Large text in the centre says "Saturday, Sunday, Monday". Behind, a large family sits at a dinner table, conversing. The patriarch of the family stands at the head, with a strained look on his face.

Katarina Fiallos, Gordon S. Miller, Emilio Vieira, Rose Napoli, Graham Abbey, Seana McKenna, Josue Laboucane and Michelle Giroux. Photo: Dariane Sanche.

Avon Theatre

August 4 – October 24 |

Opens August 22

Comedy

SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY

By Eduardo de Filippo

In a new English version by Donato Santeramo and Antoni Cimolino

A Stratford Festival Commission

World Première Translation

Directed by Antoni Cimolino

Passion, pride and pasta

In this comic masterpiece, a lively Neapolitan household is thrown into turmoil when a simmering marital rift between the family matriarch and her withdrawn husband comes to a boil. As emotions flare and generations clash, laughter and love guide the family toward reconciliation and a deeper understanding of one another.

MEIGHEN FORUM EVENTS

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

Langham Director's Workshop, 2015/2017

2026: Director of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Peppino in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 27th season.

2026: Donna Rosa in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and appears in The Tempest. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: The Master Plan (Crow's/Soulpepper/Aquarius); Mad Madge (Nightwood); Wildwoman (Soulpepper): Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure (Canadian Stage): Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (SLSF): Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream (Citadel). Film/TV: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Doc, Titans, Culprits. As playwright: After the Rain with Suzy Wilde (MSC/Tarragon/NAC), Mad Madge (Nightwood/Neptune), Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood/Crow's/Neptune/GCTC). As television writer: Sullivan's Crossing, Hudson & Rex, CBC, Bell/Crave originals. Awards: Dora nominations, twice named Top Ten Toronto Theatre Artist, Tom Hendry Comedy Award. Et cetera: Rose thanks Antoni and dedicates this season to the Donna Rosas of her life: Teresa Napoli, Diane D'Aquila, and the dear departed, Antonia Pisciuneri.

2026: Antonio in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 19th season. 50 plus productions. Favourites include Wolsey in Henry VIII, Luce in Comedy of Errors, Glenn Gould in Glen, Macbeth in Macbeth, Pistol in Henry V, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the first six Wingfield one-person plays. Rod has performed the Wingfield series (by Dan Needles) for forty years, almost 5,000 performances in every major Canadian theatre and in the United States. Other credits include Johnny Pateen Mike in The Cripple of Inishmaan (Theatre Calgary), John Proctor in The Crucible (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Professor in Oleanna (Grand Theatre, London and the National Arts Centre). Training: M.A. University of Toronto. Awards: Dora Mavor Moore, Sterling, Gemini, "Critics' Award" (Sarasota), Order of Canada (2017), City of Stratford Bronze Star Award (2017).

2026: Aunt Meme in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 33rd season.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2002

2026: Antonio in The Tempest, Luigi Ianniello in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and understudy in Waiting for Godot. 16th season. Stratford (selected): George Tesman (Hedda Gabler), Anthony Calderon (Salesman in China), 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: Ruby and the Reindeer (Here For Now); 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, BOTS. Training: National Theatre School of Canada; Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award, John Hirsch Award, and the Richard Monette Travel Grant.

2026: Sebastian in The Tempest, Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest and understudy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Third season. Stratford: Orlando in As You Like It, Gossip #1 in Sense and Sensibility, Valmont understudy in Dangerous Liaisons, Connie in Stupid F*cking Bird, Venticello 1 in Amadeus, Cloten in Cymbeline, Lachlan in The Diviners. Selected theatre credits: The Master Plan (Crow's Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Soulpepper); Redbone Coonhound (Tarragon Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach); Sweat (Canadian Stage); The Birds and The Bees (Arts Club, Blyth Festival, TIP, WCT); Antigone[FONG], Selfie (YPT); The Whipping Man (WJT); Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage); The Adonis Project (The Piece of Mine Festival). Film/TV: Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+/CBS); Coroner, Workin' Moms (CBC); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC Television, Citytv); 13: The Musical (Netflix). Voiceover: No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot (audiobook). Training: York University Acting Conservatory. Awards: Dora Award winner and nominee. Online: @christopherallen.me.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2022/2023

