MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT

2020: Director of Monty Python's Spamalot. Seventh season. Stratford: Director: An Ideal Husband, HMS Pinafore. Assistant director: Jesus Christ Superstar (La Jolla/Broadway), Fuente Ovejuna, As You Like It, A Word or Two. Associate director: Henry V. Elsewhere (selected): The Twelve Pound Look, The Yalta Game (Shaw Festival); Obeah Opera (Panamania, Luminato); Elegies, A Man of No Importance (Musical Stage Co.). Resident director/choreographer: The Toxic Avenger (Dancap). Other: Lezlie's musical, The Remarkable Journey to Tianguo, is currently in development in N.Y.C. and will receive its world première as part of Theatre Calgary's 2021 season. Her chamber musical, Dead Reckoning, was recently part of the La MaMa Umbria staged reading series in N.Y.C. Awards: Dora nomination, A Man of No Importance (Musical Stage Co.), Tom Hendry Award shortlist, The Remarkable Journey to Tianguo. Et cetera: Thanks to Kevin. For more information: lezliefwade.com.

2020: Choreographer of Monty Python's Spamalot. Stratford debut. Broadway: Miss Saigon (associate choreographer, 2017 Broadway revival and North American tour); The Cher Show (associate choreographer). Elsewhere: Choreographer of Theatre Calgary's 2019 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Ogunquit Playhouse's critically-acclaimed Ragtime, Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity (Sheets Act). As director/choreographer for RWS Entertainment Group: Eden (Celebrity Cruise Lines), Big Top Dreams (Hershey Park), The Night Spot (Azamara Club Cruises). Selected associate credits: 5th Avenue Theatre, The Ordway, Cape Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Busch Gardens. For Mirvish Productions: We Will Rock You, Dirty Dancing and Lord of the Rings. TV: Associate choreographer for Modern Love, The Detour, Reign. Online: jesserobb.com, @jesserobbchoreography. Et cetera: Love and thanks to Lezlie, Talent House, WME, PP, KZ and Les and Roberta Robb.

2020: Music director of Monty Python's Spamalot. 41st season. Stratford: Music director of Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Composer of numerous productions including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Memoir and Inherit the Wind. Elsewhere: Music director: Rich and Famous (director John Rando), A Christmas Carol (director Carey Perloff) (ACT San Francisco); Oliver!, The Music Man (Citadel Theatre, director Robin Phillips); Brent Carver in Concert (Soulpepper). Composer: I Am My Own Wife (NAC); Don Carlos (Soulpepper); Cyrano (Citadel Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia). Awards: 2014 Tyrone Award and five Guthrie Awards (Stratford Festival), two Sterling Awards (Citadel) and nominated for Music Direction (San Francisco Bay Awards).

2020: Designer of Monty Python's Spamalot. Fifth season. David has worked across the country and internationally for more than 25 years, designing sets and costumes for theatre, opera, dance, and industrials. Stratford: Cabaret, South Pacific, My One and Only, Julius Caesar. Elsewhere (recent): Prom Queen, Evita (Grand); Hairspray, Holiday Inn, The Little Mermaid (Drayton); Mary's Wedding (Solo Productions/Crow's); On the Town, Footloose (Sheridan); The Wizard of Oz (YPT). Design (selected): Cinderella (National Ballet of Canada/Boston Ballet/American Ballet Theatre); quondam (Royal Swedish Ballet); Red (Canadian Stage/Citadel/Vancouver Playhouse); The Producers, Mary Poppins (Rainbow); La Traviata (Pacific Opera); Mamma Mia!, Singin' in the Rain, Sweet Charity (Drayton); The Importance of Being Earnest (Soulpepper/Saidye Bronfman); eight seasons at Shaw Festival. Other: Two Sterling Awards, two Betty Mitchell Awards, and a Dora; member of the Associated Designers of Canada, BFA in Theatre Design, U of A.

2020: Lighting designer of Monty Python's Spamalot. Ninth season. Stratford: Lighting designer: HMS Pinafore, Oscar Remembered, The Trials of Ezra Pound, Good Mother, Agamemnon, Electra, The Flies. Elsewhere: The Countess Maritza (Pacific Opera Victoria); 4000 Miles (Belfry Theatre); Chicago, Mamma Mia!, Romeo and Juliet, Gunmetal Blues, Man of La Mancha, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Glass Menagerie (Globe Theatre); Sweat, Never Not Once (Theatre Aquarius); Pride and Prejudice (Persephone, SATA nominee); Dream a Little Dream, Annie - The Musical, Miracle on 34th Street (Grand Theatre); The League of Nathans (Factory Theatre, Dora nominee). Film/TV: Rocky Horror Picture Show 2016 (Fox TV); Zombies, Zombies 2 (Disney TV). Training: BFA Honours, York University. Et cetera: Huge love and thanks to all my family and friends who support this crazy theatre life… Marcus, I can't imagine this lovely adventure without you.

