Salamander's Repertoire Company Artists
Simon Bradshaw
Some of Simon's previous roles include the role of Eugene in the Rideau Project: The Rhyme of the Nicolas Street Gaol, Moon in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound, the Dauphin in Shakespeare's King John and Nick in Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows. He has performed as a dozen different characters in four different plays in Odyssey's New Works Festival and as a handful of characters in Gruppo Rubato's Airport Security.
Simon has degrees in Theatre, English Literature and Psychology from the University of Ottawa. Along with Kelly Rigole, Simon is a founding member of Ditto Productions, a theatre company that specializes in Verbatim Theatre. Their first show This Is A Recording won awards for Best in Venue and Outstanding Concept at the 2009 Ottawa Fringe Festival and was selected for performance at the upcoming Undercurrents Festival at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in February 2010.
© Photo by: Andrew Alexander
Kate Smith
B.A. Acting, Dalhousie University
Kate has been working as a professional actor since 2004. She has worked with a number of theatre companies, including: Third Wall Theatre (Top Girls), A Company of Fools (Richard III in Bouffon, Shakespeare's Interactive Circus), SevenThirty Productions (Iron, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Gruppo Rubato (Airport Security), Evolution Theatre (pool (no water), Arabian Night), The Magnetic North Theatre Festival (a Theatre la Catapulte and NAC co-production) on The Rideau Project: The Rhyme of the Nicholas Street Gaol, Odyssey Theatre, and Salamander Theatre, among others.
Last fall Kate performed on stage with Margaret Atwood as part of the world tour for Atwood's latest book, The Year of the Flood. This past winter and spring Kate studied movement with Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts, as well as Viewpoints movement work at the Great Canadian Theatre Company led by Michael Greyeyes, and stilt walking with the Ottawa Stilt Union. Kate is the artistic producer of new Ottawa-based theatre company, Skeleton Key.
© Photo by: Andrew Alexander
William Somers
William is an emerging actor and director from Ottawa. Most recently he played Romeo in a production of Romeo & Juliet that toured northern and western Ontario (Salamander Shakespeare Co.). As a director, he directed High Life for Chamber Theatre Hintonburg, the first professional production ever staged in the Hintonburg Community Centre. He also directed Sexual Perversity in Chicago, staged in a historic neighbourhood tavern.
Acting credits include The John in Mechanicsville Monologues (CTH), various roles in A World of Stories (Salamander Theatre), Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Angelo in Measure for Measure (Salamander Shakespeare Co.), Ambrose in Down Dangerous Passes Road (Algonquin College), and Jack in A Grimm Tale (Hightide Productions), a play which he helped collectively to create that was nominated for a 2009 Rideau Award for Best Adaptation.
Will teaches with the Orleans Young Players Theatre School, the Nepean Creative Arts Centre and Salamander's Shakespeare Summer Camps.
© Photo by: Helena Guzmán
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