Darcy Evans

Eighth season: Assistant director of The Pirates of Penzance. Stratford: Dangerous Liaisons, To Kill a Mockingbird (associate director), Fuente Ovejuna, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Fiddler on the Roof, Man of La Mancha, Patience, Hello, Dolly! (associate director), The Music Man, The King and I. Elsewhere: Directing credits: I Love You Because… (Canadian première, Angelwalk); Village of Idiots, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (STC/Magnus Theatre); The Most Happy Fella (Theatre Sheridan); Cleopatra (Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Michael Langham Workshop); Lord of the Flies, As Bees in Honey Drown (Company C); Sleeping Beauty (STC). Darcy was associate director of the Broadway production of Little Women, starring Sutton Foster, and the first U.S. national tour, starring Maureen McGovern. Associate director: Heartland (Madison Rep/Dallas Summer Musicals), Not Wanted on the Voyage (Canadian Stage). Favourite acting credits: The Who’s Tommy (national tour, Mirvish Productions), Malcolm in The Full Monty, The American in Chess, Emcee understudy and performed in Cabaret, Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, Spirit of a Nation (national tour, original cast recording). Film/TV: Hairspray, Missing, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Training: BFA: directing, University of Victoria, inaugural Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction.