By William Shakespeare
Directed by Haysam Kadri
A beautiful marriage and a brilliant military career are destroyed by the devious manipulations of a vindictive comrade. Heroism and dishonour walk hand in hand in this gripping tale of jealousy, regret and revenge.
The 2026 Season is supported by Ophelia Lazaridis.
Support for the 2026 season at the Tom Patterson Theatre
Production Underwriters:
The Westaway Charitable Foundation
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2026: Ms. Forsythe in Death of a Salesman and Desdemona in Othello. Fifth season. Stratford: Diana in Casey and Diana, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Maggie in Bunny, Joyce in Possible Worlds. Elsewhere: Electra in Orestes (Tarragon); Cathleen in Long Day's Journey Into Night, Debbie in The Real Thing, Emily in Our Town, Luisa in The Fantasticks, Mary Snow in Salt-Water Moon (Soulpepper); Nellie in Floyd Collins (Patrick St. Productions/Talk Is Free Theatre); Carol in Oleanna (Sweetline Theatre). Film/TV: Anne Boleyn in Reign (CW), series lead: Leslie Bennett in Republic of Doyle, Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), The Tudors (Showtime/CBC), Hudson & Rex (Citytv). Training: National Theatre School of Canada. Awards: Canadian Screen Award nomination: Best Actress in a Dramatic Series, Republic of Doyle. Jessie Award nomination: Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Floyd Collins. Online: @krystinpellerin. Et cetera: Big love to my beautiful family xo.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2005
2026: Oberon in A Midsummer's Night Dream and Othello in Othello. 12th season. Stratford:The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Get That Hope (director), Twelfth Night, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, The Tempest, etc. Elsewhere: Director: The Royale (Citadel Theatre); Gloria (ARC/Crow's). Acting: Glass Menagerie, Sex, An Octoroon, "Master Harold"...and the Boys (Shaw Festival); Julius Caesar (Crow's Theatre). Film/TV: Revenge of the Black Best Friend, Kim's Convenience (CBC); Slumberland (Netflix); Private Idiots (YouTube). Voiceover: Tiny Louis in Summer Memories (Family); Fins in Sago Mini Friends (Apple TV). Training: George Brown Theatre School. Awards: Sterling Award for Direction, The Royale; Toronto Theatre Critics Award and Dora Award - Best Actor, "Master Harold" ...and the Boys; MyEntWorld Critics' Pick Award - Best Actor, An Octoroon. Online: @dre373. Et cetera: Love you Rian & Naia. For Joe, Philip and Granny Beryl.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2017/2018
2026: Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cassio in Othello. Eighth season.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2014/201
2026: Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Emilia in Othello. Ninth season. Stratford: Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility), La Marquise de Merteuil (Dangerous Liaisons), Phoebe (As You Like It), Viola (Twelfth Night), Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Helen (All's Well That Ends Well), Lady Anne (Richard III), Bess (Mother's Daughter). As playwright: The Dark Lady (SIR-SotS, Lunchbox-TSC, Bard on the Beach, Synchronicity Theatre), Pandora (HFN, PTE). Both plays are published and available online and at the Stratford Festival Theatre Shops. The Dark Lady is part of the American Shakespeare Center's 2026 season in Staunton, Virginia. Film/TV: The Boys, Five Days at Memorial, Kings of Napa. Voice/mocap: Star Wars Outlaws. Training: Birmingham Conservatory, McGill University, Dawson College. Awards: SATA for Artistic Excellence - The Dark Lady; Bernard Amyot Teaching Award - NTS; Mary Savidge Award - Stratford Festival. Online: @jessicabhill.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2024
2026: Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appears in Othello. Fourth season. Stratford: Edward Ferrars/Robert Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility, Azolan in Dangerous Liaisons, appeared in As You Like It, Peter in Romeo and Juliet, Martin in London Assurance, Benicio in Twelfth Night, Harry Percy in Richard II, Waiter in Grand Magic and understudy in Love's Labour's Lost. Elsewhere: A Few Good Men, Twelve Angry Men, The Miracle Worker, The Birds and the Bees, Death of a Salesman, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton); The Cider House Rules reading (Talk is Free); Suitcases/Provenance workshop (Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Jump, Darling (opposite Cloris Leachman), Deadbolt, In the Dark, Murdoch Mysteries, Man Seeking Woman, Heroes Reborn, Bitten, Reign. Radio/recordings: Strange Loops (audiobook). Training: The Randolph College for the Performing Arts. Awards: Michael Mawson Award. Online: @tomsdup (Instagram).
