LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

2024: Director of Music for the Stratford Festival. Music director of La Cage aux Folles. 15th season. Stratford: Rent, Chicago, Billy Elliot, The Music Man, A Little Night Music, Funny Thing Happened..., Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me Kate, Evita, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance. In concert: Why We Tell the Story, Finally There's Sun, Fantasticks, Passion, Next to Normal, Up Close and Musical (Stratfest@Home). Elsewhere: Show Boat, Ragtime, The Lion King (Toronto/US tours); Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Lloyd Webber's Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Billy Elliot, Lord of the Rings (Mirvish); Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Meridian Hall); Annie Get Your Gun (Massey Hall); The Threepenny Opera (Soulpepper); London Symphonia's Enchanting Broadway; Birmingham Conservatory (Singing Coach), American Boychoir School, Illinois and Dorian Opera Theatres. Recordings: Carousel, Crazy for You (Stratford Festival); The Voice Next Door (Marcus Nance). Training: Vocal Coaching/Accompanying, U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

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2024: Set designer of La Cage aux Folles. Seventh season. Brandon is a set and costume designer based in Toronto with work appearing on stages across Canada, most recently: The Tempest (Rusticle presented by Buddies in Bad Times); The Sound of Music (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Mamma Mia! (Drayton Entertainment); Boy Falls from the Sky (Mirvish Productions); and Blackout (Musical Stage Co. and Canadian Stage). He was nominated for the 2017 Pauline McGibbon Award, and the 2018 and 2020 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design. He's also a multiple Dora award nominee and two-time winner. Brandon recently won a Merritt Award for his work bringing Viola Desmond to life in the world première of Controlled Damage. Brandon also teaches in the York University Theatre program. For more information and to see his portfolio please visit www.brandonkleimandesign.com.

2024: Costume designer of La Cage aux Folles. Sixth season. Stratford: Monty Python's Spamalot, Cabaret, My One and Only, South Pacific. Elsewhere: Eight seasons at Shaw Festival; Cinderella (National Ballet of Canada/American Ballet Theatre); quondam (Royal Swedish Ballet); Red (Canadian Stage/Citadel); La Traviata (Pacific Opera); Prom Queen, Evita (Grand Theatre); The Prom, Hairspray, Holiday Inn, Singin' in the Rain, Mamma Mia, Sweet Charity, Guys and Dolls (Drayton); Mary Poppins, The Producers (Rainbow Stage); The Vibrator Play (Tarragon); Glorious! (CanStage/Arts Club/Belfry); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Macbeth (Theatre Calgary). Film/TV: Production design: Ukulele U (CBC/Mainframe); Hotel Beyrouth, Ainse va Manu (Sahkosh/TFO); Art director: Donkeyhead (KarmaFilm/Netflix). Awards: Two Betty Mitchells, two Sterlings and a Dora. Online: www.davidboechlerdesign.com. Et cetera: David's other job is in film and television, and vows never to do another Christmas movie as long as he lives.

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2024: Lighting designer of La Cage aux Folles. 15th season. Stratford: Frankenstein Revived, A Wrinkle in Time, Hamlet, Private Lives, Mother's Daughter, The Front Page, Brontë: The World Without, Timon of Athens, The Virgin Trial, Madwoman of Chaillot, Breath of Kings: Rebellion/Redemption, Bunny, Taming of the Shrew, Possible Worlds, The Last Wife, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Man of La Mancha, Christina, The Girl King, Waiting for Godot, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Little Years, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead. Elsewhere: Mirvish, Shaw, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, NAC, Pacific Opera, Arena Stage DC, Opera Philadelphia, Edmonton Opera, Theatre Calgary, RMTC, Citadel, among others. Awards: Three Dora's, Pauline McGibbon Award, Montreal English Theatre Award, Toronto Theatre Critics Award, Ottawa Critics' Circle Award, Elizabeth Sterling Award. Kimberly is the Vice President of the Associated Designers of Canada and ADC659.

2024: Make-up designer for La Cage aux Folles. Stratford debut.  Elsewhere: The DQ theatrical productions 1986-1990 which raised funds to open Casey House AIDS Hospice. Canadian Stages production of Outrageous by Brad Fraser and starring Thom Allison. Film/TV: 29 years as beauty expert on City TV's lifestyle program Cityline originally with Marilyn Denis and Tracy Moore. Previously held key positions in the makeup departments of CBC and City TV. Online: www.dinodilio.com. Et cetera: Whether in the classroom, in his studio, on camera or online, Dino believes that beauty isn't just about products, it's the art of self-expression and empowerment.

