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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY


By Kate Hamill

Based on the novel by Jane Austen

Directed by Daryl Cloran

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“IF YOUR WAY OF THINKING IS SO... PRACTICAL, I AM NOT SURPRISED THAT YOU ARE CALM.” 

Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the travails of the Dashwood sisters—sensible, subdued Elinor and the passionately emotional Marianne—after their father’s passing leaves their family dependent on the whims of wealthy relations. When suitors, both suitable and otherwise, start courting the Dashwood girls, the sisters must blend sense with sensibility to protect their hearts and their reputations. Bristling with wit, cutting social commentary and old-fashioned romance brimming with longing and tender affection, Sense and Sensibility is pure Regency Period delight.


Runtime: 2 hours and 47 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission*
*Please note that run times are approximate
                                                                    
                                                                                                                              

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The 2025 Season is supported by Ophelia Lazaridis.


Production Co-Sponsors:

The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation

The Tremain Family


CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

    Portrait of Jessica B. Hill
    Jessica B. Hill
    Elinor Dashwood

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2014/2015

    2025: Phoebe in As You Like It,  Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility  and La Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons. Eighth season. Stratford: Viola (Twelfth Night), Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Helen (All's Well That Ends Well), Lady Anne (Richard III), Emily Brontë (Brontë: The World Without), Bess (Mother's Daughter). Playwright: The Dark Lady (SIR-SotS/Lunchbox-TSC), Pandora (PTE). Both plays are available online and at the Stratford Festival Theatre Store. The Dark Lady is part of Bard on the Beach's 2025 season, and recently had a staged reading at Red Bull Theatre in New York City. Film/TV: Five Days at Memorial, The Boys, Kings of Napa. Voice/Mocap: Star Wars Outlaws. Training: Birmingham Conservatory, McGill University, Dawson College. Awards: SATA for Artistic Excellence - The Dark Lady, Bernard Amyot Teaching Award - NTS, Mary Savidge Award - Stratford Festival. The Dark Lady has won six awards across three provinces, including three Betty Mitchell awards. Online: Instagram: @jessicabhill.

    Portrait of Olivia Sinclair-Brisbane
    Olivia Sinclair-Brisbane
    Marianne Dashwood

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2024

    2025: Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, appears in As You Like It and understudy in Dangerous Liaisons. Third season. Stratford: Portia in Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Joanne in Rent, Richard II. Elsewhere: Vicky in Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Gloria in Damn Yankees, White Christmas, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shawground, 1922 in Concert, Charley's Aunt, Duke and the Two Irenes, Song for a Winter's Night (Shaw); Home For the Holidays (Theatre Aquarius); Emcee in Cabaret, Finding Black Joy (Grand Theatre); Mamma Mia! (Stage West); Dyanne in Million Dollar Quartet (Capitol Theatre); Sophie in Mamma Mia! (Rainbow Stage). Voiceover: We the Culture (Facebook). Training: Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Sheridan College; H.B. Beal Secondary and C.C.H. Online: @oliviasinclairbrisbane. Et cetera: Olivia dedicates this season to her amazing support system, her family both chosen and biological, her friends and mentors. To anyone moving through life with bravery, joy, kindness and deep love.

    Portrait of Andrew Chown
    Andrew Chown
    John Willoughby, John Dashwood

    2025: Oliver in As You Like It and John Willoughby, John Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Hedda Gabler (Coal Mine Theatre), Bad Roads (Crow's Theatre), Spaciousness (Fort York), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Crow's Theatre/Modern Times), Mary Stuart (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Shakespeare in Love (MTC/Citadel), Vimy (Soulpepper), Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Bard on the Beach), The Circle (NTS). Film/TV: Her Friend Adam (Sundance), Burden of Truth (CW/CBC), Nine Films About Technology (FX/Hulu), Ghost Writer (Apple TV+), The Desperate Hour (Netflix), Hudson and Rex (Citytv), Slasher (Shaftesbury), Tales from The Void (Screambox), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC). Training: National Theatre School of Canada. 

    Portrait of Seana McKenna
    Seana McKenna
    Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Ferrars

    2025: The Duchess in As You Like It, Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility and Madame de Rosemonde in Dangerous Liaisons. 32nd season. Last year, Ms. McKenna directed Twelfth Night on the Festival stage, mentored directing students at the National Theatre School, did her very first Murdoch Mystery, appeared on Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, received the 2024 Stratford Festival Legacy Award, and taught her grandson how to swim underwater. Her previous roles at the Festival include: Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Medea, Richard III, Portia, Paulina, Jaques, Julius Caesar, Katerina, Dolly Levi, Amanda Wingfield, the Marquise de Merteuil, Queen Elizabeth I and Madame Arcati. Elsewhere, she has played Cleopatra (Centaur), Shylock (Shakespeare Company/Hit & Myth Prod.), Hermione (Kansas City Rep), Yaga (Tarragon) and Lear (Groundling Theatre Company). She has three Doras, a Jessie and a Genie award, and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Love and gratitude to the McPotters.

