The Two Noble Kinsmen
Cast & Crew
Daniel Briere -JAILER / SCHOOLMASTER
Daniel is an Associate Artistic Director of Shakespeare BASH’d. His work has been seen at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, Watermark Theatre in PEI, over 3 seasons at the Stratford Festival, and he has performed Shakespeare in parks and bars all over. You may have seen him as Cornwall in last season’s The Tragedy of King Lear, and for Shakespeare BASH’d he has also played Iachomo in Cymbeline, Duke Senior/Ferdinand in As You Like It, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Polonius in Hamlet. Daniel is also an ambitious musician who plays many instruments, and just finished composing music for an upcoming documentary film called Race of Recovery: Veterans and the Checkered Flag. He’ll be helping to lead a number of upcoming workshops throughout the season with Class BASH’d and Scansion BASH’d, so keep your eyes peeled!
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Joshua Browne -VALERIUS / VARIOUS
I grew up a ballet dancer in small town Alberta, and after a nomadic early adulthood have called Toronto home since 2011. When not performing on camera or on stage, I run D&D games for people at www.dungeoneeringinc.com. BASH'd co-founder James and I first met in Newmarket in high school and have been blessed to work together many times over the past 20 years. Pure pleasure to be getting back onstage with the company again. Theatre highlights: The Antipodes (Coal Mine Theatre), The Queen’s Eulogy (the orchid beauty shop); Byhalia, Mississippi (Cue6 Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Watermark Theatre); nightmareDREAM (IFT theatre); and co-writing and performing in Dark Matter and The Queen’s Conjuror with Circlesnake Productions. Big thanks to friends and family; and especially to Julia, James, and the other stewards of independent theatre in this very tough environment. Donate if you can, vote for people over profits, it ain't getting easier for artists out here. Thank you for coming to play today.
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Tristan Claxton - HERALD / JAILER'S BROTHER / VARIOUS |
Jennifer Dzialoszynski - QUEEN / NELL / DR. & FIGHT DIRECTOR |
Tristan is thrilled to be joining BASH'd for another season, and is honoured to be a part of this team. Tristan earned his MA in Classical Acting form LAMDA in the U.K. and is a two time DORA award nominiee. Recent credits include: Oswald/King of France: King Lear (Shakespeare BASH'd) Micheal schwerner: Three Ordinary Men (Cahoots Theatre) Gerald Harvey: Taking Liberties (TL Collective); Jeff: The Rear Window (Bygone Theatre) Broadway World Award - Outstanding Performance; Hamlet: Hamlet(s) (Skipping Stones Theatre); Ferdinand: The Dutchess of Malfi (Shakespeare BASH'd); Rowan: Living With Olivia (RedWit Theatre).
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Jennifer is an actor, fight director, stage combat instructor, and voice artist. She is so happy to be among this fierce and joyful company, working of this wonderful play. She has worked in theatres across Canada including: Four seasons at The Shaw Festival; Fairview, Is God Is (Fight Director), Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth (Canadian Stage); King Lear (Fight Director), 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.
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Milena Fera - STAGE MANAGER
Milena Fera is a Toronto-based stage manager and artist. Milena has been stage managing
for just over 10 years with companies like Opera Atelier, The Harbourfront Centre, TIFF, and will be working with the Canadian Opera Company for their 2024 spring season. Some of the recent production companies she has had the pleasure withing with are; CorpOLuz Theatre at the RUTUS Festival, YellowDoor Theatre, Frantic Assembly, TIFF, and Greenlight Productions. Milena is honoured to be working with James Wallis and Julia Nish-Lapidus again on this year's production of The Two Noble Kinsmen with Shakespeare BASH’d. |
郝邦宇 Steven Hao - PIRITHOUS / WOOER
郝邦宇 Steven Hao is a Tkaronto-based actor, director and writer. He's very excited to be working with Shakespeare Bash'd again to bring to life a play that he has NEVER ONCE read until this production. If you're also like him, and once upon a time thought "yeah I'll read that play at some point" and never got to it, then this production is perfect for you. Alright, now for some of the things that you may have seen him in: For Acting: Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage/Dream In High Park); Cockroach, Cockroach (Tarragon Theatre); Various, King Lear (Shakespeare Bash'd); Bartender/Zeus, Trojan Girls & The Outhouse of Atreus (OtM/Factory Theatre). For Directing: Director, Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective); Assistant Director, Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Howland Company/Crow’s Theatre); 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). For More, find him on instagram: @steven_haoby
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Madelaine Hodges (賀美倫) - QUEEN / EMILIA'S WOMAN
Madelaine Hodges (賀美倫) (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian queer artist from Scarborough. Last year, she had the privilege of making her Shakespeare BASH'd debut as Regan in King Lear. Other recent theatre credits: Alexa (3 Time Dora Nominated Show, Killing Time: A Gameshow Musical, Mixtape Projects), and Alice/Lily (Ping, Taragon Workshop). Upcoming theatre credits: Iris (Woking Phoenix, Theatre Passe Muraille/Silk Bath Collective). Recent Film/TV credits: The Boys (Sony Pictures), BÖRJE (Warner Brothers), and Cruel Intentions (Amazon Freevee). She is thrilled to be working with the incredible BASH'd team again!
