Hamlet | Creative Team | NECESSARY ANGEL THEATRE COMPANY

	SARAH BUSTARD \| Assistant Stage Manager For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: The Tempest (Dream in High Park, The Canadian Stage Company); Tuesdays with Morrie and Kindertransport (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Madama Butterfly (Opera Hamilton); Forbidden Phoenix and Touch the Sky (LKTYP); The Children’s Crusade workshop (Soundstreams); In Darfur (Theatre Awakening at SummerWorks); blood.claat (Magnetic North Theatre Festival and Black Theatre Workshop); Jewtopia and Evil Dead, The Musical (Independent); The Beggar’s Opera, Real Estate, Storm Warning, Trying, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Music Man (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Hellfire Pass, Real Estate, Wade in the Water and The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia? (Centaur Theatre Company).
	BENEDICT CAMPBELL \| Claudius For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Seven seasons at Shaw, including: The Entertainer, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, An Inspector Calls, Mack and Mabel, Hotel Peccadillo, The Crucible, Too True To Be Good, Major Barbara, Happy End, Man and Superman, Nothing Sacred and The Plough and the Stars. Elsewhere includes: Macbeth (NAC/Citadel); 10 seasons at Stratford, including: Henry IV, Oedipus Rex, The Swanne, Hamlet, The Three Musketeers, Julius Caesar, The Alchemist, Dracula and King Lear (also at Lincoln Centre); Lonesome West, A Little Night Music (Canadian Stage/The Grand); Atlantis (The Grand); Saint Joan, Old Times, Hamlet’s Room (Theatre Plus).
	LAURA DE CARTERET \| Gertrude For Necessary Angel: Half Life Other: Sideman (Tarragon); Skylight, The Gist (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Getting Married (Shaw Festival); School for Scandal (Banff Workshop); The Rehearsal, Digging for Fire, Two Rooms (Paramour Productions, Co-Founder). TV Guest Appearances: Flashpoint, Clean, Family Biz, Angela’s Eyes, Puppets Who Kill, Queer As Folk, Kevin Hill, This Is Wonderland, The West Wing among numerous others. Selected Film Credits: Double Wedding, Everything She Ever Wanted, The Lesson, The Shrine, Diary of the Dead, Shoot 'em Up, The Rocker, The Magic Flute, Spirit Bear, Widow on the Hill, Redemption, Heartstopper, Mean Girls and Atom Egoyan's upcoming Chloe. Laura has narrated numerous documentaries for the NFB and the CBC and voiced cartoons for Nelvana, Decode and Breakthrough Films. She is currently the voice of 'Lady Periwinkle' in The New Adventures of Babar – proudly playing opposite her daughter Isabel.
	SIMON FON \| Fight Choreographer For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Simon Fon has taught thousands of people in stage combat, from coast to coast, over the past 18 years. He is a member of Fight Directors Canada and holds the title of Fight Master. In theatre, Simon has worked at Canadian Stage, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, YPT/Lorraine Kimsa, The Grand Theatre (London) and Theatre By The Bay (Barrie). Simon has also worked on the Dora Nominated Romeo & Juliet Remixed with eXpect theatre/Spark productions and with Robin Phillips on Mill on the Floss for Soul Pepper Theatre at the World Stage. He teaches at George Brown College, University of Toronto, York University, University of British Columbia, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Equity Showcase – Players Academy, Rapier Wit Studio, and Fight Directors Canada National workshops (96, 97, 01, 02, 03, 04).
	ANDREA LUNDY \| Lighting Designer / Production Manager For Necessary Angel: The Eco Show, Half Life, Insomnia, When My Name Was Anna workshop Other: Andrea Lundy is an award-winning lighting designer, having been nominated for 19 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, winning seven times for The Eco Show, Stories from the Rains of Love and Death, Russell Hill, The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls, Possible Worlds, Insomnia, and Oedipus. She has spent four seasons at the Shaw Festival and has worked extensively with Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian Stage, Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and Neptune Theatre among other Canadian companies. She is the Production and Tour Manager for Necessary Angel, teaches at the National Theatre School and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. Upcoming productions include Courageous at Tarragon Theatre, ART at Canadian Stage and Theatrefront’s The Mill.
