Large text in the centre says "Waiting for Godot". Smaller text below says "Limited run ends July 31". Four men stand together. They are all wearing plain but grimy clothing. Three of them are wearing black bowler hats.

David W. Keeley, Tom McCamus, Paul Gross and Jonathan Goad. Photo: Dariane Sanche.

Festival Theatre

May 14 – July 31 |

Opens May 30

Classic

WAITING FOR GODOT

By Samuel Beckett

Directed by Molly Atkinson

The play that changed everything

On a deserted stretch of land, two old friends wait endlessly for the mysterious Godot, passing the time with conversations that veer from the mundane to the profound. The more they argue, question and complain, the more their predicament begins to resemble that of humanity looking for meaning in an absurd universe.

MEIGHEN FORUM EVENTS

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

2026: Vladimir in Waiting for Godot. Third season. Stratford: King Lear (2023) and Hamlet (2000). Elsewhere: Over a 45-year career, Paul has performed on stages across the country as well as on Broadway, most recently in Good Night and Good Luck. Film/TV: Internationally known for Due South and Slings and Arrows, he has produced, written, directed and/or starred in a number of films and series including the hit films Passchendaele, Men with Brooms and Hyena Road. Awards (selected): Order of Canada, Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Honorary Doctorate (York University), Distinguished Alumni Award (University of Alberta) and multiple Dora and CSA awards.

2026: Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and Estragon in Waiting for Godot. 19th season. Stratford (selected roles): Macbeth, Richard III, Coriolanus, Edmund Tyrone, Macheath, King John, King Arthur, Vladimir (Waiting for Godot), Vershinin, Brutus, Captain Hook, Valmont, Friar Lawrence, Aslan, Horace Vandergelder, Judge Brack, Arthur Miller. Elsewhere (selected roles): Shaw: Peter Pan, Androcles, King George III, Charles II, Ephraim Cabot. Toronto and environs: Hamlet, King Lear, Leontes, Angelo, Claudius, Thom Paine, Rhett Butler, Marc Blitzstein, Mozart. Film/TV (selected): I Love a Man in Uniform, The Sweet Hereafter, Long Day's Journey into Night, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Room, Orphan Black, Anne with an E. Awards: Dora Award, Genie Award, Gemini Award, ACTRA Award. Et cetera: Tom lives on a farm in Warkworth with his wife, Chick Reid, and their two dogs.

Birmingham Conservatory, 1999

2026: Caliban in The Tempest and Pozzo in Waiting for Godot. 19th season. Stratford: Directing - The Crucible. Acting - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Diviners, Spamalot, Henry VIII, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, The Alchemist, King Lear, A Midsummer…, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Pentecost, Phèdre, The Music Man, King John, Pericles, Orpheus Descending, Henry IV, Henry VI, Fiddler…, Fuente Ovejuna, Julius Caesar, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Bartholomew Fair, The Brothers Karamazov. Elsewhere: Public Enemy (Canadian Stage); The Drawer Boy (Blyth); A Whistle in the Dark, Speaking in Tongues (Company Theatre); Our Class, The Laramie Project (Studio 180); King Lear (Soulpepper). Directing: 100 Words for Snow (Here for Now); John (Company Theatre). Film/TV: Law and Order: Toronto, Reign, Alias Grace, Dorsal, Nikita, Republic of Doyle, Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, Othello. Training: NTS, Birmingham Conservatory, U. Waterloo, Banff Centre. Teaching: NTS, Fanshawe. Et cetera: Dedicated to Joe Ziegler and Pam Kelly.

2026: Uncle Ben in Death of a Salesman and Lucky in Waiting for Godot. 10th season. Stratford: Kent (King Lear), Poseidon (Trojan Women), Flores (Fuente Ovejuna), Jud (Oklahoma!), Horatio (Hamlet), Clarence/Richmond (Richard III), Cominius (Coriolanus), Nathaniel (Love's Labour's Lost), DeFlores (The Changeling). Elsewhere: David, Dinner with the Duchess (Here For Now/Crow's), Father Christopher, Children of God (Urban Ink); Singer, Leonard Cohen: The Secret Chord (Soulpepper); Dad, Billy Elliot (Mirvish); Dennis, Rock of Ages (Mirvish); David, True Love Lies (Factory Theatre); Officer Lockstock, Urinetown (CanStage); Sam, Mamma Mia! (Broadway). Film/TV: The Terminal List, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, 10 Truths About Love, Albatross, Murdoch Mysteries, Heartland, Akilla's Escape, Good Witch, Suits, Designated Survivor, Who Killed Jon Benet, Republic of Doyle, Saving Hope, Copper, The Manchurian Candidate. Recordings: Two Houses, Love and Carnage, Gasoline Rainbows. Awards: Dora Award Urinetown (CanStage); Best Actor Albatross (Austin International Film Festival). Online: davidkeeley.ca.

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: 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.

2026: Boy in Waiting for Godot. Stratford debut. Gordo is in grade six at Bedford Public School where he first performed as the Pirate Captain in The High C's, directed by Jackie Harrison. He is currently in his seventh year of piano with his teacher Brenda Horst. Gordo has participated in the Stratford Kiwanis Festival (McTavish Award, Shaw Family Award), Ontario Music Festival (2023/24), and loved playing Gilbert Blythe with his friends in the Kiwanis production of Anne of Green Gables (directed by Diana LeBlanc; musical direction by Dr. Jamie Syer). He is a proud member of Michelle Giroux's Flight Studio (drama, guitar, choir), Rotary Hockey, and the Stratford Strikers. Many thanks to my friends and family for their support and encouragement on this journey.

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.

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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.

Asher Albert Waxman
2026: Boy in Waiting for Godot. Second season. Stratford: Salesman in China. Film/TV: The Accused, Flipping for Christmas. Voiceover: Paw Patrol, Snoopy, Mittens & Pants, Carl the Collector. Training: The Second City Toronto. Awards: Guthrie Award recipient 2024. Et cetera: I feel so excited and privileged to be a part of this wonderful cast and crew, and I want to dedicate this season to each of them, but especially to my mom and my dad, and to my friends who had to be in school while I got to be in rehearsal.

CREATIVE

(she/her)

Birmingham Conservatory, 1999

2026: Director of Waiting for Godot. Third season. Stratford: Director of Hedda Gabler, actor in Hamlet, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus. Elsewhere: Directing: Prince Caspian, A Christmas Carol 2018-2022, Hello Out There (Shaw Festival); Peter Pan, The Little Prince (Yellow Door Theatre Project). Assistant directing: Saint Joan, Middletown (Shaw Festival). Acting: Molly has worked for Soulpepper Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Young People's Theatre and Tarragon Theatre. Film/TV:It, It Chapter Two, Nurses, Road to Avonlea, Murdoch Mysteries, Law and Order Toronto, Hudson & Rex. Training: National Theatre School, Birmingham Conservatory 1999. Et cetera: Love always to my boys - Holden, Tennyson and Gray.