Deborah Hay
Fifth season: Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers and Emilia in Othello. Stratford: Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Alice (Henry V), Jailer’s Daughter (The Two Noble Kinsmen), Bianca (The Taming of the Shrew), Audrey (As You Like It), Miep (The Diary of Anne Frank), Love’s Labour’s Lost, Henry VI, 1 and 2. Elsewhere: Most recently, Celimene in The School for Lies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Other credits include the Shaw Festival (five seasons including My Fair Lady, Born Yesterday, Heartbreak House, The Women, After the Dance, The Philanderer), Acting Up Stage (Caroline, or Change), Soulpepper (The Government Inspector, Our Town), Tarragon Theatre (co-creator of UBUNTU), MTC/Mirvish Productions (Medea), The Grand Theatre (Kingfisher Days, Strawberries in January), Festival of Classics (Pericles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Theatre Passe Muraille (Descent, Small Returns). Training: BFA York University; Birmingham Conservatory ’99. Awards: The John Hirsch Guthrie Award, Stratford Festival.