Large title text in the middle says "Ransacking Troy". Behind, Penelope stands with a sword raised while Clytemnestra stands beside her holding a lyre as a weapon. Photography by Ted Belton.

Irene Poole and Maev Beaty. Photography by Ted Belton.

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Macbeth
By William Shakespeare. Created in collaboration with Ex Machina. Directed by Robert Lepage.
Set design by Ariane Sauvé. Costume design by Michael Gianfrancesco. Lighting design by Kimberly Purtell. Original music and sound design by John Gzowski.

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August 6 – September 28 |

Opens August 21

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RANSACKING TROY

By Erin Shields

Directed by Jackie Maxwell

A Stratford Festival Commission

World Première

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“THE WOMEN STANDING BESIDE YOU POSSESS A BRAVERY THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN.”

Everyone knows the story of the Trojan War: Trojan boy elopes with married Greek girl; angry husband tracks the lovers to the boy’s hometown; 10 years of siege warfare later, the angry husband and his posse reduce Troy to rubble. But did it have to end that way? In Ransacking Troy, playwright Erin Shields imagines a less testosterone-fuelled conclusion, in which the women of Greece—tired of waiting for their husbands to return from war—stage an intervention of historical proportions.

Runtime: 2 hours and 41 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission*
*Run times are approximate

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MEIGHEN FORUM EVENTS

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

2025: Rachel Lynde in Anne of Green Gables and Penelope, Odysseus in Ransacking Troy. Ninth season. Stratford: Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Annabelle (Wedding Band), Gertrude (Hamlet), Jane (Death and the King's Horseman), Cookie (The Front Page), Elmire (Tartuffe), Sneerwell (The School for Scandal), Sorrel (Bunny), Kate (The Last Wife), Kate Hardcastle (She Stoops to Conquer), Goneril (King Lear). Elsewhere: My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage); Letters from Max, The Great Fire (Necessary Angel); August: Osage County, Little Menace: Pinter (Soulpepper); Terminus (Outside the March/Mirvish); Wide Awake Hearts (Tarragon); over 30 Canadian premières including her co-creations Montparnasse, Goblin Market and Secret Life of a Mother (Playwrights Canada Press). Awards: Multiple Dora-winner, 14-time nominee. Film/TV: Beau is Afraid (dir. Ari Aster), Mouthpiece (dir. Patricia Rozema), Murdoch Mysteries. Online: maevbeaty.com. Et cetera: For Esmé, and all my Sirens, Witches and Queens.

2025: Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Iphigenia in Ransacking Troy and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. 12th season. Stratford: Pisanio in Cymbeline, Morag in The Diviners, Thérèse Dubuc in Les Belles-Soeurs, Marmee in Little Women, Interpreter in All's Well…, Katherine in Henry VIII, Catalina in Mother's Daughter, Jean Louise in To Kill a Mockingbird, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Breath of Kings, Kate in The Little Years, Katherina in Taming of the Shrew, Olga in Three Sisters. Elsewhere: Bakelite Masterpiece, The Little Years (Dora Award, Tarragon); Leisure Society (Dora Award, Factory Theatre); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Dora Award, Birdland); Happy Place, The Gigli Concert (Soulpepper); How Do I Love Thee? (Canadian Rep); Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary (Buddies…). Film/TV: Frankie Drake, Salvation, Indian Horse, Cardinal, Reign, Murdoch Mysteries, Republic of Doyle. Et cetera: For my Labrador family.

2025: Paulina in The Winter's Tale and Eurydice, Hecuba, Nestor in Ransacking Troy. 13th season. Yanna McIntosh is one of Canada's preeminent stage actors, acclaimed for her dramatic range and intensity. Training at Vaughan Road Collegiate, University of Toronto, and Harvard's American Repertory Theatre Institute grounded numerous stage highlights, among them, The Master Plan (Crow's), Ruined (Obsidian), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (San Francisco), The Baroness and the Pig (Shaw), Hedda Gabler (Volcano), Skylight (Tarragon) and leading roles in Stratford productions of Antony and Cleopatra, Oedipus, Macbeth, Elektra, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, A Little Night Music, The Winter's Tale and Trojan Women. Recent screen credits include Slasher: Hell Motel (AMC), Beyond Black Beauty (Amazon), Good Sam (CBS); Pretty Hard Cases (Global), Sort Of (CBC). Yanna is Icil Morgan's daughter. Et cetera: To Marti, for all my firsts.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2000

