BIO FOR JORDAN MERKUR

Jordan Merkur (Director, The Glass Menagerie, The Melville Boys) Jordan Merkur has been the Artistic Director of The Red Barn Theatre for eight seasons.  He has directed the Red Barn productions of More Broadway Treasures, Same Time, Next Year, The Dishwashers, Fallen Angels, Broadway Treasures, Lend Me a Tenor, The Long Weekend, Goodbye Piccadilly, Jasper Station, Weekend Comedy, The Love List, Having Hope at Home, The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Last Resort, Private Lives, Over the River and Through the Woods, The Foursome, and Sophie Tucker: Last Of the Red Hot Mamas.

Jordan is also the Artistic Director of Eclectic Theatre in Toronto and has directed all 22 productions and co-productions, including Assassins, My Mother Said I Never Should, Passion (with Canadian Stage/Tapestry Music Theatre), Bent, Chutzpah a go-go, ‘Night Mother (with Artword Theatre), Walking The Dead, Creeps, Reckless, Fortune and Men’s Eyes, Hello Goodbye and Bloody Poetry.  Eclectic Theatre has received 13 Dora nominations and 6 Dora Awards.

Other directorial credits include, Warm Wind in China (The Grand Theatre), Bitter Friends (Leah Posluns Theatre), Lost in Yonkers (Stage West Calgary/Edmonton), Cruisin’ (Winter Garden Theatre/Fruit Cocktail), The Farm Show (Muskoka Festival), A Rare Day in June (Rare Day Projects), Affections of May (Kawartha Summer Festival) and Corpse! (Theatre Brockville).  Jordan served as an assistant director at The Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Hartford Stage and Manhattan Theatre Club and won a Dora Award for Assassins.

ACTORS BIOS

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

BIO FOR FIONA REID

Fiona is the winner of two Dora Mavor Awards; a Jessie Award; the Barbara Hamiltion Award; Member of the Order of Canada; Honorary Doctorate, Bishop’s University. Fiona has performed in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Seagull, Tonight (Neptune); The Music Man, A Delicate Balance (Stratford); The Constant Wife (MTC, Citadel); Private Lives, Cavalcade, Hedda Gabler, Hayfever (Shaw); The Clean House, The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Three Tall Women (Citadel), Sweeney Todd, Six Degrees of Separation, Hayfever, (Canstage); The Importance of Being Earnest (Huntington, Grand, Citadel); Three Tall Woman (Citadel); Humble Boy (Vancouver Playhouse, Tarragon), A Streetcar Named Desire, Blithe Spirit (Soulpepper). Film and television credits include, The Time Travelers Wife, Rent a Goalie, The King of Kensington, My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

BIO FOR JONATHAN CROMBIE

Theatre credits include: The Drowsy Chaperone (Marquis, U.S. National Tour, Winter Garden); Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion, The Dishwashers (Tarragon); Ouch My Toe (Toronto Fringe);
This Could Be Love (Artword); Last Romantics (Necessary Angel); Arcadia (Canstage); Romeo & Juliet, Oedipus Rex, As You Like It, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors (Stratford Festival); Godspell
(New Vic); Parcel From Haifa (Flatzbo Prod.). Film/TV includes: Empty Room, The Jane Show, Slings & Arrows, Good Fight, Cafe Romeo, Mount Royal, Bullies, Anne of Green Gables (1, 2 & 3). Jon is a member of the sketch troupe Skippy’s Rangers. He is co-director (with John Mitchell) of the upcoming documentary “Waiting For Ishtar”.

BIO FOR MICHELLE MONTEITH

Recent credits: Ubuntu  (Tarragon, Neptune, Theatrefront), Romeo & Juliet, Caesar & Cleopatra, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Stratford); The Russian Play, Dora Nomination Best Actress (Factory, Summerworks, Harbourfront, Magnetic North); Revisited (co-creator/performer) Canadian tour, Germany, Best Actress, Best Play Nominations, Best Production Award; Crave (Nightwood);  Leo (GCTC); Generous (Tarragon); Billy Nothin’ (Theatre SKAM); Chekhov Longs…In the Ravine (Factory, NAC, Shanghai); The Diary of Anne Frank, Merritt Nomination Best Actress (Neptune); Hamlet, After the Orchard (NAC); The Glass Menagerie, MECCA Award Best Actress (Saidye Bronfman, CanStage); Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, As You Like It (Resurgence). Michelle was named the number one actor in Toronto by Now Magazine for 2007. Film/TV/Voice credits include: Pearlie, Scaredy Squirrel, Ruby Gloom, Braceface (Nelvana); Death and the Maiden (CBC); Tomorrow (Streel Films); MVP (CBC).