    Portrait of Christopher Allen
    Christopher Allen
    Gossip

    (he/him)

    2025: Orlando in As You Like It, Gossip #1 in Sense and Sensibility and understudy in Dangerous Liaisons. Second season. Stratford: Cloten in Cymbeline, Lachlan in The Diviners. Selected theatre credits: The Master Plan (Theatre Aquarius, Soulpepper); Rockabye (ARC Stage); The Master Plan (Crow's Theatre); Redbone Coonhound (Tarragon Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach); Sweat (Canadian Stage); Antigone…, Selfie (Young People's Theatre); 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: Audiobook: No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot. Education: York University Acting Conservatory. Awards: Dora Award winner and nominee. Online: Instagram: @christopherallen.me.

    Portrait of Celia Aloma
    Celia Aloma
    Gossip

    (she/her) Birmingham Conservatory, 2022/2023

    2025: Gossip #3 in Sense and Sensibility, Madame de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons  and understudy in As You Like It. Fourth season. Stratford: 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 seven 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: Peter Donaldson Award recipient, Michael Mawson Award recipient, and B.C. Arts Council Pivot recipient.

    Portrait of Shane Carty
    Shane Carty
    Colonel Brandon, Thomas

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2003

    2025: Colonel Brandon, Thomas in Sense and Sensibility and appears in As You Like It. 12th season. Stratford (selected): The Sound of Music, Crazy for You, Man of La Mancha, Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Duchess of Malfi, The Brothers Karamazov, Richard III, Peter Pan, Present Laughter, Measure for Measure, The Threepenny Opera, The Swanne. Elsewhere: Three seasons at the Shaw Festival, including Damn Yankees, Mother Daughter, My Fair Lady, Kabarett, Prince Caspian; Assassins (MTC/TIFT); Onegin (Musical Stage); This Is How It Goes, Frog and Toad, Sweeney Todd (Neptune); Wizard of Oz, Gatsby, Einstein's Gift, Elf (Grand); Christmas Story, Les Misérables (WCT); Treasure Island (TNB); Othello (SLSF); Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Hay Fever, The Red Priest (Thousand Islands); Sticks and Stones, The Mikado (NAC); Beauty and the Beast (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Romeo and Juliet (Resurgence). TV: Anne With An E, Suits, Murdoch, Reign. Training: Queen's University, Birmingham Conservatory.

    Portrait of Ashley Dingwell
    Ashley Dingwell
    Understudy

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026
    2025: Hysperia in As You Like It,  Cécile Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons  and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Hedda in Hedda Gabler, May in Bedlam, Des-Neiges in Les Belles Soeurs, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex (Theatre at Grenfell); Silvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (New Brood); Titania in Midsummer Night's Dream (Dartmouth Players); Melissa in Out of It, Marie-Louise in No Man's Land (Rising Tide Theatre). Film/TV: Son of a Critch (CBC); This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC); Sugar Highs (OUTTV); Surreal Estate (SYFY); Hudson & Rex (CityTV); Sullivan's Crossing (CTV); Astrid and Lilly Save the World (SYFY); Diggstown (CBC); Alaska Triangle (Discovery). Training: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus, 2023 (BFA); Power of Connection Intensive with Perchance Theatre. Online: @ashleyjdingwell. Et cetera: To Mom, Dad, Grammy, Karen - I love you, so I keep going.

    Portrait of Thomas Duplessie
    Thomas Duplessie
    Edward Ferrars, Robert Ferrars

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2024

    2025: Edward Ferrars, Robert Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility, Azolan in Dangerous Liaisons and appears in As You Like It. Third season. Stratford: Peter in Romeo and Juliet, Martin in London Assurance, Benicio in Twelfth Night, Harry Percy in Richard II, Waiter in Grand Magic and understudy in Love's Labour's Lost. Elsewhere: A Few Good Men, Twelve Angry Men, The Miracle Worker, The Birds and the Bees, Death of a Salesman, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton); The Cider House Rules reading (Talk is Free); Suitcases/Provenance workshop (Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Jump, Darling (opposite Cloris Leachman), Deadbolt, In the Dark, Murdoch Mysteries, Man Seeking Woman, Heroes Reborn, Bitten, Reign. Radio/Recordings: Strange Loops (audiobook). Training: The Randolph College for the Performing Arts. Online: Instagram: @tomsdup.