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Melanie Leon - HIPPOLYTA
Melanie (@melanieellen) is a Toronto based theatre creator, FDC advanced stage combatant, actor and performer. Showcasing her deep love for Shakespeare, Mel has worked with several companies including Shakespeare BASH’d (King Lear, Cymbeline, Othello, Measure for Measure), Dauntless City Theatre (All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing) and Shakespeare By the Sea (Cinderelly/ Hamlet). She also has a passion for collaborative creation and was so excited to make her debut with Bad Hats Theatre in Storybook Search. Most recently she was a co creator on the project Here (North America), a series of surprise, public sidewalk shows across the city of Toronto. Short and joyful, it was performed with zero ask from its audience, resulting in a cathartic experience for artist and viewer alike. In her spare time, Mel is often busy crocheting toys for her small business @mymenagerieto, building queer community, or trying to convince anyone who will listen that Dirty Dancing is the greatest movie of all time.
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Michael Man - ARCITE |
Kate Martin - EMILIA |
Big fan of BASH'd, Michael’s glad to be back again.
FOR SHAKESPEARE BASH’d: Measure for Measure, Duchess of Malfi (reading). SELECTED THEATRE: Prince Caspian, Village Wooing, Everybody, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Cyrano de Bergerac, Victory, Shaw Festival; Hymn of the Weaverbird, 找我劇場 ESP-I Performing Arts Group (Taipei, Taiwan); Meet Chloe, Carousel Players; When Ladies Meet, Meighen Forum/Stratford Festival; 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. SELECTED FILM/TELEVISION: What We Do in the Shadows, Backstabbing for Beginners. 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). |
For Shakespeare BASH’d: Annabella in ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, assistant director for The Tragedy of King Lear.
Elsewhere: Pria in the Dora-nominated ensemble of A Million Billion Pieces (Young People’s Theatre), Viola in Twelfth Night (Crane Creations Theatre Company). Odd places you’ve seen Kate’s photo: gas pumps, subway posters, a romance novel cover. Kate’s classical theatre training comes from Ian Watson at Toronto Metropolitan University and David Latham & Allen MacInnis at Young People’s Theatre. @katemartin___ |
Julia Nish-Lapidus - THE JAILER'S DAUGHTER |
Matt Nish-Lapidus - SOUND DESIGNER |
Julia (she/her) is an actor, director, and producer, as well as a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Shakespeare BASH'd. For Shakespeare BASH'd, Julia has directed Cymbeline, Richard III, The Comedy of Errors, and The Duchess of Malfi (staged reading). She has also performed in many BASH'd productions, including The Tragedy of King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Volpone (staged reading).
