SALESMAN IN CHINA

2024: Co-playwright of Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Translator, Rébecca Déraspe's I Am William. Plays: The Vic (Cahoots/Passe Muraille); Schoolhouse, The Book of Esther (Blyth Festival); For Home and Country (4th Line).Translations: Rébecca Déraspe's You Are Happy (GCTC); Fanny Britt's Benevolence (Ruby Slippers/Pacific Theatre); David Paquet's Wildfire (Upstream Theater), The Shoe (Cherry Artspace); Catherine Léger's I Lost My Husband! (Ruby Slippers/Gateway); Hélène Ducharme's Baobab (Théâtre Motus); Mohsen El Gharbi's Omi Mouna (Infinithéâtre/Impact Festival); Anaïs Pellin's Clementine (Kleine Compagnie/Carousel Theatre). Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award (David Paquet's Wildfire); Tom Hendry Award (Paquet's The Weight of Ants); Opera Factory New Works Competition (NZ), Flourish Award (UK) for Ulla's Odyssey (composer: Anthony Young). Et cetera: Alumna, Universities of Guelph and Calgary. Former Assistant Professor (Playwriting), UBC. Online: www.leannabrodie.com. 

2024: Director and co-playwright of Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Directing: Murder on the Orient Express (Vertigo Theatre); Stitch (Native Earth);《食盡天下》(rice & beans theatre); God of Carnage, Antigone, Blackbird (Theatre du Pif 進劇場); The Orchard (After Chekhov) (Arts Club Theatre). Playwriting: Nine Dragons (Vertigo Theatre/Gateway Theatre), A Taste of Empire (Cahoots Theatre), The Five Vengeances (Affair of Honor). Acting: Mr Miyagi in pre-Broadway tryout of The Karate Kid, the Musical (Stages St. Louis); Prison Dancer (Citadel Theatre/National Arts Centre); Forgiveness (Theatre Calgary); Noises Off (Arts Club Theatre). Awards: Playwriting: Jessie Richardson Award - Nine Dragons; PGC Comedy Award - The Tao of the World; Playwrights Guild Drama Award - Kowloon Bay. Et cetera: Former Artistic Director of Gateway Theatre (Richmond, BC) and Cahoots Theatre (Toronto).

Translator: Salesman in China

Fang Zhang is originally from Zhejiang Province, Mainland China. She studied English and translation theory in Shanghai. She later worked as a professional translator and interpreter at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. She would assist visiting English-speaking theatre groups and individuals to develop and implement performances, workshops and lecture programs. Since moving to Toronto, she has been working at the University of Toronto as an administrative assistant. She continues to do translation work, including the translation of Ying Ruocheng's memoir Voices Carry from English to Chinese, and Meng Jinghui's play Head without Tail from Chinese to English. 

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2024: Set designer of Salesman in China. 11th season. Stratford: Les Belles-Soeurs, 1939 (set); The Breathing Hole (costumes); Comedy of Errors, The Aeneid (set and costumes). Elsewhere: Joanna is an award-winning set and costume designer whose recent credits include: Three Sisters (set, Soulpepper); Snow in Midsummer (costumes, Shaw Festival); Prison Dancer, the Musical (set, Citadel, NAC); The Queen in Me (set and costumes, COC, NAC); among men (set and costumes, Factory); 'da Kink in My Hair (set, Soulpepper/TO Live); Forgiveness (costumes, Arts Club/Theatre Calgary); How to Fail as a Popstar (set and costumes, Canadian Stage). Awards: Dora Award, the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award, and the Pauline McGibbon Award. Online: joannayudesign.com. Et cetera: Joanna is a member of ADC659 and sits on the Board of Directors. She dedicates this show to her parents; for everything 多謝.

2024: Lighting designer of Salesman in China. Third season. Stratford: Set and lighting designer of The Rez Sisters. Elsewhere: Lighting design for The Apple Cart (Shaw Festival); Legend of Georgia Mcbride, 12 Dates of Christmas, The Orchard (Arts Club Theatre); Midsummer Night's Dream, The Pearl Fisher (Vancouver Opera); Undeveloped Sound (Electric Company Theatre); Choir Boy (Canadian Stage and Arts Club); Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Harlem Duet (Bard on the Beach); East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement); 9 to 5 (Citadel Theatre). Training: BFA Simon Fraser University, MFA University of British Columbia. Awards: Jessie Richardson Theatre Award: we the same (Ruby Slipper Theatre), Titus Bouffonius (Rumble Theatre); Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination: Kuroko (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre), Chicken Girl (rice & beans theatre), The Orchard (Arts Club Theatre). Online: Sophieyufeitang.com.

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2024: Co-dramaturge and cultural consultant of Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Nina is a renowned Filipino Canadian director, dramaturge, teacher, mentor and arts advocate. She was the founding Artistic Director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company and has served as the Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Company and Factory Theatre. Currently, she is the Artistic Director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre. Training: Nina holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph and a Master of Arts from the University of Toronto. Awards: Awards for her work include the Ken McDougall Award, John Hirsch Prize, Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best Director, three Dora Awards for Outstanding Direction and the Toronto Arts Foundation's Margo Bindhart and Rita Davies Cultural Leadership Award.