    Portrait of Sara Farb
    Sara Farb
    Fanny, Lady Middleton

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2013

    2025: Rosalind in As You Like It, Fanny (Ferrars) Dashwood, Lady Middleton in Sense and Sensibility and Emilie in Dangerous Liaisons. Seventh season. Stratford: Juliet, Anne Frank, Cordelia, Mary in The Last Wife and The Virgin Trial, A Little Night Music, The Lion... Wardrobe, The Merchant of Venice, She Stoops to Conquer, The Beaux' Stratagem, Finally There's Sun, others. Broadway: Delphi in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Elsewhere: Delphi in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish, Canadian première); The Last Timbit; Medium Alison in Fun Home (Musical Stage/Mirvish, Dora nominee, TTCA winner); Brigid in The Humans (Canadian première at Citadel/Canadian Stage); many productions at Soulpepper, Citadel, Musical Stage Company, Theatre Calgary, Tarragon, Passe Muraille, Segal Centre, YPT and others. Film/TV: Hudson & Rex, Frankie Drake, Departure, Nurses, others. Et cetera: Sara is a musical theatre bookwriter and a playwright. Thank you Chris and Antoni, Tovah and Michele. Hi Josh.

    Portrait of Jesse Gervais
    Jesse Gervais
    Gossip

    Métis Nation of Alberta

    2025: Priest in As You Like It, Gossip #4 in Sense and Sensibility and Le Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. Second season. Stratford: The Diviners. Elsewhere: Clue (MTC/Grand Theatre); The Breathing Hole (NAC); Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre, Silver Arrow, Crazy For You, Alice Through the Looking Glass, One Man Two Guvnors (Citadel Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew (Free Will Players); 6.0, 4th Graders (NLT); 10 out of 12, Passion Play, Realistic Joneses (Wild Side Productions); Joy Ride, Black Horse (Caravan Farm Theatre). Film and TV: Tiny Plastic Men Seasons 1-4 (Super Channel); Caution May Contain Nuts Seasons 2-4 (APTN); Blind Ambition, Joe Pickett. Voiceover: Mass Effect 1, 2, 3, Dragon Age: Origins, Anthem, Neverwinter Nights (BIOWARE). Training: BFA University of Alberta. Online: @jesse.gervais, jessegervais.com.

    Portrait of Jordin Hall
    Jordin Hall
    Understudy

    Birmingham Conservatory, 2017/2018

    2025: Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables,  Newman in The Art of War and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Seventh season. Stratford: Cymbeline, Hedda Gabler, Richard II, Love's Labour's Lost, Grand Magic, All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III, Henry VIII, The Crucible, The Neverending Story, An Ideal Husband, Julius Caesar, To Kill a Mockingbird. Elsewhere (selected): Serving Elizabeth (Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Other Place (Talk is Free Theatre); The Neverending Story (NAC); Othello (Driftwood Theatre); Love's Labour's Lost, The Winter's Tale (Dauntless City Theatre); Titus Andronicus (Seven Siblings Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Humber River Shakespeare). Film/TV: The Kings of Napa (OWN); The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu); Mayday (Discovery); See No Evil (Discovery ID). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; Brock University (Performance Concentration). Et cetera: Love, peace, and SOULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TRAIN.
    Portrait of Jenna-Lee Hyde
    Jenna-Lee Hyde
    Gossip

    (she/her)

    2025: Gossip in Sense and Sensibility,  Magda in The Art of War  and understudy in Anne of Green Gables. Third season. Stratford: 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, Secret Mask, Pride and Prejudice (Globe Theatre); Farndale Ave...Christmas Carol (Persephone Theatre). Other: House Co (Second City). TV/Film: Workin' Moms (CBC), Benched (Short). Training: Globe Theatre Actor Conservatory, University of Saskatchewan (BFA). Awards: SATAward for Outstanding Performance (Narrator in Every Brilliant Thing, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, and Callie in Stop Kiss). Online: www.jennaleehyde.com. Et cetera: Born-and-raised on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, Jenna-Lee now lives in Tkaronto. She's very grateful to be here. 

    Portrait of Aaron Krohn
    Aaron Krohn
    Understudy
    2025: Jaques in As You Like It and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Fourth season. Stratford: Monty Python's Spamalot, The Homecoming, Twelfth Night, and Henry in Henry V. Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, The Height of the Storm, Summer, Cabaret, Macbeth, The Farnsworth Invention, The Coast of Utopia, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, The Invention of Love. West End: The Lehman Trilogy. Off-Broadway: Coriolanus (Red Bull); Clive (the New Group); The Glass Cage, Echoes of the War (Mint Theater). Regional: Theatre Royal Sydney, ACT, La Jolla Playhouse, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Westport, Hartford Stage, TUTS, ASF, The Old Globe, and the Alley Theatre. Sam Mendes's The Bridge Project. Film/TV: Fosse/Verdon; I Love You But I Lied; Boardwalk Empire; Law & Order: SVU; Welcome to New York. Training: MFA, The Old Globe Theatre. Check out his band Notes From Underground and their EP, Rock, Pith & Brevity wherever you listen to music. Instagram: @aaronckrohn.
    Portrait of Josue Laboucane
    Josue Laboucane
    Understudy

