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August 3 – October 26 |
Opens August 23
Modern

SALESMAN IN CHINA


By Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy

Suggested by the Memoirs of  Arthur Miller and Ying Ruocheng

Chinese Translations by Fang Zhang

Directed by Jovanni Sy

World Première

Audience Advisory »

Please note: This play is presented in English and Mandarin with surtitles


“MY HEAD FEELS LIKE A BRIDGE THAT ALL OF BEIJING HAS BEEN WALKING OVER.”  

In 1983, playwright Arthur Miller made history by travelling to China to direct a production of his classic play Death of a Salesman. Working with the Beijing People’s Art Theatre, Miller and his collaborators struggled to bridge the gap between languages, cultures and national identities for an audience long shut off from the West. Enjoying its world première at Stratford’s Avon Theatre, Salesman in China retells this daring act of cultural cross-pollination on stage.


閱讀繁體中文 | Read in Traditional Chinese

阅读简体中文 | Read in Simplified Chinese

“I know the feeling of living between worlds and serving as a bridge between cultures.”
—Director Jovanni Sy

Resources:

Salesman in China Study Guide


The 2024 Season is supported by Ophelia Lazaridis.


Developed with support from the National Arts Centre's National Creation Fund.

  National Arts Centre National Creation Fund logo


Production Sponsors:

Marilyn Gropp

Martie & Bob Sachs

Esther Sarick

Sylvia Soyka


CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

    Portrait of Tom McCamus
    Tom McCamus
    Arthur Miller
    2024: Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler and  Arthur Miller in Salesman in China. 17th season. Stratford: Tom has spent 16 seasons with the Festival appearing in roles ranging from Richard III and King John to King Arthur and Captain Hook. Elsewhere: He has spent 10 years with the Shaw Festival and performed in many theatres in Toronto and across Canada, most recently as King Lear in Soulpepper's productions of King Lear and Queen Goneril and Bob in The Company Theatre's Things I Know to be True. Film/TV: Tom is fortunate to have been a part of the Canadian film and television industry for many years, appearing in such films as The Sweet Hereafter, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Room. Et cetera: Tom lives on a farm in Warkworth with his wife, Chick Reid, and their dogs.
    Portrait of Adrian Pang 彭耀順
    Adrian Pang 彭耀順
    Ying Ruocheng
    2024: Ying Ruocheng in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere (selected UK/Singapore): Title roles in Hamlet; Macbeth; Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors; Feste in Twelfth Night. Co-Artistic Director of Pangdemonium Theatre Company, with whom Adrian has performed in (selected): Late Company; The Pillowman; Dealer's Choice; Frozen; Tribes; Chinglish; The Effect; Fun HomePeter & the Starcatcher; People, Places & Things; Into the Woods; The Full Monty. Film/TV (selected):Spy Game; Blackhat; Forever Fever; Everybody Loves Sunshine; Peggy Su!; Bait; The Blue Mansion; Unlucky Plaza; Black Society. Awards: Straits Times Life Theatre Best Actor Award - The Dresser; Much Ado About Nothing; Rabbit Hole; The LKY Musical; The Son. Online: www.pangdemonium.com. Et cetera: The productions Adrian is most proud of are his sons, Zack and Xander.
    Portrait of Jo Chim 詹翠珊
    Jo Chim 詹翠珊
    Wu Shiliang
    2024: Wu Shiliang in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Annette in The God of Carnage (Theatre du Pif Hong Kong), Fumiko in Hana's Suitcase (Young People's Theatre), Celia in As You Like It (Canadian Stage), Poa Poa in China Doll (Nightwood Theatre), Nora in A Doll's House (Morgan Wixson Theatre), Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (Brown University).  Film/TV (selected): Mean Girls, New York Minute, Take The Lead, Murdoch Mysteries, RegenesisBlue Murder. Training: Brown University. Other: Writer and Director of One Small Visit, an award-winning short film and contender for Live Action Short in the 95th Academy Awards. Online: @jochimfierce. Et cetera: Love and gratitude to my family who gives me incredible freedom to follow my dreams and to my kindreds who see me through thick and thin. For the memory of my mother, Miranda.
    Portrait of Phoebe Hu 胡馨勻
    Phoebe Hu 胡馨勻
    Zhu Lin

    (she/her)

    2024: Zhu Lin in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere (selected): Woking Phoenix (Theater Passe Muraille); Orphan Song (Tarragon Theatre); Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre); Mary Poppins, Cabaret (Grand Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (YPT); Comfort (Red Snow Collective). Film/TV: Wedding Season (Netflix), Tallboyz (CBC), Spin (Disney). Voiceover: Assassin's Creed: Mirage. Training: Randolph College for the Performing Arts, Sheridan College, National Taiwan University (B.A. in Foreign Languages & Literatures). Awards: Triple Threat Award - Randolph College. Online: thosewhowandertw.com/phoebehu, @phoebe.h.hu. Et cetera: Grateful for my agent Stephanie, and love to K, the furry kids, my sister Charissa & my chosen family in Canada. 

