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Alan Laing
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Alan Laing Alan Laing is a composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. He has composed scores for over 35 productions for the Stratford Festival. He has held positions as music director at Stratford, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and the Neptune Theatre in Halifax. |
Christina Gordon
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Christina Gordon was born, raised and educated on Vancouver Island. Since moving to Ontario, she has appeared in CATS in Toronto and toured to Japan in Anne of Green Gables. She is returning to CATS at the Sunshine Festival, this summer. Her Stratford Festival credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Alice through the Looking Glass, Pirates of Penzance, and the lead role in Patience. She has performed at numerous theatres across Canada including Lighthouse Festival, Neptune Theatre and Stirling Festival and will be taking her solo concert, Songs of the Reel, to British Columbia |
Marion Day
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Marion Day has just completed a production of Under Milk Wood in the new Mercury Theatre in St Mary's, Ontario. She is glad to be playing with poetic text and song again at Gallery Stratford. Marion has been a stage actor in Canada for 18 years, most recently at the Stratford Festival where she received the Mary Savidge Award given to a promising young actor in the classics, and played many roles including Jessica, Cecily Cardew, Juliet, Lavinia, Ophelia, and the title role in The Country Wife. She is grateful to Tyrone Guthrie for his mandate, and to the playwrights for their blessing. Marion is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, and a student of l’Ecole de Mime Corporel de Montreal. |
Bradley C. Rudy
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Stephanie Roth
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Stephanie Roth was part of Festival Friends present Festival
Gems
in 2004.
Most recently, Stephanie was seen in Pelagie, at Canadian Stage in Toronto and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and at the Stratford Festival appearing in Gigi, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, My Fair Lady, The Three Penny Opera, A Little night Music in concert. She was featured in the Stratford Summer Music Series for her show on Julie Andrews. Other selected credits include the U.S. touring company of Rent, the original Canadian production of The Who's Tommy (the 1st National tour) , The Cradle Will Rock; Damn Yankees; The Vagina Monologues and in August, Leader of the Pack. |
Barbara Dunn-Prosser |
Barbara joined us in the fall of 2003
Barbara Dunn-Prosser's performing career is a versatile one. She has appeared opposite Dmitiri Hvorostovsky as Donna Elvira in Rhombus Media's film of Mozart's DonGiovanni. She has toured southern Ontario with her one woman show, Come to the Woods, about pioneer artist and writer Anne Langton; and she continues to be a featured soloist with symphony orchestras across North America in her role as Mme. Cuzzoni in the Classical Kids production of Halleluiah Handel. Barbara has also been the principal soloist in Pops Concerts with the Victoria Symphony, Orchestra London, the Kingston Symphony and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Operatic credits include Mme. Silverklang in Mozart's The Impresario and Sharon in Masterclass for the Stratford Festival Music Concert Series and Workshops, Fanny in Rossini's La Cambiale di Matrimonio for Opera York, Rolalinde in Quinte Summer music's presentation of Die Fledermaus, Opélie in Hamlet for Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, the Witch in Hansel and Gretel and Lucy in The Telephone, for Northern Opera Theatre. Barbara has also spent several seasons with the Canadian Opera Company, appearing in such productions as Beatrice et Benedict, Dialogues des Carmelites, Der Fliegende Hollander and I Pagliacci. For the Stratford Festival, Barbara perfomed the roles of Fiametta and, later, Gianetta in The Condoliers, a Postulant in The Sound of Music and Irina Arkadina in The Seagull. She has performed in the ensemble and as Carlotta in bothe the touring and Toronto companies of The Phantom of the Opera and has appeared in HMS Pinafore, both at the Stratford Festival and in Brian Macdonald's North American touring production. Barbara holds and M.A. and B.Ed from Queen's University in Kingston, and is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto in voice and piano. She is currently a member of the Royal Conserbatory College of Examiners and of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. |
Van Abrahams |
2002 The charismatic young baritone Van Abrahams made a highly successful European debut in the summer of 1997 at the Bregenz Festival. He appeared as Jim in the celebrated Geotz Friederich production of Porgy and Bess with Andrew Litton conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Mr. Abrahams graduated from McGill University and studied further with Marlena Malas, Dixie Ross Neill, Richard Hughes and currently with Mary Morrison. He attended the opera studio at McGill University and the Sarasota Opera Apprentice Artist Program under Victor DeRenzi. He made his operatic debut in 1995 as Papageno in Die Zauberfloete at the Liederkranz Opera foundation in New York and he also appeared as Sergeant in Manon at the Sarasota Opera, Sylvio in I Pagliacci at the Nuremberg Stadt Opera, Fiorello in The Barber of Seville at Le Grand Theatre de Geneve, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the McGill Opera Studio. He also created the roles of Lead in James Rolfe's Beatrice Chancey. The 4th Voice in The Pocket Opera von Nuremberg's Production of Smiling Carcass, and the role of Chime in the critically acclaimed Scourge of Hyacinth by Tania Leon, directed by Robert Wilson. Van was a member of the original cast of the Tony award-winning production of Show Boat, directed by Harold Prince, which inaugurated the North York Performing Arts Center in Toronto and opened at the Gershwin Theater on Broadway in 1994. He also performed in the US National Tour of Ragtime , which opened in Washington DC in April 1998. He debut in London at the BBC proms in a concert performance of Porgy and Bess at the Royal Albert Hall. As a concert artist, Mr. Abrahams has benn acclaimed for his recitals at the Bar Harbour Music Festival, Main; Port-au Prince, Matinique; Cape Town, South Africa; for the education recital series I sing America, at the Mobile Opera, Alabama; St. Matthew's Passion at the Liederkranz Foundation in New York. In the season 2001, Mr. Abrahams made his Canadian debut in Beatirce Chancey, at Edmonton Opera and his Mexican debut in Scourge of Hyacinth, for the Mexican National Opera. |
