Cast Bio's

For Hart House: Lear in King Lear, 2008; William in Criminals in Love, 2008; Ghost in Hamlet, 2006 ; Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet, 2005; Don Gonzalo in the Joker of Seville, 1980; Afanasi in Last Summer in Chulimsk, 1979; Lundestad in League of Youth, 1978; Mereia in Caligula, 1975.
For Canopy: Oedipus Rex (Tiresius/shepherd); Romeo & Juliet(Montague, Apothecary); For Bard in the Park: The Tempest (Prospero); For Tempest Theatre Company: Macbeth (Porter, Doctor, Seaton), Othello (Brabantio), Hamlet (Ghost/ Luciano/ Gravedigger), Romeo & Juliet (Prince/chorus); For PLS:Clyomon & Clamydes, (Corin/K. of Swavia/K. of Denmark/et al); Richard III [1594], (Rivers/Standley/Citizen); King Lier, (Perillus); The Famous Victories of Henry V (Duke of York/Robin Pewterer); Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay, (King of Castille/Clement/Keeper’s friend); For Tarragon, The Paris Letter (Anton Kilgallen); For The Essential Players, Fool for Love (Old Man), Unleavable, (Dan); For Robert Gill, Paid on Both Sides, (Doctor/Announcer), Julius Caesar, (Brutus), It’s Nothing Serious, (Virgadamo), The Real Thing, (Max)

For Hart House Theatre: Wineva in Criminals in Love.
Selected Credits: Irene Molloy in Hello, Dolly! (Stowe Theatre Guild), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew, and Ellen in Vinegar Tom (RPP), Aunt Gert in Lost in Yonkers (Lost Nation Theatre), Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Joan/Nurse Wilson in 7 Stories (Theatre Erindale), Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ophelia in Hamlet (Champlain College Players).  Film credits include: Kate in Friends with Strangers (Vigh Entertainment), and Esmeralda in Dominoes (Make You Think Productions).
Annemieke is also the Artistic Producer for Royal Porcupine Productions (RPP).  Check out RPP’s next show, The Shadow of a Boy at the Lower Ossington Theatre – September 15th – 26th, 2010.

For Hart House:  Demetrius in Midsummer Night’s Dream and King of France in King Lear.
Selected Credits: Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Malcolm in Macbeth and Orsino/Feste  in Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre Project), Bobby Strong in Urinetown (UC Follies), Willy Carson in The Sea, Geoffrey in Stepping Out and Sergeant Trotter in The Mousetrap (UP).
Andrew holds a BFA in acting from the University of Windsor and a Diploma from the Moscow Art Theatre School.  His performance of Orsino/Feste was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award.   Much love as always to Kate for keeping my head on straight.

For Hart House Theatre: Debut
Recent acting credits include: Dead Cat Bounce (Toronto Fringe ’10); The Good Body (V-Day Toronto); Yichud (Seclusion) (Convergence Theatre); Palace of the End (Alumnae Theatre); 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls (Toronto Fringe '09); Angelika's Promise (AGO); Mother Courage and Her Children (Ryerson, Richard Greenblatt); Metamorphoses (Ryerson, Jordan Pettle). Sochi is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School (2009) and of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (2005) in New York City.

For Hart House Theatre: Egeus in Midsummer Night's Dream
Selected Credits: For Canopy Theatre: Romeo and Juliet (Capulet), As You Like It (Duke Senior). For Studio BLR: Hamlette (Claudius). For Alchemy Theatre: The Tempest (Alonso), Twelfth Night (Olivier), Julius Caesar (Cassius), Antony and Cleopatra (Lepidus), Timon of Athens (Lucullus), Merry Wives of Windsor (Slender). For Alumnae Theatre: Delicate Balance, Conscientia. For Village Players: Ravenscroft, The Heiress, Relatively Speaking, The Winslow Boy, The Price.

