume designer of Anne of Green Gables and Ransacking Troy Elsewhere: As designer: Heathers the Musical, The Lightning Thief (Storybook Theatre); Stone Soup and Festive Favourites (Calgary Opera); Clue, The Frozen Deep (Calgary Young Peoples’ Theatre); Fairground (Shaw Festival). As design assistant: 1922, Chitra, The Importance of Being Earnest, Too True to Be Good, Gaslight (Shaw Festival). As playwright: Heel (New Ideas Festival). Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Production Design and Technical Arts.

2026: Assistant lighting designer of Guys and Dolls, Something Rotten! and Waiting for Godot. Fifth season. Stratford: Lighting designer of The Words of War: A Churchill and Shakespeare Cabaret (The Meighen Forum), Langham Directors’ Workshop Presentations (2025, 2024, 2022). Assistant lighting designer on 12 productions. Elsewhere: Lighting designer: Troilus and Cressida, Merchant of Venice, Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare BASH’d); Alkebulan (Batuki Music Society); Legally Blonde, London Road (MacEwan); La Bohème, Is He Dead?, Almost Maine, The Underpants, Stupid F***ing Bird (University of Wisconsin); The Drawer Boy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Three Sisters (University of Windsor). Associate lighting designer: The Mars Project (FFDN); 1939 (Canadian Stage), FRONTIERS & WATER SPIRIT (Lua Shayenne Dance Company); Maggie (The Savoy). Assistant lighting designer: My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage); Fall for Dance North (2025, 2024, 2023). Training: MFA Theatre – Lighting Design (University of Wisconsin); BA(H): Drama (University of Windsor).

2026: Stage manager of Guys and Dolls and Something Rotten! 30th season. Stratford (selected): Annie, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Crazy for You, Fiddler on the Roof, Camelot, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, The Music Man, 42nd Street, Oliver, The King and I and My Fair Lady Elsewhere: Over 40 years as a stage manager in live entertainment, including gala events, music concerts, opening ceremonies and fundraising events. Over 25 years with the Canadian Opera Company as a stage manager. 25 years as a singer/dancer and choreographer. Associate director/choreographer to her mentor, Alan Lund. Et cetera: Thank you to my family: My daughter Jennifer, my son-in-law, Andrew, my grandchildren Kennedy, Koston and Connor and my sister, brother, nieces, nephews and my 98-year-old Dad. We miss you, Steph. Enjoy the show from heaven!!! I am dedicating my season to Paul Shaw.

2026: Assistant set designer of Guys and Dolls and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant set designer: Annie, As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility, Something Rotten!, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, London Assurance, Wedding Band, Richard II. Elsewhere: Set designer: Humour Me (Here for Now Theatre); Macbeth, Phaedra’s Love, Amphitryon, The Fall of the House of Atreus (Stratford Festival Directors’ Workshop). Design coordinator: Tosca, NAC Touring Production; Twelfth Night (Stratford Conservatory Workshop, 2026). Awards: Tom Patterson Award for Emerging Designer, 2024. Online: freddyvancamp.ca.

2026: Casting director for the Stratford Festival. Fifth season. Stratford: Tootles in Peter Pan Directing: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, After Jerusalem, Tribes, The Whipping Man, Stars of David… (WJT); The Theory of Relativity, The Secret Garden (MTYP Musical Theatre Company); Frankenstein (University of Winnipeg); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Knavish Hedgehogs at Winnipeg Fringe). Acting: Mendel in Falsettos (WJT/ Dry Cold Productions); Snail in A Year With Frog and Toad and Snoopy in A Charlie Brown Double Bill (Manitoba Theatre for Young People); Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Et cetera: Ari served as Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s Artistic and Managing Director from 2015 to 2022. He is a proud recipient of the 2025 Artistic Director’s Guthrie Award. “This season is dedicated to Antoni Cimolino and Brigit Wilson for their friendship and mentorship.”

