ADJUDICATOR
Edward Daranyi
Stratford Shakespeare Festival - Resident Teaching Artist. Edward has recently returned from El Salvador after
creating and directing Voces de los Cerros a collectively written new work for Es Artes theatre in conjunction with
the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and CUSO-VSO. In his past 12 seasons at Stratford, Edward has served as
Assistant Director of West Side Story, Oklahoma!, A Delicate Balance. Oliver!, Ghosts, The Lark, Quiet in the
Land, The Count of Monte Cristo, King Henry VIII and Associate Director of The Donnellys: Sticks & Stones.
Acting credits include roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Bent, Our Country’s Good,
God Say Amen, Goodnight Desdemona-Good Morning Juliet, The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Girls in the Gang, and West Side Story. Other directing credits include Sonno Nocturno, Romeo and Juliet,
(Shakespeare Link Canada; Julius Caesar, (Quiverstick Prod. Canada/Wales); Noye’s Fludde (CBC); Dance of
Death; Weird Kid; Nightlight; Sometimes…(In The Blink Productions); Nunsense, Baby, Six for Song, Little
Shop of Horrors, On Golden Pond and On the Fourth (SummerStage Theatre, Boulder, Colorado). Edward recently
co-created a landmark multi-disciplined adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet in
Mozambique with Shakespeare Link Canada and Montes Numuli. Edward is a BFA acting graduate of the
University of Windsor and has taught acting at the University of Guelph, Michigan State University, and the
National Theatre School of Canada he has taught Shakespeare workshops for Humber College, George Brown
College, The Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Cawthra Park School for the Arts and the National Ballet School of
Canada. His production company, In the Blink, produces youth-oriented theatre in the Toronto area and he regularly
voices characters for the TVO/Treehouse series Mighty Machines.
WORKSHOPS
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Lally Cadeau
10th season: Abbess in The Three Musketeers and appears in The Merchant of Venice. Stratford: Filumena
(Filumena), Juno Boyle (Juno and the Paycock), Jean Brodie (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), The Woman (The
Human Voice), Mrs. Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Ruth Draper (a compilation), Maxine (The Night of the Iguana),
Big Mama (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). Elsewhere: Citadel Theatre: Dotty (Noises Off), Mrs. Bennet (Pride and
Prejudice), Sister Aloysius (Doubt). Canadian Stage: Eduardo’s Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Dora Award); Rose
(Rose) (Dora Award). Film and TV: Harvest (DuMaurier ACTRA Best Newcomer to Television), You’ve Come a
Long Way, Katie (ACTRA, Gemini), Aunt Janet (Road to Avonlea) (ACTRA). Seven seasons as Kate Brown in
Hangin’ In, and many pleasant years in the world of radio commercials and drama. She’s very happy to be a part of
the 2013 season.
AUDITIONING WITH DEAN GABOURIE
Dean Gabourie
10th season: Director of The Thrill. Stratford: Associate Artistic Director, 2011 to 2012, Assistant Artistic
Director, 2008 to 2011. Director: The Best Brothers, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Bereav’d of Light. Assistant
director: Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Coriolanus, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth.
Elsewhere: Artistic Director of the Dora Award-winning ACME Theatre Co., Associate Artistic Director of The
Co., 2000 to 2005. Mr. Gabourie has been creating challenging Canadian theatre for over two decades and is a
sought-after director, dramaturge, teacher and coach. Training: Ryerson Theatre School. Awards: Ryerson Theatre
School Chairman’s Award; Dora Award (Saved); Tyrone Guthrie/Jean Gascon Director’s Award, 2001. Online:
www.acmetheatreco.com. Et cetera: Dean lives in Stratford with his wife, award-winning photo illustrator Marcelle
Faucher.
VOICE WITH ANN SKINNER
Ann Skinner
16th season: Head of voice emerita; voice and text coach. Stratford: Ann has had a long and unique association
with the Festival. In the early years, she worked in props, wigs and stage management. Later she was, for eight
years, head of voice at the Festival. Elsewhere: She began her journey with the voice in 1975, studying in New
York with the renowned Kristen Linklater. Many years later, she is now recognized as one of this country’s founders
of Canadian voice training, having been head of voice at George Brown College and the National Theatre School.
Subsequently, Ann went on to create, with Jungian analyst Marion Woodman and movement specialist Mary
Hamilton, BodySoul Rhythms – a program taken around the world. During that time she continued to teach
masterclasses at the Festival. Website: stratfordshakespearefestival.com/festivalcourses.
STAGE COMBAT WITH JOHN STEAD
John Stead
20th season: Head of Stage Combat for the Stratford Festival. Fight director of Romeo and Juliet and The Three
Musketeers. Elsewhere: Fight direction credits across North America, including the Shaw, Soulpepper, Canadian
Stage, National Ballet, Mirvish, Tarragon, MTC, NAC, Studio Arena, Geva, Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre (D.C.),
Chicago Shakespeare, Ahmanson, Lincoln Center. Film/TV: Stunt performance and coordination for over 100
productions. As director: TV series Lost Girl, End Game, The Hot Flash, XIII, The Dresden Files, Mutant X,
Tracker, Earth: Final Conflict, The Adventures of Sinbad; feature films Good Morning Tomorrow, Troubled Waters,
Cyborg Soldier, The Waking, Charon’s Obol. Teaching: Universities of Toronto, Waterloo, Saskatchewan; Humber
College; Wilfrid Laurier University. Awards: Derek F. Mitchell Artistic Director’s Award, Tyrone Guthrie Award
(Stratford Festival); numerous film festival awards. Et cetera: Master instructor with the Academy of Dramatic
Combat; member of the Society of Canadian Fight Directors.