    (he/him) Birmingham Conservatory, 2012/2013

    2025: Moody Spurgeon in Anne of Green Gables,  Nick in The Art of War  and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. 12th season. Josue is a Métis actor, teaching artist and mask maker from the traditional territory of the Dane-zaa, Treaty 8, Fort St. John, BC. Stratford: Lazarus in The Diviners, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, 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 Changeling, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aeneid, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beaux' Stratagem, Mary Stuart, Measure for Measure, Othello. Vancouver: Four seasons at Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival; The Exquisite Hour (Relephant); Wizard of Oz, Seussical (Carousel); The Emperor's New Threads (Axis). Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Director Martha Henry; Studio 58; Canadian National Voice Intensive. Instagram: @laboucanej. 

    Portrait of Julie Lumsden
    Julie Lumsden
    Gossip

    (she/her) Red River Métis

    2025: Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables, Gossip #5 in Sense and Sensibility and Heather, Eva in The Art of War. Second season. Stratford: Helen, Ghost Mother in Cymbeline and Young Pique, Scots Morag in The Diviners. Elsewhere: Louise in Gypsy, Bella in Gaslight, On The Razzle, Everybody, Flush, Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, Sarah Ballenden (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Timon of Athens (Shakespeare In The Ruins); Charlie Brown, James and the Giant Peach (MTYP); Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (Magnus Theatre); Les Flats (Le Cercle Molière); Les Misérables (Rainbow Stage). Opera: Mother in Amahl and The Night Visitors (Edmonton Opera); Rose/Marguerite in Li Keur (Manitoba Opera); Peer Gynt (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra); MESSIAH/COMPLEX (Against The Grain/The Banff Centre). Training: Bachelor of Music (Voice Performance), University of Manitoba. Awards: Juno Award Nominee. Online: julielumsden.com. Et cetera: "Onward and upward!" For Uncle Darin, always. 

    Portrait of Glynis Ranney
    Glynis Ranney
    Mrs. Dashwood, Anne Steele

    2025: Mrs. Dashwood, Anne Steele in Sense and Sensibility and appears in Dangerous Liaisons. Seventh season. Stratford: Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, HMS Pinafore, The Sound of Music, The Mikado, The Gondoliers. Shaw: Mack and Mabel, Tristan, Floyd Collins, The Constant Wife, Happy End, The Coronation Voyage, She Loves Me, Easy Virtue. Elsewhere: Into the Woods [New Zealand], The Other Place, Sweeney Todd [UK and Toronto - Dora Award],  Sunday in the Park with George (Talk Is Free Theatre); London Road, Passion, The House of Martin Guerre (Canadian Stage Company); Anything That Moves (Tarragon Theatre - Dora Award); Falsettos (Musical Stage Company); Annie, The Drowsy Chaperone (Drayton Entertainment); Side by Side by Sondheim (Grand Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Atlantic Theatre Festival); The Glass Menagerie (Prairie Theatre Exchange); My Fair Lady (Neptune Theatre, Centaur Theatre, PTE, ATP). Et cetera: Glynis dedicates this season to her beautiful family.

    Portrait of Jade V. Robinson
    Jade V. Robinson
    Margaret, Lucy Steele

    (she/her)

    2025: Margaret, Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility and appears in Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Constance in The Three Musketeers (Citadel/Arts Club), Aiden in Smoke (Tiny Bear Jaws), River in Appropriate (CalArts), Unsung: Tales from the Front Line (Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre), Monkey King (Enrichment Works). Film/TV: This Too Shall Pass, Abracadavers (Season 2, 3), Last Stop Video Rentals, Shadow of God. Training: California Institute of the Arts. Online: www.jadevrobinson.com, @jade.robi. Et cetera: Big thanks to my team (Clarina and Shari) and friends for their support! This debut is dedicated to my mom, dad, grandma, and Zach, who have always made me feel like my dreams are within reach. Sharing this with you is one of my greatest joys.

