Antoni Cimolino22nd season: General Director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Stratford: Mr. Cimolino works with the Artistic Director to head North America’s leading classical theatre, producing a 12-play season in four theatres with more than 1,000 employees and an annual budget of $60 million. He was instrumental in establishing the Stratford Festival Endowment Foundation, which has raised more than $58 million to date, as well as in the renovation of the Avon Theatre and the building of the Studio Theatre. His directing credits include Bartholomew Fair with Lucy Peacock and Tom McCamus, Coriolanus, with Colm Feore and Martha Henry, As You Like It, featuring original music by Barenaked Ladies, King John, with Stephen Ouimette, Love’s Labour’s Lost, with Brian Bedford, Twelfth Night, with William Hutt, Night of the Iguana, with Seana McKenna, and Filumena, with Richard Monette.
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