    Portrait of Derek Kwan 關顯揚
    Derek Kwan 關顯揚
    Cao Yu, Ying Qianli, Mo, Street Busker

    (he/him)

    2024: Appears in Romeo and Juliet and Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Zhang Lin in Chimerica (Duceppe); Jay in Frog Song (Here For Now/Stratford Symphony); Old Man and the River (WeeFestival); Antonio in The Tempest (Citadel); Narrator/Mysterious Man in Into the Woods, Louis in Pal Joey, Beadle in Sweeney Todd (TIFT); Mr. Beaver in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Theatre New Brunswick); Mr. Shi and His Lover (Tarragon/NAC); Boy in Blood Weddings (Modern Times/Aluna Theatre). Audiobooks: Batshit Seven by Sheung-King, The Book of Rain by Thomas Wharton. Recordings: Future's Market (Rodger/Njo); Chinatown (Thien/Ho); The Cave (Highway/Millard); Mr. Shi and His Lover (Wong/Njo); The Lesson of Da Ji (Chan/Ho). Awards: Toronto Theatre Critics Award - Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. Online: www.derekkwan.net, @kwanzoku. Et cetera: Derek is Artistic Director of Common Boots Theatre and is also a therapeutic clown.

    Portrait of Sarah Orenstein
    Sarah Orenstein
    Inge Morath
    2024: Inge Morath in Salesman in China. Eighth season. Stratford: Zaira Marvuglia (Grand Magic); Countess of Northumberland (Richard II); Wolsey (Wolf Hall); Daya (Nathan the Wise); Norah (Birds of a Kind); Queen Elizabeth (Shakespeare in Love); Matilda (Zastrozzi). Elsewhere: Indecent, Normal Heart, Stuff Happens (Mirvish /Studio 180); The Message, Scorched, Mrs. Klein, The Collected Works of Billy…, Hope Slide, The Retreat (Tarragon); Glass Menagerie (Grand); Virgin Trial (ATP); The Millionairess, Blithe Spirit, Heartbreak House, Councillor at Law (Shaw Festival, 13 seasons); My Name is Asher Lev (HGJT/Studio 180). Film/TV: Station Eleven, Albatross, Orphan Black, Working Moms, Fugitive Pieces, Less Than Kosher. Assistant Directing: Oslo, King Charles the III (Mirvish/Studio 180). Awards: Best actress - Dora (Patience); Capital Critics (A Doll's House); Austin Int. Film Fest (Albatross); 2018 RBC Emerging Director. Sarah commits herself to new play development and mentorship of young performers.
    Portrait of Agnes Tong 唐若馨
    Agnes Tong 唐若馨
    Liu Jun, Qiu

    (she/her)

    2024: Mrs. Darling in Wendy and Peter Pan and Liu Jun, Qiu in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Sarah in The Birds and The Bees, Beckett/Jasmine/Lenore in carried away on the crest of a wave, Connie in The Great Leap, Phyllis in The Shoplifters, Jess in King Charles III, Amanda in 4000 Miles (Arts Club Theatre); Janet in Kim's Convenience (Chemainus Theatre). Film/TV:A Million Little Things (ABC), Superman & Lois (CW), The Good Doctor (ABC), Charmed (CW), Under Wraps (Disney), The Romeo Section (CBC). Upcoming: recurring role in Ellen (new series), 1000xResist (video game). Training: Studio 58. Online: @aggyT. Etc: Agnes is a breathworker and her offerings can be found at www.healingbreathworks.com. Much love to her husband Brahm, her agents Josh and Candace, her director and friend Jovanni Sy for all the magic that has unfolded thus far.

    Portrait of George Chiang 江重仁
    George Chiang 江重仁
    Zhu Xu

    2024: Zhu Xu in Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Clown in Othello, appeared in Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: Kralahome in The King and I (Huron Country Playhouse); Serpent Kills (Crow's Theatre); Urban Donnellys (Theatre Passe Muraille); The Taming of the Shrew (Skylight Theatre). Film/TV: The Unrestricted War, Mary Kills People, MaydayMcKenna Shoots for the Stars, The Bridge, Eloise at the Plaza, Plague City, The Tracker, Goosebumps, Hawk's Vengeance. Musicals: Golden Lotus (Librettist/Composer). Albums: Golden Lotus: Sounds from The Musical(Deluxe Edition). Books: The Longest Shot: How Larry Kwong Changed the Face of Hockey, The Railroad Adventures of Chen Sing, The Pioneer Adventures of Chen Sing. Awards: Golden Lotus: Best Original Work (Hong Kong); Best Picture (World Independent Cinema Awards, Film Fest International Paris); Best Musical Film & Best Original Score (numerous). Online: georgechiang.org, goldenlotusthemusical.com, watch Golden Lotus on Stratfest@Home.

