By Christopher Hampton
Based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
Directed by Esther Jun
This production explores mature themes of sexuality and depicts scenes of sexual violence and death. Includes coarse language.
Two aristocrats in pre-Revolutionary France, bored of their own privilege and the decadence gilded to its shell, embark on a dangerous game of manipulation and seduction. The victim of their subterfuge is a beautiful young woman, Madame de Tourvel, whose virtue and piety will put the players to shame. A scandalously clever period drama, the play delivers a nasty bite, guaranteed to sting the conscience of its audiences.
The 2025 Season is supported by Ophelia Lazaridis.
Production Co-Sponsors:
Cathy & Paul Cotton
Doug Kennedy
Jesse Gervais, Jessica B. Hill and Celia Aloma. Photography by Ted Belton.
(she/her) Birmingham Conservatory 2022/2023
2025: Madame de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons, Gossip in Sense and Sensibility and understudy in As You Like It. Fourth season. Stratford: Rachel Whyte in Get That Hope, Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost, Richard II, Player Queen in Hamlet and Olabisi in Death and the King's Horseman. Elsewhere: Corinna and seven other characters in Primary Trust, 16 characters in No Child (Arts Club); Ann Atwater in The Best of Enemies, Novelette in 'da Kink in My Hair (Pacific Theatre); Same Difference (Theatre Conspiracy); Catherine in The Numbers Game (Storefront Theatre). Film/TV: American Wasteland, Corrective Measures, Swan Song, Voir, The Baby-Sitters Club, Detour, Song Bird, Scared Lies, Sirens. Radio/Recordings: Aisha in Redbone Coonhound (Arts Club); Mama in Rishi & d Douen (Rumble Theatre and Carousel Theatre). Training: York University. Awards: Peter Donaldson Award recipient, Michael Mawson Award recipient, and B.C. Arts Council Pivot recipient.
Métis Nation of Alberta
2025: Le Vicomte de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, Oliver Martext in As You Like It and Gossip in Sense and Sensibility. Second season. Stratford: The Diviners. Elsewhere: Clue (MTC\Grand Theatre); The Breathing Hole (NAC); Christmas Carol, Jane Eyre, Silver Arrow, Crazy For You, Alice Through the Looking Glass, One Man Two Guvnors (Citadel Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew (Free Will Players); 6.0, 4th Graders (NLT); 10 out of 12, Passion Play, Realistic Joneses (Wild Side Productions); Joy Ride, Black Horse (Caravan Farm Theatre). Film and TV: Tiny Plastic Men Seasons 1-4 (Super Channel); Caution May Contain Nuts Seasons 2-4 (APTN); Blind Ambition, Joe Pickett. Voiceover: Mass Effect 1, 2, 3, Dragon Age: Origins, Anthem, Neverwinter Nights (BIOWARE). Training: BFA University of Alberta. Online: @jesse.gervais, www.jessegervais.com.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2014/2015
2025: Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, La Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons and Phoebe in As You Like It. Eighth season. Stratford: Viola (Twelfth Night), Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Helen (All's Well That Ends Well), Lady Anne (Richard III), Emily Brontë (Brontë: The World Without), Bess (Mother's Daughter). Playwright: The Dark Lady (SIR-SotS/Lunchbox-TSC), Pandora (PTE). Both plays are available online and at the Festival Gift Shop. The Dark Lady is part of Bard on the Beach's 2025 season, and recently had a staged reading at Red Bull Theatre in New York City. Film/TV: Five Days at Memorial, The Boys, Kings of Napa. Voice/Mocap: Star Wars Outlaws. Training: Birmingham Conservatory, McGill University, Dawson College. Awards: SATA for Artistic Excellence - The Dark Lady, Bernard Amyot Teaching Award - NTS, Mary Savidge Award - Stratford Festival. The Dark Lady has won six awards across three provinces, including three Betty Mitchell awards. Online: Instagram: @jessicabhill.