For Hart House Theatre: Cassius in Julius Caesar
Selected Credits: Deflores in The Changeling, Gilbert in Knives in Hens, Hitler in Mein Kampf, and Tobias in Delicate Balance (Drama Centre); Bob Float in The Aquarium and Robert Greene in It Was Kit (Triple Take Productions); Caesar in Julius Caesar, Master Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Mascarille in Precious Maidens Ridiculed (Alchemy Theatre); Goldberg in The Birthday Party and Ernest in The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine (Rhino Productions); Shaft in Lysistrata and Strepsiades in The Clouds (Ancient Comic Opera Co.). His directing credits include The Birthday Party (Rhino), Antichrist (PLS), Taming of the Shrew (Skylight Theatre), Happy Days and Everyman (Earthbound).

For Hart House Theatre: Title role in Othello.
Recent theatre credits include Taming of the Shrewwith Theatre By The Bay, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Shakespeare In Action, The Nile at the Toronto Fringe Festival, The Overwhelming with Studio 180 and The Canadian Stage Company.
André has spent the past four seasons working at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival acting in the following shows: Macbeth,Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet,Love’s Labour’s Lost, Caesar & Cleopatra, Henry IV, Part 1,The Duchess of Malfi and Pentecost. (Caesar & Cleopatra was also filmed for the Bravo Network.) André is a graduate of theBirmingham Conservatory under David Latham. He made his American theatre debut recently playing the title role in Othello, and the lead Harmond Wilks in Radio Golf with the St. Louis Black Repertory Company. Other theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Canadian Stage), and Titus Andronicus(Canopy Theatre). André is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School.
Upcoming theatre: Soulseek for Birdland Theatre, and Ruined for Obsidian Theatre.
Andre is very pleased to be returning to the Hart House Stage after six years.

For Hart House Theatre: Panacea in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, West/Woman 3/Voice 1 in Thirteen Hands
Selected Credits: Alex & Evil Jenny in Double Double (Toronto Fringe Festival 2010); Sandra in Weightless (New Ideas Festival/ Alumnae Theatre);
Emilia in The Bards Betrayal, Tina in Pieces (Smashing Bat Theatre); Sorceress in Aladdin, Bertha the Evil Stepmother in Cinderella (Solar Stage Children's Theatre); 
Olivia in Twelfth Night (Forward Theatre); Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing (Canopy Theatre).
Claire is passionate about the development of new Canadian works and has been a part of new play development with TheatreKairos, Elephants in the Room (Theatre Passe Muraille Emerging Artists Group), Strange Bird Theatre and Gailey Road Productions.  This fall she will begin writing her second play about the relationship between Emmeline Pankhurst & her daughter Christabel.

For Hart House Theatre: Debut
Selected Credits: Ethan in Romantic/Fanatic (Fool Productions), Jamie in Dead Man's Party (Monkeyman Productions), Le Beau/Jacques de Boys in As You Like It (Canopy Theatre), Queensberry/Gill/Lockwood in Gross Indecency and Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (Staged And Confused). Martin's directing credits include Godzilla On Sundays (Monkeyman Productions) and Proof (Staged And Confused).

Hart House: Debut
Selected Credits: Benny Swim in The Trials of Benny Swim (Valley Young Company); Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Daltheatre); Morrisey Moth in A Spider’s Tale (Daltheatre and Symphony Nova Scotia); Tuzenbach in Three Sisters (Daltheatre)
“Let’s kick it up a notch! Bam!” (Sorry, it’s tradition...)

For Hart House: Debut
Selected Credits: Macbeth in Macbeth (workshop production—University of Windsor), Cinesias in Lysistrata, Lloyd Dallas in Noises Off, Friar Peter in Measure for Measure, Father Gabriel in Widows, Phipps in An Ideal Husband (University Players), Nihad in Scorched (Studio Theatre—University of Windsor), Young Lucius in Titus Andronicus, Boy in Waiting for Godot, Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale, and Young Martius in Coriolanus (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). He has written musical scores for Love You Forever...And More Munsch (Stirling Festival Theatre), Lysistrata, Measure for Measure, Proof and produced and directed the musical The Last Five Years (University of Windsor). He also assistant directed at The Shakespeare School for three years (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). He holds a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Windsor.