2020: Projection designer of Monty Python's Spamalot. Stratford debut. Elsewhere (selected): Projection designer: Sweat, Oslo (Studio 180); Secret Life of a Mother (Theatre Centre); Theory (Tarragon Theatre); The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, Dracula, Sweet Charity, You Never Can Tell (Shaw Festival); You Are Mine Own, Feng Yi Ting (Spoleto Festival, U.S.A.); Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pacific Opera Victoria); Up the Garden Path (Obsidian Theatre); Domesticated (Company Theatre); Life, Death and the Blues, CRASH (Theatre Passe Muraille); Watching Glory Die (Canadian Rep Theatre); The Gay Heritage Project (Buddies in Bad Times/Canadian tour); Yukonstyle, Cruel and Tender (Canadian Stage); Dance Marathon (bluemouth inc). Cameron teaches and mentors projection design at the National Theatre School of Canada.

2020: Sound designer of Monty Python's Spamalot. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Billy Elliot, Beauty and the Beast (Globe Theatre); Obeah Opera (Luminato/Asha Productions); Titanic the Musical, Prom Queen (Grand Theatre); Cinderella, Strike! The Musical, Mamma Mia!, Little Shop of Horrors, Shrek the Musical (Rainbow Stage); Ring of Fire (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins, Into the Woods (Neptune Theatre); Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Jazz Singer, Kinderstransport, The Sisters Rosensweig (HGJT); Jacob Two-Two (Young People's Theatre); Apocalypsis (Luminato); On the Rocks, The Way Back to Thursday (TPM); The Arsonists (Canadian Stage); Bloodless (Theatre20); The Admirable Crichton (Shaw Festival); Love From Afar (COC). Awards: Robert Merritt Award Outstanding Sound Design -Into the Woods. Et cetera: Teaches college and university audio and is currently pursuing an MSc in Acoustics. I would like to thank my family for their continued support.

2020: Fight director for the 2020 season and intimacy coach for Hamlet. Fifth season. Stratford: Fight director for the 2019 season and intimacy coach for Birds of a Kind. Elsewhere: Charlottetown Festival (2019 - Kronborg), Citadel Theatre (2019 - Fall on Your Knees), Centaur Theatre (2019 - The Last Wife; 2018 - Successions; 2017 - The 39 Steps), Carousel Players (2019 - Whole World), Blyth Festival (2018 season), Outside the March (2018 - Jerusalem), Canadian Opera Company (2014/15/16 - assistant fight master). Anita is the stage combat instructor and fight director at the National Theatre School in Montréal. She also works as a stunt performer and stunt actor in the film and TV industry - selected credits: See, Zeus, The Boys, Enhanced, Titans, Dark Matter. Et cetera: Supreme gratitude to Mom, Dad and Pat - you guys are everything to me.

2020: Associate conductor and keyboard for Monty Python's Spamalot.

2020: Associate fight director for the 2020 season. 10th season. Stratford: Associate fight director, 2013-2019 seasons. Assistant fight director, 2004 and 2009 seasons. Elsewhere: Fight director: Black Drum (Soulpepper); Peter and the Starcatcher, Sweet Charity (Shaw); Don Giovanni, War and Peace (COC). Film/TV: Stunts (selected): It: Chapter 2, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Schitt's Creek, The Boys, Wayne, Ginny & Georgia, Jupiter's Legacy, Utopia Falls, Supergirl, Impulse, What We Do in Shadows, I Was Lorena Bobbitt, Save Me, Murdoch Mysteries, Frankie Drake, Titans, Umbrella Academy, The Expanse, Designated Survivor, Suicide Squad, Dark Matter, Killjoys, 12 Monkeys, Bitten, The Strain, Pompeii, Robocop, Reign, Orphan Black, Carrie, Total Recall. Training: BFA, Ryerson. Awards: Paddy Crean. Online: @GeoffScovell.

2020: Kaeja Elevation Assistant for Wendy & Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Mio Sakamoto is a Toronto-based dance artist originally from Japan. Sakamoto graduated from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2017. In 2018, she researched and trained with artists/company including Francisco Córdova, Ryan Mason, Johannes Wieland, Hofesh Shechter Company and L-E-V Dance Company at B12 Festival (Berlin, Germany) and Nuova Officina Della Danza (Turin, Italy). She has most recently performed Mani.Deux by Northfoot Movement for its première at Fall for Dance North Festival in 2019. She has been working with Kaeja d'Dance since 2017 and is currently working as a dancer in two creations premièring in 2021. Supported by Toronto Arts Council, she has been mentored by Karen Kaeja since 2019. Sakamoto's choreographic works have been presented in Canada and Japan.