    Portrait of Steve Ross
    Steve Ross
    Sir John Middleton, Doctor

    2025: Touchstone in As You Like It and Sir John Middleton, Doctor in Sense and Sensibility. 22nd season. Stratford: La Cage aux Folles, Something Rotten!, Grand Magic, Richard II, Love's Labour's…, Chicago, The Miser, Finally There's Sun, Rocky Horror, Guys and Dolls, Billy Elliot, The Lion, the Witch…, Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet, Alchemist, Crazy for You, Tommy, Grapes of Wrath, Kiss Me, Kate, Cyrano, Mockingbird, The Odyssey, Dream, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus. Elsewhere: 12 Dinners, Life Without, goldfish (Here For Now); Every Brilliant Thing, The Foursome, For the Pleasure… (New Stages); Fleeto, Oh, the Humanity, 4th Graders (Tiny Room); London Road (Dora Award), Indian Ink, Into the Woods, Dream (CanStage); Assassins (Dora Award) (TIFT); Frog and Toad (MTYP); Orson's Shadow (Pilot Group); A New Brain (Musical Stage Company); Shrek, A Christmas Story (Grand); The Producers (Mirvish/Neptune); Seussical, Sylvia (Aquarius); The Three Musketeers (Chicago Shakespeare); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Citadel), Three Sisters (ATF).

    Portrait of Makambe K. Simamba
    Makambe K. Simamba
    Understudy

    (she/her)

    2025: Celia in As You Like It, appears in Dangerous Liaisons and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Udo in Three Sisters (Soulpepper Theatre/Obsidian Theatre), Slimm in Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers (b current performing arts/Tarragon Theatre), Faith/Tia in Serving Elizabeth (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Girl in The First Stone (New Harlem Productions). Film/TV: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (CBS), Titans (HBO), True Dating Stories (CBC Gem) and Grand Army (Netflix). Training: University of Lethbridge. Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Awards: Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble for Three Sisters. Outstanding New Play (TYA) and Outstanding Performance (TYA) for Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers. Online: @artingwithmakambe. Et cetera: Makambe was born in Zambia and raised in the Caribbean. She is also a multiple-award-winning playwright. She would like to dedicate her first Stratford season to her biggest cheerleader and inspiration, her mother, Mwangala.
    Portrait of Caroline Toal
    Caroline Toal
    Understudy

    2025: Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: An Inspector Calls (Drayton); Three Sisters, Casimir and Caroline (The Howland Company); To Kill A Mockingbird, Hana's Suitcase, Selfie (Young People's Theatre); Blackbird, Spider's Web, Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Gloria: A Life (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare BASH'd); Where You Are, Early August (Lighthouse Theatre); Stag and Doe (Theatre Orangeville); Whit's End (Foster Festival); Cockfight, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Storefront Theatre); We Are The Bomb (Theatre Brouhaha). Radio/Recordings: The Girls (Penguin Random House Canada); Selfie (CBC's Playme Podcast); The Artists (Factory Theatre). Training: George Brown Theatre School. Awards: Two Dora Awards with four nominations. Online: carolinetoal.com, @toalbooth. Et cetera: HUGE love to my family and friends.

CREATIVE

    Kate Hamill
    Adaptor

    Adaptor: Sense and Sensibility

    Kate Hamill is an actor/playwright and Wall Street Journal's Playwright of the Year, 2017. Her work includes her play Sense and Sensibility (in which she originated the role of Marianne)-Winner, Off-Broadway Alliance Award 2016; Nominee, Drama League Award; 265+ performances off-Broadway. Other plays include Vanity Fair at the Pearl Theatre (in which she originated the role of Becky Sharp; Nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award 2017), Pride and Prejudice at Primary Stages and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (originated the role of Lizzy Bennet; Nominee, Off-Broadway Alliance Award). Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Dallas Theater Center, PlayMaker's Rep, Folger Theatre (8 Helen Hayes Award nominations; Winner, best production-S&S), Arvada Center and others; upcoming productions at Shakespeare Theatre of DC, A.C.T., Trinity Rep, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Kansas City Rep, Dorset Theatre Festival and more. Upcoming world premières: Little Women at the Jungle Theater and Primary Stages; Mansfield Park at Northlight Theatre. She is currently working on new adaptations of The Odyssey and The Scarlet Letter as well as several new original plays (Prostitute Play, In the Mines, Love Poem). Kate was one of the top 20 most-produced playwrights in the country this season. kate-hamill.com.

    Jane Austen
    Book

    Book: Sense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen, born in 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, is a celebrated English author known for her social commentary and wit, offering insight into the lives of early 19th-century women.

    Austen began writing parodies of romantic fiction as a teenager in the 1790s. In 1811, Austen's brother, Henry, helped her negotiate with a publisher to publish her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, followed by Pride and Prejudice (1813), which received highly favourable reviews. In 1814, Austen published Mansfield Park, followed by Emma in 1816. All of Austen's novels were published anonymously.

    Although not widely recognized during her life, Austen's works gained popularity after 1869 and are now considered literary classics. Her six completed novels-Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey (1817), and Persuasion (1817)-are beloved worldwide and have inspired numerous adaptations and sequels and spawned many festivals in Jane Austen's honour.