Birmingham Conservatory 2025/20262025: Cécile Volanges in Dangerous Liasons, appears in As You Like It and understudy in Sense and Sensibility. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Hedda in Hedda Gabler, May in Bedlam, Des-Neiges in Les Belles Soeurs, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex (Theatre at Grenfell); Silvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (New Brood); Titania in Midsummer Night's Dream (Dartmouth Players); Melissa in Out of It, Marie-Louise in No Man's Land (Rising Tide Theatre). Film/TV: Son of a Critch (CBC); This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC); Sugar Highs (OUTTV); Surreal Estate (SYFY); Hudson & Rex (CityTV); Sullivan's Crossing (CTV); Astrid and Lilly Save the World (SYFY); Diggstown (CBC); Alaska Triangle (Discovery). Training: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell Campus, 2023 (BFA); Power of Connection Intensive with Perchance Theatre. Online: @ashleyjdingwell. Et cetera: To Mom, Dad, Grammy, Karen - I love you, so I keep going.
2025: Duchess Senior in As You Like It, Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility and Madame de Rosemonde in Dangerous Liaisons. 32nd season. Last year, Ms. McKenna directed Twelfth Night on the Festival stage, mentored directing students at the National Theatre School, did her very first Murdoch Mystery, received the 2024 Stratford Festival Legacy Award, and taught her grandson how to swim underwater. Her previous roles at the Festival include: Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Medea, Richard III, Portia, Paulina, Jaques, Julius Caesar, Katerina, Dolly Levi, Amanda Wingfield, the Marquise de Merteuil, Queen Elizabeth I and Madame Arcati. Elsewhere, she has played Cleopatra (Centaur), Shylock (Shakespeare Company/Hit and Myth Prod.), Hermione (Kansas City Rep), Yaga (Tarragon) and Lear (Groundling Theatre Company). She has three Doras, a Jessie and a Genie award, and is a Member of the Order of Canada. Love and gratitude to the McPotters.
2025: William in As You Like It, Le Chevalier Danceny in Dangerous Liaisons and appears in Forgiveness. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Jung (Kim's Convenience, Grand Theatre); Marcus (Fatal Charade); Han and others (The Late Wedding); Ferdinand (The Tempest); Malvolio (Twelfth Night); Oberon (A Midsummer Night's Dream); Edwards (Blue Stockings); Sir John Middleton (Sense & Sensibility). Film/TV: Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent; The Food That Built America. Training: NYU. Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Online: leonqin.com, @crimsonqin. Et cetera: To my Mom, Dad, Ryan, Katherine, 爷爷, 奶奶, 公公, 婆婆, my cousins, my entire family, my friends, my mentors, and Iroh. Thank you all for your unyielding support. I love you.
(she/her) Birmingham Conservatory 2025/2026
2025: Madame de Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons, appears in As You Like It and understudy in Forgiveness. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Polonia in Hamlet (The Shakespeare Co, Hit & Myth), She in Lesson in Forgetting (Pleiades), Phoenix/Empress Dowager in The Forbidden Phoenix (Citadel, YPT), Mimi in Singkil (Fu-Gen), Karen in Gladstone Variations (Convergence). Nadine also co-wrote and performed as Jennifer in Miss Orient(ed) and Lorna/Geline in PEOPLE POWER (Carlos Bulosan Theatre/Teesri Duniya). Training: Birmingham Conservatory 25/26. Awards: Dora Nomination - The Forbidden Phoenix. Et cetera: Nadine is forever grateful to her first artistic home, Carlos Bulosan Theatre, and would like to give a shout out to all arts organizations for continuing to do the challenging work of keeping theatre, arts and culture alive. She dedicates this season to her loving mom Fely, her babycakes Maxine, and to the holder of her heart, Troy.