2026: Maria in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and appears in The Tempest. Fifth season. Stratford: La Presidente de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons, Gossip in Sense and Sensibility, Rachel Whyte in Get That Hope, Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost, Richard II, Player Queen in Hamlet and Olabisi in Death and the King's Horseman. Elsewhere: Corinna and 15 other characters in Primary Trust, 16 characters in No Child (Arts Club); Ann Atwater in The Best of Enemies, Novelette in 'da Kink in My Hair (Pacific Theatre); Same Difference (Theatre Conspiracy); Catherine in The Numbers Game (Storefront Theatre). Film/TV: American Wasteland, Corrective Measures, Swan Song, Voir, The Baby-Sitters Club, Detour, Song Bird, Scared Lies, Sirens. Radio/recordings: Aisha in Redbone Coonhound (Arts Club); Mama in Rishi & d Douen (Rumble Theatre and Carousel Theatre). Training: York University. Awards: Two-time Jesse Nominee.

2026: Alonso in The Tempest and Catiello in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 18th season. Stratford: Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Grand Magic, Richard III, The Front Page, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, The Changeling, As You Like It, Pericles, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: A Doll's House (CanStage); Shakuntala (Premiere Dance Theatre); The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (Mirvish); Twelfth Night, Donut City (Canadian Stage); Pusha Man, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Passe Muraille); Top Gun the Musical (Factory Theatre/NYC); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in Action); Founding Member of Obsidian Theatre Company. Film/TV/video games: Sex/Life, Frankie Drake, Diggstown, The Coroner, Assassin's Creed: Origins, Killjoys, Watch Dogs 2, Saving Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, Nikita, Owning Mahowny, The Incredible Hulk, Nurse. Fighter. Boy. Training: MFA, York University. Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award. Dora nominations: Twilight Café, The America Play.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026

2026: Miranda in The Tempest, appears in The Importance of Being Earnest and understudy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Second season. Stratford: Cécile in Dangerous Liaisons, Gossip in Sense and Sensibility and Hysperia in As You Like It. Elsewhere: Hedda in Hedda Gabler, May in Bedlam, Des-Neiges in Les Belles Soeurs, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex (TAG); Silvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (New Brood); Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dartmouth Players); Melissa in Out of It (Rising Tide Theatre). TV: Son of a Critch; This Hour Has 22 Minutes; Diggstown; Sugar Highs; Surreal Estate; Astrid and Lilly Save the World; Hudson & Rex; Sullivan's Crossing; Alaska Triangle. Training: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell, 2023 (BFA). Awards: Michael Mawson Award. Online: @ashleyjdingwell. Et cetera: For Janine, and for my dear fellows-Nadine, Dakota, Ani, Katarina, Silvae, and Joe-in case I can't find the perfect place: thank you, thank you.

2026: Appears in The Tempest and understudy in Waiting for Godot and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Ninth season. Stratford (selected): Highlights include Witch 2 in Macbeth, John in Peter Pan, Ptolemy in Caesar and Cleopatra, Octavius in Antony and Cleopatra, Biondello in Taming of the Shrew, Launcelot Gobbo in Merchant of Venice, Fabian in Twelfth Night, Harry in Elizabeth Rex, and The Prodigy in Glenn. Playwright of High-Gravel-Blind (Studio Theatre). Elsewhere (selected): The Donnellys Trilogy: Sticks and Stones, St. Nicholas Hotel, Handcuffs (Blyth); Wildfire (Factory); Bed and Breakfast (Arts Club, Centaur, GCTC, Belfry, Globe); The Gay Heritage Project (Buddies in Bad Times and national tour); Tartuffe (NAC); TomorrowLove (Outside the March); Vigil (TNB); HAIR (Grand); East of Berlin (Tarragon and national tour). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Elizabeth Rex. Awards: John Hirsch Award. Training: National Theatre School, Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts.