Hart House Theatre: Debut
Selected Credits: Self in How to Become a Diva! (solo show, Montreal & Toronto Fringe Festivals), Dianne in Hungry Woman's Breakfast (Thisisnotatheatrecompany), Gertrude in Hamlet (Driftwood Theatre), Judith in My Darling Judith (Theatre Collingwood), Duke Frederick/Duke Senior/Corin in As You Like It (Driftwood Theatre), Arlene Miller in Murder at the Howard Johnson's (Mainstreet Theatre Company) and Julia Sterroll in Noel Coward's Fallen Angels (Markham Little Theatre) for which she won a Comic Acting THEA Award.  Terri's directing credits include 2 award-winning short films, which she also wrote and starred in:  Wishful Thinking and The Dirty Truth.  In a previous life, she was a reporter for Canadian Living Television on Life Network and the host of Dancing at the Palais for W. Terri also freelances as a writer and occasionally teaches corporate improv with her husband, Al Catlin.

Ian is thrilled to be making his Shakespearean debut in Richard III at Hart House Theatre and to be working with such an amazing cast. Ian has been acting since he was 7 years old (he's now the ripe old age of 11). Previous theatre credits include Toronto Youth Theatre productions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Fairy Tale Ending. He's been seen and heard in television and radio commercials, and even got to scream in a horror movie (but he is too young to actually see it!). Ian is so happy to be working with Jeremy again. He would like to send out a big thank you to his parents, his sister and 3 brothers for their constant support, encouragement, and occasional teasing and his agents, Nancy Brown and Noelle Jenkinson (AMI) for believing in him. When Ian isn't performing or at school, he's playing basketball and if this acting thing doesn't pan out, he'll settle for a career in the NBA.

For Hart House: Debut
Katie is very excited to be in the Hart House production of Richard III with such a fun and talented cast and crew. Katie attended the high school Etobicoke School of the Arts as a drama major where she performed as Rachel in My Name is Rachel Corrie, Gail in Escape from Happiness, and Anna in Hide and Seek. Additional credits include Mary Magdalen in Resurrection Play for the Chester Festival, Tina in the UCDP's production of Tough!,Minna in Civilization and its Dissed Contents for Hart House's U of T Drama Festival, and the alter-ego in Date and Mrs. Lisbon in For whom The Bell Tolls as part of Tarragon Theatre's Spring Training Project. Katie is currently in her second year of the University College Drama Program at the University of Toronto's St. George campus and enjoys competing for the varsity cross-country and track teams.

For Hart House Theatre: Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edgar in King Lear, Protean(s) in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Selected Credits: For Canopy Theatre: Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Oliver in As You Like It, Brion in Love’s Labours Lost and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (Theatre Erindale), Big Jule in Guys & Dolls (The Grand Theatre), Johnny Casino in Grease and Johnny in The Saga of the Steamer Atlantic (Original Kids Theatre). Neil has also appeared on The Smart Woman’s Survival Guide for W Network. His directing credits include Urinetown (UC Follies), Romeo and Julitet (Original Kids Theatre), Chess (Althouse College) and Checkhov by the Sea for the Erindale Fringe Festival.
Neil also works with young actors as an acting coach and teacher.

For Hart House Theatre: Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2009); Jellaby in Arcadia (2009); Gloucester in King Lear (2008); Edward Hawthorne in Stephen and Mr. Wilde (2008); Julius Cæsar in Julius Cæsar (2007);  Polonius in Hamlet (2006), Harry Raymond in The Stillborn Lover (2006); Old Montague in Romeo and Juliet (2005), Brabantio in Othello (2004); The Chaplain in A Clockwork Orange (2004). For Canopy Theatre: Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet (2009); Adam in As You Like It (2008); Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (2007.) For The Arts and Letters Club: The Writer in The Lady of Larkspur Lotion (Tennessee Williams), (2009) For Peter Russell Productions: Conrad, Lord Bilk of Crosspurposes in Conrad (2009) For Vile Passéist Theatre: Castruchio and Malateste in The Duchess Of Malfi (2009) For Alchemy Theatre: Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2007)

For Hart House: Theseus in Midsummer Night's Dream and The Duke of Albany in King Lear
For Canopy Theatre: Favourite roles include: Antonio in Twelfth Night and Prince Escalus in Romeo & Juliet (Canopy Theatre), Christy Mahon in Playboy of the Western World (Village Theatre Waterdown), the Chief in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Playhouse Productions), Bill Sykes in Oliver! (WEST), Jon in Baby With The Bathwater (Alumnae Theatre), and the Announcer in Last Dance of the Dark Cloaked Avenger (Triple Take/Beautiful Lie).
Andrew sends his love, as always, to Marilyn.

