A Taste of Shakespeare
Cast and Key Production Personnel:

The Merchant of Venice

SOME FACTS ABOUT OUR ACTORS

BRIAN TREE (Brabantio in OTHELLO, Shylock in MERCHANT, The Fool in LEAR, Friar Lawrence in ROMEO, Claudius and Polonius in HAMLET and Theseus in DREAM) has performed in fourteen seasons at the Stratford Festival, where he has appeared in over forty-five productions of Shakespeare's plays.

ANN-MARIE MACDONALD (Portia in MERCHANT) has won two Gemini Awards for her acting. As a writer, she won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel, the CAA Literary Award for Fiction, and the Dartmouth Award for Fiction for her first novel FALL ON YOUR KNEES.

RICHARD MCMILLAN (Antonio in MERCHANT) played Saromon in the world premiere production of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Also on stage he played Scar in THE LION KING, and played Nankee-poo in THE MIKADO on Broadway.

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.

Key Creative Personnel

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 P.H.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies and has taught university and high school. She has just written a book about Mordecai Richler entitled “The Importance of Being Mordecai”.

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