    Daryl Cloran
    Director

    (he/him)

    2025: Director of Sense and Sensibility. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant Director of Caesar and Cleopatra, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Trial of Ezra Pound, Good Mother. Elsewhere: Daryl's Beatles-infused adaptation of As You Like It has played across Canada and the U.S., including: Chicago Shakespeare, Shakespeare Theater Company (Washington, DC), Milwaukee Rep, Citadel, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary, and the Grand Theatre (London). Daryl has directed at theatres throughout Canada, including: Shaw Festival, National Arts Centre, Neptune (Halifax), Bard on the Beach (Vancouver), Canadian Stage and Tarragon, as well as internationally in South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Et cetera: Daryl is the Artistic Director of Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and has built an international reputation for the Citadel which has included hosting productions of Hadestown, SIX and Peter Pan Goes Wrong previous to their Broadway runs. 

    Dana Osborne
    Set and Costume Designer

    2025: Set and costume designer of Sense and Sensibility. 23rd season. Stratford (selected): Frankenstein Revived, Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls, Timon of Athens, Henry IV Part 1. Elsewhere: Recent credits: Standard Deviation (New York City Ballet); The Lehman Trilogy (Canadian Stage); Elf the Musical, Mary Poppins (Grand Theatre); Skyward (National Ballet/Alberta Ballet); Bernhardt/Hamlet (Goodman, Chicago); 9 to 5 the Musical, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Citadel); A Christmas Carol (Ross Petty); The Hound of the Baskervilles, Androcles and the Lion (Shaw); Bed and Breakfast (Blyth, GCTC, Arts Club, Belfry, Centaur); Flight, The Barber of Seville (Pacific Opera/Opéra de Québec); Art, Picture This, Father Comes Home From the Wars parts 1, 2, 3 (Soulpepper). Awards: Two Dora Awards, one Sterling Award for Costume Design; 2012 recipient of the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design. Online: danaosborne.ca, @danaodesigns. For Zoe and Paul. 

    Jareth Li
    Lighting Designer

    (he/him)

    2025: Lighting designer of Sense and Sensibility. Eighth season. Stratford: Every Little Nookie. Born in Singapore, Jareth is a stage designer, now based in Toronto by way of Calgary. He has a love for new work that examines identity politics, culture and heritage. In addition to his artistic practice, he is a stagecraft instructor at York University. He believes strongly in mentorship and creating opportunity for upcoming generations of designers. Select design credits: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frozen, Jersey Boys (Citadel Theatre); A Christmas Story The Musical, Pollyanna, The Hours That Remain (Theatre Aquarius); The Last Timbit (GUT Creative); The Orphan of Chao, Prince Caspian (Shaw Festival); The Home Project, The Wolves (The Howland Company); Iphigenia and the Furies (Saga Collectif, Dora nomination). Online: @jareth.li.

    Jonathan Lewis
    Composer, Sound Designer

    (he/him)

    2025: Composer and sound designer of Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Jonathan is delighted to be at the Stratford Festival for the very first time. He brings with him 30 years of experience in the theatre as composer, sound designer, and musician. He has worked with artists and companies such as the Citadel Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, Theatre Calgary, and Alberta Theatre Projects among others, presenting shows across Canada from the Vancouver East Cultural Centre to the National Arts Centre and many venues in between. Online: Instagram: @jlewisviolin. TikTok: @lewisviolin. Facebook: @moxamstudios. www.lewisviolin.com. Et cetera: For their love and support: "Muchísimo amor y agradecimiento para mi esposa Verónica y mi hermosita hija Melina. Much love and appreciation for my wife Veronica and my daughter Melina."

    Anita Nittoly
    Fight and Intimacy Director
    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.
    Julie Tomaino
    Movement Director

    (she/her)

    2025: Movement director of Anne of Green Gables and Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Julie spent over a decade as a performer in New York City. Highlights include six seasons as a Radio City Rockette and performing with John Lithgow and Linda Eder at the Kennedy Center. Elsewhere (selected): Director/Choreographer: Jersey Boys (Citadel, Arts Club, TIP), Full Monty (Neptune, Capitol Theatre), Margaritaville (Theatre Calgary), Million Dollar Quartet (The Grand), 9 to 5 (Chemainus), Once (TIP), Newsies (TUTS). Choreographer: Pollyanna (Aquarius), Beautiful, Kinky Boots (Arts Club), Hunchback (REV Theatre Co), Buddy Holly (Globe), We Will Rock You (Magnus), Mary Poppins (WCT/Persephone). Awards: Dora and Jessie Award winner for Outstanding Choreography. Online: julietomaino.com, @julietomaino. Et cetera: Love and thanks to Daryl, Kat, TH, and my family.