(he/him)
2025: Orlando in As You Like It, Gossip in Sense and Sensibility and understudy in Dangerous Liaisons. Second season. Stratford: Cloten in Cymbeline, Lachlan in The Diviners. Selected theatre credits: The Master Plan (Theatre Aquarius, Soulpepper); Rockabye (ARC Stage); The Master Plan (Crow's Theatre); Redbone Coonhound (Tarragon Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach); Sweat (Canadian Stage); Antigone…, Selfie (Young People's Theatre); Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage); The Adonis Project (The Piece of Mine Festival). Film/TV: Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+/CBS); Coroner, Workin' Moms (CBC); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC Television, Citytv); 13: The Musical (Netflix). Voiceover: Audiobook: No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot. Education: York University Acting Conservatory. Awards: Dora Award winner and nominee. Online: Instagram: @christopherallen.me.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2024
2025: Amiens in As You Like It, Cooper in Forgiveness and understudy in Dangerous Liaisons. 12th season. Stratford: Peter in Something Rotten!, Gord in The Diviners, Romeo in Play On!, Al in A Chorus Line, Henrik Egerman in A Little Night Music, Rolf Gruber in The Sound of Music, Pinball Lad in Tommy, and appeared in Chicago, King Lear, Rent, Billy Elliot the Musical, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, Fiddler on the Roof and Carousel. Elsewhere: Johnny alternate in Green Day's American Idiot (first US tour); Hank Majewski in Jersey Boys (Dancap); Gilbert in Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown). Film/TV: Captain von Trapp in The Pacifier. Training: Birmingham Conservatory, Etobicoke School of the Arts. Online: Twitter/Instagram: @GabrielNacci. Et cetera: Huge thanks to Stratford and Colin McMurray. This season is dedicated to Gabe's Beautiful Wife Robin.
2025: Edward Ferrars, Robert Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility, Azolan in Dangerous Liaisons and appears in As You Like It. Third season. Stratford: Peter in Romeo and Juliet, Martin in London Assurance, Benicio in Twelfth Night, Harry Percy in Richard II, Waiter in Grand Magic and understudy in Love's Labour's Lost. Elsewhere: A Few Good Men, Twelve Angry Men, The Miracle Worker, The Birds and the Bees, Death of a Salesman, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton); The Cider House Rules reading (Talk is Free); Suitcases/Provenance workshop (Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Jump, Darling (opposite Cloris Leachman), Deadbolt, In the Dark, Murdoch Mysteries, Man Seeking Woman, Heroes Reborn, Bitten, Reign. Radio/Recordings: Strange Loops (audiobook). Training: The Randolph College for the Performing Arts. Online: Instagram: @tomsdup.
Birmingham Conservatory, 2013
2025: Rosalind in As You Like It, Fanny, Lady Middleton in Sense and Sensibility and Emilie in Dangerous Liaisons. Seventh season. Stratford: Juliet, Anne Frank, Cordelia, Mary in The Last Wife and The Virgin Trial, A Little Night Music, The Lion... Wardrobe, The Merchant of Venice, She Stoops to Conquer, The Beaux' Stratagem, Finally There's Sun, others. Broadway: Delphi in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Elsewhere: Delphi in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish, Canadian première); The Last Timbit; Medium Alison in Fun Home (Musical Stage/Mirvish, Dora nominee, TTCA winner); Brigid in The Humans (Canadian première at Citadel/Canadian Stage); many productions at Soulpepper, Citadel, Musical Stage Company, Theatre Calgary, Tarragon, Passe Muraille, Segal Centre, YPT and others. Film/TV: Hudson & Rex, Frankie Drake, Departure, Nurses, others. Et cetera: Sara is a musical theatre bookwriter and a playwright. Thank you Chris and Antoni, Tovah and Michele. Hi Josh.
