By William Shakespeare
Created in Collaboration with Ex Machina
Directed by Robert LePage
This production includes scenes of staged violence, murder, death and substance abuse. It explores mature themes and includes coarse language.
Three witches speak a prophecy of power to an ambitious warrior. When the prophecies prove true and the bodies pile up, where lies the blame: in prophecy, fate or Macbeth’s own secret desires? What alignment of stars guides the anti-hero Macbeth’s bloody hand? This bold reimagining of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy by visionary director Robert Lepage sets the uncanny action during the biker wars of the 1990s.
The 2025 Season is supported by Ophelia Lazaridis.
Production Underwriters:
The Fabio Mascarin Foundation
Laurie J. Scott
Production Co-Sponsors:
Sylvia Soyka
Carol Stephenson, O.C.
Catherine Wilkes in Memory of David
Lucy Peacock and Tom McCamus. Photography by Ted Belton.
2025: Macbeth in Macbeth and Old Shepherd in The Winter's Tale. 18th season. Stratford (selected roles): 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.
2025: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Time in The Winter's Tale. 38th season. Stratford: Last season: Stevie in The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? and Queen Cymbeline. Recipient of the 2023 Stratford Festival Legacy Award. Over 80 productions including Ophelia, Rosalind, Viola, Portia, Desdemona, Lady Macbeth, Titania, Beatrice, Gwendolyn, Helena, Duchess of Malfi, Masha, Mary Stuart, Volumnia, Queen Elizabeth, and Satan. Also: Three Tall Women, All My Sons, Private Lives, Hello, Dolly!, The King and I, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Les Belles-Soeurs, The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead and Late Night with Lucy. Training: The National Theatre School and the grace and wisdom of all the extraordinary artists, colleagues and conspirators over these many years.
Langham Directors' Workshop, 2015/2017
2025: Macduff in Macbeth and Camillo in The Winter's Tale. 14th season. Stratford: R&J, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, Twelfth Night, The School for Scandal, Tartuffe, The Taming of the Shrew, Crazy for You, Man of La Mancha, Waiting for Godot, Wanderlust, The Winter's Tale, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, All's Well That Ends Well. Elsewhere: Cyrano de Bergerac, Victory, Apple Cart, My Fair Lady (Shaw Festival); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Citadel); Uncle Vanya, 15 Dogs, The Seagull, The Wedding Party, Someone Else (Crow's); My Mother's Feet (Munich); Hairspray (Toronto, Broadway); Hamlet (NAC); Roméo et Juliette (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan). Film/TV: CBC's This Is Wonderland; The Gilda Radner Story; The Day After Tomorrow; Murdoch Mysteries; Coroner. Awards: Two Gemini nominations; Dora Award, Outstanding Actor, 2013; Sterling Award, Best Actor, 2016.
2025: Antigonus in The Winter's Tale and Duncan in Macbeth. 17th season. Stratford: London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Grand Magic, Richard III, The Miser, The Front Page, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, The Changeling, Macbeth, As You Like It, Pericles, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: 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.
(he/him) Birmingham Conservatory, 2006
2025: Witch 1 in Macbeth and appears in The Winter's Tale. Seventh season. Stratford: La Cage aux Folles, Monty Python's Spamalot, Caesar and Cleopatra, Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Pentecost, Of Mice and Men, Othello, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night. Elsewhere: Into the Woods (Winter Garden/New Zealand, Dora nom.); The Judas Kiss (Talk Is Free); The 39 Steps (Chemainus Festival); The Last Five Years, Having Hope At Home (Neptune); The Best Brothers (Western Canada Theatre/TNW); Red, The Mousetrap, Cabaret, Legally Blonde (Theatre Aquarius); Wedding Singer (Stage West, Calgary Critics nom.); A Christmas Carol, The Wild Guys (Grand Theatre); Lucky Stiff, Spamalot (Drayton); Sherlock Holmes (MTC); Lies My Father Told Me (Segal Centre); Visiting Mr. Green (Harold Green). Voiceover: Videogame: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided; Audiobook: The Virgin Cure. Training: Toronto Met (BFA - Theatre). Awards: Chalmers Apprentice Award. Online: @aidandesalaiz Et cetera: Love to Billy and my family.
