Tom Patterson Theatre

May 22 – September 27 |

Opens June 19

Shakespeare

OTHELLO

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Haysam Kadri

Love. Lies. And the ultimate betrayal.

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.

MEIGHEN FORUM EVENTS

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

2026: Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Iago in Othello. 12th season. Stratford: Sky Masterson (Guys and Dolls), Pericles (Pericles), Edgar (King Lear), Titania/Oberon (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Tom Joad (Grapes of Wrath), Lucius (Titus Andronicus), Petruchio, Mercutio, Elizabeth Rex. Elsewhere: Pierre Bezukhov (…The Great Comet of 1812) Crows Theatre, Mirvish; John (Fulfillment Centre) Coal Mine Theatre; Bruce (Fun Home) Mirvish, Musical Stage; Larry (Dear Evan Hansen), Khashoggi (We Will Rock You), Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings) Mirvish; Yvan (Art) Canadian Stage; Jamie (Long Day's Journey) Soulpepper; Macduff (Macbeth) Chicago Shakespeare. Shaw Festival: Dick Dudgeon (The Devil's Disciple), Stanhope (Journey's End), Jack Worthing (…Earnest), Octavius (Man and Superman). Film/TV: Vought Rising, Holly Hobbie, Departure, Under the Banner of Heaven, Murdoch Mysteries. Awards: Dora Award, Fun Home; Canadian Screen nomination, Departure. Online: @evanbuliung. Et cetera: Thank you, Antoni, best wishes for your next adventure! Welcome, Mr. Church!

(she/her)

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.

2026: Philostrate in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Roderigo in Othello and George Abbot in The King James Bible Play. 11th season. Stratford (selected): Dennis/Matthaeus (The Art of War), Cool (London Assurance), Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Twelfth Night), Cornwall (King Lear), Parolles (All's Well…), Reverend Hale (The Crucible), Lucullus (Timon…), Wessex (Shakespeare in Love), Karl Gustav (Christina, The Girl King), White Knight (Alice Through the Looking-Glass). Elsewhere: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Canadian Stage); Reproduktion (Here For Now); La Bête (Talk is Free); Lion in Winter (Grand); East of Berlin, The December Man (ATP); Am I Not King? (Zone 41); Enron (Theatre Calgary); Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth); The Story (Common Boots); Macbeth (CaravanFarm); A Doll's House (Globe). Film/TV: Law and Order Toronto, Murdoch Mysteries. Training: NTS. Awards: John Hirsch Award; Betty Award for Vincent in Brixton. Online: @wilkierylan. Et cetera: All my love to Krystin, Anna and Ellen.

2026: Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appears in Othello. 15th season. Stratford (selected): Marilla (Anne of Green Gables), Gaylax (Ransacking Troy), Maria (Twelfth Night), Sian Ap Dafydd (1939), Mollie Malloy (The Front Page), Sin (Paradise Lost), Dr. Livesey (Treasure Island), Lady Anne (Richard III), Electra (Electra, The Flies), Sibyl (Private Lives) and Lady Macduff (Macbeth). Elsewhere (selected): The Antipodes, Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine); Mustard, The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Communion, The Fall, Humble Boy (Tarragon); Domesticated, A Whistle in the Dark, Marion Bridge (Company Theatre); Age of Arousal, The Penelopiad (Nightwood); Terminus (Outside the March/Centaur/Belfry). Film/TV: Priscilla, Hudson & Rex, Anne with an E, Murdoch, Ginny & Georgia. Awards: Two Dora Awards with four nominations and a Toronto Critic's Award.

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).

2026: Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bianca in Othello and Han in The King James Bible Play. Stratford debut. Elsewhere (selected): Guarded Girls, The Circle, Forests, Hush (Tarragon Theatre); Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs, Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood Theatre); Infinity (National Arts Centre, Ontario tour); Harper Regan (Canadian Stage); Category E, Killer Joe (Coalmine Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in the Ruff); The Secret Garden (YPT). Film/ TV(selected): Transplant, Fitting In, Clouds, New Eden. Awards: Two Dora Award nominations, Outstanding Performance; ACTRA Award nomination, Outstanding Performance. Training: Linklater Voice Centre, Shakespeare & Company, Canadian Film Centre. Online: @vivien.e.douglas. Et cetera: Thanks to my incredible friends and family for their support. This debut is dedicated to my Grandmother, Audrey Douglas, who always shared and encouraged my love for the stage.

2026: Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Willie in The King James Bible Play and appears in Othello. Third Season. Stratford: Jane Andrews in Anne of Green Gables, Ron, Ichiro in Forgiveness, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Li Shilong in Salesman in China. Elsewhere: Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Pirithous/Wooer in The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare BASH'd); Cockroach in Cockroach (Tarragon Theatre). Director: Concord Floral (Pucker's); Ride the Cyclone (Shifting Ground Collective); A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Kick & Push Festival/Toronto Fringe Festival); Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective). Awards: Toronto Workshop Productions (George Luscombe Award); Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble. Online: @steven_haoby. Et cetera: Please say hi if you ever encounter Steven in the wild, he's mostly harmless!