2025: Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Aegiale, Helen, Cowering Woman, Diomedes in Ransacking Troy. 16th season. Stratford (selected): Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Shakespeare's Juliet, Olivia, Cordelia, Jessica, Rosalind; Elizabeth/Robyn (Serving Elizabeth), Ruth (Blithe Spirit), Célimène (The Misanthrope), Wendy (Peter Pan), Madame de Tourvel (Dangerous Liaisons), Gwendolyn (The Importance of Being Earnest), Laurencia (Fuente Ovejuna), Mabel (An Ideal Husband) Laura (The Glass Menagerie) Brooke Ashton (Noises Off). Broadway: Cecily in Travesties, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, Sally in the original Broadway company of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Off Broadway: Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling. In the UK: Love Me Do (Dorothy), Intimate Apparel (Mrs. Van Buren). Elsewhere: Two seasons at the Shaw Festival playing the title role in Saint Joan and Ann Whitfield in Man And Superman, Beatrice at The Old Globe, Titania and Ariel at The Shakespeare Theatre (DC) and appearances on many other stages worldwide.

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2025: Josie Pye in Anne of Green Gables and Electra, Chryses, Thrasymedes in Ransacking Troy. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Perfect on Paper, White Taffeta Silk (TIFT); Come Home: The Legend of Daddy Hall (Tarragon Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Jane Eyre, The Fiancée, Heaven (Citadel Theatre); The 39 Steps (County Stage Company); Heaven (National Arts Centre); The Wonderful (Caravan Farm Theatre); King Lear, Queen Goneril (Soulpepper Theatre Company); Here There Be Night (WWPT); The Blue Hour (SkirtsAFire Festival); The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius (Theatre Network); Cinderella (Globe Theatre); Vidalia (Teatro Live!) Film/TV: Dark Nature (Almost Forever Prod.); Abracadavers (Mind Engine Ent.). Training: University of Alberta, BFA Acting. Awards: 2022 AMPIA Award for Best Female Performance, Abracadavers. Online: @helubee. Et cetera: Endless thanks to my loved ones, agent, and anyone and everyone that's ever plucked up the courage to tell a story.

2025: Marilla Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables and Galax, Anax, Andromache, Old Woman, Greater Ajax in Ransacking Troy. 14th season. Stratford (selected): Maria (Twelfth Night), Sian Ap Dafydd (1939), Mollie Malloy (The Front Page), Sin (Paradise Lost), Dr. Livesey (Treasure Island), Miss Prism (The Importance of Being Earnest), 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 and Rex, Anne with an E, Titans, Ginny & Georgia. Awards: Two Dora Awards with four nominations, a Toronto Critics' Award and a Jerry.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2015/2016

2025: Psamathe, Briseis, Trojan Soldier, Antilochus, Circe, Cassandra in Ransacking Troy and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Ninth season. Stratford: Mattie in Wedding Band, Linda Lauzon in Les Belles-Soeurs, Much Ado About Nothing, Guildenstern in Hamlet, Co-host of Showstarters, Tituba in The Crucible, Death and the King's Horseman, The Neverending Story, As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, Hay Fever. Elsewhere: Death and the King's Horseman Radio Play (Soulpepper); Romeo & Juliet (Spontaneous Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Theatre New Brunswick); five seasons with Shaw Festival including Major Barbara, Serious Money, Ragtime, Born Yesterday; Binti's Journey (Theatre Direct); The Aftermath (Nightwood Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare in High Park, Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Hamlet (2022), Death and the King's Horseman, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Macbeth, Timon of Athens (Stratfest@Home). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; BFA, University of Windsor. Et cetera: To my loves J, Z and S.

(she/her) Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026

2025: Mopsa in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Ransacking Troy. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Mia in Gringas (First Born Theatre), Dorine in La Bête (Talk is Free Theatre), Lisa in Wakey Wakey (County Players), Chloe in Hookman (TMU), Bianca in Untamed (TMU). Directing: Morning After (a front company/Toronto Fringe Festival), ECHO (associate director - a front company), The Zoo Story (co-director - a front company). Writing: Morning After. Training: Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Performance. Online: katarinafiallos.com, @katarinafiallos. Et cetera: Thank you to my family, friends, and the team at NCA for everything!