    Portrait of Harriet Chung 鍾浩賢
    Harriet Chung 鍾浩賢
    Movement Director, Auntie Zhao, Hui Li
    2024: Movement Director and Auntie Zhao, Hui Li in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Titular role in Golden Lotus (Y-Theatre/Hong Kong); Eliza in The King and I (Gateway Theatre/Theatre Aquarius/Huron Country Playhouse); Sillabub/Victoria/Tantomile in Cats (Stella Produktions/Germany); Ballet Chorus in The Phantom of the Opera (Livent/Toronto); Ensemble in Iron Road (Tapestry New Opera). Film/TV: Titular role in Golden Lotus, Dancing Through the Shadow, M. Butterfly. Choreography: The King and I (Gateway Theatre). Albums: A World Away, Hold Me Tight (2025). Awards: Best Actress for Golden Lotus (Film Fest International Paris, Barcelona International Film Festival, Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival); Best Artist of the Future (World Class Film Awards). Best Music Video and Best Song (numerous awards). Online: harrietchung.com, @harrietperforming, hcpa.ca, @hcpaperforming. Et cetera: Harriet dedicates this performance to her supportive family and students. Watch Harriet in Golden Lotus on Stratfest@Home.
    Portrait of Howard Dai 戴中豪
    Howard Dai 戴中豪
    Ding, Policeman

    (he/him)

    2024: Gregory in Romeo and Juliet and Ding, Policeman in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Swing in Forgiveness (Arts Club and Theatre Calgary); Banger in The Five Vengeances (Affair of Honor); Passenger Seat (Library Performance Co.); New Societies (Re:Current Theatre); Collider (Single Thread Theatre). Assistant Directing: Forgiveness; East Van Panto 2023 (Theatre Replacement). Training: BFA in Theatre Performance (SFU). Online: www.howarddai.com; @howardai. Et cetera: 2022 digital-artist-in-residence with PuSh Festival and Royal Court Theatre with his play 菠蘿麵包Pineapple Bun; Associate Artist with rice & beans theatre. His performances and creations have existed in theatre, films, public spaces, Zoom screens, Google Sheets, automated phone calls, interactive websites and virtual reality. Much love to mom and every mentor/teacher/friend that's been in his life. Proud to be Taiwanese.

    Portrait of Justin Eddy
    Justin Eddy
    Chinese Opera Performer, Theatre Patron
    2024: Michael in Wendy and Peter Pan and Chinese Opera Performer, Theatre Patron in Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Richard II, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost. Elsewhere: Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, Tell Tale Harbour (The Charlottetown Festival); Cinderella, Elf the Musical, Hello, Dolly!, Les Misérables: School Edition, Evita, A Christmas Carol, Home for the Holidays (Grand Theatre); The Great Cosmic Crisis (Theatre Direct); 365 Days/365 Plays, Everybody, The Most Offending Soul Alive, Bonus Points If You Have Air Conditioning (National Theatre School). Training: National Theatre School of Canada. Online: www.justineddy.ca, @jstneddy. Et cetera: Justin dedicates this season to his family; blood and chosen.
    Portrait of Tai Wei Foo 符岱微
    Tai Wei Foo 符岱微
    Chinese Opera Performer, Theatre Patron

    (she/her)

    2024: Chinese Opera Performer, Theatre Patron in Salesman in China  and understudy in Wendy and Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Xiao Ling in The Blue Dragon (Robert Lepage/Ex Machina, world tour); Solange in Bonnes Bonnes (Theatre aux Écuries); How we lost control of our faces (studio Jean-Valcourt); Ici (Theatre de La Bordée). Training: L'École de danse de Québec. Online: Instagram: @charo_foo. Et cetera: Tai Wei is an actress, dancer and choreographer. She intertwines Chinese classical dance and Butoh to develop her own choreographic language. She is multilingual in English, Mandarin, French and Spanish. This season, she is thrilled to be part of the Stratford family!

