A Taste of Shakespeare
Cast and Key Production Personnel
Adapted, Produced, Directed
and Narration Written
By
ERIC WEINTHAL
Executive Producers
ADA CRANIFORD
DOUG CRANIFORD
Director of Photography
DAVID J. PATRICK
Production Designer
CAMERON PORTEOUS
Editor
RALPH BRUNJES
Music Composed and Performed
By
RUSTY McCARTHY
Macbeth
DANIEL KASH
Lady Macbeth
SOO GARAY
Banquo/The Narrator
DAVID FOX
The Weird Sisters
CLARE COULTER
JANE MOFFAT
HOLLY LEWIS
MacDuff
ALAN VAN SPRANG
Lennox
ALEX POCH-GOLDIN
Malcolm
MICHAEL MAHONEN
King Duncan
ROBERT BUCK
Murderer
ANDREW SCORER
Doctor
DESMOND ELLIS
Background Performers
Tyler Gallagher
Derek Dorey
Jack Grinhaus
Kenning Stewart
Paul Irving
John Ford
Grant Allert
Production Manager
AMBER KESTEVEN
Assistant Director
MICHAEL BURKE
Sound
ERVIN COPESTAKE
PAUL GOSSE
Wardrobe Supervisor
TRACY FULTON
Art Department
APRIL ANNE VICZKO
Key Make-Up and Hair
BARBARA BARKEY
Gaffer
BILL PATON
Key Grip
JASON KENNEDY
Stills Photographer
EDWARD SPEK
Catering BY DAVID’S
Craft Service STARCRAFT
JAMES BURTON
OnLine Facility
Creative Post
OnLine Editor
STEVE JONES
Sound Editor
KATHY CHOI
Assistant Sound Editor
JEAN BOT
Mixed by
MARTIN LEE
IAN RANKIN
Post-Sound Facility
Tattersall-Casablanca
Lighting & Grip Equipment
P.S. Production Services
Shot on Digital Video
at
Toronto Film Studios
Scarborough Bluffs
Special Thanks
Stratford Festival of Canada
The Shaw Festival
Tarragon Theatre
Alan Westlake - Azure Productions
Mar-Lyn Lumber Sales Limited
Ross Proietti, Julie Murphy & John Smouter:
Ryder Car and Truck Rentals
John Sinopoli & Sue Potalivo: F.I.L.M. Inc.
George Rutley: Bluffer’s Park Marina
Paul Dunk: Toronto Parks and Recreation
Sandy Koitsis: Toronto Film & Television Office
Traverse Communications
Skyway Scaffold
Linda Ferguson
Mike Fletcher
James Binkley
Steve Wilsher
Daniel Hill
Margaret Gobie
Indra Escobar
Clare Johnston
John Doyle
David Kinnersly
Kristin Van Alphen
Kevin Pitts
Howard Gold
Kara Wooten
Produced in Association with
BRAVO! Canada
A division of CHUM Limited
Produced with the Participation of
THE CANADIAN INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO FUND
with the assistance of
THE DEPARTMENT OF CANADIAN HERITAGE
We gratefully acknowledge the support of
The Ontario Trillium Foundation
An agency of the Ministry of Culture
The Catherine & Maxwell
Meighen Foundation
The Norman and Margaret
Jewison Foundation
George Lunan Foundation
J.P. Bickell Foundation
Sir Joseph Flavelle Foundation
Cast and Key Production Personnel:
SOME FACTS ABOUT OUR ACTORS
DANIEL KASH (title role in MACBETH, Roderigo/Narrator in OTHELLO, Oberon in DREAM, Gratiano in MERCHANT) plays Simon Peter in THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, starred in Atom Egoyan's GROSS MISCONDUCT, appears with Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt in TUXEDO, with Judy Davis in ME AND MY SHADOWS, with Sigourney Weaver in ALIENS, and has appeared in dozens of plays including Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
SOO GARAY (Lady Macbeth in MACBETH, Regan in LEAR, Hippolyta in DREAM) played Dr. Davison in PSI FACTOR, guest starred on PUPPETS WHO KILL, THE HUNGER and MUTANT X, starred in HBO's SHOT THROUGH THE HEART and appears in the feature films FOOLPROOF and NOTHING, directed by Vincent Natali.
DAVID FOX (Lear in KING LEAR, Banquo/The Narrator in MACBETH) won the Dora Award for his starring role in the Governor General's Award-winning play THE DRAWER BOY, was a regular in television’s ROAD TO AVONLEA and has acted in too many plays to count.
CLARE COULTER (First Witch in MACBETH) has won the Dora Award, starred in television’s WORST WITCH, and has appeared in dozens of movies, television series and plays in Canada and England, including 25 plays at Tor’s Tarragon Theatre.
HOLLY LEWIS (Desdemona in OTHELLO, one of The Weird Sisters MACBETH) starred in the feature film THESE GIRLS, and appeared on television in THE NEWSROOM and PUPPETS WHO KILL.
Key Creative Personnel
CAMERON PORTEOUS (Production Design, Costume Design: OTHELLO, KING LEAR, MACBETH) was Head of Design at Ontario's Shaw Theatre Festival for 17 years. He has also designed sets and costumes for theatre and opera across Canada, and was Production Designer for all of DevineEntertainment's Artist, Inventor and Composer films, including BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS, for which he won an Emmy Award.
DAVID J. PATRICK (Director of Photography: OTHELLO, LEAR, MACBETH, DREAM) has been a Copywriter and Technical Producer in radio, an Actor, Stage Manager and Lighting Director in theatre, and a Key Grip and Gaffer for commercials, corporate and rock video and feature film. He has directed and edited and is Director of Photography on dramas and documentaries using everything from super8 to 35mm and lipstick-cam to HighDef. David designs and builds production hardware systems and teaches lighting and cinematography.
RUSTY McCARTHY (Composer: OTHELLO, ROMEO, DREAM, MACBETH) has played guitar with countless bands including a long collaboration with Mary-Margaret O'Hara. He is a versatile musician who composes in many styles, producing music for film, T.V., dance and for recording artists at his own studio, The RecRoom.
ERIC WEINTHAL (series creator) has written dozens of television shows, directed a few and been a story editor. The Toronto International Film Festival hired him to be Screenwriting Mentor to six screenwriters across the country. Eric’s first feature film as a writer/director played at film festivals, theatrically and on television. He was commissioned to write a book and a television series. Eric sings, writes music and acts, and has written two plays.
ADA CRANIFORD (series creator) holds a Ph.D in Renaissance Studies and wrote her doctoral thesis on Biblical allusions in Shakespeare's comedies. She has taught English and Drama at universities and high schools. She has just published a book entitled “Mordecai Richler: A Life in Ten Novels”.
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