TEXT ANALYSIS WITH SUZANNE TURNBULL
Suzanne Turnbull
Stratford: Worked in various capacities such as dramaturge, text and understudy coach, researcher and assistant
director. Elsewhere: Suzanne directed My Little Butterball, which toured Windsor schools for the Windsor Feminist
Theatre. Was a co-director of Kam Theatre, Kaleidoscope’s theatre school director and University of Western
Ontario director-in-residence. Participated in two NAC Ark workshops. Suzanne was choral director for James
Reaney’s Sticks & Stones and The St. Nicholas Hotel (Banff). More than 30 directing credits include Goodbye My
Fancy, The Madras House, Albertine in Five Times, Henry IV, Macbeth, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Fighting
Days and Les Belles-Soeurs. Teaching: Western, Windsor and Lakehead universities; George Brown, Humber and
St. Clair colleges; Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction; and the Birmingham Conservatory for
Classical Theatre. Training: University of Alberta (BFA acting).
MASK-MAKING
Heather Ruthig
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Heather is a graduate from the University of Guelph ('94) with a major in Fine Arts. She has had a varied career in
Arts and Design and since then, has worked in the fast paced and magical world of theatre. As a prop builder she has
created things such as masks, sculptures and furnishings. Heather enjoys creating art in many media including
fabric, metal, plasticine and paints. Her inspiration for her personal art, paintings and sculptures, are from the natural
world and art history .Heather lives in the small town of St. Mary's with her husband and two daughters.
DIRECTING
Roger Shank
Co-Director of the Grey-Bruce Arts Collective. Roger has 20 years of experience as an actor, director, and teacher in
theatre, film and TV. He was a recipient of a CAN-PRO award for best half hour TV Drama
CLOWNING
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CREATIVE MOVEMENT FOR THE ACTOR
Deanne Bingleman & Melanie April Fries
Deanne Bingleman has danced and created dance longer than she has memories. Dance has been what she’s needed
to & loves to do. Dee has explored tap, various jazz forms, ballet & contemporary techniques over the years and
graduated with a B.A. in Dance from the University of Waterloo in 1995. In 1998 she received a Leading Edge K-W
Arts Award for her contributions to the K-W dance community. She currently teaches and choreographs for
Contemporary Steps Dance Academy in Goderich and choreographs and is slowly taking over as Artistic Director
for the K-W Children’s Drama Workshop. Dee is happily joining the staff at Renaissance School of the Arts in
September 2008 where she can once again give back to the K-W community. Dee has enjoyed many years of
participation in local and area festivals, creating dance shows for Rogers Cable and performing on Breakfast
Television and the 8:08 Dance Series in Toronto.
Dee teaches more now and formally performs less; she likes to think of it as moving on to a different stage and her
students are her audience with whom she shares her passions. Children to adults alike, it is her life mission to bring
dance to as many people as she can, in as many nooks and crannies as she can find. She believes everyone can learn
to dance. We might not all be Karen Kains or Fred Astaires, but we most certainly can learn to dance and learn to
tap into a love of movement. Dee aims to inspire all of her students and hopes it is as rewarding for them to
incorporate dance in their lives as it is for her to teach it.
Being a mother of three young boys has changed her life, as they constantly remind her of the awe and wonderment
of life! It has been the most delightful challenge.
Keep playing, dreaming, creating, having fun, follow your heart and NEVER STOP MOVING!!!!
BROADWAY JAZZ/HIP HOP 101
Deanne Bingleman & Melanie April Fries
Melanie April Fries has trained in Ballet, Modern Dance, National Character Dance and Jazz. Her early years were
spent at the Harriston School of Dance with Wendy W. Vernon as her instructor. During her teens, Melanie realized
that dance was her passion and began taking additional classes outside her small hometown. For this, her dedicated
mom took her to the KW area for weekly classes.
Her other training has included summer intensives with some of the industry’s best at studio Tanesek in Montreal.
There, she received instruction in Modern Dance from Cirque de Soleil choreographer Michael Montanero, and
Jean-Louis Moren, former principal dancer and choreographer with the Martha Graham Dance Company.
She attained an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the University of Waterloo . Melanie also directs her own
studio, Contemporary Steps, in Goderich. She aims for each class she teaches to be inspiring and rewarding, both
fun and challenging to recreational students and those students interested in making dance an integral part of their
lives and future.
MUSICAL THEATRE
David Hogan & David Rogers
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Hogan and Rogers are both veterans of the stage and for the past three years, have produced and directed the
Starbright Summer Festival at the Imperial Theatre in Sarnia. Rogers continues to entertain audiences on stage with
his incredible vocal talents and his genius in writing and producing shows is second to none, she said. Hogan spends
his time behind the scenes, on the heels of a successful career as an actor and dancer in Stratford, Charlottetown, and
the Shaw Festival, she said. "Both Davids are loved and respected across the industry and bring significant
experience to VPP," said Richard Poore, director of performing arts for Petrolia. "Victoria Playhouse Petrolia and
our audiences will most certainly benefit from their expertise, contacts and creativity." Rogers performed in the
record-setting Toronto production and tour of The Phantom of the Opera, playing both the Phantom and Raoul, and
has been performing in and directing Starbright shows since its inception. Rogers has starred in many other
productions and has performed as a soloist with the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Edmonton, Florida and more.
Hogan has worked as a Stratford Shakespeare Festival actor and producer and also performed and danced in
productions in Charlottetown and at the Shaw Festival.
TECHNICAL DIRECTION
DAVID CAMPBELL
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David currently serves as the Assistant Technical Director of the Stratford Festival.
DESIGN
John Colm Leberg
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