The Man of Mode Cast

Jennifer Dzialoszynski - Handy/Lady Townley

Jennifer is an actor, fight director, stage combat instructor, and voice artist. She is so happy to be back with Shakespeare Bash'd at The Monarch! This time around with a significantly lighter tone! Jenn has worked in theatres across Canada including: Four seasons at The Shaw Festival; Fairview (Canadian Stage/Obsidian/Necessary Angel), Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Canadian Stage); Two Noble Kinsmen, Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, (Shakespeare Bash'd); Antony & Cleopatra, Three Musketeers (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Jane Eyre, Gone With The Wind (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); August: Osage County (The Citadel); Boeing, Boeing, Perfect Wedding (Magnus Theatre); Kindertransport (Harold Green Jewish Theatre); Hana’s Suitcase (The Grand Theatre); among others. As a Fight Director she has worked with Canadian Stage, The Tarragon Theatre, The Coal Mine, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, Magnus Theatre, and many times with Shakespeare Bash’d.
Upcoming: Hidden Treasures at The Lighthouse Festival in Port Dover and Port Colborne.

Isabelle Ellis - Pert/Busy

Isabelle Ellis (she/her) is an actor, playwright, and director based in Toronto. Recent theatre credits include: Horseplay (Paprika Festival), ECHO (A Front Company/Edmonton Fringe), as well as several appearances with Panoply Theatre Collective. Film/television credits include: Gen V (Amazon/Sony Pictures) and Haunted Museum (Discovery+). Upcoming: Cruel Intentions (Amazon/Freevee). She is thrilled to be making her BASH’d debut as a longtime admirer of James and Julia’s work. She loves scary stories, knitting sweaters, and telling tall tales.

Jacklyn Francis - Orange-Woman/Lady Woodvill

Nine seasons with the Stratford Festival, including Rosemary (Hamlet-911), Madge Macbeth (1939), Patience Maria (Henry VIII), Stephanie Crawford (To Kill a Mockingbird), Calpurnia (Julius Caesar), Celia (As You Like It) and Caroline Bingley (Pride and Prejudice). Elsewhere: Thousand Islands Playhouse, Citadel Theatre, Blyth Festival, Shakespeare in the Ruff, Canadian Stage, Young People's Theatre, Theatre Northwest, Sudbury Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre, Resurgence Theatre, Theatre by the Bay, Brookstone Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Thought for Food, Equity Showcase, Toronto Fringe and SummerWorks. Film/TV: Welcome to Derry, Ruby and The Well, The Christmas Spirit (feature film), Re: Possessed Homes (short film), Murdoch Mysteries, Rookie Blue, Flashpoint, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Missing, Train 48, Our Hero, The City, F/X: The Series, Falling Fire. Awards: 2018 Tanya Award in recognition of excellence, and the Jean A. Chalmers Award.

James Graham - Dorimant

JAMES GRAHAM
For Shakespeare BASH’d: Othello, King John
Selected Theatre: Casimir & Caroline, Punk Rock, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, The Glass
Menagerie, 52 Pick-Up (Howland Company) Out the Window (Luminato
Festival/Theatre Centre), Mockingbird (NSTF, Dora Nominee), NSFW (Studio 180), Titus
Andronicus, As You Like It (Canadian Stage), New Jerusalem (Harold Green Jewish Theatre).
Selected Media: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC)
Awards: Dora Award winner, two-time Dora Award nominee

Cameron Grant - Young Bellair/Page to Fopling

Cameron has worked across Canada as an actor, director and playwright. Recent acting credit include Controlled Damage (Grand Theatre), The Fiancée (Persephone Theatre), Kim Convenience (Thousand Islands Playhouse), 1851: Spirit & Voice (Soulpepper), Serving Elizabeth (Stratford Festival), Getting Married, SEX, Henry V, Hound of The Baskervilles, The Madness of George III, Dracula (Shaw Festival), Happy Birthday Baby J (Shadow Theatre), Alice The Magnet (Theatre Animal). Directing credits include The Assembly (Crossroads Theatre) and Twelfth Night (Theatre Erindale) as well as assistant directing productions at Bard of the Beach, Factory Theatre and Theatre Erindale. As a playwright, Cameron’s first play Meet Chloe, received its premiere at Carousel Players in 2021 and continued to tour virtually for 3 years to schools across Canada. Cameron was the artistic director of Crossroads Theatre (formerly Shakespeare in Action) from 2022-2023.

Madelaine Hodges(賀美倫)- Harriet

Madelaine Hodges (賀美倫) (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian queer artist from Scarborough. This past year she has had the privilege of participating in workshops of new work at theatres including Crow's, Tarragon, Talk Is Free, Fu-Gen, Mixtape Projects, and Highland Arts. Last spring she originated the role of Iris in Woking Phoenix (Theatre Passe Muraille/Silk Bath Collective) which later won the John Kaplan Audience Choice Dora Award. When she's not in class, you can find her at the gym, at dance, sharing a yummy meal with her loved ones, or at book club with her besties. She is beyond excited to be working with the incredible BASH'd team again! For BASH'd: The Two Noble Kinsmen (Dora Award Nom. for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, Indie 2024), and The Tragedy of King Lear. Recent Film/TV credits: The Boys (Sony Pictures), BÖRJE (Warner Brothers), and Cruel Intentions (Amazon Freevee). Insta: @maddy_hodges_11