	ALEXANDER MacSWEEN \| Music & Sound Designer For Necessary Angel: When My Name Was Anna workshop Other: Musician, composer and sound artist, Alexander MacSween, has participated in numerous dance, theatre and film projects. He has worked with Marie Brassard, Marie-Josée Chartier, Brigitte Haentjens, Robert Lepage, and José Navas. As a drummer, Alexander navigates between the worlds of rock, electronic music, and improvisation. He also gives workshops in live sound processing for performing artists at various European and North American institutions. Alexander’s compositions and installations often feature manipulation of the human voice by various technological means. He lives in Montreal.
	STEVEN McCARTHY \| Horatio / Assistant Director For Necessary Angel: The Last Romantics Other: Steven McCarthy was born in Sault Ste. Marie and trained at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. He was a founding member of Bill Glassco’s Montreal Young Company and has collaborated with the likes of Chris Abraham, Richard Rose, Michael Hollingsworth and Marti Maraden. He has had leading roles in films for Miramax, Columbia Tri-Star, Dreamworks and Shaftesbury. Revisited − a play he wrote and staged in collaboration with Michelle Monteith and Christian Barry − has recently completed a tour of Canadian and international festivals garnering numerous awards including a Merritt award for McCarthy’s lead performance. In 2009 he was nominated for a best actor Dora award for his performance in Theatre Smash’s norway.today, directed Three Sam Shepard Plays set in a dilapidated fraternity mansion and was the sole student accepted into the directing section of the NTS where he is presently studying. Information on the debut album of his band The ElastoCitizens can be found at www.elastocitizens.com
	GRAHAM McLAREN \| Director & Designer For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Graham is a Glasgow-based theatre artist who has been working in professional theatre for almost two decades. In that time he has created work ranging from totally improvised and devised work to classical texts. He has performed, designed, written, devised, taught, improvised, choreographed, programmed, directed and produced. At the age of 25, he established the internationally acclaimed and multi award-winning touring company Theatre Babel. His work on European classics has been seen in ancient Greek amphitheatres, black box studios and the main stages of National Theatres and prestigious festivals across the world (including his Dora Award-winning production of Medea at The World Stage Festival in Toronto). In 2005 he was invited to join Perth Theatre in Scotland as Artistic and Co-Creative Director. The following year he became the Associate Artist for the company and remained with them until Jan. ’08. Hamlet marks the first project Graham will create with Necessary Angel as an Associate Artist.
	MELANIE MCNEILL \| Costume Design Assistant For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Most recent theatre credits include Costume Designer for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre); Set & Costume Designer for Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct); Costume Designer for The Light That Stands Still (Shadowland Theatre); Set Designer for Guys and Dolls (IMC); Costume Designer for Walking on Water (Fanshawe College); five seasons with Videocabaret and a bunch of stuff for Mirvish Productions. Film/TV credits include Costume Designer for Ringtone (Sweatbox Films Inc), and Todd & The Book of Pure Evil (Canadian Film Centre).
	CHRISTOPHER MORRIS \| Laertes / Player Queen For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Some recent acting credits include The Runner (Human Cargo, Rustavelli Theatre/Tbilisi), Stones in his Pockets (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Descent (Theatre Passe Muraille), Return: The Sarajevo Project (Theatrefront), Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Resurgence Theatre), Winter’s Tale, Chorus for Disapproval, Play about the Baby (Soulpepper). As Artistic Director of Human Cargo, Christopher has recently worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nunavut, Israel, Palestine, The Republic of Georgia and Petawawa, Ontario. Upcoming/Human Cargo: in December Christopher is directing Night, a collaboration with Inuit and Southern Canadian theatre artists that will premiere at the National Arts Centre in Jan. ‘09 then tour to Yellowknife, Inuvik and Whitehorse. In April ‘10 Christopher is returning to Pakistan and Afghanistan to direct the second workshop of Petawawa, a collaboration between Pakistani, Afghan and Canadian actors about the impact war is having on the families of soldiers in combat.