2025: Phyllis, Ralph's Mother, Soldier in Forgiveness, appears in As You Like It and understudy in Dangerous Liaisons. Ninth Season. Stratford: Rosemary (Hamlet-911), Madge Macbeth (1939), Patience Maria (Henry VIII), Stephanie Crawford (To Kill a Mockingbird), Calpurnia (Julius Caesar), Celia (As You Like It) and Caroline Bingley (Pride and Prejudice). Elsewhere: Thousand Islands Playhouse, Citadel Theatre, Blyth Festival, Shakespeare in the Ruff, Canadian Stage, Young People's Theatre, Theatre Northwest, Sudbury Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre, Resurgence Theatre, Theatre by the Bay, Brookstone Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Thought for Food, Equity Showcase, Toronto Fringe and SummerWorks. Film/TV: Welcome to Derry, Ruby and The Well, The Christmas Spirit (feature film), Re: Possessed Homes (short film), Murdoch Mysteries, Rookie Blue, Flashpoint, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Missing, Train 48, Our Hero, The City, F/X: The Series, Falling Fire. Awards: 2018 Tanya Award in recognition of excellence, and the Jean A. Chalmers Award.
(she/they) Birmingham Conservatory 2025/2026
2025: Audrey in As You Like It, appears in Dangerous Liaisons and understudy in Forgiveness. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Quartet (Other Hearts/VideoCabaret); Mad Ones (Tangled Art + Disability); Johnny Belinda (Smile Theatre); Lil' Red, Jack and the Beanstalk, Treasure Island, Three Musketeers (Stirling Festival Theatre). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Good Witch, Call Me Fitz. Training: B.A. Honours English, Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Sexuality Studies (Concordia University); Musical Theatre (American Musical and Dramatic Academy NYC); Theatre (Interlochen Arts Academy). Online: www.otherhearts.ca. Et cetera: Vae is a Mad performance artist, Dora-nominated designer and poet (Toronto International Festival of Authors New Embassy; The /t3mz/ Review Issue 22). Eternal gratitude to my community and especially to Cake, who constantly remind me that "the thing perhaps is / to eat flowers and not to be afraid."
2025: Appears in As You Like It, Forgiveness and Dangerous Liaisons. Second season. Stratford: Cymbeline, The Diviners. Elsewhere: Truffaldino in A Servant of Two Masters, The Flying Doctor, As You Like It, Our Eliza (Perchance); John Dodge in Middletown (NTS); Squawk (RCAT); Falling Trees (Poverty Cove); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (TNL); Salt-water Moon (Rising Tide); Almost Baymous (Half Handsome). Film/TV: Son of a Critch (CBC); Hudson and Rex (CityTV); Little Dog (CBC); Frontier (Discovery/Netflix); Riverhead (Riverhead Prod.); Body and Bones (Scattered and Small Inc.). Et cetera: I am grateful and delighted to be returning to the Stratford stage. Thanks to you, the audience, for making what we do possible.
(he/him) Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026
2025: Mrs. Dashwood, Anne Steele in Sense and Sensibility and appears in Dangerous Liaisons. Seventh season. Stratford: Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, HMS Pinafore, The Sound of Music, The Mikado, The Gondoliers. Shaw: Mack and Mabel, Tristan, Floyd Collins, The Constant Wife, Happy End, The Coronation Voyage, She Loves Me, Easy Virtue. Elsewhere: Into the Woods [New Zealand], The Other Place, Sweeney Todd [UK and Toronto - Dora Award], Sunday in the Park with George (Talk Is Free Theatre); London Road, Passion, The House of Martin Guerre (Canadian Stage Company); Anything That Moves (Tarragon Theatre - Dora Award); Falsettos (Musical Stage Company); Annie, The Drowsy Chaperone (Drayton Entertainment); Side by Side by Sondheim (Grand Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire (Atlantic Theatre Festival); The Glass Menagerie (Prairie Theatre Exchange); My Fair Lady (Neptune Theatre, Centaur Theatre, PTE, ATP). Et cetera: Glynis dedicates this season to her beautiful family.
