WENDY AND PETER PAN

Adaptor: Wendy and Peter Pan

Ella Hickson is an award-winning playwright whose work has been performed throughout the UK and internationally. Ella's theatre credits include Adult Children (2021), a VR piece for the Donmar co-created with Sacha Wares in association with ETT, Scanlab Projects and Trial and Error Studios; Swive (2019) at The Globe; Anna (2019) at the National Theatre; The Writer (2018) and Oil (2016) at The Almeida Theatre; and Wendy and Peter Pan (2015) at The Royal Shakespeare Company. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a Thornton Wilder Fellow, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow, as well as a recipient of The Catherine Johnson Award. Ella is an Associate Artist of The Old Vic. 

(he/him) Michael Langham Workshop, 2010/11

2024: Director of Wendy and Peter Pan. Fourth season. Stratford: Adaptor/Director: A Wrinkle in Time. Assistant Director: The Winter's Tale and The Grapes of Wrath. Instructor: Birmingham Conservatory (eight seasons). Elsewhere: Thomas is the artistic director of Prairie Theatre Exchange, Treaty 1 Territory. As a director, playwright, dramaturg and movement coach he has collaborated on over 75 plays for theatres nationally and internationally. Recent projects include: Director: Feast by Guillermo Verdecchia,The War Being Waged by Darla Contois (PTE). Training: MA, University of Toronto; BA, University of Guelph; Viewpoints and Suzuki Method of Actor Training with SITI Company and the Suzuki Company of Toga. Online: @thommorganjones (Twitter). Et cetera: Heartfelt thanks to Antoni & Keira. For Josie & Gabriel who are my happy thoughts.

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2024: Choreographer of Wendy and Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Choreographer: The War Being Waged (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Miigis, Backbone, Trace, FLOW (Red Sky Performance); Arise, Petrichor (Canada's National Ballet School); Begin Again (Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers); Soul (The National Ballet of Canada); Bare (Royal Winnipeg Ballet); About the dream (IMPACTfest); Likeness (Citadel Dance Mix). Performer: Nanabush in The Rez Sisters (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Li Keur (Manitoba Opera); Pisuwin (Atlantic Ballet); Disney's Tarzan (Stage Entertainment); Who We Are in The Dark (Peggy Baker Dance Projects). Film/TV: Tshishikushkueu/Woman of Space (Natasha Kanapé Fontaine with Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur); Private Flowers (Haui Davis with Toronto History Museums). Awards: Outstanding Original Choreography (Dora Mavor Moore Awards). Online: @jerawolfe, jerawolfe.com.

2024: Set and costume designer of Wendy and Peter Pan. Third season. Stratford: Costumes: A Wrinkle in Time. Elsewhere (selected): Set and costumes: Avenue Q (Citadel Theatre); Obeah Opera (Luminato Festival/Asah Productions); The Jungle Book (Manitoba Theatre for Young People); The Boy in the Moon (Great Canadian Theatre Co.); The Dining Room (Soulpepper); Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Western Canada Theatre/Thousand Islands Playhouse); The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (Globe Theatre). Set: Cottagers and Indians (Tarragon Theatre); Acquiesce (Factory Theatre); Munschtime! (Young People's Theatre). Costumes: The Wizard of Oz (Young People's Theatre); Dream a Little Dream (Grand Theatre); Mamma Mia! (Globe Theatre). Awards: Robin is the recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards and the 2015 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award for Costume Design. Online: robinfisher.ca.

2024: Lighting designer of Wendy and Peter Pan. Fourth season. Stratford: Love's Labour's Lost (2023), Much Ado About Nothing (2023), I Am William (2021), Wendy and Peter Pan (2020). Theatre: Soulpepper, Tarragon, Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Factory, Luminato, Musical Stage Co., The Globe Theatre and Expect Theatre. Dance: Desrosiers Dance Theatre, The Danny Grossman Dance Company, ProArteDanza, tiger princess dance projects, Tribal Crackling Wind, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Canada's National Ballet School, resident designer at Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre. Music: Art of Time Ensemble, Nagata Shachu. Training: York University Theatre Program. Teaching: York University, Toronto Metropolitan University, University of Waterloo and the National Theatre School. Awards: Ten Dora Mavor Moore nominations for Outstanding Lighting Design in the dance and theatre categories. Et cetera: Arun is thrilled to return to Stratford for his fourth season.

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.