	TARA NICODEMO \| Ophelia For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Selected professional theatre credits include Beyond Mozambique (Factory Theatre), Cringeworthy (Dora Nomination-Theatre Passe Muraille), The Red Devil (Summerworks 2008), Dangerous Liaisons & The Diary of Anne Frank (The Segal Centre), Hellfire Pass & The Shape of Things (The Centaur Theatre). Selected film and TV credits include: The Border, A Wake, A Love Supreme, Web of Lies, The Archivist’s Handbook, Across the River to Motor City, The Tracey Fragments, Mambo Italiano, Tales from the Never Ending Story, Angelique & All Souls. Tara is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory in NYC. For Steve.
	ROBERT PERSICHINI \| Ghost / Player King For Necessary Angel: Half Life Other: Nine seasons with the Stratford and Shaw Festivals in works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Brecht, Coward, Moliere and Tennessee Williams, most recently The Importance of Being Earnest and Cyrano de Bergerac; Blyth Festival; numerous performances for CanStage including The Weir, The Stone Angel, Amadeus, Communicating Doors and Blue Dragons. Other theatres include Soulpepper; The Centaur; Grand Theatre (London); Manitoba Theatre Centre (last winter’s Jitters); Citadel Theatre; and various new Canadian plays at the Tarragon. Narrator for The Grand Tour, Taflemusik Baroque Orchestra, Aspen Colorado, and Ravinia Music Festival Chicago. Numerous radio plays for CBC and Historica.
	ERIC PETERSON \| Polonius For Necessary Angel: Half Life, Clout Other: Eric has appeared in Homechild, The Beard of Avon, Boy Gets Girl, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Hysteria (CanStage). His most recent stage credits include Festen for the Company Theatre; Glengarry Glen Ross, Of The Fields Lately and Billy Bishop Goes To War (co-creator with John Gray) for Soulpepper; and The Dishwashers for Tarragon Theatre. Other shows he is proud of include The Designated Mourner (Tarragon Theatre), for which he won a Dora Award. His film and television credits include Corner Gas, This is Wonderland and Street Legal.
	GRAY POWELL \| Guildencrantz For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: For the Shaw Festival: Born Yesterday, Brief Encounters, Getting Married, The Little Foxes, The Cassilis Engagement and The Circle. Other recent credits include: Them & Us (Theatre Passe Muraille); Festen (Company Theatre); The Eleventh David (Summerworks 2006); Duel at Dawn (LKTYP); St. Christopher (DVxT/Passe Muraille); The Demimonde (Tiny Bird/Fringe 2005); and Spain (Absit Omen). Gray has also worked across Canada with companies such as Soulpepper, Banff Arts Centre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Leaky Heaven Circus and Carousel Players. His film and television credits include: Till Death Do Us Part, Fugitive Pieces, Hollywoodland, KAW, Train 48 and Getting Lucky.
	GORD RAND \| Hamlet For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Gord Rand is a Toronto-based actor and writer. He has performed on stages across North America including seven seasons at the acclaimed Shaw Festival. Also: Stratford Festival, Factory Theatre, National Arts Centre, The Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, Persephone Theatre, Canadian Stage, American Conservatory Theater and The Royal Alex – where he won a Dora award for his portrayal of “Uri” – a naked Ukranian plutonium dealer. Gord toured in the Edinburgh Festival winner Goodness, having played Edinburgh, New York, Vancouver and which has just returned from Rwanda. He also wrote the Dora-nominated plays Orgy in the Lighthouse and Pond Life. His most recent play was The Trial of Thumbelina (Summerworks 2007). His film and television credits include: The End, Regenesis, Everest, The Cry of the Owl, Phantom Punch, Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid, The Triumph of Dingus McGraw, Mayerthorpe, Heartland, Durham County, Amelia and Death Comes to Town (the new Kids in the Hall series). Gord is also a founding member of the award-winning comedy duo Trophy Wives and is completing a documentary about Volcano's tour to Rwanda.
	CRYSTAL SALVERDA \| Stage Manager For Necessary Angel: Half Life, This Is What Happens Next workshop Other: Crystal is thrilled to be working on Hamlet again. Over the years Crystal has toured internationally and across Canada and has stage managed for Soulpepper Theatre Company, Harold Green Jewish Theatre, Toronto Masque, Blyth Festival and The Grand Theatre to name a few.