(she/her)
2025: Margaret, Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility and appears in Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Constance in The Three Musketeers (Citadel/Arts Club), Aiden in Smoke (Tiny Bear Jaws), River in Appropriate (CalArts), Unsung: Tales from the Front Line (Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre), Monkey King (Enrichment Works). Film/TV: This Too Shall Pass, Abracadavers (Season 2, 3), Last Stop Video Rentals, Shadow of God. Training: California Institute of the Arts. Online: www.jadevrobinson.com, @jade.robi. Et cetera: Big thanks to my team (Clarina and Shari) and friends for their support! This debut is dedicated to my mom, dad, grandma, and Zach, who have always made me feel like my dreams are within reach. Sharing this with you is one of my greatest joys.
2025: Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, appears in As You Like It and understudy in Dangerous Liaisons. Third season. Stratford: Portia in Something Rotten!, The Diviners, Joanne in Rent, Richard II. Elsewhere: Vicky in Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Gloria in Damn Yankees, White Christmas, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shawground, 1922 in Concert, Charley's Aunt, Duke and the Two Irenes, Song for a Winters Night (Shaw); Home For the Holidays (Theatre Aquarius); Emcee in Cabaret, Finding Black Joy (Grand Theatre); Mamma Mia! (Stage West); Dyanne in Million Dollar Quartet (Capitol Theatre); Sophie in Mamma Mia! (Rainbow Stage). Voiceover: We the Culture (Facebook). Training: Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Sheridan College; H.B. Beal Secondary and C.C.H. Online: @oliviasinclairbrisbane. Et cetera: Olivia dedicates this season to her amazing support system, her family both chosen and biological, her friends and mentors. To anyone moving through life with bravery, joy, kindness and deep love.
2025: Dennis in As You Like It, Major-Domo in Dangerous Liaisons and appears in Forgiveness. Third season. Stratford: Rosencrantz (Hamlet), Constable (Death and the King's Horseman). Elsewhere: Rosmersholm (Crow's); The New Canadian Curling Club (Theatre Orangeville/Drayton); Chimerica (Royal MTC/Canadian Stage); The Kite Runner (Theatre Calgary/Citadel); The Canadian (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Fugitives (Theatre Conspiracy); You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Gateway). Film/TV: Resident Evil: Afterlife, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Frankie Drake Mysteries, Murdoch Mysteries, Rookie Blue, King. Playwright: Aging Youth Gang (developed by Crow's and fu-GEN); Eunuch X Pirate (Playwright in Residence at Outside the March); Theory (Tarragon, Mosaic Theater Company of D.C., published by Playwrights Canada Press); Pu-Erh (k'Now Theatre). Training: BFA Acting, UBC; BFA (Honours) Film, TMU. Awards: Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize finalist; Theory: The Voaden Prize, Carol Bolt Award nomination; Pu-Erh: Dora Award nomination, The Voaden Prize finalist. Online: www.normanyeung.com, @NormanYeung.
Playwright: Dangerous Liaisons
Christopher Hampton became involved in theatre while studying French and German at Oxford University, and wrote a play in his first year.
The Royal Court's subsequent production was so successful that it transferred to the Comedy Theatre while he was still a student, making him the youngest writer ever to have a play performed in the West End-a record which still stands.
His plays, musicals and translations have garnered four Tony Awards, three Olivier Awards, five Evening Standard Awards and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; prizes for his screen work include an Oscar, two BAFTAs, a Writers' Guild of America Award, the Prix Italia, a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year, and The Collateral Award at the Venice Film Festival for Best Literary Adaptation.
His works for the stage include original plays (A German Life, Visit From An Unknown Woman, Appomattox, The Talking Cure, White Chameleon, Tales from Hollywood, Treats, Savages, The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse and When Did You Last See My Mother?); plays adapted from novels (Ödön von Horváth's Youth Without God, Sándor Márai's Embers, Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses); musicals (Sunset Boulevard, Dracula: The Musical and, Stephen Ward, all with Don Black); libretti (Waiting for the Barbarians, Appomattox and The Trial, all with composer Philip Glass).