2026: Stanley, composer and music curator in Death of a Salesman and appears in Othello. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Various roles - Counting Sheep by Lemon Bucket Orkestra (Broadview Place, Edinburgh Fringe, Germany, Ireland, California and 3LD/NYC - two Doras, six awards at Edinburgh including Scotsman Fringe First), Aaronow - Glengarry Glen Ross (13th Column), playwright/self - solo show, Twisting For Peace (Rhubard/Buddies in Bad Times), Howard - Death of a Salesman (Tribal), music director/Joey - Lady Speak Easy (LaMAMA ETC-NYC), Professor - The Lesson (Actor's Lab), playwright/Judas - Absolutely the Last Supper (Fringe Toronto/Montreal). Film: Bride of Chucky, The Circle Game, himself in documentaries Push, A Different Path. TV: Wild Card, Street Time, Robo Cop, Highlander: The Raven. Music: Solo artist, founding member - Lemon Bucket Orkestra, bandleader - Red Rhythm, Rambunctious, The New Kings, trumpet - Big Rude Jake. Et cetera: That singing bartender at Communist's Daughter, Toronto. Online: michaellouisjohnson.ca.

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.

2026: Montano in Othello, Sir Henry Savile in The King James Bible Play and understudy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Eighth season. Stratford (selected): Herman in Wedding Band, Orlando in As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, Possible Worlds, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and Bunny. Elsewhere (selected): Buddy in Kimberly Akimbo (Segal Centre/Mirvish); Blackbird, La Bête, Sweeney Todd (Talk is Free Theatre); Winter Solstice (Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage); Come From Away (You Are Here Inc, Gander, NL); On Golden Pond (Drayton Festival); The Secret Chord: A Leonard Cohen Experience and Twelve Angry Men (Soulpepper Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Ross Petty Productions); Oil (ARC Toronto). Film/TV: Roger and Rupert Newsome on Murdoch Mysteries; Accused (Fox). Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award. Et cetera: Cyrus dedicates this season with love to his wife Joanne and his daughter Eliza.

2026: Appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello. Third season.

2026: Anna in The King James Bible Play and appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Panoply Theatre Collective). Film/TV: Under the Kasaya, What We Do in the Shadows (FX), A Gentleman. Training: Loose Moose Theatre Company, Toronto Metropolitan University. Online: @angelssellingout. Et cetera: Thanks mom, thanks dad, I love you <3

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.

2026: The Woman in Death of a Salesman and Barbantia in Othello. 14th season. Stratford: Adelaide Schiano, Iris, Puck, Countrywoman, Cook, Grandma, Alice, Lady Markby, Abbess, Belinda, Inez, Old Lady, Margaret, Lucetta, Lady Capulet, Calpurnia, Margery, Vivian, Kate, Andromache, Miss Lucy, Maisie Madigan, Mimi LaFlamme, Lady Squeamish, Mistress Page. Elsewhere: Theatres across Canada and the U.S., including the Shaw Festival, Theatre Plus Toronto, NAC, Grand, MTC, Neptune, Westben, Tarragon, Broadway, Actors' Theatre of Louisville. Film/TV: Most recently, Everything's Going to Be Great with Bryan Cranston, Fairfield Road, Everything She Ever Wanted. Awards: Recipient of the 2013 Max Helpmann Award; Life Member of CAEA 2018. Et cetera: 2026 marks Chick's 50th year in CAEA. She recently retired from Queen's University (Adjunct Professor) where she taught Shakespeare for twenty years, lives on a farm with her husband, Tom McCamus, and breeds Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers.

2026: Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Duke of Venice in Othello and John Perrin in The King James Bible Play. 13th season. Stratford: London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, The Miser, The Front Page, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Paradise Lost, Timon of Athens, The Changeling, Shakespeare in Love, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Aeneid, Taming of the Shrew, Possible Worlds, The Beaux' Stratagem, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Bartholomew Fair, Shakespeare's Universe. Elsewhere: Wicked Nix (YPT); Dock Spider (Magnus Theatre); The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide (Tiny Room); Jerusalem (OTM/Company Theatre); Silence, Art (Grand Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Western Canada Theatre); Hound of the Baskervilles (Globe Theatre); Pitmen Painters, Boeing Boeing (Theatre Aquarius); Vigil, Lawrence and Holloman (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Having Hope at Home (Neptune); Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Hartford Stage); The Lonely Diner (Blyth Festival); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (NAC).

CREATIVE

2026: Director of Othello. Stratford debut. 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.