2020: Assistant director of Monty Python's Spamalot. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: As director: Mamma Mia! (Nightwood Theatre's Lawyer Show); The Stray Sheep Cabaret (Nightwood Theatre, staged reading); Cleave (Theatre Direct, staged reading); Motherload (Rhubarb! Festival/Buddies in Bad Times); Tire Swing (Filament Incubator/Epigraph Collective). As creator: Eraser (co-director/choreographer/playwright/creator with Bilal Baig, Why Not Theatre's Riser Project); SCAT (director/playwright/creator, Laugh Serious Theatre). Literature: Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents (co-editor with Makeda Zook, Demeter Press). Training: York University, playwriting and devised theatre. Awards: Eraser: nominated for five Dora Awards in the Theatre for Young Audience category: Outstanding Direction, New Play, Production, Ensemble and Design; Spawning Generation: nominated for a Lambda Literary Award (Anthology); two Forward Indie Awards (Anthology and LGBT Non-Fiction). Online: sadieepsteinfine.com. Et cetera: Sadie is the former intern artistic director at Nightwood Theatre.

2020: Assistant choreographer of Monty Python's Spamalot. Stratford debut. Training: Canadian School of Ballet, Banff Centre for the Arts, National Ballet School of Canada, Canadian College of Performing Arts. Elsewhere: As a performer, Paige has worked for Holland America, Tokyo DisneySea, Hong Kong Disneyland, on an Eminem music video, and Showtime's Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical. Additionally, Paige has worked for Disney Cruise Line as a performer, dance captain, resident choreographer and choreographer, launching the Disney Wonder, Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy cruise ships. Currently, Paige is based in New York City and has most recently worked in choreography at the Ogunquit Playhouse, Arena Stage, Busch Gardens, TheaterWorksUSA, RWS, Theatre Aspen, AADA and Theatre Calgary. She continues to consult for The Walt Disney Company. Paige is thrilled to be making her Stratford Festival debut!

2020: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre and stage manager of Monty Python's Spamalot. 22nd season. Stratford (selected): Nathan the Wise, An Ideal Husband, Treasure Island, The Breathing Hole, Breath of Kings: Rebellion, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, The Three Musketeers, Taking Shakespeare, Henry V, Hosanna, Peter Pan, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Cabaret, South Pacific, My One and Only, The Winter's Tale and Death of a Salesman. Elsewhere: Max's career spans over 30 years, including work with Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Edmonton Opera, Opera Atelier, the Canadian Opera Company, Canadian Stage, Young People's Theatre and Mirvish Productions. Training: BA, University of Lethbridge. Awards: 2012 and 2017 Guthrie Award. Et cetera: For something completely different, Max works with a leading purveyor of orchid-growing supplies at ravenvision.ca.

2020: Stage manager of Wendy & Peter Pan and assistant stage manager of Monty Python's Spamalot. 23rd season. Stratford: Stage manager credits (selected): Mother's Daughter, The Matchmaker, Titus Andronicus, Evita, West Side Story. Assistant stage manager credits (selected): Treasure Island, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, South Pacific, The King and I, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing. Elsewhere: Stage manager credits (selected): Ring of Fire, Hana's Suitcase, Annie, Twist and Shout (Grand Theatre); My Fair Lady (Drayton Entertainment). Assistant stage manager credits (selected): The Spitfire Grill, Proof (Grand Theatre); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Opera Ontario); The Who's Tommy (Elgin Theatre). Et cetera: To my loved ones, here and in Shanghai, enjoy the adventures.

2020: Assistant stage manager of Wendy & Peter Pan and Monty Python's Spamalot. Fifth season. Stratford: Nathan the Wise, Henry VIII, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Breath of Kings: Rebellion and Breath of Kings: Redemption, production assistant for the Tom Patterson Theatre (v1.0). Elsewhere: Assistant stage manager credits include The Virgin Trial (Soulpepper/Stratford); The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Soulpepper Theatre); Lear, The Winter's Tale, Measure for Measure (Groundling Theatre); Les Misérables (The Grand Theatre). Stage manager credits include Bedtime Stories (The Orillia Opera House); Oleanna (Matchstick Theatre). Film/TV: This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Training: Mount Allison University. Awards: 2018 Dora Mavor Moore Award, Stratford. Et cetera: Gregory is a mental-health advocate and an ally who supports the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.

2020: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre and stage manager of Frankenstein Revived. 20th season. Stratford: Stage manager: 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 It. Elsewhere: Herringbone and The Yalta Game (TIFT) and many theatres across our country in the last 30 years. Training: 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.

2020: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre and assistant stage manager of Wendy & Peter Pan. 29th season.