	SARAH BUSTARD \| Assistant Stage Manager For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: The Tempest (Dream in High Park, The Canadian Stage Company); Tuesdays with Morrie and Kindertransport (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Madama Butterfly (Opera Hamilton); Forbidden Phoenix and Touch the Sky (LKTYP); The Children’s Crusade workshop (Soundstreams); In Darfur (Theatre Awakening at SummerWorks); blood.claat (Magnetic North Theatre Festival and Black Theatre Workshop); Jewtopia and Evil Dead, The Musical (Independent); The Beggar’s Opera, Real Estate, Storm Warning, Trying, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, The Music Man (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Hellfire Pass, Real Estate, Wade in the Water and The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia? (Centaur Theatre Company).
	BENEDICT CAMPBELL \| Claudius For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Seven seasons at Shaw, including: The Entertainer, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, An Inspector Calls, Mack and Mabel, Hotel Peccadillo, The Crucible, Too True To Be Good, Major Barbara, Happy End, Man and Superman, Nothing Sacred and The Plough and the Stars. Elsewhere includes: Macbeth (NAC/Citadel); 10 seasons at Stratford, including: Henry IV, Oedipus Rex, The Swanne, Hamlet, The Three Musketeers, Julius Caesar, The Alchemist, Dracula and King Lear (also at Lincoln Centre); Lonesome West, A Little Night Music (Canadian Stage/The Grand); Atlantis (The Grand); Saint Joan, Old Times, Hamlet’s Room (Theatre Plus).
	LAURA DE CARTERET \| Gertrude For Necessary Angel: Half Life Other: Sideman (Tarragon); Skylight, The Gist (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Getting Married (Shaw Festival); School for Scandal (Banff Workshop); The Rehearsal, Digging for Fire, Two Rooms (Paramour Productions, Co-Founder). TV Guest Appearances: Flashpoint, Clean, Family Biz, Angela’s Eyes, Puppets Who Kill, Queer As Folk, Kevin Hill, This Is Wonderland, The West Wing among numerous others. Selected Film Credits: Double Wedding, Everything She Ever Wanted, The Lesson, The Shrine, Diary of the Dead, Shoot 'em Up, The Rocker, The Magic Flute, Spirit Bear, Widow on the Hill, Redemption, Heartstopper, Mean Girls and Atom Egoyan's upcoming Chloe. Laura has narrated numerous documentaries for the NFB and the CBC and voiced cartoons for Nelvana, Decode and Breakthrough Films. She is currently the voice of 'Lady Periwinkle' in The New Adventures of Babar – proudly playing opposite her daughter Isabel.
	SIMON FON \| Fight Choreographer For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Simon Fon has taught thousands of people in stage combat, from coast to coast, over the past 18 years. He is a member of Fight Directors Canada and holds the title of Fight Master. In theatre, Simon has worked at Canadian Stage, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, YPT/Lorraine Kimsa, The Grand Theatre (London) and Theatre By The Bay (Barrie). Simon has also worked on the Dora Nominated Romeo & Juliet Remixed with eXpect theatre/Spark productions and with Robin Phillips on Mill on the Floss for Soul Pepper Theatre at the World Stage. He teaches at George Brown College, University of Toronto, York University, University of British Columbia, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Equity Showcase – Players Academy, Rapier Wit Studio, and Fight Directors Canada National workshops (96, 97, 01, 02, 03, 04).
	ANDREA LUNDY \| Lighting Designer / Production Manager For Necessary Angel: The Eco Show, Half Life, Insomnia, When My Name Was Anna workshop Other: Andrea Lundy is an award-winning lighting designer, having been nominated for 19 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, winning seven times for The Eco Show, Stories from the Rains of Love and Death, Russell Hill, The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls, Possible Worlds, Insomnia, and Oedipus. She has spent four seasons at the Shaw Festival and has worked extensively with Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian Stage, Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Factory Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, and Neptune Theatre among other Canadian companies. She is the Production and Tour Manager for Necessary Angel, teaches at the National Theatre School and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. Upcoming productions include Courageous at Tarragon Theatre, ART at Canadian Stage and Theatrefront’s The Mill.