For Hart House Theatre: Debut
Kevin is a recent graduate of the joint actor-training program at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto. Selected Credits include: Man in Autobahn (Fly by Night Theatre), Lord Ogleby in The Clandestine Marriage, Lieutenant in Widows, and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre Erindale.) Kevin also recently co-created his first piece of devised theatre, Something Stumbled Upon, for the Erindale Fringe. He is absolutely thrilled to be a part of Hart House Theatre for the first time.

For Hart House Theatre: Debut
Selected Credits: Willy in Fallen Angels (Amicus), Mr. Spock in The Flying Avro Arrow (Seventeen Steps), Ezra Chater in Arcadia (Amicus), Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly (FT Productions), and Volpone in Volpone (Squeezebox). Jeff has also appeared in At the Reefers of Madness (Frontline Films) and Babysitters (Miller and Mullet). His directing credits include Having Hope at Home (The Glenvale Players), and Greetings (The Glenvale Players).

For Hart House Theatre:  Snout in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Other Selected Credits:  Fabian in Twelfth Night (Canopy Theatre); Abraham in Romeo and Juliet (Canopy Theatre);  Wilbur in Charlotte's Web (Touring Players of Canada);  Giles in The Mousetrap (University Players); Mike in Memory of Water (University Players); LeBeau in As You Like It (University Players)
As always, Jim thanks Emma and his family for all their love and support.

For Hart House Theatre: Malcolm is very excited to be making his debut with Hart House Theatre.
Selected Credits: Prince George in Asleep at the Wheel (Alumnae Theatre, NIF), Alex in Corporate Rules and Thomas/Sawyer in The Case of the Wandering Corpse (Solar Stage & Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Miralbell in Way of the World, Lomov in The Proposal, Karsten Bernick in Pillars of Society, Alec Harvey in Brief Encounter and Angelo in Measure for Measure (East 15 Acting School), Gabriel in Mad Forest and Rev. Baldbelly in Spring Awakening (U. of Guelph). Malcolm has also appeared as a lead in two award-winning short films: Just a Matter of Time and Open.
Malcolm is also an accomplished editorial photographer having shot for Getty Images, National Post and Ottawa Citizen.

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director
Jeremy Hutton
Jeremy was the founding Artistic Director of the Toronto Youth Theatre. He is also the resident fight director for the Classical Theatre Project and Hart House Theatre and is thrilled to be Hart House Theatre’s first Artistic Director in over 30 years!

Selected Credits: For Hart House Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Director), Arcadia (Director, sound designer), King Lear (Director, fight director, composer), Hamlet (Hamlet, fight director, composer, sound designer), Romeo and Juliet (Director, fight director, composer), Othello (Director, fight director, composer), As You like It (Orlando), Troilus and Cressida (Nestor), Macbeth (Macduff)

For Canopy Theatre Company: Twelfth Night (Director), Romeo and Juliet (Fight director), As You Like It (Fight director), Much Ado About Nothing (Borachio), Oedipus Rex (Chorus #9, fight director, Music Director). Coriolanus (Coriolanus, fight director), Titus Andronicus (Chiron), Antony and Cleopatra (Director, fight director), Julius Caesar (Cassius) For Toronto Youth Theatre: Rocky Horror Show (Director), ToboR the RoboT (Writer, Director), Into The Woods (Director), Little Shop of Horrors (Director), A Musical Called Robin Hood (Writer, Director), Lucky Stiff (Director), Fairy Tale Ending (Writer, Director), City of Angels (Director), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Director), Urinetown (Director), Jesus Christ Superstar (Director)

Fight Directing Credits: Macbeth (CTP), Twelfth Night (CTP), Hamlet (CTP), Othello (CTP), Romeo and Juliet (CTP), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare By the Sea), Richard III (SBTS), Robin Hood (SBTS), Pericles (SBTS), Julius Caesar (Alchemy) Antony and Cleopatra (Alchemy

Dramaturg
Susan Bond
For Hart House Theatre: Dramaturge for Midsummer Night’s Dream (2009) and King Lear (2008), Assistant Director for Julius Caesar (2007).  Cornelius/Player in Hamlet (2006), Miss Pierce in WASPS (2005), Witch in Macbeth (2002)

Production credits: Assistant Director/Dramaturge for As You Like It and Dramaturge for Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado about Nothing, (Canopy Theatre Company); Dramaturge for Vinegar Tom (Royal Porcupine Productions).

