THE HOBBIT

Based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien

Adapted by Kim Selody

Licensed by Middle Earth Enterprises

Directed by Pablo Felices-Luna

Trolls, treasure and true courage

Bilbo Baggins is reluctantly swept from his cozy hobbit hole into a perilous quest across Middle-earth to help a band of dwarves reclaim their home, Lonely Mountain, from a deadly dragon. Faced with trolls, goblins and a mysterious magic ring, he discovers that true courage often lies in the most unlikely of hearts.

MEIGHEN FORUM EVENTS

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

(he/him/il)

2026: Bilbo in The Hobbit and appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tao of the World. Second season. Stratford: Nibs in Peter Pan. Elsewhere: Bing in WIGHTS (Crow's Theatre); Ensemble in Snow in Midsummer (Shaw Festival/NAC); Orphan of Chao (Shaw Festival); Leontes in The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Richard in The Humans (Citadel Theatre/Canadian Stage); Falkor in The Neverending Story (Roseneath Theatre); Kai in acquiesce (Factory Theatre/fu-GEN Theatre). Film/TV:Law & Order Toronto: CI; Kim's Convenience; and SHORTY, a light-hearted short about being "short" in a basketball world. Awards: Dora Award Recipient - Sultans of the Street, Cinderella: A RATical Retelling (YPT); paper SERIES (Cahoots Theatre). Online: @RichardTheArtistLee. Et cetera: Richard is also a fight and movement designer, educator, and emerging filmmaker. His passion for storytelling in all forms led to the creation of Monday Nights (Theatre Centre/6th Man Collective), an interactive and immersive basketball theatre show.

2026: Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gandalf in The Hobbit and Trevor Flynn in The Tao of the World. 14th season. Stratford (selected): Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables, John Proctor in The Crucible, Chris Keller in All My Sons, Sir Robert Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, Alcibiades in Timon of Athens, Horatio in Hamlet, Buckingham in Henry VIII. Elsewhere (selected): James Piper in Fall on your Knees (Canadian Stage/NAC/Neptune/Grand); Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company, D.C.); Victor in Private Lives (Chicago Shakespeare); Hap Loman in Death of a Salesman (Soulpepper); Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Soulpepper). Film/TV (selected): High Commander Reynolds in The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu), Dave Holm in Fellow Travellers (Showtime), Leconte Bascomb in Under the Banner of Heaven (FX). Awards: Dora Award, Best Ensemble (Twelve Angry Men); recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore Guthrie Award (for outstanding contribution to the Stratford Festival).

(she/ her)

2026: Snout in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Old Took in The Hobbit and Eleanor Marwood in The Tao of the World. Sixth season. Stratford: Muriel Eubanks in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dindon in La Cage, Smee in Wendy & Peter, Annie, Man of La Mancha, A Little Night Music, Private Lives. Elsewhere: Miss Stacy in Anne, Tanya in Mamma Mia! (Charlottetown Festival); 5 Villains in the Ross Petty Pantos; Myth of the Ostrich, Take Care (Here For Now); Kate in The Wild Party, Charlotte in Falsettos (Musical Stage); Mary in Mary Poppins, Fantine in Les Mis, Original Canadian Alison in Fun Home (Arts Club); Baker's Wife in Into the Woods (Neptune); Velma in Chicago (Mayfield); Rona in Spelling Bee (Belfry); (Drayton). Online: @sjhosie. Et cetera: Check out SJ's new venture The Leonor on George Street. @theleonorongeorge.

2026: Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Thorin in The Hobbit and understudy in The Tao of the World. Fifth season. Stratford: Jaques in As You Like It, 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). Regional: Theatre Royal Sydney, ACT, La Jolla Playhouse, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Westport, Hartford Stage, TUTS, ASF, The Old Globe. 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. Online: @aaronckrohn. Et cetera: Check out his band, Notes From Underground, and their EP, Rock, Pith & Brevity wherever you listen to music.

CREATIVE

(he/him)

2026: Director of The Hobbit. Stratford debut. Elsewhere:Gather, MTYP's Midwinter Mosey, A Year with Frog and Toad, A Charlie Brown Double Bill, The House at Pooh Corner (MTYP); Peg and the Yeti, Dib and Dob and the Journey Home, The Forest in My Room, Water Under the Bridge, Spelling 2-5-5, Here to Hear, The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee, There's a Mouse in My House, The Big League, Bluenose, The Invisible Girl (Carousel Players); Danny, King of the Basement (Roseneath Theatre). Training: York University, University of Victoria, Cuatrotablas (Perú). Et cetera: Pablo is the artistic director of Manitoba Theatre for Young People. Un millón de gracias a mi familia (Carrie, Emi, Ale, Isa), and to Antoni and the Stratford Festival team for making this adventure into Middle earth possible.