A member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Stratford Festival engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

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Scenic artists are members of IATSE Local 828.

The musicians, musical directors, conductors and orchestra contractors engaged by the Stratford Festival are members of the Toronto Musicians’ Association, Local 149 of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.

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Sandra & Jim Pitblado^

Richard Rooney & Laura Dinner^

$5 MILLION to $9,999,999

Jane & Raphael Bernstein*^

The Birmingham Family^

The late Robert G.E. Murray & the late Marion Murray

The Weston Family Anonymous (1)

$2.5 MILLION to $4,999,999

Richard & Mona Alonzo*

The Marilyn & Charles Baillie Fund

Estate of Mona Louise Campbell

Estate of Estelle H. Cohen*

Robert & Mary Ann Gorlin*^

Mary Winton Green & the late David Green*

The Schulich Foundation

The Slaight Family Foundation

Robert & Jacqueline Sperandio*

The Richard James Mackler Endowment Fund for the Stratford Festival

LEADERSHIP DONORS

$1 MILLION to $2,499,999

Tony & Anne Arrell

Sylvia D. Chrominska^ Dalio Philanthropies*

The John & Myrna Daniels Charitable Foundation

The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation*

Jim Fleck

John & Therese Gardner*^

Rita & Rudy Koehler

The Elizabeth Lang Fund

Dr. Desta Leavine

John & Arlene Lewis*^

Janet & Richard Lint^

Tim & Alexandra MacDonald^

Estate of Nina Martin

The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

Gifts and pledges in support of Productions and Special Projects in the 2026 season. Reflects gifts and pledges up to February 15, 2026

$2.5 MILLION + Ophelia & Mike Lazaridis^

$500,000+

Anonymous (1)

$100,000 to $499,999

Daniel Bernstein & Claire Foerster*^

The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation*

David & Amy Fulton Foundation*

John & Therese Gardner*^

The Harkins-Manning Family in memory of Jim & Susan Harkins

The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation

Danette Gentile Kauffman in memory of Gretchan & Dan Gentile*

MEH Foundation

Wendy Pitblado^

Richard Rooney & Laura Dinner^

The Schulich Foundation

Laurie J. Scott

Robert & Jacqueline Sperandio*

Carol Stephenson, O.C.^

The Westaway Charitable Foundation

The Whiteside Foundation

$50,000 to $99,999

Jane & Raphael Bernstein*^

Dorothy Lynne Byrne-Jones

Sylvia D. Chrominska^ Priscilla Costello

Dr. Ian Doris

Robert & Mary Ann Gorlin*^

Dr. Dennis & Dorothea Hacker

The Henry White Kinnear Foundation

The Martin Family

Erica Peresman & David Jaffe*^

Peggy Ptasznik* The Sabourin Family Foundation

Martie & Bob Sachs*^

Three Generations of the Schubert Family*^

Sylvia Soyka

Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen

Peter & Carol Walters*^

Catherine Wilkes in memory of David Anonymous (2)

$25,000 to $49,999

Karon Bales & Charles Beall^

Cathy & Paul Cotton

Donner Canadian Foundation

Ann Fairhurst & Mark Cipra* M. Fainer

$5 MILLION+

Daniel Bernstein & Claire Foerster*^

MEH Foundation

Dr. M.L. Myers & the late W.P. Hayman^

The Northpine Foundation

The Honourable David &

Shelley Peterson^

Tim & Frances Price

Cec & Linda Rorabeck^

Martie & Bob Sachs*^

Barbara & John Schubert*^

Andy & Helen Spriet^

Carol Stephenson, O.C.^

Deirdre Stevenson

The late Nancy & George Taylor^

Peter & Carol Walters*^

The Westaway Charitable Foundation

Catherine Wilkes in memory of David

Matilda R. Wilson Fund*

Anonymous (2)