Birmingham Conservatory, 2014/2015
2026: Happy in Death of a Salesman and appears in Othello. Fifth season. Stratford (selected): The Winter's Tale, Timon of Athens, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Shakespeare in Love, The Lion…Wardrobe, Hamlet. Theatre (selected): Jack in Scavenger's Daughter (Buddies in Bad Times/Paradigm); Isle of Demons (Guild Festival); Where You Are (Globus Theatre); Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet, Comedy of Errors (The Grove); Book Club (Port Stanley); Armstrong's War (Theatre Kingston). Playwriting: Deer Blood, TOMORROW (Wildside Festival). Producing: Evil Dead the Musical, Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience, Xavier Mortimer (Starvox Entertainment). Film/TV: Mrs. America (FX), Thicker Than Water (Incendo). Awards: Michael Mawson Award, Douglas Campbell Award (Guthries). Online: joshjohnston.ca, @edwardthegirl. Et cetera: This season is dedicated to my Granny and Grandpa, who introduced me to Arthur Miller. Love to my family and Kaleigh.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2017
2026: Appears in Othello and understudy in Death of a Salesman. Fourth season. Stratford: King Lear, understudy in Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, All's Well That Ends Well, The Comedy of Errors, Paradise Lost, understudy in Long Day's Journey Into Night. Elsewhere (selected): Mischief (Neptune/Tarragon/Native Earth); Heist (The Grand/The Citadel); King James (Theatre Aquarius/Alberta Theatre Projects); Little Women, A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); The Tempest (The Shakespeare Company); Murder in the Studio (Vertigo Theatre); Crime Does Not Pay (Downstage); three seasons at Two Planks and A Passion. Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Birmingham Conservatory Et cetera: Special thanks to Talent House and lots of love to everyone who has and continues to support me on this journey.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2012
2026: Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Gratiano in Othello. Ninth season. Stratford: Timon of Athens, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Physicists, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Chamber Play, Fiddler on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar (also Broadway), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Elsewhere: Nine seasons with the Shaw Festival, including Tons of Money, Gnit, On the Razzle, Damn Yankees, Charley's Aunt, The Russian Play, Happy End; Dave in The Vinyl Cafe (The Citadel Theatre); The Baker in Into the Woods (RCM); Anton in All the Cows are Dead, Valere in La Bête, George in Sunday in the Park with George (TIFT); Man-in-Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone (Drayton Entertainment); Anthony in Outside Mullingar; Emcee in Cabaret (RMTC). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Private Eyes (Global), Gracie and Pedro (GTE), The Understudy, Northern Tracks (Stratfest@Home).
Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026
2026: Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appears in Othello. Third season. Stratford: Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Cymbeline. Elsewhere: Alcestis, Tartuffe, The Witch of Edmonton (Theatre Erindale), Retrograde (Toronto Fringe). Film/TV: Workin' Moms seasons 6 and 7 (CBC/Netflix); Macy Murdoch (CBC/Shaftesbury); Pie Boy (Ace Entertainment). Writer/composer: She, Men, & The Giant Snake (Ottawa undercurrents/ Soulpepper Theatre/ Buddies in Bad Times); The Gray: A Wilde Musical (Hart House Theatre); One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company). Training: Theatre and Drama Studies - University of Toronto/Sheridan College. Online: anthony-palermo.com, @anthxnypalermo. Et cetera: Grateful for my family and friends for their endless support, and the mentors who have taught me so much.
2026: Jenny in Death of a Salesman and Lodovica, assistant director of Othello. 13th season. Stratford (selected): Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Iphigenia in Ransacking Troy, Morag in The Diviners, Pisanio in Cymbeline, Queen Katherine in Henry VIII, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Katherina in Taming of the Shrew, Olga in Three Sisters, Jean Louise in To Kill a Mockingbird, Catalina in Mother's Daughter, Marmee in Little Women, Thérèse Dubuc in Les Belles-Soeurs, Kate in The Little Years. Elsewhere: The Little Years (Dora Award, Tarragon); Leisure Society (Dora Award, Factory Theatre); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Dora Award, Birdland); God of Carnage (Citadel Theatre); The Gigli Concert, Happy Place (Dora nomination, Soulpepper); How Do I Love Thee? (Dora nomination, Canadian Rep). Film/TV: Frankie Drake, Salvation, Indian Horse, Cardinal, Reign, Murdoch Mysteries, Republic of Doyle. Director: Ruby and The Reindeer, Here For Now Theatre.