2026: Roberto in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and appears inThe Tempest. Fifth season. Stratford: King of France in King Lear, Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Horatio in Hamlet, Templar in Nathan the Wise and Eitan in Birds of a Kind. Elsewhere: Fifteen Dogs (Crow's/NAC); Cock (Talk is Free); Roberto Zucco (Buddies in Bad Times); Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Idomeneus (Soulpepper); The Circle (Tarragon); Caught (Theatre Passe Muraille); Offline (writer/director), The Libertine, Gotcha (Talk Is Free); Cockfight (Theatre Brouhaha/Red One); Much Ado About Nothing (Single Thread); Blue Planet, Minotaur (Young People's Theatre). Film/TV: Jakob stars as Miles in the award-winning film The Drawer Boy. Awards: Nominations for five Dora Awards for his work as an actor, including in 2025 for Outstanding Performance in Cock. Other: Jakob also works as a director, writer, sound designer and podcaster. Et cetera: This is a gift, thank you Antoni. For my boys EBJ and my girl BB.

(she/her)

Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026

2026: Giulianella in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, appears in The Tempest and understudy in The Importance of Being Earnest. Second season. Stratford: Mopsa in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Ransacking Troy. 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 School of Performance. Online: katarinafiallos.com, @katarinafiallos. Et cetera: Thank you for coming :) Love to my family and friends and all those who have given me a helping hand along the way.

Birmingham Conservatory, 1999

2026: Elena Ianniello in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, appears in The Tempest and understudy in The Importance of Being Earnest. 15th season. Stratford (selected): Elise in The Miser, Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, Nina in The Seagull, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Jean-Louise in To Kill a Mockingbird, Isabella in Edward II, Katerina in Brothers Karamazov, Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, Elvira in Blithe Spirit, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost and Althia in Front Page. Michelle has also performed in plays at the New York City Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Crow's Theatre, Segal Centre, GCTC, Theatre Aquarius and with Groundling Theatre. Film: Blackberry, Delia's Gone, Blood Pressure and Life in a Year. TV: The Hardy Boys, The Hot Zone, Mockingbird, Suits, See, L.A Complex, Accused, Black Mirror, King, The Good Doctor, Flashpoint, Anne, Saving Hope and The Listener.

2026: Virginia in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, appears in The Tempest and understudy in The Importance of Being Earnest. Fourth season. Stratford: Gossip #2 in Sense and Sensibility, Magda and Soldier in The Art of War, understudy in Anne of Green Gables, Women of the Fur Trade, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, London Assurance. Elsewhere: Every Brilliant Thing (Burnt Thicket/Live Five, Fire Exit, Globe Theatre, Winterruption); Our Town (Theatre Rusticle/Buddies in Bad Times); Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan); Birds and the Bees (Globe Theatre/Persephone Theatre); Drowning Girls, Pride and Prejudice (Globe Theatre). Other: House Co (Second City). Film/TV: Workin' Moms (CBC) Training: Globe Theatre Actor Conservatory, University of Saskatchewan (BFA). Awards: SAT Award for Outstanding Performance (Narrator in Every Brilliant Thing, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Callie in Stop Kiss). Online: jennaleehyde.com.

2026: Charley in Death of a Salesman, appears in The Importance of Being Earnest and understudy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Fifth season. Stratford: Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard II, Grand Magic, Hamlet. Elsewhere: Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Repercussion); Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Sir in Encore (Tableau D'Hôte); Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop (Persephone). Film/TV/video games: Lucy Grizzli Sophie, La Maison Bleue, Assassin's Creed Nexus VR. Training: Dawson College, Soulpepper Academy. Awards: Outstanding Lead Performance META for Martin in MOB (Centaur). Online: matthewkabwe.com, agencebridgetdechene.com. Et cetera: Matthew sends wishes of love and thanks to his many supporters; especially Dr. AAHW. Matthew is thrilled to be returning to the Stratford Festival. Matthew is also B.

2026: Appears in The Tempest, understudy in Waiting for Godot and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 12th season. Stratford:The Winter's Tale; Macbeth; Twelfth Night; London Assurance; Reynaldo, Hamlet; Endicott, The Front Page; Walter Cunningham Sr., To Kill a Mockingbird; Lt. Brannigan, Guys and Dolls; Apothecary, Romeo and Juliet; Doctor, Macbeth; Oliver, As You Like It; Deuxfois, The Hypochondriac; Marcellus/Fortinbras, Hamlet; Boyet, Love's Labour's Lost; Descartes, Christina, the Girl King; Red Knight/Walrus, Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Elsewhere: Jaques, As You Like It; Cassius, Julius Caesar; Lucio, Measure for Measure (Citadel); Slim, Of Mice and Men (Canadian Stage/Theatre Calgary); Tybalt/Friar Laurence, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Calgary); Everard, Age of Arousal (ATP); Milan, Rock 'N' Roll (Canadian Stage/Citadel); Kent, King Lear; Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Twelfth Night (Freewill). Training: BFA Acting, University of Alberta. Et cetera: Former Artistic Director, Freewill Shakespeare Festival. All my love to Breanna, Aidan, Finn and Betsy.