BIO FOR BRENDAN MURRAY

Most recently, Brendan appeared in Doubt (Globe Theatre). Other credits: The Woman in White (Theatre Aquarius); Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) in Munich, Germany; A Christmas Carol (Globe); Salt-Water Moon (Charlottetown Festival); Lucy, Twelfth Night (CanStage); Descent (Theatre Passe Muraille); Much Ado About Nothing, Comedy of Errors (Theatre By The Bay); Relatively Speaking, Proof, Macbeth (Grand Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Centaur Theatre); Macbeth (Modern Times); Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Arts Centre); Measure for Measure, Blue/Orange (Citadel Theatre); Goodnight Disgrace (Postscript Productions); Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VI, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Inherit the Wind (Stratford Festival). Brendan trained at George Brown Theatre School as well as the Stratford Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training.

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THE MELVILLE BOYS

BIO FOR JASON JAZRAWY

Jason is thrilled to be back at the Barn, having appeared in The Dishwashers and Weekend Comedy.  A graduate of York University, Jason has worked extensively in Ontario and other parts of Canada.  Selected credits: Khalida, Outstanding Performance, (Summerworks), Conservatives in Love (New Stages), Helen’s Necklace (Great Canadian Theatre Co.), Orpheus Descending (Manitoba Theatre Centre, Royal Alexandra), Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre By The Bay), Remnants (Tarragon), Vinci (Theatre New Brunswick), Merlin (Lorraine Kimsa), Peter Pan and Six Characters in Search of an Author (Shaw).  Jason has performed in Toronto’s Fringe, Summerworks and Rhubarb festivals, including writing, producing and acting in the one-man show, Joint Account (Fringe).  Film and television credits: Lakeboat, 54, Mutant X, Missing, Path to 9/11 and The Border, and recently appeared as the guy who gets his sleeve caught in a machine in a WSIB commercial.

BIO FOR CAROLYNE MARAGHI

Carolyne graduated from the ‘Theatre Performance’ BFA program at Concordia University.  Recent credits: Jeannie in Ossington Theatre’s Staged Workshop production of Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig, and as Paula in Factory Theatre’s Dora-nominated production of The Leisure Society. Other credits: Art is a Cupboard (Sweat Company Fringe), and You Can’t Take It With You and Romantic Comedy (Burr Center For The Arts). Film and television credits: The Unit, Mysterious Ways,  Dark Angel, Harbour Road, and the upcoming web series The Penumbra. Carolyne is also an accomplished musician, the trumpet being her instrument. She has performed in several jazz, funk and R&B bands in Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Singapore, and has recorded five albums with different groups. Carolyne is pleased to make her debut with Red Barn Theatre in The Melville Boys.

BIO FOR DEREK MORAN

Derek is very happy to be making his Red Barn Theatre debut as Owen in The Melville Boys.  Previous theatre credits include: The Miser, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, New Canadian Kid (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Wake (2008 Toronto Fringe). Film/TV: October 1970, Murdoch Mysteries, Life With Derek, The Best Years. He would like to thank those who got him up for work on early days to go to work.