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2025: Dorcas in The Winter's Tale and Cur, Hecamede, Lesser Ajax, Trojan Soldier in Ransacking Troy. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Ida Jackson in The Amen Corner, Ensemble/Dainty June understudy in Gypsy, Ensemble/Judy Haynes understudy in White Christmas, Ensemble in Damn Yankees, Ensemble in Chitra, Zoe in Bright Lights (DWP) (Shaw Festival); Jasmine/Dance Captain in BeeHive (Drayton Entertainment); Veruca Salt/Dance Captain in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, It's A Wonderful Life (Young People's Theatre); Rosa Mundi in Concord Floral, Who Are You?, Tiny Tenements of Terror (Theatre Sheridan). Film: Lead in Something Bubbled, Something Blue (Talk Is Free). Training: Sheridan College Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre. Online: @caitlynmacinnis. Etcetera: Caitlyn dedicates their debut to the women who raised them. For mom and grandma Norma. Big love to the Festival and the artists, I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2024

2025: Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Hermione, Menelaus in Ransacking Troy. Third season. Stratford: Grace Harkaway in London Assurance, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Lise Paquette in Les Belles-Soeurs, King Lear. Elsewhere: Lucky by Marie Barlizo (rEvolver); Hermia in A (Musical) Midsummer Night's Dream (Driftwood Theatre); Lucky in FEARLESS by David Yee (fu-GEN Theatre); Olivia in Twelfth Night (Theatre Erindale). Film/TV: Eli Roth's Be Mine, 13: The Musical, Titans season 4, Daughter Dearest, ReGenesis. Audio/voiceover: Anne of Green Gables. Playwriting: twice blessed (fu-GEN Theatre). Awards: Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC Award (University of Toronto); Douglas Campbell Award (Stratford Festival); Dora Mavor Moore Award (Stratford Festival). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, 2024; Theatre and Drama Studies with Sheridan College; University of Toronto (MA). Online: marissaorjalo.com, @MarissaOrjalo. Et cetera: Gratitude always to Carlos Bulosan Theatre and fu-GEN Theatre.

2025: Appears in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Ransacking Troy. Fourth 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, Mary Snow in Salt-Water Moon (Soulpepper); Nellie in Floyd Collins (Patrick St. Productions/Talk Is Free); 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: Instagram: @krystinpellerin. Et cetera: Big love to my beautiful family xo.

CREATIVE

Playwright: Ransacking Troy

Erin Shields is a Canadian playwright best known for radical adaptations of classical texts which bring neglected female characters centre stage. This is her third season at the Stratford Festival. In 2023, her additional text for Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing on the Festival Stage gave a voice to silenced Hero at the climax of the play. Erin's illuminating and entertaining adaptation of Paradise Lost premièred in the Studio Theatre in 2018 and went on to win the Quebec Writers' Federation Prize for Playwriting. Queen Goneril, which played in rep at Soulpepper Theatre with King Lear, centres Lear's stifled daughters as they contend for power in a world that insists they remain powerless. And her harrowing tragedy about sexual violence, If We Were Birds, won the Governor General's Award for playwriting. Other plays include: Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Productions/Segal Centre), Thy Woman's Weeds (Repercussion/Centaur), Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre), The Lady from the Sea (Shaw Festival), The Millennial Malcontent and Soliciting Temptation (Tarragon Theatre) and Instant (Geordie Theatre). Erin's plays are published by Playwrights Canada Press and you can read more about upcoming projects on her website: erinshields.ca.

2025: Director of Ransacking Troy. Third season. Jackie is a celebrated Canadian director, artistic director, dramaturge and teacher. She has directed for theatres across the country including the Stratford Festival (Paradise Lost, The Changeling), Tarragon, Citadel, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, Mirvish, Theatre Calgary, Coalmine and Centaur, Montreal, as well as several theatres in the United States. Jackie served as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival for 14 seasons, 2002-2016. She directed over 25 productions there. She also created a new performance space to include and promote provocative contemporary plays in Shaw's programming. It has since been named the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre. Jackie was AD at Factory Theatre from 1987-1995. She has been awarded the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, two Honorary Doctorates and has received two Dora Mavor Moore awards for Direction.

