BUTCHER by NICOLAS BILLON
OCT 26 - NOV 11
BABY GRAND THEATRE
218 Princess Street, Kingston, On
TICKET LINK

​www.kingstongrand.ca

THE DIRECTOR:

THE CAST:

Kathryn MacKay,Director.  Kathryn’slong association with Theatre Kingston includes recently serving as Artistic Produceras well as directingHothouse, How I learned to Drive, Perfect Pie, The Passion, Shape of a Girl, andVigil for them. She is a founding member and served as Associate Artistic Director of the Thousand Islands Playhouse until 2012. Favourite directing credits there include: The Clockmaker, The Drowning Girls, The Russian Play/Essay, The Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Drowsy Chaperone, Trying and Half Life.Other directing credits include: The Revolutions (Spiderwebshow Performance), Women Who Shout at the Stars(Summerworks), and RareandDown Syndrome by the Dozen for PeerLess Productions, where she is currently the Artistic Director. 
 



​Doug Harmsen, Performer. Dougreturns to his hometown of Kingston after 27 years of acting in the USA at venues including Lincoln Center, Williamstown, The Seattle Intiman, The Pittsburgh Public, Portland Center Stage, and as a company member at the Denver Center, where he appeared in thirty productions.  Doug toured the U.S with Angels in America and his Broadway credits include The Visitwith Jane Alexander and King Learwith Christopher Plummer.Kingston audiences may remember him in Theatre Five productions such as The Man Who Came To Dinner, Queen's Drama productions including The Trojan Women, as one of the original Baby Grand company in Bentand American Buffaloand later with David Fox and Jackie Burroughs in The Strangest Kind of Romance. 
 

Jacob James, Performer.  A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Birmingham Conservatory and The Second City’s Conservatory, Jacob’s past credits include 7 seasons at the Stratford Festival in The Tempest, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Noises Off and As You Like It. Jacob originated the role of Clown #1 in the Canadian premiere of The 39 Steps. Other companies include Thousand Islands Playhouse, VideoCabaret, Theatre Aquarius, Neptune Theatre, Drayton Entertainment, New York Shakespeare Exchange, Cleveland Play House, Theatre Kingston, Globe Theatre Regina. Film, television and voice credits include TURN: Washington's Spies(AMC), The Martian Chronicles(BBC), Fireman SamandThe 99(animated series). 
 
Zoë Sweet, Performeris a Toronto and Kingston-based actor, teacher and movement coach/choreographer. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from York University and received her Honours B.A. in Theatre from University of Toronto (Erindale) and Sheridan College. As an actress, Zoë has been seen on television and stages across the country working with companies such as The Upper Canada Repertory Company and The Classical Theatre Project. She has also had the opportunity to workshop new plays and musicals with Nightwood Theatre and Scriptlab. Zoë is also a producer, most recently producing the acclaimed production of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Againat the Tarragon Theatre’s Extra Space.
 
 
​Greg Wanless, Performerhas performed in many regional theatres across the country from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia. He joined the Stratford Festival Company in 1976 and performed in over 20 plays over five seasons. He returned to Eastern Ontario and founded the Thousand Islands Playhouse in 1982 where he appeared in or directed over 40 productions including My Fair Lady, Fiddler On The Roof, Anne And Gilbert, Les Miserables, Blood Brothers and the2012 production of Little Shop Of Horrors. Greg is a Professor in the Drama Department of Queen’s University, and has been teaching there since 1982. Among other awards, Greg is most proud of the 2003 ‘Her Majesty the Queen’s Jubilee Medal’.