    David Chinchilla
    Associate Fight Director

    2025: Associate fight director of the 2025 season. Fourth season. Stratford: Wendy and Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, Monty Python's Spamalot, King Lear, Richard III, Little Women. Elsewhere: Major Barbara, Candida, The Amen Corner (Shaw Festival); Hamlet (Hit and Myth Productions); Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre School); Girl in the Photograph (Chameleon Productions); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet (National Theatre School). Acting: FUBAR, The Fabric of Christmas, My Husband Hired a Hitman, The Last Woman Who Lived Here, Chucky, Mayor of Kingstown, Reacher, Revenge of the Black Best Friend, The Hot Zone. Stunts: The Boys, Dark Matter, Kill Joys, Teen Titans, Lucky Day, Amazing Race Canada, Frankie Drake. Voiceover: Far Cry 6, Pinkalicious and Peterrific. Training: Humber Theatre Performance program, various martial arts, acting at the renowned Pro Actors Lab in Toronto. Online: Instagram: @davidchinchillaofficial.

    Lianna Makuch
    Assistant Director

    (she/her) Langham Directors' Workshop, 2025

    2025: Assistant director of Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Director: First Métis Man of Odesa (Punctuate! Theatre's National Tour: Western Canada Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Citadel Theatre, The Cultch, Persephone Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Talk is Free, Soulpepper Theatre, National Arts Centre); A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre); Kohkom's Babushka (upcoming, Pyretic/Punctuate!/Banff Centre). Assistant director: Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre). Playwriting: Barvinok, Alina, Kohkom's Babushka. Training: University of Alberta, BFA Acting. Awards: Dora Award -  Outstanding Direction (First Métis Man of Odesa), Gina's Prize Finalist 2024, Shevchenko Foundation REACH Award. Online: liannamakuch.com, @lililianna. Et cetera: Lianna is a second-generation Ukrainian Canadian theatre artist. Her work is rooted in activism, exploring themes of identity and cultural preservation. She has been recognized as a UDonation Fellow of Ukraine, and her impactful theatre work has been referenced in Canada's House of Commons.
    Freddy Van Camp
    Assistant Set Designer

    (she/they)

    2025: Assistant set designer of As You Like It, Annie and Sense and Sensibility. Third season. Stratford: Assistant set designer of Something Rotten!, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, London Assurance, Richard II, Wedding Band. Set designer of Phaedra's Love, Macbeth, Amphitryon (Langham Directors' Workshop, 2024); Macbeth, The Fall of the House of Atreus (A Cowboy Love Song) (Langham Directors' Workshop, 2023). Elsewhere: Designer: There are No Gays in Chechnya (Page 1 Theatre). Awards: Tom Patterson Award Recipient, 2024. Online: freddyvancamp.ca.

    Claudia Tam
    Assistant Costume Designer

    (she/her)

    2025: Assistant costume designer of Sense and Sensibility. Second season. Stratford: Costume designer of Macbeth, Antigonick (2024 Langham Directors' Workshop); Assistant costume designer of Wendy and Peter Pan, Salesman in China. Elsewhere: Stitcher for Scott Joplin's Treemonisha (Volcano, 2023). Costume designer for Three Ordinary Men (Cahoots, 2023); Film/TV: Costume designer of Last Stop in Paris (2024), As I Wish (2024), The Air Time Project (2021), Flashlight (2021), Execution Triptych (2021), First Love (2020), WildFire; Set dresser of Finch & Midland (2019); Director, costume and production designer of See You 13:14 (2024); Costume and production designer of The Elevator Ride (2024), The Green Light (2024); Wardrobe buyer of Golden Slumber. Training: BFA in Performance Production and Design, TMU. Online: claudiatam.myportfolio.com/work.

    Sruthi Suresan
    Assistant Lighting Designer

    (she/her)

    2025: Assistant lighting designer of Annie, Sense and Sensibility and Dangerous Liaisons. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Something Rotten!, Romeo and Juliet, London Assurance, Rent, Much Ado About Nothing, Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago, Hamlet and The Miser. Elsewhere: Lighting design: Alkebulan: A Musical African Tale (Batuki Music Society); Merchant of Venice, Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare BASH'd); Legally Blonde, London Road (MacEwan); La Bohème, Is He Dead?, Almost Maine, The Underpants, Stupid F***ing Bird, (University of Wisconsin); The Drawer Boy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Three Sisters (University of Windsor). Associate lighting designer: The Mars Project (FFDN); 1939 (Canadian Stage), FRONTIERS & WATER SPIRIT (Lua Shayenne Dance Company); Maggie (The Savoy). Assistant lighting designer: My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage); Nutcracker and Fall for Dance North (2024, 2023). Training: MFA Theatre - Lighting Design (University of Wisconsin); BA(H): Drama (University of Windsor).