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2025: Choreographer of Ransacking Troy. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Treemonisha: A Musical Reimagining (Choreographer, Harris Theatre, US Première); Three Sisters (Choreographer, Soulpepper Theatre/Obsidian Theatre); Treemonisha: A Musical Reimagining (Volcano Theatre/Luminato Festival/TOLive); Russian Play, Victory, 1837: Farmer's Revolt (Movement Director, Shaw Festival); Serving Elizabeth (Director, Theatre Aquarius); Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Movement Director, Soulpepper/Obsidian Theatre); TEDxToronto Speaker (TED Talks). Film/TV: Canada's Got Talent: Million Dollar Season (Choreographer, CityTV); Pretty Hard Cases (Choreographer, CBC); Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's do the Time Warp Again (dancer, FOXTV); Camp Rock 2 (dancer, Disney). Training: George Brown College. Awards: Arts Awards - John Holland Awards, Dance Educator of the Year, 100 Accomplished Black Women, Best Contemporary Dance Act. Online: www.esiemensah.com.

2025: Set and costume designer of Ransacking Troy. Fourth season. Stratford: Set designer of King Lear, designer of Paradise Lost and costume designer of The Changeling. Elsewhere (selected): Set and costume design: Othello (Royal Shakespeare Company); Paradise Lost (Centaur Theatre); The Humans (Citadel Theatre/Canadian Stage); London Road, The Other Place (Canadian Stage); Sense and Sensibility (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Chimerica (M.T.C./Canadian Stage); The Applecart, Playboy of the Western World, White Christmas, Gaslight, Holiday Inn, Ladykillers, Grand Hotel, Saint Joan, Sweeney Todd (Shaw Festival). Costume design: Queen Goneril and King Lear (Soulpepper Theatre); Junk, Watch on the Rhine, My Fair Lady (Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.); Secret Garden, Cabaret (Shaw Festival). Set design: Desire Under the Elms (Shaw Festival).

2025: Head of Design for the Stratford Festival and lighting designer of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Winter's Tale and Ransacking Troy. 21st season. Stratford (selected): Chicago, Richard III, Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, Birds of a Kind, Rocky Horror, The Music Man, The Tempest, Guys and Dolls, The School for Scandal, Macbeth, A Chorus Line, Hamlet, The Sound of Music, Oedipus Rex, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Fiddler on the Roof, The Matchmaker, Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: Piaf/Deitrich (Mirvish); Bluebeard's Castle (COC, 2022); Così Fan Tutte (Israeli Opera, COC); Il Trittico, Jenufa, Maria Stuarda, Albert Herring (Pacific Opera Victoria); A Doll's House Part 2 (RMTC/Mirvish); Kiss Me Kate, Beautiful, Grease (Drayton); The Humans (Citadel/Canadian Stage); A Word or Two with Christopher Plummer (CTG/Stratford, Los Angeles); Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse); Chimerica (RMTC/Canadian Stage).

2025: Composer of Ransacking Troy. Third season. Stratford: A Wrinkle in Time, Paradise Lost. Elsewhere: Deanna has sound designed and composed original music for over 100 stage and screen productions across Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. with companies including Soulpepper, Tarragon, Canadian Stage, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Neptune Theatre, Grand Theatre, Shaw Festival, and many others. Recent highlights include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Mirvish/Neptune), The Darkest Dark (YPT), and The Importance of Being Earnest (Citadel). Proud member of IATSE ADC 659. Film/TV: Gray; The Nature of Things; Relax, I'm From the Future. Awards: Two Dora Awards (five nominations), Pauline McGibbon Award, SOCAN Foundation Award. Online: @deanna.h.choi. Et cetera: For Kim Renders who directed my first Erin Shields production and showed me a life in theatre was possible.

2025: Composer and sound designer of As You Like It and sound designer of Ransacking Troy. 15th season. Stratford: More than 25 productions since 2009. Elsewhere: Designs for Mirvish, BIBT, Soulpepper, Shaw, Canadian Stage, Tarragon, NAC, Blyth Festival, RMTC, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, Nightwood, Modern Times, Aluna, Crow's and many others. Film: Plain View, 7A, Blood Harvest, Hero.Traitor.Patriot, Alegra & Jim, Robert's Circle. Training: Studied composition with James Tenney, Honours BA, York University. Awards: Six Dora Awards for Sound Design and Composition. Et cetera: Started as a songwriter with a four-track tape machine and still endlessly fascinated with the storytelling possibilities of layered sound. Online: thomasryderpayne.bandcamp.com, xeno-canto.org/contributor/NWXCLJYBDK.