BIO FOR ROBIN SCHISLER

Selected Theatre Credits - Go Forth and Multiply (SummerWorks), The Dispute (Toronto Fringe), A Christmas Story (Theatre Orangeville), Noises Off (Theatre Aquarius), Anne (Theatre Orangeville, Magnus), Too Many Cooks (Lighthouse Festival), Salt Water Moon (Bluewater Playhouse), Book of Days (Theatremanation - Dora Nomination), Last of The Red Hot Lovers (Victoria Playhouse), Relatively Speaking (Theatre In Port), The Lion In Winter (Theatre & Company). Selected Film and Television - Celine (CBC), May Day (Discovery Network), The 11th Hour (CTV)

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THE FANTASTICKS

BIO FOR STEWART ARNOTT

Stewart last appeared at the Red Barn in the 1982 season, where he played the title role in The Elephant Man and Bellamy in The Fantastiks.  He’s very happy to be back and far more age-appropriate this time around! Recent credits in Toronto include lady in the red dress (fu-GEN Theatre), Waiting for Godot (Modern Times), The Man in the premiere of Brendan Gall’s The Card Trick (The Gladstone Variations), and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre).  Recent television and film appearances have included Leslie, My Name is Evil, Regenesis, and Love, Sex and Eating the Bones.  In April, Stewart directed the premiere of Paula Wing’s Pobby & Dingan on the mainstage at LKTYP. Stewart is also a teacher and a coach.

BIO FOR JONATHAN ELLUL

Jonathan is proud to return to The Red Barn Theatre in this production of The Fantastiks. Some recent work includes: Bob Crachit in A Christmas Carol, (Theatre Orangeville); Ali Hakim in Oklahoma!, (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) where he also appeared in King Lear; Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha, (Stirling Festival Theatre); Weenie in Aladdin the Family Musical Canadian Tour (Ross Petty Productions); and Le Fou in Beauty and the Beast, (Globe Theatre Regina). Mr. Ellul appears in numerous television commercials. This one is for my wife Amélie

BIO FOR DAVID GALE

For the Red Barn Gale has directed/choreographed Dads: The Musical and starred with Randy Vancourt in their musical Gilbert & Glick: Sell Out! Gale and Vancourt’s musical Chutzpah a go-go recently had its U.S. premiere in St. Paul, Minnesota directed/choreographed by Gale. Favourite acting for the stage: Love and Human Remains, Hot Flashes and Forever For Now. TV gigs: The Tournament, Puppets Who Kill  and  The Newsroom. Gale is best know as the multiple award-winning television host of Loving Spoonfuls.

BIO FOR KATIE EDWARDS

Katie is very excited to be making her Red Barn debut.  She is a 2008 graduate of Sheridan College’s Music Theatre - Performance Program.  Upon graduation, Katie was honoured with the Jo Havilland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting in the 2007/08 Theatre Sheridan Season.  Recent credits include: Oliver! (Theatre Aquarius, Drayton Entertainment), Penny in Honk! Jr. (Theatre Aquarius), Little Sally in Urinetown (Theatre Sheridan), June in Gypsy (Theatre Sheridan) and Meredith in Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Sheridan Studio Theatre).  Katie couldn’t be happier to be working with such an incredible group of people.

BIO FOR TIM KOETTING

Tim is very happy to be making his Red Barn debut in one of his favourite musicals. Years ago he had the pleasure of playing El Gallo in a production at the Sudbury Theatre Centre.  Tim’s career has taken him from coast to coast and most provinces in between.  Favourite productions include, Glenn, Urinetown, Boy Gets Girl (Calgary), Trying and Pride and Prejudice (Edmonton), Anne of Green Gables (Regina). He has also spent three seasons at the Stratford Festival. His film and television credits include, Open Range, Shanghai Noon, Monte Walsh, The Claim, Comeback Season, Due South, Street Legal, and Moonstruck

BIO FOR CAMERON MACDUFFEE

Cameron has always wanted to play the role of El Gallo. He is very grateful for this, and that it is here at The Red Barn where he had so fun doing More Broadway Treasures last summer. He just came from playing another role he has always wanted to do, Fagan in Oliver, which he did for Drayton Entertainment. A summer of firsts. Yet another first that he is excited about is that the band he is in, The Done Me Wrongs, are releasing their first studio album this summer. You could be the first one to buy it. Much gratitude and love to Karen, the first woman he has ever wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

BIO FOR LEORA MORRIS

Leora is a recent graduate of George Brown Theatre School and is a McGill University alumnus.  Favourite past roles include Miss Hoyden’s Nurse in The Relapse, Queen Victoria, Widow in Women Beware Women, Peggy Hesslerigge in Pinero’s The Schoolmistress, Jill in Equus (McGill), Meg in A Lie of the Mind (McGill), and Tillie in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (McGill).  Leora has extensive dance training, and hopes to pursue this in the professional world, along with her passion for choreography, directing, and dramaturgy.