    Portrait of 郝邦宇 Steven Hao
    郝邦宇 Steven Hao
    Li Shilong

    (he/him)

    2024: Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Li Shilong in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Pirithous/Wooer in The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare Bash'd); Scott The Rat Man/Mr.Rumpelstiltskin in Storybook Search (Bad Hats Theatre); Cockroach in Cockroach (Tarragon Theatre); Duke of Burgundy/Gentleman in King Lear (Shakespeare Bash'd); Dionysus/Zeus in Trojan Girls & Outhouse of Atreus (Outside the March/Factory Theatre). Director: A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Kick & Push Festival/Toronto Fringe Festival); Death to Prometheans (Studio 180); Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective). Training: Toronto Metropolitan University, RBC Emerging Artist Program with Musical Stage Company. Awards: Toronto Workshop Productions (George Luscombe Award); Harold Awards (House of Daniel MacIvor); RBC Emerging Director's Prize (Studio 180). Online: @steven_haoby. Et cetera: Steven is approachable, he rarely bites, please say hi!

    Portrait of Kim Horsman
    Kim Horsman
    Understudy
    2024: Bertha in Hedda Gabler and understudy in Salesman in China. 12th season. Originally from Deep Cove, Vancouver, Kim trained and lived in London, England for several years where she performed in fringe theatre, the King's Head Theatre and Chesterfield Civic Theatre. Kim then appeared in theatres across Canada and as a leading company member at the Stratford Festival. With over 80 productions and counting, Kim has enjoyed a varied career on stage, television and film, playing roles as diverse as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet to Morla the Ancient Turtle in The Neverending Story; from Constance in Madwoman of Chaillot to Mrs. Which in A Wrinkle in Time. Et cetera: Kim lives in Stratford, visits the ocean in Deep Cove often, and is so grateful for her loving friends, family, partner Ian, their late son Spencer, daughter Georgina, and grandson Aiden.

     

    Portrait of Ziye Hu
    Ziye Hu
    Guan

    (he/him)

    2024: Guan in Salesman in China and understudy in Romeo and Juliet. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Yun in Eastbound (Musical Theatre Factory, New York). Film/TV: Lido TV (CBC Gem). Training: Tisch School of the Arts - New York University. Online: @ziyehu. Et cetera: We are not strangers. For third culture kids everywhere.

    Portrait of Nestor Lozano Jr.
    Nestor Lozano Jr.
    Chinese Opera Performer

    (he/she/they)

    2024: Tink in Wendy and Peter Pan and appears in Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Angel Dumott Schunard in Rent and Mrs. Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time. Elsewhere: The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz: The Panto (Drayton Entertainment); Miss Understanding in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stage West Calgary); Derrick in Peter Pan: The Panto (Neptune Theatre); Papa Ogre/Bear in Shrek The Musical (Globe Theatre). Training: Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Sheridan College; Wexford Performing Arts. Online: @nestorlozanojr. Et cetera: Love to family, friends, 10 Talent and the Festival. Nestor dedicates this season to all the little fairies - may all your dreams come true with faith, trust and a little bit of pixie dust. 

    Portrait of Gordon S. Miller
    Gordon S. Miller
    Anthony Calderon

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2002

    2024: Tesman in Hedda Gabler and Anthony Calderon in Salesman in China. 15th season. Stratford (selected): Calogero Di Spelta (Grand Magic), Don Armado (Love's Labour's Lost), Iago (Othello), Dr. Caius (The Merry Wives of Windsor), James Tyrone Jr. (Long Day's Journey Into Night), God the Son (Paradise Lost), Pentheus (Bakkhai), Laurent (Tartuffe), Biondello (The Taming of the Shrew), Scrub (The Beaux' Stratagem), Andrei (Three Sisters), Apollodorus (Caesar and Cleopatra), Roderigo (Othello), Flaminius (Timon of Athens). Elsewhere: A&R Angels (Crow's Theatre); Pride and Prejudice, Robin Hood (Globe Theatre); A Doll's House (Montgomery/TNB). Film/TV: Fargo, Suits, Republic of Doyle, Murdoch Mysteries, The Ron James Show, Warehouse 13, Lost Girl. Training: National Theatre School of Canada; Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award (2003, 2007, 2018), John Hirsch Award (2004) and the Richard Monette Travel Grant (2009).

    Portrait of Matthew Wang
    Matthew Wang
    Ying Da

    2024: Ying Da in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Awards: Winner of the Violin Suzuki Book One at the Kiwanis Music Festival in Stratford (2023). Et cetera: Matthew is a third-grade elementary school student. In his spare time, he likes to play violin, draw cartoons and he has a green belt with two stripes in Taekwondo. Matthew feels very fortunate to be a young actor in Salesman in China.