2025: Malcolm in Macbeth and Florizel in The Winter's Tale. Fourth season. Stratford: Charles Courtly (London Assurance), Sebastian (Twelfth Night), Paris (Romeo and Juliet), Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing), Albany (King Lear), Laertes (Hamlet). Elsewhere (selected): The Royale (Citadel Theatre); Being Here: The Refugee Project, Taking Shakespeare, Spring Awakening (Belfry Theatre); As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare Theater/Citadel Theatre/MTC/Bard on the Beach); Beauty and the Beast (Arts Club Theatre); Miss Understood (PuSh Festival); The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Shakespeare in Love, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter's Tale (Bard on the Beach); Mamma Mia! (WCT); HAIR (Mayfield Theatre). Film/TV (selected): Supernatural, Batwoman, The Flash (CW); Colony (USA); The Magicians (SyFy); Narcoleap (CBC/Telus). Training: The Canadian College of Performing Arts. Awards: Sterling Award (The Royale), Leo Award (Narcoleap), Max Helpmann Award (Stratford Festival). Online: @austineckert.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026
2025: Emilia in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Macbeth. 14th 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 and Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, 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.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2022/2023
2025: Young Shepherd in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Macbeth. Third season. Stratford: Gennarino Fucecchia in Grand Magic, Moth in Love's Labour's Lost, Norfolk in Richard III and appeared in All's Well That Ends Well. Elsewhere: Guildenstern in Hamlet (Dream in High Park/Canadian Stage); Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet (Grand Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Segal Centre, Citadel Theatre); Zach in Unsafe (Canadian Stage); Isaac in Isaac's Eye (Unit 102 Actors Co.); Lee Piper in Jerusalem (Crow's Theatre). Christo's latest album, Music For Horses, is available through We Are Busy Bodies record label. All my love to Kelly and Reaney.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2014/2015
2025: Lord, Rustic Servant in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Macbeth. Fourth season. Stratford: Timon of Athens, Madwoman of Chaillot, Shakespeare in Love, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost. Elsewhere: Isle of Demons (Guild Festival), Where You Are (Globus Theatre), Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet, Comedy of Errors (The Grove), Jack in Scavenger's Daughter (Buddies in Bad Times/Paradigm Productions), Book Club (Port Stanley), Michael in Armstrong's War (Theatre Kingston), Who's Under Where? (Lighthouse Festival). Writing and Creation: Deer Blood, TOMORROW (Wildside Festival),Rant (Concordia). Producing: Evil Dead the Musical, Faulty Towers the Dining Experience, Xavier Mortimer Master of Magic (Starvox Entertainment). Film: Mrs. America (FX), Thicker Than Water (Investigation Discovery). Awards: Michael Mawson Award, Douglas Campbell Award (Stratford). Online: Instagram: @edwardthegirl.
2025: Seyton in Macbeth and appears in The Winter's Tale. Fourth season. Stratford: The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Cymbeline, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard II, Grand Magic, Death and the King's Horseman, 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.
2025: Appears in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Macbeth. 11th season. Stratford: 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. Awards: Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award, Measure for Measure. Et cetera: Former Artistic Director, Freewill Shakespeare Festival. All my love to Breanna, Aidan, Finn and Betsy.
2025: Appears in The Winter's Tale and understudy in Macbeth. Second season. Stratford: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, London Assurance. Elsewhere: Kirk in Riot (Renaissance Canadian Theatre Company). Training: Toronto Metropolitan University: School of Performance. Online: @Incogtico. Et cetera: I dedicate this to my family and friends who continue to support me. PS. Momma I love you.