Birmingham Conservatory, 1999
2026: Director of Othello. Seventh season. Selected theatre: Life of Pi, Heist ( Citadel Theatre); Life of Pi (RMTC); Heist, Homes: A Refugee Story, A Thousand Splendid Suns (Grand Theatre); Heist, Clue, Nero Wolfe: Might As Well Be Dead (Vertigo Theatre); King James, In Wonderland, Wizard of Oz (ATP); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arts Club, MTC); The Shoplifters, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Calgary); Three Musketeers, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet (Shakespeare Company). Film/TV: The Last of Us, The Revenant, Hell on Wheels. Theatre training: Mount Royal College (Theatre Arts Diploma) University of Alberta (BFA Acting), graduate of the Stratford Festival Birmingham Conservatory. Other: Haysam is the artistic director of Alberta Theatre Projects: albertatheatreprojects.com. Online: @kadrihaysam, Facebook: Haysam Kadri.
(he/him)
2026: Set designer of Othello. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: A Strange Loop (Soulpepper/Crows/MSC/TOLive); Dixon Road (MSC); Controlled Damage, Titanic (The Grand); Frozen, King James, Never Not Once (Theatre Aquarius); Jukebox Hero (Mirvish/Jubilee); Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (Theatre Calgary); A Streetcar Named Desire (Citadel); Clue, Prayer for the French Republic, Indecent, Bad Jews, April Fools (Segal Centre); Frozen, Billy Elliot, The Last Five Years (Neptune); Priscilla, Kinky Boots, The Sound of Music, Newsies, Rocky, the Marvelous Wonderettes (Drayton); Dozens of shows Off-Broadway and around the U.S.A. Training: Brian holds an MFA from Yale University and a degree in Architecture from McGill University. Online: briandudkiewicz.com, @briandud. Et cetera: Love to Sawyer, Margot and Andrew.
2026: Costume designer of Othello. 10th season.
2026: Lighting designer of Othello. Sixth season. Stratford: Lighting design execution of Kiss Me, Kate as well as five seasons as assistant lighting designer on 17 productions including: Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Cyrano de Bergerac and Zastrozzi. Elsewhere:The Rising World (Seoul Arts Centre), Witness for the Prosecution, The Horse and His Boy,Wilde Tales (Shaw Festival); Heist (Citadel/Grand); In Seven Days, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Homes: A Refugee Story (Grand); Hamlet (Shakespeare Company); The Bright Divide, The Garden of Vanished Pleasures (Soundstreams); Canoe (Unsettled Scores/Native Earth); Snow White (YPT); Come From Away: The Concert (Marquis Productions); Ring of Fire (Theatre Aquarius); The Hobbit (Adirondack Theater Festival; Ann (Arkansas Rep Theatre); Figaro's Wedding (Against the Grain); Miracle on 34th Street, Shrek and The Addams Family (Neptune Theatre). Training: BFA in Theatre Production from York University. Online: siobhansleathdesign.com
2026: Composer and sound designer of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello. 16th season.
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.
Langham Directors' Workshop, 2026
2026: Assistant director of Othello. Second season. Stratford: Intern director of Love's Labour's Lost. Elsewhere: Heist (Grand Theatre/Citadel Theatre); Daughter, Innocence (Corbett Theatre); Houses Apart (Cockpit Theatre); Homes: A Refugee Story (Grand Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Summer Shakespeare); Good Old Days (141 Collective); Jealousy, My Brother (Theatre of the Beat); Boundaries, Hopscotch (First Steps Theatre); Sticky Fingers: A Musical (OKTC). Film: Director/writer of All I See (official selection of Lift-Off Global). Training: MFA Theatre Directing, East 15 Acting School. Awards: Jean Gascon Director's Award, 2024 Guthrie. Online: @alexandra.riz_. Et cetera: Rizkallah is a director and dramaturg who has worked and trained internationally across Canada, England, Poland and France. Thanks to Peter, MJ and Haysam. She dedicates this season to her mom.
(they/them)
2026: Assistant set and costume designer of Othello. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Set: The Lady in the Red Dress (UTSC); Set and Costume: Les Aïeules (JMC), Dungeon Master & Game Design: D&D Camp Crystal Peak (DriftwoodTheatre); Props: The Importance of Being Earnest (RepercussionTheatre and Persephone Productions); Costume: Dagobert (Theatre La Roulotte); Set: Les Rapiécés (CADM); Set: She Kills Monsters (UTSC); Costume: Sinkhole (Infinitheatre); Props and SFX: Three Women of Swatow (Centaur Theatre); Set: Cet endroit qui vous est dédié (NTS); Costume: Antigonick (NTS); Costume: As You Like It (NTS). Training: John Abbott College for Professional Theatre Design, The National Theatre School of Canada for Set and Costume Design. Awards: Peter Dwyer Scholarship (2024), META-Outstanding Emerging Artist (Production) COSTUME DESIGN for Sinkhole (2025). Online: @pen.tsin. Et cetera: Mightier than the sword.
2026: Assistant lighting designer of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello and The Tao of the World. Stratford debut.
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