    Portrait of Nick Fangzheng Wang 王方正
    Nick Fangzheng Wang 王方正
    Assistant Director, Understudy

    (he/him)

    2024: Assistant Director and understudy in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Directing (Elsewhere): They Must Have Smoked (Calgary Fringe); The Bystander Game, The Storm: Festival (Kingston Baby Grand Theatre); The Bus Stop, The Zoo Story (UCalgary School of Creative and Performing Arts); Rhinoceros in Love (Queen's University Isabel Bader Centre). Program: 2021-22 CanStage RBC Emerging Artist, 2022-23 Lunchbox Theatre Associate Artist. Training: MFA in Theatre Directing (University of Calgary), BAH in Drama (Queen's University). Online: fangzhengwang.net, Instagram: @nickw_096. Et cetera: An interlingual worker, director, actor and playwright. Researcher focusing on contemporary Chinese theatre.

    Portrait of Asher Albert Waxman
    Asher Albert Waxman
    Ying Da

    2024: Ying Da in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Asher is thrilled to be making his theatrical acting debut at the Stratford Festival as a third generation Festival actor. Film/TV: Asher can be seen in the acclaimed television series Accused and the Hallmark movie Flipping for Christmas. He also voices the role of Alex in the animated series Paw Patrol. Et cetera: I would like to dedicate this season to the cast and crew of Salesman in China, my grandpa Al, my friends, family and especially my mom and dad. I love you.

    Portrait of Angus Yam 任孝聰
    Angus Yam 任孝聰
    Mi Tiezeng, Red Guard

    (he/him)

    2024: Mi Tiezeng, Red Guard in Salesman in China and appears in Romeo and Juliet. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Greg in Peace Country (rice & beans theatre); Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables (Gateway Theatre); Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach); Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Show (Studio 58); Chorus in East Van Panto: Alice in Wonderland (Theatre Replacement). TV: Appears in Lucky Hank (AMC). Training: Langara College, Studio 58. Online: @anguzyam. Et cetera: Angus is a Hong Konger-Canadian artist based in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded traditional Indigenous territories. Shout-out to Mamei, hater sister, and friends. Glory to God.

    Portrait of Harmony Yen
    Harmony Yen
    Shen Huihui, Red Guard

    (she/her)

    2024: Slightly in Wendy and Peter Pan and Miss Shen, Red Guard in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Discounted Hot Pot Centre (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre); Cerulean Blue, Theatre: the Play (Studio 58). Assistant Directing: Everybody (Studio 58). Film/TV: Alaska Daily, Girl in Room 13. Training: Studio 58, Canada's National Voice Intensive (2017 and 2019). Awards: Sydney Risk Acting Award 2021. Et cetera: Harmony would like to dedicate her Stratford debut to her parents, 10/10 friends, Jimmy Hong, her team (Sean and Jason), her mentors, and most importantly, her heavenly father.

CREATIVE

    Leanna Brodie 白仁耐
    Co-Playwright

    2024: Co-playwright of Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Translator, Rébecca Déraspe's I Am William. Plays: The Vic (Cahoots/Passe Muraille); Schoolhouse, The Book of Esther (Blyth Festival); For Home and Country (4th Line).Translations: Rébecca Déraspe's You Are Happy (GCTC); Fanny Britt's Benevolence (Ruby Slippers/Pacific Theatre); David Paquet's Wildfire (Upstream Theater), The Shoe (Cherry Artspace); Catherine Léger's I Lost My Husband! (Ruby Slippers/Gateway); Hélène Ducharme's Baobab (Théâtre Motus); Mohsen El Gharbi's Omi Mouna (Infinithéâtre/Impact Festival); Anaïs Pellin's Clementine (Kleine Compagnie/Carousel Theatre). Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award (David Paquet's Wildfire); Tom Hendry Award (Paquet's The Weight of Ants); Opera Factory New Works Competition (NZ), Flourish Award (UK) for Ulla's Odyssey (composer: Anthony Young). Et cetera: Alumna, Universities of Guelph and Calgary. Former Assistant Professor (Playwriting), UBC. Online: www.leannabrodie.com

    Jovanni Sy 施崇梵
    Director, Co-Playwright

    2024: Director and co-playwright of Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Directing: Murder on the Orient Express (Vertigo Theatre); Stitch (Native Earth);《食盡天下》(rice & beans theatre); God of Carnage, Antigone, Blackbird (Theatre du Pif 進劇場); The Orchard (After Chekhov) (Arts Club Theatre). Playwriting: Nine Dragons (Vertigo Theatre/Gateway Theatre), A Taste of Empire (Cahoots Theatre), The Five Vengeances (Affair of Honor). Acting: Mr Miyagi in pre-Broadway tryout of The Karate Kid, the Musical (Stages St. Louis); Prison Dancer (Citadel Theatre/National Arts Centre); Forgiveness (Theatre Calgary); Noises Off (Arts Club Theatre). Awards: Playwriting: Jessie Richardson Award - Nine Dragons; PGC Comedy Award - The Tao of the World; Playwrights Guild Drama Award - Kowloon Bay. Et cetera: Former Artistic Director of Gateway Theatre (Richmond, BC) and Cahoots Theatre (Toronto).