Hampton's screenplays include The Father and The Son (from his plays of the same names, adapted from Florian Zeller's work), A Dangerous Method (based on his play The Talking Cure), Chéri , Atonement, Imagining Argentina (which he also directed), The Quiet American, The Secret Agent (which he also directed), Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse (from his play of the same name, and in which he also performed), Carrington (the first film he also directed), Dangerous Liaisons (based on his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses), The Good Father (from the novel by Peter Prince), The Honorary Consul (from Graham Greene's novel) and A Doll's House (based on his translation of Ibsen's play).
(she/her) Langham Directors' Workshop, 2016
2024: Director of Dangerous Liaisons. Artistic Associate, Planning, and Director of the Langham Directors' Workshop for the Stratford Festival. Seventh season. Stratford: Director: Cymbeline, Les Belles-Soeurs, Little Women, I Am William. Assistant director: John Gabriel Borkman, Richard III (2020). Elsewhere: Director: Kim's Convenience (UK: Riverside Studios, Park Theatre; Grand, TIP); Between a Wok and a Hotpot (Cahoots); The Great Leap (Cleveland Playhouse); Planet Munsch (George Brown); Pal Joey, The Gamblers, Amadeus (Talk Is Free); The Promised Land (Soulpepper); The Omnibus Bill (Counterpoint Players); Theory, Girls Like That (Tarragon); The Private LifeCabaret (Theatre ARTaud); The Last Wife (Belfry, GCTC); Rococo (Shaw); Bremen Rock City (Song Trolley Productions); Cowboy Mouth, Trout Stanley (Heart In Hand); Yellow Face (Hart House); Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (DeusXM). Training: B.A. Directing, Drama Centre London. Et cetera: Assistant Artistic Director at Tarragon (2016-2018); Co-Founder of Directors Lab North. Love & gratitude to Mike, Lola, the kitties and Frida. www.theestherjun.com.
2025: Costume designer of Dangerous Liaisons. Fourth season. Stratford: Costume designer: Little Women, Serving Elizabeth. Assistant costume designer: The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Elsewhere: Treemonisha (Volcano); The Amen Corner (Shaw Festival); Sweeter (Cahoots); black odyssey boston (The Front Porch Arts Collective); Nat Turner in Jerusalem (Actors' Shakespeare Project); Between Riverside and Crazy (SpeakEasy Stage Company); 3/5ths: Trapped in a Travelling Minstrel Show (Sleeping Weasel); Turn of the Screw (DVxT Theatre); 'da Kink in My Hair (Trey Anthony Studio); Ruined (Obsidian Theatre Company); Tonic for Desperate Times, Imprints (Theatre Gargantua); Borderlands, Broke-ology (Kansas City Repertory Theatre). Training: MFA Costume Design and Technology, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Awards: Ian & Molly Lindsay Young Designer Fellowship; USITT Costume Design & Technology Award, Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award, the Guthrie Award. Online: sidonie78.wixsite.com/awnadinegrant. Instagram: NadineGrantDaley. Nadine dedicates this season to her beloved Ken.
2025: Lighting designer of Dangerous Liaisons. Fifth season. Stratford: Wendy and Peter Pan (2024/2020), Love's Labour's Lost (2023), Much Ado About Nothing (2023), I Am William (2021). Theatre: Tarragon, Soulpepper, Canadian Stage, Buddies in Bad Times, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Factory, Luminato, Musical Stage Co., The Globe Theatre and Mirvish Productions. Dance: Jaberi Dance Theatre (Sweden première), Robert Desrosiers, Danny Grossman, 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: The Royal Conservatory of Music, Art of Time, Nagata Shachu. Teaching/Mentorship: Banff Centre, 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 fifth season.