2024: Fight and intimacy director of the 2024 season. Seventh season. Stratford: Fight director of The Rez Sisters and intimacy director of Serving Elizabeth (2021); Fight director for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. Selected Fight/Intimacy Director Credits: 3 Sisters (Soulpepper); Bad Roads (Crow's); WildWoman (Soulpepper); Hamlet (The Rose); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (TIP); Fall on Your Knees (Canadian Stage/Neptune/NAC); Maggie (Theatre Aquarius); Counter Offence (Segal Centre); Fairview (Canadian Stage); Prodigal (Crow's); Trojan Girls & The Outhouse of Atreus (Factory); Our Place (Cahoots/TPM); Kronborg (Confederation Centre). Other: Stage combat instructor, fight director, and sexual choreographer at the National Theatre School. Selected Stunt Performer/Stunt Actor Credits: Law and Order: Toronto, SEE, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, Titans, The Boys, Rabbit Hole, What We Do in the Shadows, various Ubisoft motion capture productions. Online: anitanittoly.com.

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2024: Drag consultant for La Cage aux Folles. Third season. Stratford: Drag consultant for Rent, Chicago; creator/performer of Agit-Pop! (Meighen Forum 2022/2023). Elsewhere: Distant Early Warning (Buddies in Bad Times); Justin's darkly comic drag persona Pearle Harbour continues to tour across Canada with Agit-Pop!, Chautauqua, and more; Pearle was recently adapted to screen in the short film Bunker Time! TV: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Queer Pride Inside (CBC Gem - Canadian Screen Award nomination: Best Variety or Entertainment Special). Voiceover: Dragging Mason County, The Big Sting, Animal Person, MeThree, Tremendous Things (Penguin Random House); Peep & The Big Wide World (PBS). Awards: Audience Choice Award (SummerWorks); John Kaplan Legacy Award for a Canadian Stage Performer; 3 Dora nominations in Outstanding Performance and Outstanding Costume Design. Online: pearleharbour.com; Instagram: @pearleharbour. Et cetera: Thank you Thom for bringing me back, always a gay old time!

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2024: Associate choreographer of La Cage aux Folles. 10th season. Stratford: Guys and Dolls, Romeo and Juliet, Sound of Music, Carousel, Man of La Mancha (Assistant Choreographer), The Who's Tommy, Fiddler on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar, Camelot, West Side Story (Assistant Choreographer), A Funny Thing..., The Music Man, Fuente Ovejuna, Gigi, West Side Story, The Tempest. Elsewhere: In Studio: The Words and Music of Britta Johnson (Choreographer, Theatre Sheridan), In the Heights (Associate Director and Choreographer, Theatre Sheridan), Snow White: The Panto (Choreographer, The Capitol Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway). Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Guthrie Award, Brian MacDonald Guthrie Award. Online: @krisleis, @themvmtcentre. Krista is also the proud owner of The Movement Centre Pilates and Wellness Studio in Stratford. Thanks as always to her incredible family, the TH gang and her loves Eric and Ging.

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2024: Associate conductor, keyboard, accordion for La Cage aux Folles, keyboard for Something Rotten! Seventh season. Stratford: Associate conductor and keyboard for Rent, Chicago, Billy Elliot the Musical, The Music Man; rehearsal pianist for HMS Pinafore; music director for Never Doubt I Love, Northern Tracks, the Birmingham Conservatory's 2020 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare School's Musical Theatre Intensive. Elsewhere: Conductor of the Stratford Symphony Youth Orchestra. Keyboard for Elf: The Musical (The Grand Theatre). Associate conductor of Call It Love (Eclipse Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Opera on the Avalon). Music director of Susannah (Peck Productions and London Community Players); JUDY: Stonewalled! (LINK theatre); Company (Music Theatre on the Thames); Street Scene (Halifax Summer Opera Festival); The Daughter of the Regiment (Fountainhead Theatre and London Community Players).

2024: Associate fight director of the 2024 season. Third season. Stratford (selected):King Lear, Richard III, Little Women. Elsewhere: Hamlet (Hit & Myth Productions); The Amen Corner (Shaw Festival); Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre School); Girl in the Photograph (Chameleon Productions). Selected Film and TV (Acting and Stunts):FUBAR, The Fabric of Christmas, Chucky, Far Cry 6, Mayor of Kingstown, Reacher, Revenge of the Black Best Friend, The Hot Zone, The Boys, Dark Matter, Kill Joys, Teen Titans, Lucky Day, Amazing Race Canada, Frankie Drake. Training: Humber Theatre Performance program, various martial arts schools, acting for film and TV at the renown Pro Actors Lab in Toronto. Online: Instagram: @davidchinchillaofficial. 