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2024: Co-dramaturge of Salesman in China. 16th season. Stratford: Former director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program (2012-2022). Dramaturgy credits include Casey and Diana, Every Little Nookie, Hamlet-911, Little Women, Kate Hennig's Queenmaker, Paradise Lost, The Breathing Hole, Bunny and many others. Elsewhere: Artistic Director, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary (1999-2009); Co-Director, Banff Playwrights Lab (1997-2009); Artistic Director, Factory Theatre, Toronto (1979-1987). Director of over 75 productions from Cow Head, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia and places in between, but mostly in Calgary and Toronto. Training: Loyola College (Montreal); University of Alberta. Awards: Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD), University of Calgary. In 2018, Bob was awarded the GE Lessing Award for Career Achievement by the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Bob is a member of the Order of Canada.

2024: Fight and intimacy director of the 2024 season. Seventh season. Stratford: Fight director of The Rez Sisters and intimacy director of Serving Elizabeth (2021); Fight director for the 2019 and 2020 seasons. Selected Fight/Intimacy Director Credits: 3 Sisters (Soulpepper); Bad Roads (Crow's); WildWoman (Soulpepper); Hamlet (The Rose); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (TIP); Fall on Your Knees (Canadian Stage/Neptune/NAC); Maggie (Theatre Aquarius); Counter Offence (Segal Centre); Fairview (Canadian Stage); Prodigal (Crow's); Trojan Girls & The Outhouse of Atreus (Factory); Our Place (Cahoots/TPM); Kronborg (Confederation Centre). Other: Stage combat instructor, fight director, and sexual choreographer at the National Theatre School. Selected Stunt Performer/Stunt Actor Credits: Law and Order: Toronto, SEE, Star Trek: Discovery, Pretty Hard Cases, Titans, The Boys, Rabbit Hole, What We Do in the Shadows, various Ubisoft motion capture productions. Online: anitanittoly.com.

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2024: Assistant Director and understudy in Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Directing (Elsewhere): They Must Have Smoked (Calgary Fringe); The Bystander Game, The Storm: Festival (Kingston Baby Grand Theatre); The Bus Stop, The Zoo Story (UCalgary School of Creative and Performing Arts); Rhinoceros in Love (Queen's University Isabel Bader Centre). Program: 2021-22 CanStage RBC Emerging Artist, 2022-23 Lunchbox Theatre Associate Artist. Training: MFA in Theatre Directing (University of Calgary), BAH in Drama (Queen's University). Online: fangzhengwang.net, Instagram: @nickw_096. Et cetera: An interlingual worker, director, actor and playwright. Researcher focusing on contemporary Chinese theatre.

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2024: Assistant set designer of La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Set designer of Shakespeare's Ni**a, costume designer of Macbeth and 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 Frankenstein Revived. Elsewhere: Set and costume: Harabogee and Me - Shakespeare in Action (Little Avenue Memorial Park at Weston Toronto); Set: Indecent (National Theatre School of Canada); Costume: 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.

2024: Assistant costume designer of Wendy and Peter Pan  and Salesman in China. Stratford debut. A Toronto-based costume designer with experience in film and theatre. Claudia is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University's Performance Production program. Film: Costume designer and production designer for The Elevator Ride. Costume designer for The Air Time Project music video; Flashlight; ExecutionTriptych, First Love,WildFire.  Wardrobe buyer for the film Golden Slumber. Theatre: Stitcher for Scott Joplin's Treemonisha (Volcano). Costume designer for Three Ordinary Men (Cahoots); Spring Works Dance (TMU). Head of paint and set designer for Romeo and Juliet (TMU); head of paint and props master for Enchoreographic Dance (TMU). Online:www.claudiatam.myportfolio.com/work.

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2024: Assistant lighting designer of La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Grand Magic, Richard II.  Elsewhere: The Real McCoy (Blyth Festival); The Lehman Trilogy (Canadian Stage); The Royale (Citadel Theatre); Rockabye, Martyr (ARC);In Studio, Brantwood (Sheridan College); Fixer: A New Musical (Imagination Works); Ralph and Lina (Ahuri Theatre); This Is How We Got Here, I Call Myself Princess, Ipperwash, HUFF (Native Earth); AMAAL, IMPACT 21 (MT Space); SPAWN (Wild Woman Theatre); Other Side of the Game (Obsidian Theatre); Good Morning Viet Mom (Cahoots Theatre); Sea Sick (Theatre Centre). Training: Technical Production (Humber College, 2008). Awards: Dora Audience Choice Award Outstanding Production (Brantwood, 2016). Online: @bcbIV.