Birmingham Conservatory 2012/2013

2026: Trinculo in The Tempest, Attilio in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and understudy in The Importance of Being Earnest. 13th season. Josue is a Métis actor, teaching artist and mask maker from the traditional lands of the Dane-zaa, Treaty 8, Fort St. John, B.C. Stratford: Nick in The Art of War, Lazarus in The Diviners, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Anne of Green Gables, Cymbeline, King Lear, Hamlet, Death and the King's Horseman, Merry Wives of Windsor, Front Page, Comedy of Errors, Napoli Milionaria!, Tempest, Timon of Athens, Madwoman of Chaillot, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aeneid, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, Beaux' Stratagem, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello. Vancouver: Four seasons at Bard on the Beach; The Exquisite Hour (Relephant); Wizard of Oz, Seussical (Carousel); Emperor's New Threads (Axis). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, director Martha Henry; Studio 58; Canadian National Voice Intensive. Instagram: @laboucanej.

2026: Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest, appears in The Tempest and understudy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Second season. Stratford: Composer and Diane, Woman on the Train in Forgiveness, understudy Anne, Anne of Green Gables. Elsewhere: Juliet, Helena, Portia, Octavius, Horatia (The Shakespeare Company); Girl in Once (Chemainus); Johanna in Sweeney Todd, Jekyll & Hyde, Heat of the Night (Vertigo Theatre); Rose in The Secret Garden, One Man Two Guvnors, Dear Johnny Deere, Steel Magnolias, 15 seasons of A Christmas Carol (Theatre Calgary); Vigilante (NAC/Grand/Catalyst/Persephone); Fiddler on the Loose (Drayton); Ring of Fire (Rainbow Stage); Forgiveness (Arts Club/TC), The Penelopiad, Ash Rizin' (ATP). Soloist with the Malaysian, Calgary, Victoria and Winnipeg Symphonies. 30+ productions as composer/sound designer across Canada. Awards: Five Betty Mitchell Awards, Avenue Magazine Top 40 under 40, Richard March Award. Online: allisonlynchmusic.com. Et cetera: Multi-instrumentalist and motorcyclist. Love to Joe and the fam.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2013/2014

2026: Boatswain in The Tempest and understudy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Ninth season. Stratford: Gregorio (Grand Magic), Father (Wrinkle in Time), Richmond (Richard III), Victor (The Miser), Slender (Merry Wives…), Kruger (Front Page), Benvolio (Romeo & Juliet), Allardyce (Treasure Island), Wickers (Breathing Hole), Lennox (Macbeth), Silvius (As You…), Kastril (Alchemist). Elsewhere: Les Jervis, Farm Show (Blyth); Jack, Gaslight (Magnus); Petruchio (St. Lawrence); Jacob, Salt-Water Moon (NAC); Laurie, Vimy (GCTC); Clown, 39 Steps (StageWest); David, Rockbound (Two Planks); Michael, Elephant Song (Beothuk Street); Dromio Ephesus, Comedy of Errors (SBTS); Jerry, Zoo Story (Reid Theatre). Film/TV: Frankenstein, On the Count of Three, Pain Killer, Titans, What We Do in the Shadows, Murdoch Mysteries, Played, Beauty and the Beast, Republic of Doyle, Covert Affairs, Life with Derek. Training: Birmingham Conservatory; Ryerson, BFA Acting. Awards: Peter Donaldson Award; Amelia Hall Award; Elephant Song: Chambers & Matthews Scholarships. Et cetera: Proud Newfoundlander.