BIO FOR EVAN SMITH

Evan is excited to make his Red Barn debut. Evan is a classically trained actor, and 2009 Graduate of The George Brown Theatre School. At George Brown: Women Beware Women (Leantio) South of China (Cecil), Laius (Amphion), The Relapse (Young Fashion), and The Baker’s Wife (Dominique). Elsewhere: West Side Story (Tony), Evita (Che), Domestic (The Salesman, ‘Patrons Pick’ Toronto Fringe), Ragtime (Younger Brother), Les Miserables (Marius), and Bully (Carter).

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HARVEST

BIO FOR ROBIN CRAIG

Robin Craig has been performing professionally for over thirty years. She is most recognized for her role as Toppy Bailey on Wind at My Back for which she won a Gemini Award in 1998. Credits include: Rachel Lynde (Charlottetown Festival); Tons of Money, The Suicide, Camille, Fanny’s First Play, See How They Run, Getting Married, Peter Pan, War and Peace, The Women and Cavalcade (Shaw); Having Hope at Home (Chemainus, Aquarius); Anne and Gilbert (Jubilee Theatre); Come Blow your Horn (Aquarius) and The Power of Three - the inaugural film for PO3 Productions in London, England. She, along with Nancy White and Gay Claitman (the writers) won an Actra Award for Lies My Mother Told Me (CBC Radio). She is also a three time Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee. She is an accomplished singer and is a familiar voice on CBC Drama productions and has recorded for Between the Covers. She is married to playwright David S. Craig and is the proud mother of Andrew and Lorna.

BIO FOR PATRIC MASURKEVITCH

Twenty six years, over 100 productions, original wife, two children and a skinny pig named Goggles.  It’s a good life.  Patric was last seen at the Red Barn in The Foursome.   Favorite theatre credits include: Rosencrantz and Guildinstiern Are Dead, Stones in His Pockets, Having Hope at Home, The Tempest, Fiddler on the Roof, Westside Story, Art, and many seasons at the Lighthouse Festival and Shaw Festival.  Various film and TV credits have helped to pay the mortgage.  We are the guardians of the world for the next generation.

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DIRECTORS

SUE MINER, Director The Fantasticks

Sue is both a freelance director and co-artistic director of Pea Green Theatre Group with her husband Mark Brownell. Her work with Pea Green includes: The Barbeque King, Conservatives in Love, Medici Slot Machine, Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman, Playballs, The Blue Wall and Orchidelerium. Recent credits: Orphea and the Golden Harp (Jeunesses Musicales/ Theatre Cotton Robes) I Love You Forever and More Munsch (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People) Celine Speaks (Fringe of Toronto), and Sexy Laundry (Theatre Aquarius).

Sue has garnered several Dora nominations, been thrice nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award for body of work in directing and has been twice touted as one of Toronto’s Top-10 theatre artists by NOW Magazine. Her production of Love You Forever and More Munsch for Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, which she also co-adapted, garnered a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Production. Sue also teaches at Sheridan College’s Music Theatre Dept. and the George Brown Theatre School.

ROBERT MORE, Director Harvest

As an actor, Robert has performed across the country, and was at the National Arts Centre and Stratford for six years as well as a member of the Grand Company with Robin Phillips in 1983-84.  He has had more than 60 professional productions of his plays. Dads! The Musical was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in Toronto, and won the prestigious Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival.  Dads 2: The Toddlers’ Revenge, premiered at Waterloo Stage in April 2004, went on to The Mayfield Theatre in Edmonton, and The Thousands Playhouse in Gananoque. His newest comedy, A Matter Of Time (Theatre Orangeville October 2004), was produced by Theatre Magnus (November 2008), and Oil Rush (co-written with composer Jacqueline Sadler), a new musical to celebrate the Oil Heritage of Petrolia and the surrounding area, played to rave reviews at Victoria Playhouse in 2008. Robert was Artistic Director of Lighthouse Festival Theatre for ten years (1994-2004) and is in his sixth year as Managing & Artistic Director of Victoria Playhouse Petrolia. He wishes to say “thanks for everything” to Wendy and to his four daughters who range in age from sixteen to twenty-six. In his spare time (ho! ho!), he continues to write.

