Spanish Tragedy Cast

The Spanish Tragedy Cast

Marion Adler - Isabella

MARION ADLER is an actor and award winning lyricist whose work has been seen and produced across North America and Europe.
For the Stratford Festival of Canada: Grandma (Billy Elliot), Lady Markby (An Ideal Husband) Gabrille (The Mad Woman of Chaillot), Goneril (King Lear). For The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Hermione and Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For Shakespeare Santa Cruz: Princess of France (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Emilia (Othello) Mistress Quickly (Henry IV Part 2, Henry V) and the Queen (The Man in the Iron Mask). T.V. : Speaker of the House in “CROSS”

Richard Alan Campbell - King of Spain/Alexandro

Richard is delighted to be working with Shakespeare BASH’d at last!
Recent credits: The Real McCoy (Blyth Festival); King Henry V (Driftwood Theatre); The Cold War Part One (VideoCabaret)
Selected credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre Rusticle); Confederation Parts One and Two, The Great War (ensemble Dora award), Trudeau and Levesque (Video/Cabaret/Soulpepper); The War of 1812 (VideoCabaret/Stratford Festival/Soulpepper-ensemble Dora); Art (Theatre North West); Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood); Miracle on 34th Street, It’s A Wonderful Life (Theatre New Brunswick/Sudbury Theatre Centre); King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre) The Taming of The Shrew, The Tempest (Theater By The Bay); Audience Unveiling Protest, Waiting For Lefty (The CO); The Graduate (The Grand Theatre); Measure For Measure, Othello, Titus Andronicus and many more for the original Shakespeare In The Rough. Film and TV: Workin’ Moms; Suits; Reign; Murdoch Mysteries, Charlie Bartlett.

Tristan Claxton - Balthazar

Tristan is honored to be joining BASH’d for another season, and is thrilled to be a part of his second reading. Tristan earned his MA in Classical Acting form LAMDA in the U.K. and is a three time DORA award nominee. Credits include: Company Member: Two Noble Kinsmen (BASH'd) Oswald/King of France: King Lear (BASH'd) Michael Schwerner: Three Ordinary Men (Cahoots Theatre); Gerald Harvey: Taking Liberties (TL Collective); Jeff: The Rear Window (Bygone Theatre); Hamlet: Hamlet(s) (Skipping Stones Theatre); Ferdinand: The Dutchess of Malfi (Shakespeare BASH'd); Rowan: Living With Olivia (RedWit Theatre).

Kevin Hammond - Duke/Bazulto/Serberine

Kevin is an actor/director, living in Toronto, where he has been the Artistic Director for both Humber River Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Rough. He has directed or performed in over 30 Shakespeare productions. Guest director credits include Othello and Hamlet for the Arabian Shakespeare Festival (San Francisco), Richard II for Perspective Theatre (San Jose) and The Taming of the Shrew for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. In the spring of 2025 he will be returning to California to direct Henry V for Pear Theatre. Kevin is also a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Festival where he spent two seasons as an Assistant Director. While there he also directed workshop productions of Double Falsehood and an original Shakespeare mash-up entitled A Most Unnoble Swerving. Since the pandemic he has been the Development Manger for The Actors’ Fund of Canada and – most importantly - proud puppy dad to Zoe.

郝邦宇 Steven Hao - Horatio/Pedro

郝邦宇 Steven Hao is a Tkaronto-based director, actor, and writer passionate about creating work that breaks the boundary of theatre-making. He is thrilled to be returning to work with Shakespeare BASH'd on another brilliant endeavour! He knew nothing about the play and has never even heard of it prior to signing on to read it, but hopefully by the time of the reading, he will have fully mastered the words of Thomas Kyd. See you in Spain. His selected theatre credits include: For Directing: Assistant Director, CRAZE (Tarragon Theatre); Director, Death to the Prometheans (Studio 180); Director, life and death and life and death and life and death and life. (CCTA/ACMJIS); Assistant Director, Rocking Horse Winner (Tapestry Opera/Crow's Theatre); Director, Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective); Assistant Director, Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Howland Company/Crow’s Theatre); Assistant Director, Dragon’s Tale (Tapestry Opera); Assistant Director, The Chinese Lady (Crow’s Theatre/Studio 180 Theatre/fu-GEN Theatre); Director, A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Toronto Fringe Festival/Kick & Push Festival); Director, I and You (Precipice Productions); Director, Constellations (Precipice Productions). For Acting: Two Seasons at the Stratford Festival, Anne of Green Gables, Forgiveness, Romeo & Juliet, Salesman in China (Stratford Festival); Pirithous/Wooer, The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare Bash’d); Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Cockroach, Cockroach (Tarragon Theatre). For More: @steven_haoby

Kate Martin - Lorenzo

Kate is an actor and arts educator. With Shakespeare BASH'd: Emilia in The Two Noble Kinsmen, Assistant Director and swing for The Tragedy of King Lear, Annabella in 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (staged reading). Elsewhere: A Million Billion Pieces (Young People's Theatre), Twelfth Night (Crane Creations Theatre). Twice Dora-nominated within Outstanding Ensembles. Kate holds her BFA in Acting from Toronto Metropolitan University; Kate's classical training was with Ian Watson at TMU and David Latham at YPT. You can find her face on gas pumps, subway posters, and romance novels. Instagram: @katemartin___