    Fang Zhang
    Translator

    Translator: Salesman in China

    Fang Zhang is originally from Zhejiang Province, Mainland China. She studied English and translation theory in Shanghai. She later worked as a professional translator and interpreter at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. She would assist visiting English-speaking theatre groups and individuals to develop and implement performances, workshops and lecture programs. Since moving to Toronto, she has been working at the University of Toronto as an administrative assistant. She continues to do translation work, including the translation of Ying Ruocheng's memoir Voices Carry from English to Chinese, and Meng Jinghui's play Head without Tail from Chinese to English. 

    Joanna Yu 余頌恩
    Set Designer

    (she/her)

    2024: Set designer of Salesman in China. 11th season. Stratford: Les Belles-Soeurs, 1939 (set); The Breathing Hole (costumes); Comedy of Errors, The Aeneid (set and costumes). Elsewhere: Joanna is an award-winning set and costume designer whose recent credits include: Three Sisters (set, Soulpepper); Snow in Midsummer (costumes, Shaw Festival); Prison Dancer, the Musical (set, Citadel, NAC); The Queen in Me (set and costumes, COC, NAC); among men (set and costumes, Factory); 'da Kink in My Hair (set, Soulpepper/TO Live); Forgiveness (costumes, Arts Club/Theatre Calgary); How to Fail as a Popstar (set and costumes, Canadian Stage). Awards: Dora Award, the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award, and the Pauline McGibbon Award. Online: joannayudesign.com. Et cetera: Joanna is a member of ADC659 and sits on the Board of Directors. She dedicates this show to her parents; for everything 多謝.

    Ming Wong 黄慧明
    Costume Designer
    2024: Costume designer of Salesman in China. Third season. Stratford: Rent, Hamlet-911. Elsewhere: Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812, The Master Plan, Red VelvetUncle Vanya, The Wedding Party (Crow's Theatre); Once (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Peter's Final Flight (Ross Petty Productions); Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre); The Inheritance, Public Enemy, Is God Is (Canadian Stage); De Profundis, Three SistersThe Guide to Being Fabulous, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, (Soulpepper); Just to Get Married, Trouble in Mind (Shaw Festival); Things I Know to be True (Company Theatre/Mirvish); Hansel & Gretel (Canadian Opera Company); The Color Purple (Citadel Theatre/RMTC); Life After (Musical Stage). Digital: Alice in Winterland (Ross Petty Productions); New Monuments (Luminato/Canadian Stage); Identity, Savitri (Against the Grain). Upcoming: Candida (Shaw Festival). Awards: 2021 Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award laureate, 2022/2023 Dora Award winner. Online: mingwongdesign.com.
    Sophie Tang 汤语菲
    Lighting Designer

    2024: Lighting designer of Salesman in China. Third season. Stratford: Set and lighting designer of The Rez Sisters. Elsewhere: Lighting design for The Apple Cart (Shaw Festival); Legend of Georgia Mcbride, 12 Dates of Christmas, The Orchard (Arts Club Theatre); Midsummer Night's Dream, The Pearl Fisher (Vancouver Opera); Undeveloped Sound (Electric Company Theatre); Choir Boy (Canadian Stage and Arts Club); Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Harlem Duet (Bard on the Beach); East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement); 9 to 5 (Citadel Theatre). Training: BFA Simon Fraser University, MFA University of British Columbia. Awards: Jessie Richardson Theatre Award: we the same (Ruby Slipper Theatre), Titus Bouffonius (Rumble Theatre); Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination: Kuroko (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre), Chicken Girl (rice & beans theatre), The Orchard (Arts Club Theatre). Online: Sophieyufeitang.com.