	ALEXANDER MacSWEEN \| Music & Sound Designer For Necessary Angel: When My Name Was Anna workshop Other: Musician, composer and sound artist, Alexander MacSween, has participated in numerous dance, theatre and film projects. He has worked with Marie Brassard, Marie-Josée Chartier, Brigitte Haentjens, Robert Lepage, and José Navas. As a drummer, Alexander navigates between the worlds of rock, electronic music, and improvisation. He also gives workshops in live sound processing for performing artists at various European and North American institutions. Alexander’s compositions and installations often feature manipulation of the human voice by various technological means. He lives in Montreal.
	STEVEN McCARTHY \| Horatio / Assistant Director For Necessary Angel: The Last Romantics Other: Steven McCarthy was born in Sault Ste. Marie and trained at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. He was a founding member of Bill Glassco’s Montreal Young Company and has collaborated with the likes of Chris Abraham, Richard Rose, Michael Hollingsworth and Marti Maraden. He has had leading roles in films for Miramax, Columbia Tri-Star, Dreamworks and Shaftesbury. Revisited − a play he wrote and staged in collaboration with Michelle Monteith and Christian Barry − has recently completed a tour of Canadian and international festivals garnering numerous awards including a Merritt award for McCarthy’s lead performance. In 2009 he was nominated for a best actor Dora award for his performance in Theatre Smash’s norway.today, directed Three Sam Shepard Plays set in a dilapidated fraternity mansion and was the sole student accepted into the directing section of the NTS where he is presently studying. Information on the debut album of his band The ElastoCitizens can be found at www.elastocitizens.com
	GRAHAM McLAREN \| Director & Designer For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Graham is a Glasgow-based theatre artist who has been working in professional theatre for almost two decades. In that time he has created work ranging from totally improvised and devised work to classical texts. He has performed, designed, written, devised, taught, improvised, choreographed, programmed, directed and produced. At the age of 25, he established the internationally acclaimed and multi award-winning touring company Theatre Babel. His work on European classics has been seen in ancient Greek amphitheatres, black box studios and the main stages of National Theatres and prestigious festivals across the world (including his Dora Award-winning production of Medea at The World Stage Festival in Toronto). In 2005 he was invited to join Perth Theatre in Scotland as Artistic and Co-Creative Director. The following year he became the Associate Artist for the company and remained with them until Jan. ’08. Hamlet marks the first project Graham will create with Necessary Angel as an Associate Artist.
	MELANIE MCNEILL \| Costume Design Assistant For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Most recent theatre credits include Costume Designer for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Birdland Theatre); Set & Costume Designer for Binti’s Journey (Theatre Direct); Costume Designer for The Light That Stands Still (Shadowland Theatre); Set Designer for Guys and Dolls (IMC); Costume Designer for Walking on Water (Fanshawe College); five seasons with Videocabaret and a bunch of stuff for Mirvish Productions. Film/TV credits include Costume Designer for Ringtone (Sweatbox Films Inc), and Todd & The Book of Pure Evil (Canadian Film Centre).
	CHRISTOPHER MORRIS \| Laertes / Player Queen For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Some recent acting credits include The Runner (Human Cargo, Rustavelli Theatre/Tbilisi), Stones in his Pockets (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Descent (Theatre Passe Muraille), Return: The Sarajevo Project (Theatrefront), Much Ado about Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Resurgence Theatre), Winter’s Tale, Chorus for Disapproval, Play about the Baby (Soulpepper). As Artistic Director of Human Cargo, Christopher has recently worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nunavut, Israel, Palestine, The Republic of Georgia and Petawawa, Ontario. Upcoming/Human Cargo: in December Christopher is directing Night, a collaboration with Inuit and Southern Canadian theatre artists that will premiere at the National Arts Centre in Jan. ‘09 then tour to Yellowknife, Inuvik and Whitehorse. In April ‘10 Christopher is returning to Pakistan and Afghanistan to direct the second workshop of Petawawa, a collaboration between Pakistani, Afghan and Canadian actors about the impact war is having on the families of soldiers in combat.
