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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 and, Kafka and Son.
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 and 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) and The Misfit (Theatre Ji).
Most recently Mark directed, Swan Song of Maria (A Tragic Fairy Tale) ,by Carol Cece Anderson as part of the 2011 Next Stage Festival. As well as upcoming Threshold projects, Mark is looking forward to directing a workshop of Robin Fulford's new play, Democracy is a Cheese Sandwich, a new version of i dont want to be an inside be anymore with the Tones of Voice collective, and a new show for the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People Ensemble 2011. Mark has been nominated for two Dora Awards for Outstanding Direction, the Siminovitch Prize for Excellence in Theatre Directing and the John Hirsch Award in Directing.
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Poster for The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang up the Phone
poster by Arlene Cassidy