2024: Assistant projection designer of Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Projection designer of Rent. Assistant projection designer of Monty Python's Spamalot and A Wrinkle in Time. Elsewhere: Selected video and projection design credits include: Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Homes: A Refugee Story (Grand Theatre); Steel City Gangster (Theatre Aquarius); Much Ado About Nothing (Bard on the Beach); Newsies, Nobody's Children, Hansel and Gretel, Robin Hood (Yellow Door Theatre Project); Mary Poppins, Driving Miss Daisy, Miracle on 34^th St. (Saint John Theatre Company); Rinaldo (Pacific Opera Victoria); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III (The Shakespeare Company). Training: Bachelor of Performing Arts (Capilano University); Studio 58 Acting Program. Corwin's a full member of ADC. Awards: Technical Merit Award from CITT - LeVoyage (Flip the Switch); Robert Merritt Award - Chasing Champions (Ship's Company); multiple Betty Mitchell, Jessie Richardson and Sterling award nominations. Online: www.CorwinFerguson.com. 

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2024: Assistant stage manager of La Cage aux Folles and Salesman in China. Second season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of Monty Python's Spamalot and Frankenstein Revived. Elsewhere: Boy Falls From the Sky (Mirvish/Past Future Productions); Choir Boy, Forgiveness (Arts Club Theatre); Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kronborg - The Hamlet Rock Musical, Métis Mutt, Spinning Yarns, Ghost Light (Charlottetown Festival); Rose - A New Musical, The Seagull (Soulpepper); The Marriage of Figaro (Edmonton Opera); The Father (Theatre Aquarius). Awards: Anne Selby Award (Stratford Festival). Online: @erikadmorey. 

2024: Stage manager of La Cage aux Folles and assistant stage manger of Salesman in China. 30th season. Stratford: Several productions including last season's Richard II. Also, The Who's Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar (Stratford/La Jolla/Broadway), Coriolanus, Shakespeare in Love and the Miller-Plummer King Lear (Stratford/Lincoln Center). Elsewhere: National Arts Centre, Segal Centre, RMTC, Citadel, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Canadian Stage, Catalyst Theatre, Theatre Plus, Passe Muraille, Tarragon, Native Earth and Factory.

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2024: Assistant stage manager of Salesman in China. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of 1939 and Frankenstein Revived, Charlie Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Noah in Wanderlust. Elsewhere: Stage manager of Hansel & Gretel, The Nutcracker (2022/2023), Botero, Giselle (Alberta Ballet); All I Want for Christmas (Lunchbox Theatre); A Short History of Niagara (Shaw Festival); All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood Theatre). Assistant stage manager of Cipher (Vertigo Theatre). Apprentice stage manager of The Ladykillers, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Shaw Festival); Herringbone/The Yalta Game (TIFT). Et cetera: Ken plays Duddy in the original cast recording of Alan Menken's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravtiz. He sends love and appreciation to family and friends near and far.

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2024: Assistant stage manager of Salesman in China. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Assembly Hall, National and International Tour (Kidd Pivot); An Undeveloped Sound (Electric Company Theatre); My Little Tomato (Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre);East Van Panto: The Little Mermaid and Alice in Wonderland (Theatre Replacement); Redbone Coonhound, Kinky Boots (Arts Club Theatre); King Arthur's Night (Neworld Theatre); Shylock (Bard on the Beach); King of the Yees (Gateway Theatre); The Competition is Fierce (ItsaZoo); Fall Away Home (Boca del Lupo); Mother Courage and Her Children (Caravan Farm Theatre). Training: University of Victoria. Et cetera: Yvonne would like to thank Jovanni and Leanna for this opportunity and is thankful for her supportive family and partner.

2024: Production stage manager of the Avon Theatre and assistant stage manager of La Cage aux Folles. 32nd season. Stratford: Production stage manager (six seasons). Selected productions: Much Ado About Nothing, Les Belles-Soeurs, Every Little Nookie, Bonjour, là, Bonjour, Private Lives, The Front Page, Long Day's Journey…, Palmer Park, The Trojan Women, Henry IV Part 1, Wingfield's Inferno, Cymbeline, No Exit, The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet, Tempest-Tost, Richard III, Wingfield Unbound, The Boy Friend, Tartuffe, HMS Pinafore, The Gondoliers, The Physicists, The Alchemist, The Matchmaker, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well…, Three Sisters, An Ideal Husband, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Waiting for Godot, Sweet Bird of Youth, Romeo and Juliet, King John, Bacchae, The Merchant of Venice, Uncle Vanya. Elsewhere: Grand Theatre, Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Young People's Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Tarragon Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Toronto Dance Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse and Mirvish.

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2024: Production assistant of the Avon Theatre. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Stage manager for The Tempest (Tottering Biped Theatre); Brock/DART intern (Shaw Festival); Assistant stage manager for Welcome Home (Brock University/Laser Shark Productions); Assistant stage manager for A Midsummer Nights Dream (Tottering Biped Theatre). Training: Brock University. Et cetera: Thank you to my friends and family for your unwavering love and support.