2024: Associate designer of Wendy and Peter Pan. Fifth season. Stratford: Assistant designer: Wendy and Peter Pan (2020); Assistant costume designer: Henry VIII, Mother's Daughter and Nathan the Wise (2019), Macbeth (2016), She Stoops to Conquer (2015). Elsewhere: Costume designer: Beautiful (2023), Swim Club (2022), Rainmaker, The War Show (2019), Out of Order (2018), Hairspray (2017), Office Hours (2016), Unnecessary Farce (2015) (Drayton Entertainment). Film & TV: Costume assistant: Reacher, Season 1 and 2 (Prime Video). Training: BAH in Drama and Art History (Queen's University); Fashion Design (Fanshawe College); Technical Costume Postgraduate Studies (Fanshawe College). Et cetera: Julia is thrilled to be returning to finish this beautiful show we began 4 years ago!

2024: Associate fight director of the 2024 season. Third season. Stratford (selected):King Lear, Richard III, Little Women. Elsewhere: Hamlet (Hit & Myth Productions); The Amen Corner (Shaw Festival); Romeo and Juliet (National Theatre School); Girl in the Photograph (Chameleon Productions). Selected Film and TV (Acting and Stunts):FUBAR, The Fabric of Christmas, Chucky, Far Cry 6, Mayor of Kingstown, Reacher, Revenge of the Black Best Friend, The Hot Zone, The Boys, Dark Matter, Kill Joys, Teen Titans, Lucky Day, Amazing Race Canada, Frankie Drake. Training: Humber Theatre Performance program, various martial arts schools, acting for film and TV at the renown Pro Actors Lab in Toronto. Online: Instagram: @davidchinchillaofficial. 

2024: Flying effects for Wendy and Peter Pan. Flying since 1994, ZFX is a full-service provider of flying effects for everything from schools to Broadway to the event and music industries, collaborating with clients to create safe and awe-inspiring aerial effects for audiences around the globe. Famed for their creativity, ZFX is also a technical powerhouse, designing and manufacturing all equipment and harnesses in-house. Their user-friendly rigging and technical solutions, combined with exceptional artistic insight, provide an unparalleled service. With a reputation for enthusiasm, teamwork and artistic integrity, ZFX sets the industry standard for flying effects.

(they/them) Langham Directors' Workshop, 2024

2024: Assistant director of Wendy and Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Directing: I Love You and It Hurts (Theatre of the Beat, Director); Into the Woods (Dead Name Theatre, Assoc. Director & Dramaturge); Joan/Jehanne (Friendly Bear Theatre, Co-Director); The Girl in the Photograph (Toronto Fringe, Assoc. Director); La Cama Cósmica (CAMINOS Festival, Director); Titus Andronicus and The Crucible (Hart House Theatre, Asst. Director). Other: Assoc. Dramaturge for 2021-2022 Write From The Hip (Nightwood Theatre); Artistic Directing Internship (SummerWorks); and 10+ years of community and educational arts facilitation. Training: Paprika Festival; Nightwood Innovators; Theatre Gargantua; Cyborg Circus Project; CGDC; University of Toronto (BA Hons.). Online: @mc.fearon. Et cetera: Much love and gratitude to my friends, family, partner, and network of mentors for their endless care and support. For Elaine.

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2024: Assistant choreographer of Wendy and Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Elsewhere (selected): Dancer/performer: Don Giovanni, Salome (Canadian Opera Company); In Time, Julie et l'univers excerpt, Living Dances (Citadel + Compagnie); Trace, AF, FLOW, Adizokan, Miigis (Red Sky Performance). Choreographer's assistant: Arise (Jera Wolfe with Canada's National Ballet School); One's Own (Jera Wolfe with Lamondance). Film/TV:SWEAT (Bicycle Opera Projects); Seven Veils (Headless Film Inc.). Upcoming: Follow (Fall for Dance North); Shakespeare: If Music Be… (Art of Time Ensemble). Training: Toronto Metropolitan University. Online: @miyeko.ferguson.

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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.

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2024: Assistant lighting designer of La Cage aux Folles and Wendy and Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Lighting designer: Sympathy for the Devil (Soulpepper), NightShift (Citadel+Companie), Antigonick (Shaw Festival- Directors Projects '24), Bright Lights (Shaw Festival- Directors Projects '23), OverRuled (Shaw Festival- Directors Projects '23). Associate lighting designer: Cinderella…If the shoe fits (Theatre Orangeville), Rubaboo (The Grand Theatre/Arts Club), Prodigal (Crows Theatre/ The Howland Company),Indecent (Studio 180/ Mirvish). Assistant lighting designer: Dion (Coal Mine Theatre), Clue (RMTC/The 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.