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CREATIVE TEAM

ALEX AMINI — Costume Designer

Alex is very happy to be part of the 60th Anniversary celebrations for the Red Barn. Alex designs over 70 shows each year, costuming many theatre groups across the GTA, as well as at the Rose Theatre Brampton, The Capitol Theatre Port Hope, Port Stanley Festival Theatre, and Upper Canada Playhouse in Morrisburg. As always, thanks to Carmen, for saving my life. Frankly my dear, I’ll miss the bats.

KAREN BAYER — Lighting Designer

This is Karen’s sixth season as Resident Lighting Designer. Her design work has been seen from Whitehorse to Charlottetown. Some of her favourite designs for the Red Barn include The Dishwashers, Love List, Having Hope at Home and Goodbye Piccadilly. Other designs include Bedtime Stories, A Christmas Carol (Lighthouse Festival
Theatre), Psychobabble (Silhouettes), Joseph Andrews (Studio 256), Last House (Dorothy Said Theatre!), the world premieres of Race Day, Jasper Station and The Edible Woman (Theatre on the Grand) and four Grand Night for Stratford galas (Stratford Festival Company).

ERIN BIRKENBERGS  - Props Coordinator

Erin Birkenbergs is fresh out of university, having just graduated from York with a BFA in Theatre Production and Design.  Raised in Mississauga, she now lives in downtown Toronto and is pursuing her career in theatre.  Past credits include: Assistant Head of Props - Les Belles-Soeurs (Theatre@York); Technical Director - playGround Festival 2008 (Theatre@York); Production Assistant - Dream in High Park (Canadian Stage Company).  Erin would like to thank her family for their unconditional love and support.

ANDREW DOLLAR — Stage Manager, The Glass Menagerie & The Fantasticks

Over seven seasons at The Red Barn, Andrew has stage managed, More Broadway Treasures, The Dishwashers, The Long Weekend, Lend Me A Tenor, The Love List, Goodbye Piccadilly, Weekend Comedy, Private Lives, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Foursome, Over the River and Through the Woods and Sophie Tucker: Last of the Red Hot Mamas. A few of Andrew’s other stage management credits include Canadian Pacific Scandals and The Saskatewan Rebelion with Video Cabaret, Enock
Arden at the Theatre Centre, The Trials of John Demjamjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret with Theatre Asylum, Macbeth at the Fadjr International Theatre Festival in Tiran, Iran with Modern Times Stage Co., The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux at the Blyth Festival and The Drowsy Chaperone at Theatre Passe Muraille with Best Man Productions and Mirvish Productions. Before that he could be found at The Second City Toronto where he stage managed four Mainstage shows.

WILLIAM CHESNEY – Set Designer, Harvest

Bill is delighted to continue his long association with Robert More, and to work with Red Barn Theatre for the first time. Currently Associate Dean of Arts – Undergraduate Studies and an instructor in the department of Drama at the University of Waterloo, Bill also works consistently as a free-lance designer and scenic painter, and has designed over 200 productions in his career. Recent work includes set and costume designs for Lighthouse Theatre Festival in Port Dover; a mural in the Guelph Community Health Centre; and a long creative association with the Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP), Winnipeg. A highlight of his career is Comet in Moominland, based on the children’s classic by renowned author/illustrator Tove Jansson. Bill conceived and initiated this unique table-top environmental puppet show in conjunction with Graham Whitehead and Leslee Silverman at MTYP in 1986. It has since toured all over Canada and the United States, travelled to Hong Kong, and made its Broadway debut in September 2007 at the New Victory Theatre. Bill is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and lives in Guelph, Ontario with his wife Jane Macleod.