(he/him)

2026: Adrian in The Tempest, appears in The Importance of Being Earnest and understudy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Young man 4/Young Walter in The Inheritance (Canadian Stage); Jamie in This Feels like the End (Toronto Fringe Next Stage Festival); Zack in Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures (Theatre Orangeville), Clay in The Miser (Odyssey Theatre); Devon in TomorrowLove (TMU); Andrew Kushnir in The Division (TMU); Edward II in Edward II (TMU); Duncan in Punch Up (Theatre on the Ridge). Film/TV: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (CBS). Training: Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Performance, Citadel Theatre Young Acting Company Online: @Landonnesbitt26. Et cetera: A giant thank you to my friends, family and the TH team.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2024

2026: Ariel in The Tempest, Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest and understudy in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Fourth season. Stratford: Perdita in The Winter's Tale, Hermione in Ransacking Troy, Grace Harkaway in London Assurance, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Les Belles-Soeurs, King Lear. Elsewhere: Lucky in FEARLESS by David Yee (fu-GEN Theatre); Shakespeare's Hermia (Driftwood Theatre) and Olivia (Theatre Erindale). Film/TV: Eli Roth's Be Mine, 13: The Musical, Titans, ReGenesis. Audio/voiceover: Anne of Green Gables. Writing: twice blessed (fu-GEN Theatre), Filipinx-Canadian Theatre Methodologies (UofT). Awards: Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRC Award (UofT), Douglas Campbell Award (Stratford Festival); Dora Mavor Moore Award (Stratford Festival). Training: Theatre and Drama Studies with Sheridan College; University of Toronto (MA). Online: marissaorjalo.com, @MarissaOrjalo. Et cetera: Marissa is the managing producer at fu-GEN Theatre in Toronto and sends her gratitude always to fu-GEN Theatre and Carlos Bulosan Theatre.

(they/he)

2026: Federico in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and appears in The Tempest. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Val/Solyoni in Three Sisters (Howland Company/Harthouse); Ahmed in No Gays in Chechnya (MT Space); Zidan/Fifi in Green Line (In Arms); Rebirth of Leila & Kays (Soulpepper, QueerCab); Richard's Consort in Richard II (Dauntless City); Crossing Gibraltar & Rubble (Cahoots); Abe in 76 Centimeters (TODOS); Lightning in Gods of Jericho (Factory workshop); Louis in Angels in America (Troubadours). Film/TV: The Drop-off (Lead), Still Time (Lead), Twins' Love Trap (recurring), Tout Sexplique (guest). Training: LAMDA (classical acting), Art of Acting Studio, University of Toronto. Awards: Queer Emerging Artist/Buddies (Winner, 2020); Sterling Award - The Green Line team (Nominee); Juror's Choice - The Drop-off (Nominee). Online: @mahersinnomore. Et cetera: To my community, Stratford, and a season full of "this rough magic."

2026: Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest, Michele in Saturday, Sunday, Monday and understudy in Death of a Salesman. Third season. Stratford: Freddy Benson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sir Dennis Galahad in Monty Python's Spamalot. Broadway: The Book of Mormon. Tours: Elder Price in The Book of Mormon (second national tour); Gerry Goffin in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (first national tour); Tony in West Side Story (international tour). Film/TV: Sex/Life (Netflix); How to Kill Your Husband (TUBI); Strays (CBC); Sappy Holiday (MOW); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); Unperfect Christmas Wish (MOW). Elsewhere: The Sound of Music (Mirvish); Link in Hairspray (Charlottetown Fest.); Joseph in Joseph... (Stage West); Lord Farquaad in Shrek; Buddy in Elf (The Grand); Gabe in Next To Normal (RMTC); Lancelot in Spamalot, Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, Cable in South Pacific, Blood Brothers (Drayton); Tony in West Side Story (Neptune Theatre). Online: @ltobes4. Et cetera: Big thanks to the Talent House, my family, Danielle, and our sweet little Emmy.

(he/him)

Birmingham Conservatory, 2015/2016

2026: Assistant director and Rocco in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, appears in The Tempest and understudy in Waiting for Godot. Ninth season. Stratford (selected): Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, London Assurance, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard III, The Miser, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, A School for Scandal, Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny. Elsewhere: Fulfilment Center (Coal Mine Theatre); HEIST (Grand Theatre); The Three Musketeers (RMTC); february: a love story (Globus Theatre); Two Noble Kinsmen and Cymbeline (Shakespeare BASH'd); Towards Youth: a play on Radical Hope (Crow's Theatre); Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare in High Park); Tartuffe (Canadian Stage); Coriolanus (Dartmouth, New Hampshire). Training: Emilio trained under the direction of Martha Henry and Stephen Ouimette in the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Thank you for supporting live theatre. Online: @emiliovieira.