2025: Witch 3 in Macbeth and appears in The Winter's Tale. Second season. Stratford: The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Cymbeline. Elsewhere: Alcestis, Tartuffe, The Witch of Edmonton (Theatre Erindale); She, Men, and the Giant Snake (Soulpepper Theatre/Buddies in Bad Times); Retrograde (Toronto Fringe); Julius Caesar, Bare: A Pop Opera, Ghost Quartet, Essay (University of Toronto). Film/TV: Workin' Moms Seasons 6 and 7 (CBC/Netflix); Macy Murdoch (CBC/Shaftesbury); Pie Boy (Ace Entertainment Inc). Writer/Composer: The Gray: A Wilde Musical (Hart House Theatre); One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company); Mythic Women (University of Toronto). Training: Theatre and Drama Studies - University of Toronto/Sheridan College. Online: www.anthony-palermo.com, @anthxnypalermo. Et cetera: Grateful for the mentors who have taught me so much, and my family and friends for their endless support.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2005
2025: Ross in Macbeth and Polixenes in The Winter's Tale. 11th season. Stratford: Get That Hope (Director), Twelfth Night, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Coriolanus, The Tempest, etc. Elsewhere: Director: The Royale (Citadel Theatre); Gloria (ARC/Crow's). Acting: Glass Menagerie, Sex, An Octoroon, "Master Harold"...and the Boys (Shaw Festival); Julius Caesar (Crow's Theatre). Film/TV: Revenge of the Black Best Friend, Kim's Convenience (CBC); Slumberland (Netflix); Private Idiots (YouTube). Voiceover: Tiny Louis in Summer Memories (Family); Fins in Sago Mini Friends (Apple TV). Training: George Brown Theatre School. Awards: Sterling Award for Direction, The Royale; Toronto Theatre Critics Award and Dora Award - Best Actor, "Master Harold"...and the Boys; MyEntWorld Critics' Pick Award - Best Actor, An Octoroon. Online: Instagram: @dre373. Et cetera: Love you Rian & NAIA.
2025: Porter in Macbeth and appears in The Winter's Tale. Fifth season. Stratford: Mother's Daughter, The Crucible, The Boys From Syracuse, Pericles, Winter's Tale, Agamemnon, Electra, The Flies, The Swanne, The Elephant Song. Elsewhere: Through the Leaves, Domesticated (Company Theatre); Escaped Alone, Home, Endgame, You Can't Take It With You, The Way of the World, Twelfth Night, A Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper); The Old Ladies (Shaw); Prince Hamlet (Why Not Theatre); Cake & Dirt, Slavs! (Tarragon); The Piper, Beating Heart Cadaver, King Lear (Necessary Angel); Such Creatures (Passe Muraille); Glorious, The House of Bernarda Alba (Canadian Stage); 2nd Nature (VideoCabaret); Romeo and Juliet (Persephone). Film/TV: Mamma Mia 2; My Big Fat Greek Wedding 1, 2 and 3; Schitt's Creek; Tommy Boy; Shoot 'Em Up; Dino Dana, Rent-A-Goalie.
(he/him) Birmingham Conservatory, 2015/2016
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.
Birmingham Conservatory 2025/2026
2025: Murderer in Macbeth and appears in The Winter's Tale. Stratford debut. 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), An American Hymnal (Terra Bruce Productions). Film/TV: Terror Train, The Christmas Checklist, Witchboard, About Sex, 23 décembre, Matthias et Maxime. Training: Bishop's University, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Awards: META for Outstanding Supporting Actor (Simone: Half and Half). Online: @airbnbeyonce. Et cetera: Thank you to the cast, crew, and audiences! Thank you to my agent, Marc, and thank you to my family, friends, and to Kevin for your love and support. Let's go!
2025: Set and prop designer of Macbeth. Second season. Stratford: Associate set and props designer of Coriolanus. Elsewhere: For Ex Machina: Associate set designer for Le Projet Riopelle, Slam!, Courville, the seven streams of the Ota River and the exhibition: Lutte. Le Québec dans l'arène in Musée de la civilisation (Québec City). Independently: Hozanna ou la Shéhérazade des pauvres, le vrai monde?, Heimat/Revenir, Hope Town, Kanata, Feydeau, Scapin. Opera set design for Festival d'Opéra de Québec: l'Elisir d'Amore. Circus set designs: Récréation and Transit (Flip Fabrique) and Changes (Machine de Cirque). Founder and Artist Member of the company Nous Sommes Ici: N'essuies jamais des larmes sans gants, Singulières, Hotel Dieu. Training: Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec (2010) and Polytechnique Montréal (2017). Online: LinkedIn: Ariane Sauvé.