To honour Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino’s legacy, the Inspiring Excellence Campaign celebrates the past, strengthens the present and ensures a vibrant future for the Festival we all cherish. Reflects gifts made up to February 15, 2026

Julia Foster, C.M. & Robert Foster, C.M.^

Jane & Raphael Bernstein*^

Sandra & Jim Pitblado^

The Weston Family

$1 MILLION to $4,999,999

Mona Alonzo Trust*

Tony & Anne Arrell

Marilyn & Charles Baillie

Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney^

Cathy & John Phillips, The Northpine Foundation

Andy & Helen Spriet^

Catherine Wilkes in memory of David

$500,000 to $999,999

The Elizabeth Lang Fund

Richard Lint^

$250,000 to $499,999

John & Debbie Erb*^

Oriana & Rob Gordon^

Robert & Mary Ann Gorlin*^

Dr. Desta Leavine

John & Arlene Lewis*^

Margaret & Lawrence Marsland^

Laurie J. Scott

Renate & Richard Soulen*

Anonymous (1)

$100,000 to $249,999

David & Patricia Adams^

Don & Nancy Allen

John & Dian Bell^

Bryan Blenkin & Alan Rowe

John M. Cassaday, C.M.^

Sylvia D. Chrominska^

William & Lacey Collins*

Shawn & Judy Denstedt

Alexander E. Graham & Karen S. Madorsky^

The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen

Foundation

Dr. M. Lee Myers^ The Honourable David & Shelley Peterson^

Wendy Pitblado^

Vic & Peggy Ptasznik Family*

Mike Rein & Candy Renard*

Barbara Schubert*^

Carol Stephenson, O.C.^

Sylvia Soyka

Jacqueline Sperandio*

Larry & Pamela Stevenson^

Peter & Carol Walters*^

$50,000 to $99,999

Britton Smith Foundation

Dick Furnstahl & Terri Stankiewicz*

John & Therese Gardner*^

The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation

Jane Fryman Laird*

William H. Loewen & Shirley E. Loewen

Harvey & Sharon McCue^

Janine Pearson+

Laura Pogson

John & Julie Ptasznik*^

The Sabourin Family Foundation

Martie & Bob Sachs*^

Riki Turofsky & Charles Petersen

$10,000 to $49,999

Joy & Tony Abbott

Andy & Karen Abrams*

Hollie & Marlene Archer

Mr. & Mrs. Gilberto Arias, Jr.*^

Bob & Judy Astley^

Richard J. Balfour

John & Jocelyn Barford

Family Foundation

Elin & Barry Becker

Robert & Judith Blowes^

Barbara Burbidge

Fred & Eileen Calabrese*

Ellen & Brian Carr

Antoni Cimolino & Brigit Wilson+

Patricia Debrusk

In memory of Mary desJardins*

William Dillane & Rena Bedard

Michael Dingman & Susan Sumner-Dingman*

Nicki & Bryce Douglas^

Ann Fairhurst & Mark Cipra*

Patricia A. Forbes

Gloria Friedman*

Honouring Front of the House Staff

Anita Gaffney & Kevin Misener+

Heather V. Gibson

Ian & Helen Giffen^

Luke & Hayley Gilgan^

Jody & Deborah Hamade

Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation

John & Leni Honsaker Fund

John T. Hunt

Archie & Jean Hunter

William Hurst

Farhan Imam & Farrah Jawaid^

Jackman Foundation The Johnston Family*

Pamela Jones & Rainer

& Nini

& William Povalla*

Brian Rolfes & Bradley Berg^

Mark Scandling*

Schumacher Family*

Denis Schuthe & Lynne Dubeau

David B. Simmonds^

Rachel Smith-Spencer+

David Staines & Noreen Taylor^

Nargis & Shaukat Tarmohamed^

Cindy Taylor & Scott McLauchlan

Kristin Taylor^

Linda TerHaar & Bruce Westlake*

Susan Tough & Russell Wardell

The Tremain Family

Chip & Barbara Vallis^

Diane Walker & Rob Bell^

Ross Waller & Ann Huebner*

Suzanne & Bob Weiss^

Lyman & Deana Welch*

Jeremy & Carrie Wreford - Bradshaws^

Anonymous (2)