(he/him)

2026: Francisco in The Tempest and Dr. Cefercola in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Second season. Stratford: Guiderius in Cymbeline and Curly in Wendy and Peter Pan. Elsewhere: The Spectator's Odyssey - o'dell'Inferno (DLT/Luminato); Is God Is (Obsidian/Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage); Is God Is (National Arts Centre). Film/TV: Children Ruin Everything (CTV); On The Rox (Warner Bros); Wake (Last Frame Pictures); Counterfeit (CF Productions). Training: Toronto Metropolitan University: School of Performance. Online: @michaelwamara. Et cetera: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves, cheers to the final hoorah with our AD Antoni. Dedicating the magic created this season to my three little nephews.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026

2026: Ferdinand in The Tempest and understudy in The Importance of Being Ernest and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Second season. Stratford: The Winter's Tale, Macbeth. Elsewhere: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Segal Centre/RMTC), Fall On Your Knees (Canadian Stage/Neptune Theatre/NAC/Grand Theatre), Simone: Half and Half (Black Theatre Workshop), Pool: No Water (Persephone Productions), Much Ado About Nothing (Repercussion Theatre). Film/TV: Witchboard, The Dachshund Wears Prada, Terror Train, The Christmas Checklist, About Sex, le 23 décembre, Matthias et Maxime. Training: Bishop's University, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: Peter Donaldson Award, META for Outstanding Supporting Actor. Online: @airbnbeyonce. Et cetera: Thank you to the audiences and everyone at the Festival. Thanks to my agent Marc, and endless love to my family, friends, and Kevin!

2026: Prospero in The Tempest and Raffaele in Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 20th season. Stratford (selected): Autolycus, Sir Harcourt Courtly, Otto Marvuglia, Elyot Chase, Sir Toby Belch, Sir Peter Teazle, Falstaff, Fluellen, Claudius, Möbius, Antony, Duke Vincentio, Leicester, Cymbeline, Malachi Stack, King Arthur, Stephano, Dylan Thomas, Julius Caesar, Bottom, Polonius, Henry Higgins, Henry V, Bassanio, Tom Fashion, D'Artagnan, Richmond, Hortensio, Pericles. Elsewhere: NYC: King Lear (Lincoln Center); Poetic License; Do Not Go Gentle; Women Beware Women (Red Bull); Canadian Stage's Liv Stein, The Elephant Man; Shaw Festival, five seasons; Prospero, Richard III, Cyrano (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Love's Labour's Lost (RSC); Hamlet, Henry VIII (Chichester); An Enemy of the People (Lyric Hammersmith, London); two seasons, Theatr Clwyd's artistic associate (Welsh national company). Film/TV: The Scottish Play, ReGenesis, Murdoch Mysteries, 24, Slings and Arrows, Black Harbour, Airwolf, Forever Knight, Hypercube, One of the Hollywood Ten.

CREATIVE

Born in Naples on May 24, 1900, into a theatrical family headed by actor Eduardo Scarpetta, Eduardo De Filippo made his own stage debut in early childhood, in a play written by his father, and already had a burgeoning acting career when he was called up in 1920 for two years of military service. By the end of the decade, he had won renown as a comic actor and had begun to embark on a parallel career as a playwright.

In 1931, with his brother Peppino and sister Titina, he co-founded the Teatro Umoristico I De Filippo company; then, in 1945, Eduardo and Titina formed Il Teatro di Eduardo. De Filippo wrote some 40 plays, many of which have gained international recognition. Besides Sabato, Domenica, e Lunedi (Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 1959), they include Natale in casa Cupiello (1930), Napoli milionaria! (1945), Filumena Maturano (1946) and L'arte della commedia (The Art of Comedy, 1964).