David Mackett - The Man of Mode

David most recently appeared in The Tempest and She Stoops to Conquer at the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival. His past credits with Shakespeare BASH’d include: The Tragedy of King Lear, Cymbeline, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, and staged readings of The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Edward ll, and Gorboduc.
His other theatre credits include Arcadia (Citadel Theatre); The Good Thief, Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Cold Comfort (Fly on the Wall); Titus Andronicus (Hart House); After the Fall (Equity Showcase); The Weir (MacKenzieRo); Aftershock (SummerWorks); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Touchmark Theatre); Half Life (Rose Theatre); Lucrece (Willow Cabin Theatre); Peter Pan (TheatreWorks/USA); Candida, Of Mice and Men (Kentucky Rep); A Christmas Carol (Arts Trust).
David is a graduate of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYC), and he completed his Classical Theatre Training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He is the Co-Artistic Producer of Fly on the Wall Theatre.

Michael Man - Medley

Big fan of Bash'd, Michael’s glad to be back. FOR SHAKESPEARE BASH’D: The Two Noble Kinsmen, Measure for Measure, Duchess of Malfi (reading).
SELECTED THEATRE ACTING: Forgiveness, As You Like It (Stratford Festival); Snow in Midsummer (Shaw Festival/National Arts Centre); Prince Caspian, Village Wooing, Everybody, Sherlock Holmes, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Cyrano de Bergerac, Victory (Shaw Festival); Hymn of the Weaverbird, (找我劇場 ESP-I Performing Arts Group in Taiwan); Meet Chloe (Carousel Players); MH370 (fu-GEN Theatre); The Birds and the Bees, The Jungle Book(Magnus Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Grand Theatre); King Lear, Twelfth Night, Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, (Canadian Stage); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chekhov Collective); 彼岸 The Other Shore (workshop), (Gateway Theatre); Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing (St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival).
WRITING: Translator and Adaptor, The Orphan of Chao (Shaw Festival).
TEACHING: 國立清華大學 National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan); George Brown Theatre School (Period Study 2022: Yuan and Ming Dynasty Chinese Theatre).
OTHER: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Board Member (2022-Present).

Kate McArthur - Mrs. Loveit

KATE MCARTHUR is a Mad (Bipolar 1 Disorder)/ Queer actor/theatre artist and is a Co-Artistic Leader of Skipping Stones Theatre, a Toronto based company whose mandate is to tell stories through the lens of mental health or stories that centre around it.. Selected credits: Macbeth, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It with a Company of Fools; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gorboduc, The Changeling with Shakespeare BASH’d; Hamlet(s), Laughing Wild, 4.48 Psychosis with Skipping Stones Theatre; The Rear Window, The Yellow Wallpaper with Bygone Theatre

Emma Nelles - Emilia

Emma Nelles is a Toronto-based actor and director with a passion for Shakespeare and classical text. A graduate of George Brown Theatre School, Emma has also trained with Shakespeare BASH’d, Karen Kohlhaas, Atlantic Acting School, Canada’s National Voice Institute, and the Soulpepper City Youth Academy. With a strong background in dance, Emma has performed and competed internationally as an Irish dancer at world-championship level. Selected theatre credits include: Sister James (Doubt, BNE Theatre), Cassia (Fatal Charade, Elkabong Theatre Projects), Northumberland (Richard II, Theatre Foolscap), Olivia de Havilland (Joan & Olivia: A Hollywood Ghost Story, Ebb & Flow Theatre), Lily Wilson (Janet Wilson Meets the Queen, The Disruptors), Cunégonde (Candide, GBTS), Heavenly Critchfield (Spring Storm, Atlantic Acting School). Selected film and TV credits include: Matlock (CBS), A Higher Loyalty (CBS), Search for My Daughter (CME), The Boys (Amazon). Emma is thrilled to be joining this company of knowledgeable and passionate artists, and exploring this gem of the Restoration!

Breanne Tice - Bellinda

Breanne is glad to be working with BASH’d once again. For BASH’d, she performed in The Tragedy of King Lear and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Other credits include: The Tempest & She Stoops to Conquer (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Romeo & Juliet (YES Theatre); The Ghost Watchers (Theatre by the Bay); The Huns & Pine Grove Plots (Theatre on the Ridge). She also works as a choreographer, intimacy coordinator, and arts educator. Breanne is the co-creator of The Assembly, an interactive board game show (www.theassemblyexperience.com), and the Associate Producer of CBC’s PlayME theatre podcast (www.cbc.ca/playme).

John Wamsley - Page to Townley/Sir Fopling Flutter

John Wamsley is of Anishinaabe-Ojibwe and British descent, and a member of the Alderville First Nation. He is an actor, dancer and theatre creator. Theatre credits include: Jean Delorme in 1939 (Canadian Stage/Belfry Theatre),Richard II, Grand Magic, Love's Labour's Lost, 1939 (Stratford Festival); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare BASH'd); Timothy Findley's The Wars (Grand Theatre); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Hart House Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Erindale). Other credits include: Doomlands (Roku), Save the Date (Watersign Productions); Revenge of the Black Best Friend (CBC Gem). John is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies Program at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College. For more: www.johnwamsley.ca