Marilyn Gropp

The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation

Jackman Foundation

Doug Kennedy

Jane Fryman Laird*

Philip & Berthe Morton Foundation

Dr. M. Lee Myers^

Dyanne Ratner

Dr. Robert J. &

Roberta Sokol*

The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation*

Alice & Tim Thornton*

The Tremain Family

$10,000 to $24,999

Richard & Mona Alonzo*

Kate & Gil Arias*^

In memory of Marie Barbara

Julia Fesmire*

The Jentes Family*

Mark Monette & Judy F. Lane*

Frank & Jennifer Moore*

100 Women of Wilmot

ESTATE GIFTS

The Stratford Festival is grateful to these individuals who had the foresight and commitment to include the Festival in their estate plans.

Reflects gifts made up to February 15, 2026

Estate of Joyce L. DeVecchi

Estate of Davetta Faria

Estate of Ruth Franks

Estate of Michael Graham

Estate of M. L. Sam Grant

Estate of Barney Hammond*

Estate of Eve Harp

Estate of Barbara Heggie

Estate of Douglas Hodgson

Muriel Kassimatis

Charitable Fund

Estate of H. Rachel King

Estate of Frances E. Kitchingham

Estate of Anthony LaMarca*

Estate of Enid Kathleen Larson

Estate of John Macaulay

Estate of Peter Mackey*

Estate of Richard Mackler

Estate of Doris McCarthy

Estate of Carson B. McIntosh

Estate of Jacqueline McKee

Estate of Margaret McKelvey

Estate of Joanne Morrow

Estate of Wanda Plachta

Estate of Ellen Pearson

Estate of Vida Peene

Estate of Carole Rankmore

Estate of Cecily Ratney

Sharon Ruble Trust*

Estate of Patricia Russell

Estate of Noelle Saville

Estate of Penelope Sullivan

Estate of Michael R. Tyler

Estate of Clarke Dewey Wells*

Estate of

PLAYWRIGHTS’ CIRCLE MEMBERSHIP DONORS

Reflects gifts made up to December 31, 2025 ARTISTIC

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

$100,000+ The Schulich Foundation

PLATINUM STAGE

$50,000 to $99,999 Carol Stephenson, O.C.^ RUBY STAGE

$25,000 to $49,999 Robert &

Cimolino &

M. Moog*

INSPIRING EXCELLENCE CAMPAIGN

Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino has shaped not only productions, but also generations of artists and audiences, as well as the Festival itself.

To celebrate Antoni’s legacy and help secure the Festival’s future, we invite you to support the Inspiring Excellence Campaign: a campaign dedicated to advancing artist training, supporting bold new works and enhancing the audience experience, while upholding the highest artistic standards that define the Stratford Festival.

Your donation – in any amount – honours the past, strengthens the present and ensures a vibrant future for the Festival we all cherish.

Contributions of $100 or more will receive recognition on our website as part of a tribute to Antoni’s extraordinary tenure.

Contributions of $10,000 or more will receive an engraved paving stone in the Festival Theatre gardens.

For more information or to make a gift to the Inspiring Excellence Campaign, please visit stratfordfestival.ca/IE.

For gifts of $10,000+, please email membership@stratfordfestival.ca.

STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA – 2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FOUNDER: TOM PATTERSON

OFFICERS

Chair: Lawrence N. Stevenson, Toronto, ON

Vice-Chair: Brian J. Rolfes, Toronto, ON

Treasurer: Farhan Imam, Mississauga, ON

Secretary: Heather Bedard, Stratford, ON

DIRECTORS

Robert Blowes, Waterloo, ON

John Cassaday, Toronto, ON

Deborah Dorrell Erb, Bloomfield Hills, MI & Bayfield, ON

Luke Gilgan, Toronto, ON

Alexander E. Graham, London, UK

Dominique Hussey, Toronto, ON Farhan Imam, Mississauga, ON

Kim N. Lang, Montreal, QC

Harvey McCue, Ottawa, ON Warda Shazadi Meighen, Toronto, ON

Toks (Tokunboh) Olaoluwa, Oakville, ON

Erica Peresman, Birmingham, MI

Linda Rexer, Ann Arbor, MI

Brian J. Rolfes, Toronto, ON

Eugene Siklos, Toronto, ON

David Simmonds, Toronto, ON

David Staines, Ottawa, ON

Kristene Steed, Stratford, ON

Lawrence N. Stevenson, Toronto, ON

Kristin Taylor, Toronto, ON

Carrie Wreford, Stratford, ON

EX OFFICIO

Past Chair: David Adams, Beaconsfield, QC

Chair, Stratford Shakespeare Festival of America: Kevin Turner, St Petersburg, FL

Mayor of Stratford: His Worship Martin Ritsma

STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION – 2026 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

Chair: Edward Devlin, Innisfil, ON

Vice-Chair: Daniel S. Bernstein, Hanover, NH

DIRECTORS

John Bell, Cambridge, ON

Daniel S. Bernstein, Hanover, NH

Edward Devlin, Innisfil, ON

John D. Lewis, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

Shirley Miller, Toronto, ON

David R. Peterson, Toronto, ON

Carol Stephenson, London, ON

Ross Waller, Lexington, VA

Jim Young, Toronto, ON

STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF AMERICA – 2026 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OFFICERS

Chair: Kevin Turner, St Petersburg, FL

Vice-Chair: Martha Schubert, Cleveland Heights, OH

Treasurer: John Ptasznik, Troy, MI

Secretary: Erica Peresman, Birmingham, MI

DIRECTORS

Lisa Dobbin, Sterling Heights, MI

Julia Keim, Grosse Point Park, MI

Kimberly Kelley, New York, NY

Kelli Landes, Chicago, IL

Vivienne Lee, Ann Arbor, MI

Matthew Pickus, Saline, MI

Martha Thornton Montzka, Saint Paul, MN

EX OFFICIO

Past Chair, Stratford Festival of America:

John Gardner, Mishawaka, IN

Chair, Stratford Festival of Canada: Lawrence N. Stevenson, Toronto, ON

Address: c/o Corporate Secretary, Stratford Festival, P.O. Box 520, Stratford, ON N5A 6V2

ANTONI CIMOLINO. PHOTO: TED BELTON.

Meredith McCauley

Whitney McIntosh

Janice Mitchell

Cheryl Moses

Barbara Redden

Raphe St.Pierre

DISTRIBUTION

CENTRE

Mailroom Coordinator

Candy Brown

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Associate Director, Food & Beverage