2025: Composer and sound designer of Dangerous Liaisons. Fifth season. Stratford: Composer and sound designer of Hamlet (2022); Sound designer of An Ideal Husband, Hay Fever. Elsewhere: As composer/sound designer: Canadian Stage (The Inheritance, Public Enemy, A Midsummer Night's Dream); Coal Mine Theatre (The Father, The Nether); The Grand Theatre (Controlled Damage, Grand Ghosts, Every Brilliant Thing, The Wars, Silence); Soulpepper (What The Constitution Means To Me, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, Betrayal); Thousand Islands Playhouse (Sequence, Mary's Wedding); VideoCabaret (The Cold War, Confederation & Riel). Recordings: Music available on iTunes, Spotify, etc. as Richard Feren; The Haunted Palace; Crimescene. Film/TV: Features: Carmen; It's Hard to be Human; The Anniversary; Burning, Burning; A Trip to the Island; Past Perfect. Numerous short films, including the Stratford-produced The Understudy. Awards: 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, seven Dora Awards, shortlisted for 2012 Siminovitch Prize. Online: haemorrhage-music.com.
2025: Assistant set and costume designer of Dangerous Liaisons. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Assistant set designer for Measure for Measure and Comedy of Errors (Bard on the Beach). Assistant set and costume designer for the 60th and 61st seasons at the Shaw Festival. Set and costume designer for Shawgrounds (Shaw Festival); Keepers of the Salish Sea (The Cultch). Set designer for Ghost Train (Mortal Coil at Stanley Park); 9 to 5: The Musical. Film/TV: Scenic painter for Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix). Art Director for Goldteeth (Crazy8s). Training: MFA in Theatre from University of British Columbia. Awards: Best Production Design - The POV Film Festival, Emerging Artist Award - Prague Quadrennial. Online: emilydotson.design. Et cetera: Thank you to my husband, Matt.
2025: Assistant lighting designer of Annie, Sense and Sensibility and Dangerous Liaisons. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant lighting designer of Something Rotten!, Romeo and Juliet, London Assurance, Rent, Much Ado About Nothing, Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago, Hamlet and The Miser. Elsewhere: Lighting design: Alkebulan: A Musical African Tale (Batuki Music Society); Merchant of Venice, Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare BASH'd); Legally Blonde, London Road (MacEwan); La Bohème, Is He Dead?, Almost Maine, The Underpants, Stupid F***ing Bird, (University of Wisconsin); The Drawer Boy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Three Sisters (University of Windsor). Associate lighting designer: The Mars Project (FFDN); 1939 (Canadian Stage), FRONTIERS & WATER SPIRIT (Lua Shayenne Dance Company); Maggie (The Savoy). Assistant lighting designer: My Name is Lucy Barton (Canadian Stage); Nutcracker and Fall for Dance North (2024, 2023). Training: MFA Theatre - Lighting Design (University of Wisconsin); BA(H): Drama (University of Windsor).
2025: Stage manager of Dangerous Liaisons. 29th season. Stratford: The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Casey and Diana, All's Well That Ends Well, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tempest starring Christopher Plummer, The Duchess of Malfi, The Swanne Trilogy. Elsewhere: Casey and Diana (Theatre Aquarius/RMTC); A Christmas Story, the Musical (Theatre Aquarius); Casey and Diana (Soulpepper); Angels in America (That Theatre Co./Buddies); Fall On Your Knees (Canadian Stage, Neptune, NAC, Grand); Heisenberg, Liv Stein (Canadian Stage); Constellations (Centaur/Canadian Stage); Body Politic (Buddies); The Death of the King (Modern Times); The Winter's Tale (Groundling); Bombay Black (Factory); Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary (Pleiades); Saint Carmen of The Main (NAC/Canadian Stage); Mother Courage and Her Children (NAC/MTC); Real Live Girl (RMTC); Fully Committed, Silence, Einstein's Gift (Grand); Wit (Centaur); Hamlet (Neptune).