    Alessandro Juliani
    Composer, Sound Designer
    2024: Composer and sound designer of Salesman in China. Second season. Alessandro (AJ) currently makes a living as an actor, singer, composer and sound designer. He has been working at these disciplines off and on for the last three decades. He has most recently provided sound and music to: Assembly Hall, Revisor, Betroffenheit (Kidd Pivot/Electric Company); Prince Caspian, On the Razzle, Middletown, Lady from the Sea, and Trifles (Shaw Festival/Crow's Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Stratford Festival); The Great Leap, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, Saint Joan, (Arts Club); Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, The Tempest, (Bard on the Beach); King Lear (NAC). Film scoring credits include: Donkeyhead (Netflix); Big Trees (NFB); Wait for Rain (Motion 58). He makes his home in Vancouver with his partner and collaborator, Meg Roe, and their three children.
    Chimerik 似不像
    Co-Projection Designers
    Caroline MacCaull and Sammy Chien 
    2024: Co-projection designers of Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Sammy and Caroline co-run Chimerik 似不像, a multi-award-winning interdisciplinary nonprofit organization consisting of artists from underrepresented groups (people of colour, LGBTQ2S+, Immigrants, women in technology, linguistic/language minorities, neurodiverse people, youth and next generation) from various age groups, backgrounds, levels of experience, and disciplines (film/video, new media, VJ, VR, projection and lighting design, experimental music, sound art, visual arts and contemporary dance/theatre performance). Chimerik 似不像 specializes in the audiovisual new media software Isadora and has collaborated on over 500 multi-disciplinary projects which have been exhibited internationally such as World Design Expo, Digital Arts Festival of Taipei, Lacking Sound Festival, New Form Festival, ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Digital Carnival Festival, Taiwan Best Design 100, Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting (TPAM), PUSH International Performing Arts Festival and Vancouver New Music Festival. Dance/theatre companies they have worked with include: Arts Club, Gateway Theatre, Stratford Festival, the Frank Theatre, Aeriosa, Beijing Modern Dance Company, Wen Wei Dance, Dancers of Damelahamid and Raven Spirit Dance. Chimerik 似不像 has worked with influential corporations such as NIKE, Microsoft, BenQ and Google in live visuals/projection design and interactive video installations, in addition to actively empowering underrepresented communities. Awards: Chrystal Dance Prize 2023; the Changemaker Award of BC Museums Association 2022; Jessie Richardson Awards 2019, 2020 and 2021/2022. Online:chimerik.com, Instagram: @chimerikco, Facebook: facebook.com/chimerik.
    Nina Lee Aquino
    Co-Dramaturge

    (she/her)

    2024: Co-dramaturge and cultural consultant of Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Nina is a renowned Filipino Canadian director, dramaturge, teacher, mentor and arts advocate. She was the founding Artistic Director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company and has served as the Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Company and Factory Theatre. Currently, she is the Artistic Director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre. Training: Nina holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph and a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto. Awards: Awards for her work include the Ken McDougall Award, John Hirsch Prize, Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best Director, three Dora Awards for Outstanding Direction and the Toronto Arts Foundation's Margo Bindhart and Rita Davies Cultural Leadership Award.

    Bob White
    Co-Dramaturge

    (he/him)

    2024: Co-dramaturge of Salesman in China. 16th season. Stratford: Former director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program (2012-2022). Dramaturgy credits include Casey and Diana, Every Little Nookie, Hamlet-911, Little Women, Kate Hennig's Queenmaker, 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); 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.

    Anita Nittoly
    Fight Director

    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.

    Harriet Chung 鍾浩賢
    Movement Director, Auntie Zhao, Hui Li
    2024: Movement Director and Auntie Zhao, Hui Li in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Titular role in Golden Lotus (Y-Theatre/Hong Kong); Eliza in The King and I (Gateway Theatre/Theatre Aquarius/Huron Country Playhouse); Sillabub/Victoria/Tantomile in Cats (Stella Produktions/Germany); Ballet Chorus in The Phantom of the Opera (Livent/Toronto); Ensemble in Iron Road (Tapestry New Opera). Film/TV: Titular role in Golden Lotus, Dancing Through the Shadow, M. Butterfly. Choreography: The King and I (Gateway Theatre). Albums: A World Away, Hold Me Tight (2025). Awards: Best Actress for Golden Lotus (Film Fest International Paris, Barcelona International Film Festival, Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival); Best Artist of the Future (World Class Film Awards). Best Music Video and Best Song (numerous awards). Online: harrietchung.com, @harrietperforming, hcpa.ca, @hcpaperforming. Et cetera: Harriet dedicates this performance to her supportive family and students. Watch Harriet in Golden Lotus on Stratfest@Home.
    Nick Fangzheng Wang 王方正
    Assistant Director, Understudy

    (he/him)

    2024: Assistant Director and understudy in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Directing (Elsewhere): They Must Have Smoked (Calgary Fringe); The Bystander Game, The Storm: Festival (Kingston Baby Grand Theatre); The Bus Stop, The Zoo Story (UCalgary School of Creative and Performing Arts); Rhinoceros in Love (Queen's University Isabel Bader Centre). Program: 2021-22 CanStage RBC Emerging Artist, 2022-23 Lunchbox Theatre Associate Artist. Training: MFA in Theatre Directing (University of Calgary), BAH in Drama (Queen's University). Online: fangzhengwang.net, Instagram: @nickw_096. Et cetera: An interlingual worker, director, actor and playwright. Researcher focusing on contemporary Chinese theatre.

    Jung A Im
    Assistant Set Designer

    (she/her)

    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.

    Claudia Tam
    Assistant Costume Designer

    2024: Assistant costume designer of Wendy and Peter Pan  and Salesman in China. Stratford debut. A Toronto-based costume designer with experience in film and theatre. Claudia is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Performance Production program. Film: Costume designer and production designer for The Elevator Ride. Costume designer for The Air Time Project music video; Flashlight; ExecutionTriptych, First Love,WildFire.  Wardrobe buyer for the film Golden Slumber. Theatre: Stitcher for Scott Joplin's Treemonisha (Volcano). Costume designer for Three Ordinary Men (Cahoots); Spring Works Dance (TMU). Head of paint and set designer for Romeo and Juliet (TMU); head of paint and props master for Enchoreographic Dance (TMU). Online:www.claudiatam.myportfolio.com/work.

    BC Batty
    Assistant Lighting Designer

    (he/him)

    2024: Assistant lighting designer of La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Grand MagicRichard 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.

    Corwin Ferguson
    Assistant Projection Designer

    2024: Assistant projection designer of Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Projection designer of Rent. Assistant projection designer of Monty Python's Spamalot and A Wrinkle in Time. Elsewhere: Selected video and projection design credits include: Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Homes: A Refugee Story (Grand Theatre); Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Much Ado About Nothing (Bard on the Beach); Newsies, Nobody's Children, Hansel and Gretel, Robin Hood (Yellow Door Theatre Project); Mary PoppinsDriving Miss Daisy, Miracle on 34th St. (Saint John Theatre Company); Rinaldo (Pacific Opera Victoria); HamletJulius Caesar, Richard III (The Shakespeare Company). Training: Bachelor of Performing Arts (Capilano University); Studio 58 Acting Program. Corwin's a full member of ADC. Awards: Technical Merit Award from CITT - LeVoyage (Flip the Switch); Robert Merritt Award - Chasing Champions (Ship's Company); multiple Betty Mitchell, Jessie Richardson and Sterling award nominations. Online: www.CorwinFerguson.com

    Bona Duncan
    Stage Manager
    2024: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre and stage manager of Salesman in China. 24th season. Stratford: Stage manager: Frankenstein Revived, 1939, Rez Sisters, Private Lives, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Bakkhai, Tartuffe, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Taming of the Shrew, King John, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Dangerous Liaisons, Cyrano de Bergerac, Zastrozzi, All's Well That Ends Well, Fanny Kemble, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Electra, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Hamlet. Assistant stage manager: The Neverending Story, Antony and Cleopatra, The Matchmaker, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like ItTraining: Technical Production, National Theatre School of Canada; BA, Bishop's University. Et cetera: Bona lives in Stratford with her husband, Daniel and their daughter, Georgia.
    Erika Morey
    Assistant Stage Manager

    (she/her)

    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. 

    Brian Scott
    Assistant Stage Manager

    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.

    Ken James Stewart
    Assistant Stage Manager

    (he/him)

    2024: Assistant stage manager of Salesman in China. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of 1939 and Frankenstein Revived, Charlie Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Noah in Wanderlust. Elsewhere: Stage manager of Hansel & Gretel, The Nutcracker (2022/2023), Botero, Giselle (Alberta Ballet); All I Want for Christmas (Lunchbox Theatre); A Short History of Niagara (Shaw Festival); All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood Theatre). Assistant stage manager of Cipher (Vertigo Theatre). Apprentice stage manager of The Ladykillers, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Shaw Festival); Herringbone/The Yalta Game (TIFT). Et cetera: Ken plays Duddy in the original cast recording of Alan Menken's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravtiz. He sends love and appreciation to family and friends near and far.

    Yvonne Yip 葉澔暉
    Assistant Stage Manager

    (she/her)

    2024: Assistant stage manager of Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Assembly Hall, National and International Tour (Kidd Pivot); An Undeveloped Sound (Electric Company Theatre); My Little Tomato (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre);East Van Panto: The Little Mermaid and Alice in Wonderland (Theatre Replacement); Redbone Coonhound, Kinky Boots (Arts Club Theatre); King Arthur's Night (Neworld Theatre); Shylock (Bard on the Beach); King of the Yees (Gateway Theatre); The Competition is Fierce (ItsaZoo); Fall Away Home (Boca del Lupo); Mother Courage and Her Children (Caravan Farm Theatre). Training: University of Victoria. Et cetera: Yvonne would like to thank Jovanni and Leanna for this opportunity and is thankful for her supportive family and partner.

    Bruno Gonsalves
    Production Stage Manager

    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.

    Ava Robitaille
    Production Assistant

    (she/her)

    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. 

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