	TARA NICODEMO \| Ophelia For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Selected professional theatre credits include Beyond Mozambique (Factory Theatre), Cringeworthy (Dora Nomination-Theatre Passe Muraille), The Red Devil (Summerworks 2008), Dangerous Liaisons & The Diary of Anne Frank (The Segal Centre), Hellfire Pass & The Shape of Things (The Centaur Theatre). Selected film and TV credits include: The Border, A Wake, A Love Supreme, Web of Lies, The Archivist’s Handbook, Across the River to Motor City, The Tracey Fragments, Mambo Italiano, Tales from the Never Ending Story, Angelique & All Souls. Tara is a graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory in NYC. For Steve.
	ROBERT PERSICHINI \| Ghost / Player King For Necessary Angel: Half Life Other: Nine seasons with the Stratford and Shaw Festivals in works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Brecht, Coward, Moliere and Tennessee Williams, most recently The Importance of Being Earnest and Cyrano de Bergerac; Blyth Festival; numerous performances for CanStage including The Weir, The Stone Angel, Amadeus, Communicating Doors and Blue Dragons. Other theatres include Soulpepper; The Centaur; Grand Theatre (London); Manitoba Theatre Centre (last winter’s Jitters); Citadel Theatre; and various new Canadian plays at the Tarragon. Narrator for The Grand Tour, Taflemusik Baroque Orchestra, Aspen Colorado, and Ravinia Music Festival Chicago. Numerous radio plays for CBC and Historica.
	ERIC PETERSON \| Polonius For Necessary Angel: Half Life, Clout Other: Eric has appeared in Homechild, The Beard of Avon, Boy Gets Girl, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Hysteria (CanStage). His most recent stage credits include Festen for the Company Theatre; Glengarry Glen Ross, Of The Fields Lately and Billy Bishop Goes To War (co-creator with John Gray) for Soulpepper; and The Dishwashers for Tarragon Theatre. Other shows he is proud of include The Designated Mourner (Tarragon Theatre), for which he won a Dora Award. His film and television credits include Corner Gas, This is Wonderland and Street Legal.
	GRAY POWELL \| Guildencrantz For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: For the Shaw Festival: Born Yesterday, Brief Encounters, Getting Married, The Little Foxes, The Cassilis Engagement and The Circle. Other recent credits include: Them & Us (Theatre Passe Muraille); Festen (Company Theatre); The Eleventh David (Summerworks 2006); Duel at Dawn (LKTYP); St. Christopher (DVxT/Passe Muraille); The Demimonde (Tiny Bird/Fringe 2005); and Spain (Absit Omen). Gray has also worked across Canada with companies such as Soulpepper, Banff Arts Centre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Leaky Heaven Circus and Carousel Players. His film and television credits include: Till Death Do Us Part, Fugitive Pieces, Hollywoodland, KAW, Train 48 and Getting Lucky.
	GORD RAND \| Hamlet For Necessary Angel: Debut Other: Gord Rand is a Toronto-based actor and writer. He has performed on stages across North America including seven seasons at the acclaimed Shaw Festival. Also: Stratford Festival, Factory Theatre, National Arts Centre, The Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, Persephone Theatre, Canadian Stage, American Conservatory Theater and The Royal Alex – where he won a Dora award for his portrayal of “Uri” – a naked Ukranian plutonium dealer. Gord toured in the Edinburgh Festival winner Goodness, having played Edinburgh, New York, Vancouver and which has just returned from Rwanda. He also wrote the Dora-nominated plays Orgy in the Lighthouse and Pond Life. His most recent play was The Trial of Thumbelina (Summerworks 2007). His film and television credits include: The End, Regenesis, Everest, The Cry of the Owl, Phantom Punch, Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid, The Triumph of Dingus McGraw, Mayerthorpe, Heartland, Durham County, Amelia and Death Comes to Town (the new Kids in the Hall series). Gord is also a founding member of the award-winning comedy duo Trophy Wives and is completing a documentary about Volcano's tour to Rwanda.
	CRYSTAL SALVERDA \| Stage Manager For Necessary Angel: Half Life, This Is What Happens Next workshop Other: Crystal is thrilled to be working on Hamlet again. Over the years Crystal has toured internationally and across Canada and has stage managed for Soulpepper Theatre Company, Harold Green Jewish Theatre, Toronto Masque, Blyth Festival and The Grand Theatre to name a few.