As an actor, De Filippo appeared in over a dozen films, including Casanova farebbe cosi! (Casanova Would Do It That Way!, 1942) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's I racconti di Canterbury (The Canterbury Tales, 1971). He wrote the screenplay for a film adaptation of Napoli milionaria!, known in English as Side Street Story (1950), as well as directing and acting in it.

In November 1980 he received an honorary degree in letters from the University of Rome and in 1981 was appointed a life senator. He died in Rome on October 31, 1984.

Donato Santeramo is a full professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen's University. He is cross-appointed to the School of Drama and Music and is also associated with the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. Prof. Santeramo holds an appointment at the Graduate School of the University of Rome II. He has published monographs, editions, and academic articles on literature, theatre, film, and semiotics. He has also translated and staged works by contemporary Italian playwrights and served as dramaturg on several productions, including at the Stratford Festival (NapoliMilionaria! in 2018 and Grand Magic in 2023). Santeramo serves on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals. He was the artistic director of the Matera Film Festival from 2022 to 2025, where he inaugurated one of the first European sections on Indigenous cinema in collaboration with Montreal's International First Peoples' Film Festival. Dr. Santeramo is currently the director of the International Festival of the Arts in Celico, Italy (theatre, cinema, music, and literature). He is also the recipient of the prestigious Queen's Alumni Teaching Award.

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2026: Artistic director of the Stratford Festival. Director of The Tempest and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 39th season. Stratford: Directing credits include The Winter's Tale; London Assurance; Grand Magic; Richard III; The Miser; Birds of a Kind; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Tempest; Napoli Milionaria!; The School for Scandal; Macbeth; The Hypochondriac; Hamlet; The Alchemist; King Lear; The Beaux' Stratagem; Mary Stuart; The Merchant of Venice; Cymbeline; The Grapes of Wrath; Bartholomew Fair; Coriolanus; As You Like It, featuring original music by Barenaked Ladies; King John; Love's Labour's Lost, with Brian Bedford; Twelfth Night, with William Hutt; The Night of the Iguana; and Filumena, with Richard Monette. A crowning achievement of his tenure as artistic director is the building of the new Tom Patterson Theatre, which opened in 2022, winning a number of architectural awards. He was also instrumental in establishing the Festival's Endowment Foundation, which now stands in excess of $120 million, as well as in the renovation of the Avon Theatre and the creation of the Studio Theatre. Elsewhere: The Canadian première of ENRON (Theatre Calgary); Twelfth Night (Attic Theatre, Detroit); A Woman of No Importance (Hilberry Theater, Detroit). A champion of the arts and culture, Mr. Cimolino served as the founding chair of Culture Days, a nationwide celebration of arts and culture in Canada. He has initiated collaborations with several prestigious theatre companies, including Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Ottawa's National Arts Centre, New York's Lincoln Center and City Center, San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater and Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

2026: Set designer of Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 33rd season. Stratford (selected): Tom Patterson Theatre stage, The Winter's Tale, An Ideal Husband, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, All My Sons, Carousel, She Stoops to Conquer, Man of La Mancha, Hay Fever, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Evita, West Side Story, Cabaret... over 30 productions designed for the Stratford Festival. Design coordinator for 22 seasons. Elsewhere: Director of design: UAE Golden Jubilee Celebrations; Expo 2020, opening of Olympic Anti-Doping Headquarters; 2011 Arab Games; 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Opening, Medals and Closing Ceremonies; Opening/closing of World Handball Championships. Designs for TV, film, opera, ballet, touring productions, international events and hundreds of productions for regional theatres across Canada and around the world.

2026: Costume designer of Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 19th season.

2026: Lighting designer of The Hobbit and Saturday Sunday Monday and head of design for the Stratford Festival. 22nd season. Stratford (selected): Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Winter's Tale, Ransacking Troy, Rent, 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: Jenufa (Opéra du Montreal); 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); Jesus Christ Superstar, 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).

