The 2025 Stratford Festival Legacy Gala will celebrate both the extraordinary career of Donna Feore and the Stratford Festival. Held in the ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel on September 29, 2025, the gala evening will include the best of Stratford – music, entertainment, and tributes – with Festival artists and special guests.
Our 2025 Legacy Honouree
In her 29th season at the Stratford Festival, acclaimed director and choreographer Donna Feore will be bringing the musical Annie to vibrant life. Her productions at Stratford have included many audience favourites including Something Rotten!, Chicago, Billy Elliot the Musical, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show (the longest-running show in Festival history), The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, The Madwoman of Chaillot, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Crazy for You, Charlie Brown, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oklahoma! and Oliver!
As director and choreographer, she presented Goodspeed, Opera House’s critically acclaimed world première and highest-grossing show, Summer Stock, newly titled Get Happy (Connecticut Critics Circle Award); The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (5th Avenue, Seattle); and The Hockey Sweater: A Musical (National Arts Centre, Segal Centre).
Her directing credits include Bernhardt Hamlet (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Arts Centre Orchestra); Yorkville (Blyth Festival); The Very Best of Broadway with Audra McDonald and Marvin Hamlisch; Rock ‘N’ Roll and It’s a Wonderful Life (Canadian Stage); Lecture on the Weather and A Soldier’s Tale with F. Murray Abraham (Detroit Symphony Orchestra); Mozart: A Life in Letters (Toronto Symphony Orchestra); and Annie Get Your Gun.
She was the creative producer/director of Life Reflected, a multimedia orchestral production (world première with the National Arts Centre Orchestra with Canadian and European tours). Donna was the choreographer of Siegfried (Canadian Opera Company/Opéra National de Lyon) and Tosca, Red Emma, and Oedipus Rex (Dora Award) for the Canadian Opera Company and the Edinburgh Festival Main Stage.
Selected film and television credits include Politics is Cruel, Mean Girls, Eloise, Martin and Lewis, Stormy Weather, Romeo and Juliette, Don Giovanni, and Feast of All Saints.
Join us for an extraordinary night celebrating one of Canada’s most acclaimed directors and choreographers, in support of the Stratford Festival.