2024: Assistant sound designer for Wendy and Peter Pan. Stratford debut. Clarence (CJ) Jura is a Haitian-Canadian artist who is making a name for himself across multiple entertainment mediums. On stage, CJ was in the Canadian Stage/Arts Club Production of Choir Boy, playing the role of Junior Davis. CJ was the co-creator and music director of Levels the Play in the 2023 Toronto Fringe Festival. He also co-created Pain to Power: A Kanye West Musical Protest. On screen, CJ has been an actor in multiple productions including Sneakerella (Disney+), In the Dark (CW/CBS), Topline (CBC Gem) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix). As a vocal artist, his group CZN caught Simon Cowell's attention winning BT's Canadian Family's Got Talent in 2020 and competing on season 16 of America's Got Talent. Training: Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Sheridan College. Online: Instagram/TikTok: @cj_capital.

2024: Assistant fight director of Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet and Wendy and Peter Pan. 11th season. Nicolas Van Burek is a multilingual actor, stunt actor, fight director, teacher and coach. As an actor, he has worked in almost every Canadian province in theatre, television, voice, video games and film for nearly forty years. After ten years as a lead actor at the Stratford Festival from 1997-2007, Nicolas returned to Toronto to focus on work in film, television, voice and video games. He has amassed numerous credits as a stunt actor in shows like Reacher, 12 Monkeys, Suits, The Boys and Star Trek. He currently teaches stage combat at Centennial College. Nicolas is a proud father to five-year-old Zayla, who is his toughest boss. 

2024: Stage manager of Wendy and Peter Pan. 27th season. Stratford (selected): Stage manager: A Wrinkle in Time, Play On! Cabaret (2021 season in the tent), 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.Elsewhere (selected): stage manager - Ring of Fire, Hana's Suitcase, Annie, Twist and Shout (Grand Theatre); My Fair Lady (Drayton Entertainment). Et cetera: To my beautiful and loving Tim, Cody, and Dawson; my parents; my sisters and their gangs; and my family of dear friends - thank you for continuing to be my happy thoughts and for soaring through life's adventures with me.  

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2024: Assistant stage manager of La Cage aux Folles and Wendy and Peter Pan. Sixth season. Stratford: Little Women, I Am William, To Kill a Mockingbird; Production assistant for the Avon and Festival theatres. Elsewhere: Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); The Guide to Being Fabulous (Soulpepper Theatre); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish); Idomeneo, Actéon and Pygmalion, The Marriage of Figaro (Opera Atelier); Julius Caesar, The Wedding Party (Crow's Theatre); Anne of Green Gables (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Script supervisor for Ross Petty's A Christmas Carol; Stage management intern at Wicked (Broadway). Et cetera: Many thanks to my friends and family, especially my Mom, for all their love and support.

2024: Assistant stage manager of Wendy and Peter Pan and Cymbeline. 23rd season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager - Monty Python's Spamalot; A Wrinkle in Time; Richard III; The Miser; Rez Sisters; Little Shop of Horrors; Rocky Horror Show; Timon of Athens; The Madwoman of Chaillot; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; A Little Night Music; The Taming of the Shrew; Love's Labour's Lost; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Blithe Spirit; Charlie Brown; Merry Wives of Windsor; Kiss Me, Kate; Dangerous Liaisons; The Importance of Being Earnest; Cabaret; My One and Only; South Pacific; Oliver!; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Edward II; The Count of Monte Cristo; Anything Goes; Henry VI. Stage manager - Birmingham Conservatory, 2006 and 2007. Awards: Recipient of the Tanya Award and four Guthrie Awards. Et cetera: Holly would like to thank Steve and Jackson for all their love and support.

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2024: Apprentice stage manager of Wendy and Peter Pan. Second season. Stratford: Production assistant, Avon Theatre. Elsewhere: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Grand Theatre); Jonas and Barry in the Home, Made in Italy (Theatre Aquarius); A Christmas Carol, Come Down From Up River, Doris and Ivy in the Home (Upper Canada Playhouse); Wishful Seeing (4th Line Theatre); Red Tide, Kensington: The Musical, Destination: Wedding! (Theatre Sheridan). Training: Sheridan College, Technical Theatre for the Performing Arts. Et cetera: So grateful to be working with this incredible team of people. Thanks to my family and friends for their continuous support. 

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.