2026: Composer of Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Sixth season. Stratford: The Winter's Tale, London Assurance, Grand Magic, 1939, The Rez Sisters. Factory Theatre: Apple, Claudius, Amazon Dream, The Leisure Society, Better Living, Escape from Happiness, Beyond Mozambique, The Rez Sisters. Canadian Rep Theatre: Pacamambo, How Do I Love Thee, Armstrong's War, Tideline. Other theatre: Murder on the Orient Express (Theatre Aquarius); Yaga, 1939 (Belfry Theatre); Moonlodge (Soulpepper Theatre); Sunshine & Shadows (Orillia Opera House); The Matador (York Street Theatre); Days of Wine and Roses (Hart House Theatre). CBC radio dramas: A Dream Within a Dream, The Pet, Alligators in the Lake, A Few Words About Harold, Ultimate Destination, The Most Beautiful Girl in Town, What Friends Do. Online: waynekelso.com. Et cetera: Wayne celebrates his Métis heritage by dedicating this season to his late grandmother, Laura Gladue-Reid.

2026: Sound designer of The Tempest and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Fourth season. Stratford: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Winter's Tale, Grand Magic, London Assurance. Ranil Sonnadara is an award-winning, UK-trained theatrical sound designer and composer who moved to Canada in 1998 to pursue research in psychoacoustics. In his "spare time" Ranil is the Creative Director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind's LIVELab, and Director of McMaster University's Performance Science Lab. Elsewhere: A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Barnum, Beauty and the Beast, Beautiful Scars, Chris, Mrs., Disney's Frozen: The Broadway Musical, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Jesus Christ Superstar, King Lear, Little Shop of Horrors, Murder on the Orient Express, Peter Pan, Pirates of Penzance, Red, Rocky, Singin' in the Rain, Sweeney Todd, The Extinction Therapist, The Father, The Invisible Hand, The Nether, The Sound of Music, True West. Online: @ranilmakesnoise.

2026: Fight and intimacy director of the 2026 season. Ninth season. Fight and intimacy director (selected): Moonlight Schooner, Robin Hood, Slave Play, Fat Ham, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hamlet, Fairview (CanStage); The Comeuppance, The Welkin, WildWoman, Three Sisters (Soulpepper); Groundhog Day (YES); CRAZE (Tarragon); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Perchance); The Bidding War, Wights, Bad Roads, Prodigal (Crow's); The Green Line, Roberto Zucco, Angels in America (Buddies in Bad Times); Jesus Christ Superstar (Here for Now); Hamlet (The Rose); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (TIP); Fall on Your Knees (CanStage/NAC). Stunt performer/actor credits (selected): Copenhagen, Twisted Metal S2, Law & Order: Toronto, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, The Boys, Handmaid's Tale. Upcoming theatre projects: Witch (Soulpepper). Online: anitanittoly.com.

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2025: Lennox in Macbeth and appears in The Winter's Tale. Eighth season. Stratford Festival credits include: London Assurance, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard III, The Miser, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, A School for Scandal, Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny. Elsewhere: HEIST (The Grand Theatre); The Three Musketeers (RMTC); february: a love story (Globus Theatre); Two Noble Kinsmen and Cymbeline (Shakespeare BASH'd); Towards Youth: a play on Radical Hope (Crow's Theatre); Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare in High Park); Tartuffe (Canadian Stage); Coriolanus (Dartmouth, New Hampshire). Emilio trained under the direction of Martha Henry and Stephen Ouimette in the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Thank you for supporting live theatre. This one's for Uncle Butch. Instagram: @emiliovieira.

2026: Assistant set and costume designer of Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Second season.

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2026: Assistant lighting designer of The Tempest, Guys and Dolls, Something Rotten! and Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Second season. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Annie, As You Like It, Ransacking Troy. Elsewhere: Lighting designer: Killing Time: A Game Show Musical (Mixtape Projects), Cymatix (Citadel + Compagnie), Ursa: A Folk Musical (The Uncommon Folk Collective), Uncovered: Fleetwood Mac & The Eagles (Musical Stage Company), Insert Clown Here (Parlous Theatre), Concord Floral (Puckers Theatre Co.), IRIS (says goodbye) (Mixtape Projects). Assistant/associate lighting designer: Fall For Dance North (2024, 2025), PUS (Road Trip Collective), Spring Mix 2024 (Citadel + Compagnie). Training: BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University for Performance Production and Design. Canadian Green Alliance 2024 Green Mentorship Recipient. Awards: Tyrone Guthrie Award Recipient 2025. Online: mathildakane.com. Et cetera: Love to Laur and Juno.