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2025: Lighting designer of Annie and Macbeth. 16th season.
2025: Composer and sound designer of Macbeth. Fifth season. Stratford: Sound designer of Serving Elizabeth and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, composer and sound designer of The Front Page. Elsewhere: Hamlet (Ex Machina/Côté Dance) Mahabharata, Sherlock and the Mystery of the Human Heart, Dracula, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Shaw Festival); Three Sisters, Jesus Hopped the A Train, La Bête (Soulpepper); The Children, Helen Lawrence, Cruel and Tender (Canadian Stage); It's a Wonderful Life (MTC, Canadian Stage, YPT - live foley); Twelfth Night (NAC, Theatre Calgary); Post Democracy, Theory, Other People's Children (Tarragon); The War of the Worlds (Art of Time); Gziganes (Dancemakers). Recordings: Matador (Patricia O'Callaghan), Frey (Lenka Lichtenberg), Alchemy (Tasa). Awards: Six Dora Mavor Moore Awards for sound design, Juno nomination for Maza Meze. Online: johngzowski.com. Et cetera: As a musician/composer, John has performed at most of Canada's jazz and folk festivals.
2025: Assistant set designer of Macbeth and The Winter's Tale. Third season. Stratford: Set designer of Shakespeare's Ni**a; costume designer of Macbeth, The Fall of the House of Atreus: A Cowboy Love Song (2023 Langham Directors' Workshop); assistant set and costume designer of A Wrinkle in Time; assistant set designer of La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan, Salesman in China, and Frankenstein Revived. Elsewhere: Set and costume: Harabogee and Me (Shakespeare in Action); Set: Beyonsea and the Mothers, Late Company (Green Light Arts), Indecent (National Theatre School of Canada); Costume: Erased (Open Heart Surgery Theatre/Theatre Passe-Muraille), I got my life back! (National Theatre School of Canada). Training: National Theatre School of Canada, Hong-Ik University, Yon-Sei Graduate School of Human Environmental Sciences. Online: imjunga.com.
2025: Design Coordinator for the Stratford Festival and assistant costume designer for Macbeth. Fourth season. Stratford: Head of Wardrobe for the 2024 season, assistant costume designer for Rent (2023), costume stitcher (2009). Elsewhere: Costume design for The Shape of Home: Songs in Search of Al Purdy (County Stage/Crow's); Outside Mullingar, A Beautiful View, The Drawer Boy, Mary's Wedding, Stones in His Pockets, A Midsummer Night's Dream (County Stage); Mules (TheatreFront); Hairspray, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Divas Do It All (Sharon Playhouse); and beyond. Film/TV: IATSE 873 Costume Member. Assistant costume designer for Viggo Mortensen's The Dead Don't Hurt; background costume supervisor or set costumer for many, including Accused Season 1, A Higher Loyalty, Jupiter's Legacy, The Handmaid's Tale, etc. Training: George Brown College. Et cetera: With love and gratitude, always, to family, friends, fellow creators and most of all, John.
2025: Assistant lighting designer of Macbeth and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Second season. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of La Cage aux Folles and Wendy and Peter Pan. Elsewhere: Lighting designer: Big Stuff (Baram and Snieckus/Crows), Sympathy for the Devil (Soulpepper), NightShift (Citadel + Compagnie), Antigonick (Shaw Festival, Directors Projects '24), Bright Lights, OverRuled (Shaw Festival, Directors Projects '23). Associate lighting designer: What the Constitution Means to Me (Soulpepper), Cinderella…If the shoe fits (Theatre Orangeville), Rubaboo (The Grand Theatre/Arts Club), Prodigal (Crows Theatre/The Howland Company). Assistant lighting designer: Nabbuco/Faust (Canadian Opera Company), Dion (Coal Mine Theatre), Clue (RMTC/Grand Theatre), The Amen Corner, The Apple Cart, Playboy of the Western World, Gem of the Ocean, Everybody, Too True to Be Good (Shaw Festival). Film/TV: Assistant BOH lighting director: Canada's Got Talent (2024). Training: BFA: Performance Production and Masters of Digital Media (TMU). Online: emilietrimbee.com, @emilietrimbeedesigns.
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