2025: Assistant stage manager of Sense and Sensibility and Dangerous Liaisons. Fifth season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager of Cymbeline, Hedda Gabler, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, Langham Directors' Workshop Presentation (2023, 2024). Apprentice stage manager of All's Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Elsewhere: Stage manager of Adam's Unplugged Puppet Party (The Pucking Fuppets Co.); The '94 Club (Crave Productions); Folks Like Us (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Assistant stage manager of La Bête and The Other Place (Talk Is Free Theatre). Apprentice stage manager of Light (Tarragon Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Sudbury Theatre Center); Come Down From Up River (Theatre Orangeville); Driving Miss Daisy (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Training: BFA with Honours in Performance Production and Design, TMU. Awards: Karen P. Hay Award, 2023; Jean A. Chalmers Apprentice Achievement Award, 2022.
2025: Assistant stage manager of Annie and Dangerous Liaisons. Fourth season. Stratford: Assistant stage manager: Something Rotten!, London Assurance, Rent, Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago and Hamlet. Elsewhere: Before coming to Stratford, Tiffany was an assistant stage manager with the Canadian Opera Company for 20 seasons working on shows such as Aida, Turandot, Elektra, Götterdämmerung, Siegfried, Louis Riel, Falstaff, Don Giovanni, La Bohème, Rigoletto, La Clemenza di Tito, Die Fledermaus, L'Amour de Loin, A Florentine Tragedy, Gianna Schicchi, Death in Venice, Iphigénie en Tauride and more. Tiffany also stage managed at Opera Hamilton working on Barber of Seville and The Pearl Fishers. Tiffany has worked with The National Ballet of Canada in past seasons on shows such as Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Swan Lake and Innovation. Tiffany's most favourite job though is being Mom to her three girls: Kennedy, McKinley and Reagan.
2025: Assistant stage manager of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Dangerous Liaisons. Second season. Stratford: Something Rotten! Elsewhere: Selected credits include Gypsy, A Grand Night for Singing, Gem of the Ocean, Just to Get Married, Cyrano de Bergerac, Desire Under the Elms, Trouble in Mind, Shawground, Fairground, Gatsby's Jazz, Sonny's Blues, Getting Married, Mythos, The Magician's Nephew, Wilde Tales, 1979, Sweeney Todd, The Next Whisky Bar, Top Girls, Our Town, Peter and the Starcatcher (Shaw Festival); Little Red Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions); 1979 (1979 Productions); A Christmas Carol (Soulpepper); Armide, Persée (Opera Atelier, Royal Opera House of Versailles); Abduction from the Seraglio (Opera Atelier); Educating Rita, She Loves Me (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Blue/Orange, The Winter Wonderettes (Theatre Kingston). Training: B.A.H., B.Ed (Queen's University).
2025: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre. 11th season. Stratford: Production stage manager of the Festival Theatre ('23, '24). Assistant stage manager of Chicago, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, Romeo and Juliet, A Chorus Line, As You Like It, Hamlet, The Sound of Music, Crazy for You and Fiddler on the Roof. Elsewhere: Come From Away (Rubinoff/ACC); Tell Tale Harbour, Anne of Green Gables - The Musical (Charlottetown Festival); The Hockey Sweater (Segal Centre/NAC); The Candidate (Citadel Theatre); Hamlet (Perchance Theatre); Into the Woods (Opera on the Avalon); Glenn (Soulpepper); The Mill, parts 1 to 4 (Theatrefront); Peter and the Starcatcher, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Western Canada Theatre); It's a Wonderful Life, The Rocky Horror Show (Theatre New Brunswick); Shakespeare in Love, Happy Days (Neptune Theatre); Generous (Tarragon Theatre).
FESTIVAL THEATRE To find out more about all our theatres, please visit the Theatre Maps & Guides page.
Need Help?
Box Office hours
Ticketing FAQs Visit FAQs Membership FAQsCare Commitment