Mike Fish

Executive Chef

Kendrick Prins

Sous Chefs

Alondra Galvez

Ian Middleton

Culinary Team

Ashlee Bennett

Jacob Bergsma

Diane Gingerich

Oliver Moore

Andrew Stanton

Greenroom Hosts

Alexander Franke

Kimberley

MacMaster

Corinne

Montgomery

Cameron Sprott

Events Manager

Janine Metelski

F&B Operations Coordinator

Janice Pavelin

Event Lead Hand

Sasha Bannon

Food & Beverage

Lead Hands

Lisa Campbell

Jodi Cawston

Lynne DeWys

Rachel Frederick

Arrianne Fulig

Cassandra Hyde

Karen Kane

Amanda Langis

Josie Muncaster

Natalie Sacco

Becca Springall

Anik Watson

Alli Whittaker

Food & Beverage Staff

Maureen Abbott

Sue Bidgood

Kayla Bolger

Kyra Brancatelli

Jane Brenneman

Brynne DeBoeck

Lisa Egli

Karen Elliott

Sydney Fuhrman

Brianna Glosnek

Lee Hawco

Lori Noon

Erin O’Connor

Skye Potter

Hayley Press

Megan Schaff

Dane Telford

Guy Thomas

STRATFORD FESTIVAL SHOP

Retail Operations Manager

Chris Hanington

Assistant Manager, Retail

Chaslyn StevensonHastings

Retail Administrator

Kim Switzer

Theatre Store Supervisor

Cindy Ramier

Sales Associates

Kristina Baron-Woods

Dawn Bell

George Bertwell

Shelly Gilson

Theresa Gleadall

Silvia Harris

Tania Harvey

Sherry LeSouder

Erika Mahy

Lauren Mathieson

Ashley McGowan

Shireen Sasani

Kelsey Stephenson

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Senior Director, Marketing & Communications

Ann Swerdfager

Marketing Director, Creative Strategy

Carly Douglas

Director of Film Production & Distribution

Genna Megaw

Associate Director, Analytics

Jen Skelly

Senior Manager, Marketing Production

Melinda Timmins

Marketing & Promotions Manager

Sarah Crook

Social Media Manager

Allison Gold

Website Marketing Manager

Marissa Harley

Education & Outreach Manager

Drea Kerr

CRM Systems Manager

Michele Keutsch Publicist

Helena Turpin

Digital Marketing Manager

Saurabh Yadav

The Stratford Festival acknowledges the members of The Friends of the Festival for their continued contributions. This dedicated group of volunteers provides thousands of hours of support annually. They can be found everywhere –welcoming patrons to the theatre, answering questions, working on special projects, assisting at Meighen Forum events and so much more! We are so grateful for all they contribute to making each season possible.

Marketing Administrator

Katie Clark

Senior Graphic Designer

Sharon Zehr (Shelby Boyd)

Graphic Designer

Erin Edwards

Film Sales & Marketing Coordinator

Vilma Mancini

Marketing Coordinator, Meighen Forum, Education & Outreach

Ben Thomas

Reporting & Data Analyst

Ramandeep Kaur

Marketing Automation Specialist

Duane Woods

Publicity Assistant Nathan Mackey

FOR ASSISTANCE AND ACCESSIBILITY

We’re here to help. Our facilities are accessible, and we offer assistive devices and services to patrons as and when required. If you need assistance, please ask the House Manager or any member of the Stratford Festival team.

CAMERAS, CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES

For the safety of the artists and in accordance with the intellectual property rights associated with the productions, all cameras, audio and video recorders must be turned off during the performance. In addition, please turn off all mobile devices, as their sounds and lights will disturb actors and other guests. If you require access to a mobile device for accessibility reasons, please see the House Manager before the performance.

FOOD AND DRINK

We offer auditorium-friendly cups for our beverages and invite you to bring your drink to your seat.* Bottled water is also permitted; however, all snacks are to be enjoyed outside the auditorium.

*Complimentary beverages served within the members lounge cannot be consumed outside the lounge.

MEMBERS LOUNGES

We offer three complimentary lounges for those who contribute generously with financial gifts over and above their ticket purchases. Please consult stratfordfestival.ca/Membership

LATE ARRIVAL AND READMISSION

If you arrive late or leave the auditorium during the performance, we will make every effort to seat you at a suitable break. Please be advised that this may not be the seat you are ticketed for, depending on its location in the theatre. In the interim, or if we cannot reseat you safely, we invite you to watch the performance on our lobby monitors.

FIRST AID

We take the health and safety of our patrons seriously. Any member of our team will coordinate first-aid assistance if required. Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are available at all our venues.

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

In case of an evacuation, please follow the instructions of Stratford Festival staff, who will escort you to safety. If you discover a fire, please activate the fire alarm and notify a Festival staff member.

PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY

To view our patron and donor privacy protection policy, please visit stratfordfestival.ca/Privacy

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