2025: Fight and intimacy director of the 2025 season. Eighth season. Fight and intimacy director (selected): Stratford Festival 2024 season; Fat Ham, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hamlet, Fairview (CanStage); Groundhog Day (YES); CRAZE (Tarragon); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Perchance); The Bidding War, Wights, Bad Roads, Prodigal (Crow's); Roberto Zucco, Angels in America (Buddies in Bad Times); The Retreat (Imago); Truth (YPT); Jesus Christ Superstar (Here for Now); WildWoman (Soulpepper); Hamlet (The Rose); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (TIP); Fall on Your Knees (CanStage/NAC/The Grand); Counter Offence (Segal Centre). Stunt performer/actor credits (selected): Copenhagen, Slasher, Twisted Metal Season 2, Law & Order: Toronto, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, The Boys, Handmaid's Tale. Upcoming theatre projects: Robin Hood (CanStage). Upcoming film/TV projects: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 2. Online: anitanittoly.com.

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2025: Dramaturge of Ransacking Troy. 17th season. Stratford: Former Director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program (2012-2022). Dramaturgy credits include Salesman in China, Casey and Diana, Every Little Nookie, Hamlet-911, Little Women, Kate Hennig's Queenmaker Trilogy, Paradise Lost, The Breathing Hole, Bunny and many others. Elsewhere: Artistic Director, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary (1999-2009); Co-Director, Banff Playwrights Lab (1997-2009); Artistic Director, Factory Theatre, Toronto (1979-1987). Director of over 75 productions from Cow Head, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia and places in between, but mostly in Calgary and Toronto. Training: Loyola College, Montreal, and University of Alberta. Awards: Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD), University of Calgary. In 2018, Bob was awarded the GE Lessing Award for Career Achievement by the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Bob is a member of the Order of Canada.

(she/her) Langham Directors' Workshop, 2022

2025: Assistant director of Ransacking Troy. Second season. Stratford: Hamlet. Selected Directing: JANE (Tarragon Theatre Greenhouse Residency/Pantheon Projects), Mary Stuart (Stratford Langham Directors' Workshop Presentation), Beneath the Bed (Theatre Born Between), Vitals (Theatre Born Between, Nominated for Outstanding Solo Performance, My Entertainment World Awards). Assistant Directing: UNCOVERED Concert (Musical Stage Company), Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Crows/Musical Stage Company), Withrow Park (Tarragon Theatre), A Bear Awake in Winter (Next Stage Theatre Festival). Facilitation: One Song Glory Program Manager (Musical Stage Company), Associate Artist (Directors Lab North 2022-25). Training: Langham Directors' Workshop, Directors Lab North, Paprika Festival Directors Lab, Sheridan College/University of Toronto. Awards: Jean Gascon Award (Stratford Festival). Online: brynkennedy.com. Et cetera: Love to Matt, M & D for making it all work.

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2025: Assistant set and costume designer of Anne of Green Gables and Ransacking Troy. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: As designer: Heathers the Musical, The Lightning Thief (Storybook Theatre), Stone Soup and Festive Favourites (Calgary Opera), Clue, The Frozen Deep (Calgary Young Peoples' Theatre), Fairground (Shaw Festival). As design assistant: 1922, Chitra, The Importance of Being Earnest, Too True to Be Good, Gaslight (Shaw Festival). Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Production Design and Technical Arts.

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2025: Assistant lighting designer of As You Like It, Annie and Ransacking Troy. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Lighting Designer: Killing Time: A Game Show Musical (Mixtape Projects), Cymatix (Citadel + Compagnie), TEASE (Crow's Theatre), Ursa: A Folk Musical (The Uncommon Folk Collective), Insert Clown Here (Parlous Theatre), ECHO (a front company). Assistant/associate lighting designer: Fall For Dance North 2024, PUS (Road Trip Collective), Trayf (Harold Green Theatre), The Ballad of Stompin' Tom (Capitol Theatre), Spring Mix 2024 (Citadel + Compagnie). Training: Toronto Metropolitan University, Performance Production and Design (BFA). Canadian Green Alliance 2024 Green Mentorship Recipient. Online: mathildakane.com.

