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SUZANNE HERSH
Co-founder and co-artistic director of Threshold Theatre, actor Suzanne Hersh has performed in and collaborated on many Threshold shows, creating roles in As I Lay Dying, The Fall of the House of Usher, and White Buildings, to name a few. Other favourite acting work includes Marjorie in Jewel by Joan MacLeod, various Tennessee Williams pieces in The Evergreen: A Motel Play, and Blade by Yvette Nolan. Suzanne has also acted with Platform 9 (Five Fingers), Puppetmongers (Terror, co-produced by Threshold), Bread & Puppet Theatre, Shadowland Theatre (The Travelling Medicine Show) and with filmmaker Amnon Buchbinder.
Suzanne appeared in a recent workshop reading of Threshold Theatre's Sprawl at Ellington's Cafe. Currently she is collaborating with Ann Powell of the Puppetmongers, on a theatrical adaptation of short stories by Adele Wiseman and Margaret Laurence. The first part of this work, On Wings of Tongue, was presented at Buddies in Bad Times' Hysteria festival and at the Miles Nadal JCC Between Stages series.
MARK CASSIDY
Mark has a reputation for creating adventurous, thought-provoking theatre. As co-artistic director of Threshold, Mark has devised and directed a number of innovative projects including, As I Lay Dying, In The Language of Love, White Buildings, Beautiful Losers, That Time, Howl, The Hairy Ape, Forms of Devotion, Terror, Kafka and Son and, i dont want to be an inside me anymore.
Collaborations with other Toronto companies have included Five Fingers, Tunnel and Whitewash (Platform 9), The Lost Supper (Shadowland), Borderline and The Dershowitz Protocol (DMT), The Secret of Gabi's Dresser, The Shop on Main Street & Ten Green Bottles(Te-Amim), The Demonstration (Theatre Direct), The Pirate Widow Cheng (Puppetmongers), The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang up the Phone and Crush (Optic Heart).
Mark recently directed: The Misfit, written and performed by Anita Majumdar/Theatre Passe Muraille, which was nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Plays in the works for Threshold include: Sprawl, a piece he is also writing, and, Swan Song of Maria: A Tragic Fairy Tale by Carol Cece Anderson.
Mark has twice been nominated for a Dora Award for Outstanding Direction, and also for the Siminovitch Prize for excellence in Theatre Directing. Last year, Mark was nominated for the John Hirsch Award in Directing.
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Rose Stella and Celyne Gaspe in Beautiful Losers
Photo by Neil Ward