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2024: Assistant director of La Cage aux Folles. Second season. Stratford: Assistant director of Rent. Director of Kiss of the Spider Woman  for the Langham Directors' Workshop 2023. Elsewhere: Director: The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweet Charity (co-director) (St. Lawrence College); Mary Poppins (Yes Theatre); Stag and Doe (Tweed and Company); Carrie the Musical (sold out fundraiser for the AFC). Favourite acting roles include: Brett in Bed and Breakfast  (Orillia Opera House); Bud Frump in How to Succeed… (Drayton); and swinging the original Canadian company of Kinky Boots. Et cetera: Thomas is proud to have worked as assistant to many great Canadian directors including Ashlie Corcoran, Tracey Flye, Marcia Kash, Richard Ouzounian, Kate Hennig, Stafford Arima and now the fabulous Thom Allison. He is grateful to them for sharing their knowledge and kindness. Working at the Festival is a dream come true.

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2024: Assistant set designer of La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Set designer of Shakespeare's Ni**a, costume designer of Macbeth and The Fall of the House of Atreus: A Cowboy Love Song (2023 Langham Directors' Workshop); Assistant set and costume designer of A Wrinkle in Time, assistant set designer of Frankenstein Revived. Elsewhere: Set and costume: Harabogee and Me - Shakespeare in Action (Little Avenue Memorial Park at Weston Toronto); Set: Indecent (National Theatre School of Canada); Costume: I got my life back! (National Theatre School of Canada). Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Hong-Ik University, Yon-Sei Graduate School of Human Environmental Sciences. Online: imjunga.com.

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2024: Assistant costume designer of La Cage aux Folles and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Assistant costume designer of Richard II. Danielle lived in Berlin, Germany for three years working on immersive, experimental and site-specific theatre. She has been working within the film industry as a costumer, background costume coordinator and assistant designer for films such as U.S. vs Billie Holiday, Pet Semetary: Bloodlines and Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation. Danielle also works as a fibre artist and mounted a costume and photography exhibition in both Montreal and Toronto titled Unravelling, depicting mental health struggles represented in various wearable art pieces. Danielle has a BFA in Art History and Film Studies from Concordia University. Danielle has been attending the Stratford Festival annually for 19 years with her family and would like to dedicate her participation in this production to them. Online: @daniellefagendesigns, www.daniellefagen.weebly.com.

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2024: Assistant costume designer of La Cage aux Folles and Romeo and Juliet. Third season. Stratford: Assistant costume designer for Casey and Diana, Women of the Fur Trade and Love's Labour's Lost (2023); wardrobe apprentice (2022). Training: B.F.A in Theatre Production and Design, York University. Et cetera: Barbara hopes you enjoy the show!

2024: Assistant set and costume designer of The Diviners  and assistant costume designer of La Cage aux Folles. Third season. Stratford: Designer of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Tennessee Williams Suite (Langham Directors' Workshop). Set designer of Three Sisters (Birmingham Conservatory Final Project). Assistant designer of Much Ado About Nothing. Assistant set designer of Love's Labour's Lost. Assistant designer of Richard III. Elsewhere (select credits): Writer/designer/actor: How to Believe in Anything (The Cultch/Vancouver Fringe Festival, winner of the Cultchivating the Fringe award); Stiles and Drewe's The Three Little Pigs (Carousel Theatre winner, Ovation Award for Outstanding Set Design); The Pillowman (Untold Wants); Mx (Off the Corner Productions/The Cultch); Spine (Backbone Theatre Collective); Alice in Glitterland (Geekenders); Superior Donuts (Ensemble Theatre Company, Jessie Award nomination for Outstanding Set Design - Small Theatre). Training: Studio 58 (2018). Ariel is an associate member of ADC. Online: arielslack.squarespace.com.

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2024: Assistant lighting designer of La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Grand Magic, Richard II.  Elsewhere: The Real McCoy (Blyth Festival); The Lehman Trilogy (Canadian Stage); The Royale (Citadel Theatre); Rockabye, Martyr (ARC);In Studio, Brantwood (Sheridan College); Fixer: A New Musical (Imagination Works); Ralph and Lina (Ahuri Theatre); This Is How We Got Here, I Call Myself Princess, Ipperwash, HUFF (Native Earth); AMAAL, IMPACT 21 (MT Space); SPAWN (Wild Woman Theatre); Other Side of the Game (Obsidian Theatre); Good Morning Viet Mom (Cahoots Theatre); Sea Sick (Theatre Centre). Training: Technical Production (Humber College, 2008). Awards: Dora Audience Choice Award Outstanding Production (Brantwood, 2016). Online: @bcbIV.