    Anne Murphy
    Stage Manager

    2025: Stage manager of Sense and Sensibility. 33rd season. Elsewhere: Back in '59 (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Cabaret (MTC); Sleeping Beauty (Globe Theatre); Orpheus Descending (MTC, Royal Alexandra Theatre); toured the Belfry Theatre's The Year of Magical Thinking to the Tarragon Theatre and the National Arts Centre; toured with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the NAC's The Mikado, The Lion King and Jane Eyre in Toronto. She has had the pleasure of working across Canada at the Grand Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, Neptune Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre and Expo '86 in Vancouver. Et cetera: Annie lives in Stratford with her partner, Anne; their daughter Brianna; Luna, the cutest German Spitz/poodle ever; and two beautiful cats.

    Lily Cardiff
    Assistant Stage Manager

    (she/her)

    2025: Assistant stage manager of Sense and Sensibility and Dangerous Liaisons. Fifth season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of Cymbeline, Hedda Gabler, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, Langham Directors' Workshop Presentation (2023, 2024). Apprentice stage manager of All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elsewhere: Stage manager of Adam's Unplugged Puppet Party (The Pucking Fuppets Co.); The '94 Club (Crave Productions); Folks Like Us (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Assistant stage manager of La Bête and The Other Place (Talk Is Free Theatre). Apprentice stage manager of Light (Tarragon Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Sudbury Theatre Center); Come Down From Up River (Theatre Orangeville); Driving Miss Daisy (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Training: BFA with Honours in Performance Production and Design, TMU. Awards: Karen P. Hay Award, 2023; Jean A. Chalmers Apprentice Achievement Award, 2022.  

    The. John Gray
    Assistant Stage Manager

    2025: Stage manager of As You Like It and assistant stage manager of Sense and Sensibility. 10th season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of The Diviners (2024), Wendy and Peter Pan (2024), Monty Python's Spamalot (2023); Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre (2023); Stage manager of Guys and Dolls (2017), As You Like It (2016), Twelfth Night (2011). Elsewhere: Titanique (Montreal and Toronto), & Juliet (Toronto), Come From Away (Winnipeg and Toronto), Kinky Boots (Toronto), The Heart of Robin Hood (Winnipeg and Toronto), Les Misérables (Toronto and Melbourne), The Wizard of Oz (Toronto), War Horse (Toronto). John has worked in many theatres across Canada and on U.S. tours of Chicago and The King and I.

    Corinne Richards
    Assistant Stage Manager

    2025: Assistant stage manager of As You Like It and Sense and Sensibility. 38th season. Stratford: 24 Shakespearean plays plus Serving Elizabeth, The Front Page, Napoli Milionaria!, The School for Scandal, All My Sons, The Physicists, The Beaux' Stratagem, The Thrill, Wanderlust, The Grapes of Wrath, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Home, Memoir, Les Belles-Soeurs, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Amadeus, Little Women, The Country Wife, Pride and Prejudice, An Ideal Husband, Ghosts, The Lark and a 1998 transfer to New York City of Much Ado About Nothing and The Miser. Elsewhere: Corinne has worked for the Grand Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, National Arts Centre, Red Barn Theatre, etc. Training: University of Waterloo. Et cetera: It is satisfying to be able to add As You Like It to my personal Shakespeare canon and to work on Sense and Sensibility after doing Pride and Prejudice at the Festival 26 seasons ago.

    Krista Blackwood
    Production Stage Manager

    2025: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre. 11th season. Stratford: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre ('23, '24). Assistant stage manager of Chicago, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, Romeo and Juliet, A Chorus Line, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Sound of Music, Crazy for You and Fiddler on the Roof. Elsewhere: Come From Away (Rubinoff/ACC); Tell Tale Harbour, Anne of Green Gables - The Musical (Charlottetown Festival); The Hockey Sweater (Segal Centre/NAC); The Candidate (Citadel Theatre); Hamlet (Perchance Theatre); Into the Woods (Opera on the Avalon); Glenn (Soulpepper); The Mill, parts 1 to 4 (Theatrefront); Peter and the Starcatcher, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Western Canada Theatre); It's a Wonderful Life, The Rocky Horror Show (Theatre New Brunswick); Shakespeare in Love, Happy Days (Neptune Theatre); Generous (Tarragon Theatre).

    Katherine Hunter
    Production Assistant
    2025: Production assistant of the Festival Theatre. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Stage manager for The Long Weekend (Cow Patti); Shakespeare by Any Other Name (Dauntless City Theatre); Voice: Song and Scream (Toronto Fringe); Jesus Christ Superstar, Candlewood Lake, Rooted: A Musical Poem (Theatre Sheridan). Apprentice stage manager for Acis and Galatea (Opera Atelier); Mary's Wedding (Lighthouse Theatre Festival). Training: Sheridan College. Et cetera: I am incredibly lucky to work alongside some of the best stage managers in the industry, as well as a team of truly wonderful people. Thank you for making each day at work joyful and something to look forward to.

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