Augusta "Gus" Monet - Pedringano/Jacques

Augusta “Gus” Monet (any pronouns) is an interdisciplinary theatre artist and drag performer (@kingcoyoteugly)based in Toronto. Gus enjoys a wide variety of theatre practices but finds themself most drawn to the edges of the spectrum. She equally enjoys classical, new, and experimental theatre. He loves clowning and comedy, and is interested in exploring developments in interdisciplinary and intermedia performance arts. Gus Monet is a formally trained actor from the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Performance. Other credits include: Mephistophilis, “Doctor Faustus”, Apothecary Theatre (2023-24); Lavinia, “Who’s Afraid of Titus, Eldritch Theatre (2022); Writer/Director/Dungeon Master, “The Role Play”, Hamilton Fringe (2022); Conrad/Margaret, “Much Ado About Nothing”, Brampton’s Own Shakespeare Show (2022); Goose, “Goose’s Valentines Day Extravaganza” (2021); ; Ensemble, “Les Gars”, (2020); Playwright, “Dead Funny”, Super Wonder Gallery (2020); Miss Shields, "A Christmas Story", Lower Ossington Theatre (2019-20); Playwright/Raccoon, "Equinox", Dark Crop Theatre Festival (2019).

Muhaddisah - Bel-Imperia

Muhaddisah is a Dora nominated actor and writer/director with a focus on contemporizations of the canon. She is currently working on a feature film adaptation of Euripides’ Medea. Most recently, she portrayed Sycorax in the world premiere of THE TEMPEST: A WITCH IN ALGIERS adapted and written by Makram Ayache (Shakespeare in the Ruff). Coming up, you can catch her as Pari in Anusree Roy’s TRIDENT MOON (Crow’s/NAC). She is elated to make her BASH’d debut with such a stunning and influential play.

Keshia Palm - Page/Villuppo

Keshia Palm (they/them) is a storyteller seeking to spark connection and conversation through live, shared experiences in thoughtful and inclusive art/spaces — as Actor, Director, Dramaturge, Producer and Playwright, depending on the day. They have developed and performed new works from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, and are particularly interested in developing queer-feminist work in collaborative, joyful spaces. You would have seen them last on stage as Anya in The Cherry Orchard (Modern Times Stage Company), Wen’s Understudy in The Year of the Cello (Theatre Passe Muraille + Music Picnic), or giving a preshow speech for the Paprika Festival, where they played Artistic Producer for 3 seasons. They spend a lot of time on zoom supporting emerging playwrights — as a freelance dramaturge, and as the Interim Program Director of Nightwood Theatre’s Write from the Hip. Productions they recently helped get onstage from offstage include dramaturging WHITE MUSCLE DADDY by Raf Antonio (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre + Pencil Kit Productions), directing Radium Girls (York University), and SEPH (RISERx Why Not Theatre + Toronto Metropolitan University). @keshiapalm // keshiapalm.com

Scott Wentworth - Hieronimo

In addition to 28 seasons at the Stratford Festival, Scott has appeared on and off Broadway and in theatres across the US and Canada. He last worked with Shakespeare BASH’d on the 2023 King Lear.

Kiana Woo - Revenge/Don Pedro

Kiana Woo (she/her) is a Dora Award winning Chinese-Canadian actor, mover and creator with a special love for clown, physical theatre, and classical works. She attained her BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta and has since worked across Canada, spending time in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. Previously, Kiana was a member of the Soulpepper Academy and a member of the acting ensemble for the Shaw Festival. Some of Kiana’s creation works include her long-form clown solo, Inga and the Date and Hello Chinese, an exploration of mixed-race identity through the lens of mahjong, which is currently in development. Up next, you can catch Kiana acting in French in Les Zinspiré·e·s : le nombre sublime for Théâtre français de Toronto. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the amazing team at Shakespeare BASH'd again. Love to Alex, the most supportive partner, who inspires Kiana daily.
Selected credits include: Insert Clown Here (Parlous Theatre), Prince Caspian, The Playboy of the Western World, A Christmas Carol (Shaw Festival), King Lear, Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God (Soulpepper Theatre), The Fiancée (Citadel Theatre), Alice in Wonderland (Guild Festival Theatre), Cymbeline (Shakespeare BASH’d), E-Day (Serial Collective/Theatre Network), That’s Danger! (Alberta Workers Health Centre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Theatre Calgary/Shakespeare by the Bow), Doll House, The Lower Depths, and The School for Scandal (Studio Theatre).

Jeff Yung - Ghost of Andrea/Bazardo

Jeff Yung (he/him) is a Tkarón:to based actor, martial artist, and sometimes poet. Most recently he played Theseus as part of the Dora nominated cast of Two Noble Kinsmen also with BASH’d. Other credits include: Prodigal (Howland/Crow’s), Trojan Girls (OtM/Factory), Monday Nights (PuSh/LUMINATO/TC), Antigone (YPT), Vietgone (MTC/fu-Gen), and Banana Boys (Factory). This year, Jeff made Cannes & TIFF debuts playing Dr. Rory Zhao in the film The Shrouds directed by David Cronenberg. On TV he portrayed Monk Tsutop in Netflix’s live action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Jeff is also a part of the Shakespeare in the Ruff Artistic Leadership Collective that produced A Witch in Algiers, a new adaptation ofShakespeare’s The Tempest, written by Makram Ayache and directed by Kwaku Okyere this summer. Thanks for supporting indie theatre!