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2024: Assistant lighting designer of La Cage aux Folles and Wendy and Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Lighting designer: Sympathy for the Devil (Soulpepper), NightShift (Citadel+Companie), Antigonick (Shaw Festival- Directors Projects '24), Bright Lights (Shaw Festival- Directors Projects '23), OverRuled (Shaw Festival- Directors Projects '23). Associate lighting designer: Cinderella…If the shoe fits (Theatre Orangeville), Rubaboo (The Grand Theatre/Arts Club), Prodigal (Crows Theatre/ The Howland Company),Indecent (Studio 180/ Mirvish). Assistant lighting designer: Dion (Coal Mine Theatre), Clue (RMTC/The Grand Theatre), The Amen Corner, The Apple Cart, Playboy of the Western World, Gem of the Ocean, Everybody, Too True to be Good (Shaw Festival). Film/TV: Assistant BOH lighting director: Canada's Got Talent (2024). Training: BFA: Performance Production and Masters of Digital Media (TMU). Online: emilietrimbee.com @emilietrimbeedesigns.

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2024: Sound designer of Edward Albee's The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, associate sound designer of Get That Hope  and assistant sound designer of Something Rotten!, La Cage aux Folles. Third season. Stratford: Richard II (associate sound designer); DWP 2022 (sound designer); Frankenstein Revived, Rent, King Lear, Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago, Hamlet and Death and the King's Horseman (assistant sound designer). Elsewhere: Sound designer for Jack! A Beanstalk Panto (Capitol Theatre); A Huron County Christmas Carol, John Ware Reimagined (Blyth Festival); associate sound designer for Orphée+ (Edmonton Opera); composer for BODY, Alone Together, Four, What Happened To Lee (Human Body Expression); Lasterday (Kaeja d'Dance); A Sonata Of Shadows (CCDT); orchestra for 42nd Street, Singin' In The Rain, Piaf/Dietrich, Ain't Too Proud (Mirvish); percussionist with TorQ Percussion Quartet and Ladom Ensemble. Recording: Debut album, Guess I'm a People Too (2019) available on all platforms. Et cetera: Grateful to be working alongside such incredible artists to bring this season to life!

2024: Stage manager of La Cage aux Folles and assistant stage manger of Salesman in China. 30th season. Stratford: Several productions including last season's Richard II. Also, The Who's Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar (Stratford/La Jolla/Broadway), Coriolanus, Shakespeare in Love and the Miller-Plummer King Lear (Stratford/Lincoln Center). Elsewhere: National Arts Centre, Segal Centre, RMTC, Citadel, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Canadian Stage, Catalyst Theatre, Theatre Plus, Passe Muraille, Tarragon, Native Earth and Factory.

2024: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre and assistant stage manager of La Cage aux Folles. 32nd season. Stratford: Production stage manager (six seasons). Selected productions: Much Ado About Nothing, Les Belles-Soeurs, Every Little Nookie, Bonjour, là, Bonjour, Private Lives, The Front Page, Long Day's Journey…, Palmer Park, The Trojan Women, Henry IV Part 1, Wingfield's Inferno, Cymbeline, No Exit, The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet, Tempest-Tost, Richard III, Wingfield Unbound, The Boy Friend, Tartuffe, HMS Pinafore, The Gondoliers, The Physicists, The Alchemist, The Matchmaker, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well…, Three Sisters, An Ideal Husband, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Waiting for Godot, Sweet Bird of Youth, Romeo and Juliet, King John, Bacchae, The Merchant of Venice, Uncle Vanya. Elsewhere: Grand Theatre, Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Young People's Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Tarragon Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse and Mirvish.

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2024: Assistant stage manager of La Cage aux Folles and Wendy and Peter Pan. Sixth season. Stratford: Little Women, I Am William, To Kill a Mockingbird; Production assistant for the Avon and Festival theatres. Elsewhere: Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); The Guide to Being Fabulous (Soulpepper Theatre); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish); Idomeneo, Actéon and Pygmalion, The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Atelier); Julius Caesar, The Wedding Party (Crow's Theatre); Anne of Green Gables (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Script supervisor for Ross Petty's A Christmas Carol; Stage management intern at Wicked (Broadway). Et cetera: Many thanks to my friends and family, especially my Mom, for all their love and support.

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2024: Assistant stage manager of La Cage aux Folles and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of Monty Python's Spamalot and Frankenstein Revived. Elsewhere: Boy Falls From the Sky (Mirvish/Past Future Productions); Choir Boy, Forgiveness (Arts Club Theatre); Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kronborg - The Hamlet Rock Musical, Métis Mutt, Spinning Yarns, Ghost Light (Charlottetown Festival); Rose - A New Musical, The Seagull (Soulpepper); The Marriage of Figaro (Edmonton Opera); The Father (Theatre Aquarius). Awards: Anne Selby Award (Stratford Festival). Online: @erikadmorey. 

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2024: Production assistant of the Avon Theatre. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Stage manager for The Tempest (Tottering Biped Theatre); Brock/DART intern (Shaw Festival); Assistant stage manager for Welcome Home (Brock University/Laser Shark Productions); Assistant stage manager for A Midsummer Nights Dream (Tottering Biped Theatre). Training: Brock University. Et cetera: Thank you to my friends and family for your unwavering love and support.