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David is currently enjoying his 22nd season as Artistic Director of Theatre Orangeville, where he has directed more than 80 plays and musicals. Each of those seasons has included at least one “Foster” in the playbill, many of which were world premiere productions. Among those many...
Mairi is so thrilled to be at the Foster Festival! The first time she was ever paid to do theatre she played Loretta in The Melville Boys at UVic's Phoenix Summer Theatre. Since then she has been fortunate to play more of Norm's fabulous women: Julia/Jessica...
Ellen Denny (she/her) is a Toronto-based actor and playwright. She has performed across Canada with companies including NAC English Theatre, Mirvish, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Citadel, Drayton, Grand Theatre and the Segal Centre. She received a Dora nomination for playing Alice in 'Life After' (Musical Stage /...
Select theatre credits include: Kinky Boots (Mirvish) Rock of Ages (Stage West) Only In Vegas (Mayfield Theatre) Handel’s Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise (Living Arts Centre) Joy In The Morning (Queen Elizabeth Theatre). After graduating from Humber College’s Acting for Film program, Andre went on to earn...
Patricia is thrilled to be appearing in the role of Millicent in 1812, her Foster Festival debut. No stranger to Norm’s work, Patricia has performed his Sinners (Theatre Aquarius), Office Hours (Aquarius/The River Run Centre), Small Time (Theatre on the Grand), Self Help (Aquarius/Stage West),...
Jon-Alex is honoured to join The Foster Festival’s workshop of 1812, having also performed in both Race Day and Last Resort (twice!). He has been a member of 5 productions of Once the Musical (Bank Manager), including Mirvish’s Dora Award winning Canadian cast, 1st U.S....
Jacob is an actor, director, drama professor and creator of the YouTube channel Theatre Curation Project. SELECTED THEATRE: He has spent seven seasons with The Stratford Festival Five seasons with Drayton Entertainment Five seasons with Videocabaret (Dora awards) Five seasons with The Thousand Islands Playhouse ...
SELECTED THEATRE: Multiple award winning actor/playwright/director Andrew Moodie has performed in productions all across the country. Macbeth (Stratford) Hamlet (Soulpepper) Race (Ground Zero) Othello (Shakespeare in the Rough, Dora Award Nomination) Master Harold and the Boys (Prairie Theatre Exchange) Thirsty (National Arts Centre) ...
SELECTED THEATRE: 35 productions over 19 seasons at the Shaw Festival (1993-2013) Stratford Festival (Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, Comedy of Errors, Misanthrope) Canadian Stage Company (The Dresser, Toad of Toad Hall) Citadel Theatre (Noises Off) Theatre Plus Vancouver Playhouse Manitoba Theatre Centre Western Canada...
For Foster Festival: The Christmas Tree (reading). Patrick has been working as an actor for the last 30 years, or so. He spent 11 seasons at the Shaw Festival. Some of his favourites there include: Dunois in St Joan, Henry Higgins in Pygmalion Bernard in Arcadia Astrov in...