Selected Acting Credits: Epicœne, or the Silent Woman (Red Bull Players) Parliament of Heaven, The Annunciation, York Nativity, (Poculi Lodique Societas) Oedipus Rex, The Tempest, The Trojan Women, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus, (Canopy Theatre Company) and God: a Play (Stage Blue).

Set Designer
Scott Penner
Scott’s recent designs include King Lear, Arcadia (Hart House Theatre); West Side Story, Footloose (Randolph Young Company); Stellaluna(Kids Entertainment); Twelfth Night (The Classical Theatre Project); The Killing Game, Top Girls, Doctor Faustus (Randolph Academy); The Rocky Horror Show, Lucky Stiff, A Musical Called Robin Hood, Little Shop of Horrors (Toronto Youth Theatre); Stranger, Underneath (Praxis Theatre); Dom Juan (Theatre Glendon). Scott has also worked in the U.K. building show pieces for Robert Cary-Williams’s autumn/winter 2005 runway show, Badlands, for London Fashion Week, and has assisted set designer Michael Levine for productions of The Magic Flute (Hungarian State Opera), Tannhauser (Royal Opera) and A Dog’s Heart (De Nederlandse Opera)and was the Assistant set designer of Peter Pan(Stratford Festival). Training: BFA York University, Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme 2005. Web Site: www.scottpennerdesign.com.

Costume Designer
Brandon Kleiman
For Hart House; Arcadia (prop design); Jerry Springer the Opera (set design); A Midsummer Nights Dream 2009 (set design); High Fidelity the Musical (set design).

Film and theatre design credits include: Blind Date (Rebecca Northan, director, World Stage at Harbourfront Centre, Dora nominated; outstanding production); The Reception (BravoFACT, short); Piece of Mind (Landed Entertainments, feature); Napoleon: The Musical (Richard Ouzounian, director, Talk is Free Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in Action); Vinegar Tom, Terrorism (Royal Porcupine Productions).
Upcoming: The Shadow of a Boy (Royal Porcupine Productions)

Brandon is also an assistant designer with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada.

Lighting Designer
Siobhan Sleath
Siobhán’s recent credits include lighting design execution of Kiss Me, Kate (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) and lighting design of [sic] Theatre Best Before, Confluence (Anandam Performance Group), Back to X (Larchaud Dance), The Killing Game and Les Belles Soeurs (Randolph Academy), Pillar and Tirtha at the Ganakristi Festival in Kolkatta, India (Anandam Performance Group), Bluebeard (GromKat Productions), Fat Pig (Geek Girl Productions), Disciples (DMT Productions) and Frida and Herself performed both in Toronto and at the New York Fringe Festival (Anandam Performance Group). Siobhán has also worked four seasons as an assistant lighting designer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival on numerous productions including The Tempest, As You Like it and Dangerous Liaisons.  Siobhán is a graduate of the York University Theatre program.

Stage Manager
Laura Cournoyea
Laura works as a Freelance Stage and Production Manager in Toronto and beyond – trying to find organization in the world of creation. Recent credits include: Saddest Girl in the World (Chesire Unicorn), Biome (random acts of dance), Killing Game (Redhanded Theatre), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Ghostlight Productions), The Right Road to Pontypool (Fourth Line Theatre), Series 808 (Toronto Dance Theatre).

Assistant Stage Manager
Aidan Morishita-Miki
For Hart House Theatre: Debut

Selected Credits: SM for Everybody Panic (Apocalypse Later), ASM for Twelfth Night (Canopy Theatre), ASM for The Bob 2008, 2009 (Victoria College), ASM for Gypsy (Victoria College Drama Society).

Aidan recently graduated from the University of Toronto and is excited to be working again with Hart House theatre.