David Ferry is an award winning director, actor and dramaturge. He was the recipient of the 2011 City of Toronto Barbara Hamilton award for his contributions to theatre. He recently directed a workshop of Daniel MacIvor's "Inside" as a Luminato commission as well as a production of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie" and a new musical "Come From Away". He won a best direction DORA award for his direction of "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" for which he also co-won a best lighting design award.
David has worked extensively as an award winning actor on stage, television, radio and film in Canada and the U.S. in a career that has spanned nearly 40 years, performing on and off Broadway, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and at all the major Canadian regional and alternative. He started his professional acting career in Toronto in James Reaney's "Sticks and Stones." he subsequently became a founding member of the Reaney focussed company NDWT.
He is recently performed to rave reviews in the Modern Times Theatre production of The Lesson in Toronto.. He is also appearing from time to time in the Canadian premiere of Mike Daisey's now infamous theatre monologue "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" (subtitled in Toronto "The Repudiation and Redemption of Mike Daisey".)
He performed recently in Montreal at Festival of the Americas in the CROWS/Porte Parole production of "Seeds." He recently filmed in "An Officer and a Murderer" (about convicted murderer Russell Williams.) This past summer he played George in "Of Mice And Men" opposite his old chum Gary Farmer on the west coast. He recently co starred to acclaim with his friend RH Thompson in Liza Balkin's "OUT THE WINDOW" in Toronto and he also starred as Shannon in "Night of the Iguana" in Toronto, and was in "Richard 3" and "Titus Andronicus" for the 2011 Stratford season. In 2008 he appeared as Captain Ahab in the Festival world premiere of Morris Panych's adaptation of "Moby Dick". In 2009 he won a best actor DORA for the Toronto production of "Someone To Watch Over Me" and his Willy Loman won the Critics Choice Best Performance Award for the Victoria production of "Death of a Salesman". 2010 found him starring (DORA nomination) in the Canadian Premiere of Sarah Kane’s "Blasted" (for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) for which he won the inaugural Toronto Critics Best actor award; he also reprised his DORA nominated performance in "Eternal Hydra" for CROWS Theatre at Factory Theatre. .
In 2009 he filmed on the feature film "All Saints Day" (reprising his role of Dolly in this sequel to the cult hit "Boondock Saints". David was a regular on the CTV series "Dan for Mayor" as well as appearing in 2 episodes of "The Republic of Doyle". He had a recurring role in the recent TV series "Across the River in Motor City" and filmed with Robin Williams in "Man of the Year".
David has also served as Artistic Director of two Ontario theatre companies so understands funding of theatres and how they are run from all sides.
David is a published editor and author and teacher, (including a collection of plays by James Reaney titled "Reaney days in the West Room":Playwrights' Canada Press.) He will be presenting the third James Reaney Lecture in Stratford in September 2013. He most recently (2012) taught the graduating class at NTS.
He has a dramaturgical development company Appledore Productions which develops new scripts for the theatre.
David was a graduate of the National Theatre School and received his MFA in Directing from UVIC. He hails originally from Newfoundland
David has a long experience as a volunteer on a variety of his cultural industry organizations. He is currently Vice-Chair of Actra Fraternal Benefit Society. He was a board member at Canadian Actors Equity for 9 years and served as its Vice President External . He was also National Chair of ACTRA and served on Council and Executive there for 10 years.
David was recently appointed to the Board of The Actors' Fund.
Chris McGregor - Director
Chris graduated from Bishop’s University in 1987 with a BA in Drama. He’s toured all over Canada, the US and Ireland with such companies as The GCTC, Green Thumb Theatre and Axis Theatre. In 2007 he went back to school for his MFA in Directing at The University of British Columbia. Since graduating in 2009 he returned to Bishop’s to direct last season’s studio production of Unity (1918). He recently directed his first major musical The Sound of Music at the Gateway Theatre and has been invited back to direct The Fiddler on the Roof next season. Chris lives in Vancouver with his wife Nicole and two children Lachlan and Quinn.
Carmen Alatorre
Originally from Mexico City, Carmen earned her MFA degree in Theatre Design at the University of British Columbia and has worked as a designer in Vancouver since 2006. Some of her local theatre design credits include Futuristi (Bella Luna Theatre), The Learned Ladies, Gormenghast, Medea, and Romeo and Juliet (UBC), House/Home (Pi Theatre/ HIVE 3), Iphigenia at Aulis (SFU Woodward’s), Patron Saint of Stanley Park (Arts Club), The Forbidden Phoenix and The Sound of Music (Gateway Theatre). She is very grateful to UBishops and Dir. Chris McGregor for giving her the opportunity of being part of this exciting production. Carmen is a member of Associate Designers of Canada.