ROBIN FISHER – Set Designer, The Fantasticks

Select design credits include Set and Costumes: The Drawer Boy (GCTC), The Ends of the Earth (The Belfry Theatre), I,Claudia (Theatre & Co./Segal Centre), My Fellow Creatures (Absit Omen/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre), A Number (The Canadian Stage Company).  Set: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People), The Danish Play (Nightwood/Aveny-T Denmark).  Robin received a Dora Mavor Moore award for her costumes for 36 Views (Actors Repertory Company).  She is a graduate of the Costume Studies Program (Dalhousie University) and the Scenography Program (National Theatre School of Canada).  Robin will be designing the set and costumes for The Tempest (The Canadian Stage Company).

KEN JONES — Stage Manager, The Melville Boys

Ken was the stage manager for 10 mainstage revues with The Second City including Sordido Deluxo, Psychedelicatessen and Invasion Free Since 1812. He is now with The Second City alumni troupe The Gents. He worked with the improv troupe The Chumps and their stage shows, CBC radio show and their Star Trek Live tributes. In the theatrical world he stage managed the Dora nominated Marat/Sade for The Umbrella Factory and Caligula and Ivona, Princess of Burgundy for Horizontal Eight. He also took Horizontal Eight’s Three Actors and their Drama The Blind Men to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His most recent shows have been in the Toronto Fringe: Mobile Home & Garden and Welcome to Vaudeville as well as The Tempest with the Nippising Stage Company in North Bay.

MYRA A. MALLEY – Stage Manager, Harvest

Myra is very happy to be back at the Red Barn Theatre (having stage managed the 1989 season).    Earlier this year she did Dreamgirls at London’s Grand Theatre; the Canadian premiere of Kurt Weill’s Knickerbocker Holiday at Toronto Operetta Theatre and Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Opera Hamilton.  A professional stage manager for 30+ years Myra has worked extensively across the country for such diverse companies as the Citadel Theatre, Vancouver Opera, Drayton Entertainment, Shaw Festival and Stratford Festival.  Myra is also a professor at York University where she teaches Stage Management.

KATIE MCMILLAN – Assistant Director, The Glass Menagerie and The Melville Boys

Katie McMillan is a recent graduate of the Drama and Theatre program at McGill University. Recent directing credits include How I Learned to Drive, The Pillowman and Hidden in this Picture. Many thanks to Jordan Merkur for this incredible opportunity.

J. RIGZIN TUTE – Music Director, The Fantasticks

Rigzin is an adjunct professor of music in the George Brown and Ryerson Theatre Schools.  In addition to his work there, he also teaches private singing lessons, composes songs and incidental music for the theatre.  His music direction credits include The Baker’s Wife, Threepenny Opera, and Sunday in the Park With George for George Brown Theatre.  Rigzin is thrilled to be working at the Red Barn with Sue Miner (with whom collaboration is always a joy.)

MARY SPYRAKIS — Set Designer, The Melville Boys

Mary Spyrakis has been the Head of Props for The Canadian Stage Company since 1996. She has also headed up the props departments for Desrosiers Dance Theatre, The Tarragon Theatre and Young People’s Theatre.  When time permits, Mary also designs sets, props and costumes an also conducts props building and coordinating workshops for schools and theatres in Toronto.  She is thrilled to be designing The Melville Boys, her sixth show at The Red Barn directed by Jordan, whom she has collaborated on over 30 productions with since their York University days in the eighties.

DAVID WOOTTON — Set Designer, The Glass Menagerie

David Wootton is very pleased to be working on this production of The Glass Menagerie.  He has worked in stage design for the past ten years. Design projects for The Red Barn include More Broadway Treasures, Broadway Treasures and Fallen Angels, Having Hope at Home, and Jasper Station.
Most recent design projects include a product installation for Lexus Canada at Pearson International Airport; Season 3 of Barna Alper’s televised production of Underworld Histories; and the independent film The Princess of Selkirk Avenue which recently premiered at Toronto’s The Female Eye International Film Festival in March.
David has been nominated three times for Toronto’s Dora Mavor More award for excellence in independent theatre design. In addition, he has worked with numerous freelance producers and marketing agencies in Toronto producing dynamic events and staging concepts across North America.  Currently, David also works with the Church Wellesley Village Business Improvement Association as its managing director, producing various seasonal events such as Halloweek, one of Toronto’s biggest street celebrations. David would like to dedicate his work on Glass Menagerie to his Father and Mother.