She was a member of the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Directing, acting as the Assistant Director on Private Lives and Associate Director on All's Well That Ends Well, and as co-facilitator of the WordPlay series in the Forum. In the Festival's 2021 season she was Co-Director and Co-Curator of Play On! A Shakespeare-Inspired Mix-Tape. Selected Additional Directing Credits: Romeo & Juliet (YES/STC), 3Tempests (Shakespeare In Action), The Tom & Gertie Letters Project (Co-Director), Modern Love (Co-Creator, Canadian Stage), and as an actor OVER, See Bob Run (Theatre Caravel), reasons to the pretty (The Labute Cycle), The Forest (Red One Theatre Collective), Dublin Carol (Fly on the Wall). Julia is a graduate of the joint acting program at UofT and Sheridan College. |
Matt Nish-Lapidus is an artist and musician based in Toronto. His varied practice includes publications, recordings, installations, performances, software, and objects. Recent projects include Romeo and Juliet (YES Theatre), The Tragedy of King Lear (Shakespeare BASH’d), the EDAA award winning Finger Plays, and Only the Dreamer Knows It at MOCA Toronto. Matt has performed and exhibited with The Power Plant (Toronto), INDEX Biennial (Braga), ACUD Macht Neu (Berlin), Electric Eclectics (Meaford), InterAccess (Toronto), ZKM (Karlsruhe), The Plumb (Toronto), and more, including many DIY community spaces.
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Breanne Tice - QUEEN / FRIEND & CHOREOGRAPHER |
Le Truong - BOY / VARIOUS |
Breanne Tice (she/her) is an actor and creator, returning to BASH'd after playing Cordelia in last season's The Tragedy of King Lear. She has performed with companies including YES Theatre, Theatre Direct, Eastern Front, Theatre by the Bay, Bard in the Park, and Theatre on the Ridge. Breanne also works as an intimacy choreographer, and is an arts educator for Soulpepper Theatre and Shakespeare in Action.
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Le is a 2022 Randolph graduate. In another world, he has also pursued a Bachelor of System Engineering at the University of Regina and has worked as a studying engineer! Le did not enjoy Shakespeare until he met James Wallis. Through James’ teaching, Le was converted, and now loves every chance he gets to do Shakespeare. He loves both theater and on-camera works. This summer, Le has been attempting to shred on the skateboard and looks forward to snowboarding season. Instagram: @itsleeeh
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Emilio Vieira - PALAMON |
James Wallis - CO-FACILITATOR |
Emilio is thrilled to return to Shakespeare BASH'd, having previously performed as Cloten in Cymbeline. Stratford Festival credits include: Duke of Aumerle in Richard II, Brigadiere in Grand Magic, as well as roles in Richard III, The Miser, The Tempest, Coriolanus, Napoli Milionaria!, Tartuffe, Macbeth, All My Sons, Bunny. Elsewhere: The Three Musketeers (RMTC), february: a love story (Globus Theatre), Towards Youth: a play on Radical Hope (Crow's Theatre), Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare in High Park), Tartuffe (Canadian Stage), Coriolanus (Dartmouth, New Hampshire.) Emilio trained under the direction of Martha Henry and Stephen Ouimette in the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Thank you for supporting live theatre. Watch february: a love story on demand at februarytheplay.com Instagram: @suddensparkcollective @emiliovieira.
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James has been a Shakespeare fan all his life, having performed with Resurgence Theatre Company as a teenager and again as a professional later in his career.
In 2010, James co-founded Shakespeare BASH’d with his wife, Julia. For the company, James has directed staged readings of Romeo and Juliet (2010), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2011), Edward II (2015), Volpone (2017), as well as the full productions of Romeo & Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tragedy of King Lear. He played Petruchio in the company's Best of Fringe winning production of The Taming of the Shrew in 2012 and the remount in 2015, played Benedick in their sold-out production of Much Ado About Nothing in the 2013 Toronto Fringe, as well as the title roles in Hamlet and Richard III. James participated in the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Directing at the Stratford Festival, assistant directing Macbeth, Bunny, and Romeo and Juliet, as well as Julius Caesar in 2018. He returned to Stratford in 2021 as Co-Director and Co-Curator of Play On! A Shakespeare-Inspired Mix-Tape. |
Jeff Yung - THESEUS
Jeff Yung 容海峯 (he/him) is a Tkarón:to based actor, martial artist, sometimes poet and ¼ of the Shakespeare in the Ruff leadership collective. He’s excited to be back on a BASH’d stage with these great artists. Past shows with BASH’d include Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, King John, and Romeo and Juliet. Other theatre work includes: Prodigal (Howland x Crow’s), Trojan Girls and the Outhouse of Atreus (OtM x Factory Theatre), Monday Nights (PuSh & LUMINATO & Theatre Centre), Antigone (YPT), Vietgone (fu-Gen x RMTC), and Banana Boys (Factory x fu-Gen). Thanks for reading (hearing) about Jeff. Have a great day!
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