THE PLAYERS Barbara Pollard TWELFTH NIGHT – Fabiana HAMLET – Gertrude Barbara is the co-creator of the international hits Mom’s the Word, Mom’s the Word II: Unhinged and Mom’s the Word: Remixed (For Crying Out Loud). As an instructor at Studio 58, she directed ten productions during her six year tenure. Recent credits include: Fiddler on the Roof (Gateway Theatre), The Spitfire Grill (Pacific Theatre), The Music Man (TUTS), Lie of the Mind and True West (Main Street Theatre). She received a Jessie Award for best actress for her role in Lie of the Mind, and two more for Mom’s the Word (best original play and best collective performance).
Haig Sutherland MEASURE FOR MEASURE – Friar/ Court Clerk /Abhorson ELIZABETH REX – Ned Haig is appearing in his tenth season with Bard on the Beach. Among his favourite past roles at Bard are King Richard in Richard II, Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra, and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Other recent theatre credits include Secret Mask (Presentation House), Initiation Trilogy and All the Way Home (Electric Company), and Scar Tissue (Arts Club). Select film and television work includes: Motive, Supernatural, Psych, Fringe and Stargate Universe. Upcoming, Haig will be seen in Gateway Theatre’s production of Yasmina Reza’s ‘Art’.
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Luc Roderique MEASURE FOR MEASURE – Claudio ELIZABETH REX – Matt (Claudio) Luc returns for his fourth year at Bard. He has appeared in The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It, Henry V, Falstaff, The Comedy of Errors and Othello. Recent theatre credits include Three Sisters (Only Child Collective), She Stoops to Conquer (Arts Club) and Ash Rizin (Greenthumb/ATP). His film and television credits include: Supernatural, Fairly Legal, Caprica, Divine: The Series and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Upcoming, Luc will appear in Legendary Pictures’ fantasy epic Seventh Son as well as their blockbuster remake of Godzilla. Luc is a Jessie Richardson Award winning actor and a graduate of Studio 58.
Todd Thomson TWELFTH NIGHT – Orsino HAMLET – Laertes Now in his eighth season with Bard, Todd appeared last year in The Merry Wives of Windsor and King John. Selected theatre credits include: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Pound of Flesh Theatre), Gordon and The School for Scandal (Arts Club), This (Playhouse), The Patient Hour (Tarragon Theatre), My Acid Trip (Solo Collective), A Dolls’ House (Chemainus), Macbeth (Pound of Flesh Theatre), The Bond (Pound of Flesh Theatre), Metamorphoses (Citadel Theatre), Espresso (Pacific Theatre), and The Shape of Things (Manitoba Theatre Centre). Selected television credits include; Fringe, Smallville, End Game, Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, The 4400 and Blade.