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2025: Production stage manager of the Tom Patterson Theatre and stage manager of Ransacking Troy. 25th season. Stratford: In Meghan's 20+ seasons, she has worked as production stage manager at all of the Festival's stages including the Tom Patterson Theatre Canopy (2021). She has worked on stage management teams for Paradise Lost, The Virgin Trial, The Tempest (2010), A Little Night Music, The Physicists, Jesus Christ Superstar and Tommy, among others. Training: Meghan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Production from York University. Elsewhere: Meghan stage managed Light at Tarragon Theatre; and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? and The Virgin Trial at Soulpepper Theatre. She has worked at the National Arts Centre, Citadel Theatre, toured New Brunswick with TNB and stage managed car and industrial trade shows and concerts. Meghan sends love and respect to Ella and Beatrice and of course to Peter, we all miss you.

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2025: Stage manager of Forgiveness and assistant stage manager of Ransacking Troy. Ninth season. Stratford: Get That Hope, Romeo and Juliet, Women of the Fur Trade, Monty Python's Spamalot, Hamlet, Death and the King's Horseman, R + J, Henry VIII, Birds of a Kind, Bakkhai. Elsewhere: Groundhog Day: The Musical (YES Theatre), The Phantom of the Opera, Maggie & Pierre (Grand Theatre); Jack: A Beanstalk Panto (Capitol Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute (Canadian Opera Company); Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls (Roseneath Theatre); The Drowsy Chaperone, Footloose, The Addams Family, Spring Awakening, Spelling Bee, Nine (Randolph College); Godspell (Theatre Sheridan); Anne of Green Gables, Evita, Shrek the Musical (LOT); The Canadian (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Hamlet (Tarragon Theatre); City of Angels (Theatre by the Bay). Et cetera: Originally from Lima, Peru. Loves food, music, dancing. Adam, thank you for your unwavering support.

2025: Assistant stage manager of Anne of Green Gables and Ransacking Troy. Second season. Stratford: Twelfth Night and Something Rotten! Elsewhere: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Dear Evan Hansen, Kinky Boots, The Wizard of Oz (Mirvish); Fun Home (Musical Stage Company/Mirvish); Life After (Canadian Stage/Musical Stage Company). Other credits include shows for the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Cahoots, The Globe Theatre, Theatre Aquarius and Drayton Entertainment.

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2025: Assistant stage manager of The Winter's Tale and Ransacking Troy. Sixth season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of Twelfth Night, London Assurance, Rent, Les Belles-Soeurs, Walker Rhodes (workshop); apprentice stage manager of Chicago, The Miser, Three Tall Women; Festival Theatre production assistant. Elsewhere (selected): Stage manager: Bluebeard's Castle (Against the Grain Theatre); The Laundry List (Vintage Taps); rochdale (SummerWorks). Assistant stage manager: A Huron County Christmas Carol (Blyth Festival); The Breathing Hole (National Arts Centre); The Tender Land (UofT Opera). Apprentice stage manager: Homes: A Refugee Story, Home for the Holidays (Grand Theatre); August: Osage County (Soulpepper); Cinderella: The Panto (Capitol Theatre); Angel (Opera Atelier). Apprentice production manager: Twelfth Night (a Company of Fools). Training: York University, SMArts. Et cetera: Caitlin would like to thank her friends, family, and mentors for all their support.

2025: Production stage manager of the Tom Patterson Theatre and assistant stage manager of The Winter's Tale. 33rd season. Stratford: Production stage manager (seven seasons). Selected productions: La Cage aux Folles, 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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2025: Production assistant of the Tom Patterson Theatre. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Stage manager: Steel Magnolias (Morpheus Theatre); Into the Woods (Untold Stories Theatre); Candy Cane Kids (Occasional Notes Productions); Ride The Cyclone (BrownCow Collective); We Are Pussy Riot or Everything is P.R. (Holy Fools Theatre); The Music Man KIDS, Newsies Jr. (StoryBook Theatre School). Assistant stage manager: Starslingers (Le Cirque de la Nuit/Calgary Stampede); Honk! (StoryBook Theatre); The Time Machinist (Le Cirque de la Nuit/Jupiter Theatre). Apprentice stage manager: Selma Burke (Theatre Calgary/Alberta Theatre Projects). Awards: Calgary Critics Award for Ride The Cyclone. Online: @bahillman.99. Et cetera: Massive thank you to Meghan and Stratford. He sends his love to his family in Alberta and is deeply grateful to his parents for their unwavering support and encouragement in pursuing his dreams.