Actor Resume

LEZLIE WADE

ACTRA/ CAEA/ PCG

DIRECTOR


THEATRE
AS YOU LIKE IT GLORIOUS DOG SEES GOD TREES STANDING TALL FUENTE OVEJUNA THE YALTA GAME SUMMER AND SMOKE WAITING FOR THE PARADE THE RELAPSE THE ROVER THAT SUMMER FOR THE PLEASURE... ...OF SEEING HER AGAIN A CHRISTMAS CAROL LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS THE FOURSOME ART MISS JULIE BOOK OF DAYS * THE LONG WEEKEND MINI PUTT A PERFECT WEDDING THE FOURSOME A CHRISTMAS CAROL RELATIVELY SPEAKING SYLVIA GIFT OF THE MAGI EDUCATING RITA LUV DANGEROUS OBSESSION SHIRLEY VALENTINE THE CHIMES THE WOMAN IN BLACK SLEUTH THE BUSINESS OF MURDER POOR LYDIA IS LOST MUSICAL THE TOXIC AVENGER (Canadian Premiere) A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE * (Canadian Premiere) MACK & MABEL (Canadian Premiere) ELEGIES * (Canadian Premiere) A CHRISTMAS CAROL COTTON PATCH GOSPEL COWGIRLS MAN OF LA MANCHA STARDUST CIRCUS EIGHT TO THE BAR PERSONALS LOVE KNOTS & LARIATS I DO! I DO! Dora Award Nomination YOUTH SHOWS* SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM THE TEMPEST COMEDY OF ERRORS JACOB TWO TWO ANNE OF GREEN GABLES ROMEO & JULIET GREASE TWELFTH NIGHT	Assistant Director Director Director Director Assistant Director Director Assistant Director Director Director / Period Study Director / Period Study Director Director Director / Writer Director Director Director Assistant Director Director / Producer Director Director Director Director Director / Writer Director Director Director Director Director Director Director Director / Writer Director Director Director Writer/ Director Resident Dir./ Choreographer Director Assisstant Director Director/ Choreographer Director/ Writer Director/ Choreographer Director/ Choreographer Director/ Choreographer Director/ Choreographer Director/ Choreographer Director/ Choreographer Director/ Choreographer Director/ Choreographer Director Senior Conservatory Director/ Editor Director/ Editor Director/ Editor Director Director/ Choreographer Director/ Editor Director/ Choreographer Director/ Editor	Stratford Festival/ Des McAnuff Stage West, Mississuaga Rubinoff Productions Talk Is Free Theatre Stratford Festival/ Laurence Boswell Shaw Festival Directors Project Shaw Festival/ Neil Munro U of T Theatre Erindale George Brown Theatre School George Brown Theatre School The Georgian Theatre Festival The Georgian Theatre Festival Theatre Orangeville The Georgian Theatre Festival The Georgian Theatre Festival Waterloo Stage Theatre Soulpepper/ Herbert Olschok Theatre Emanation Waterloo Stage Theatre Theatre Orangeville Waterloo Stage Victoria Playhouse Sudbury Theatre Centre Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Theatre In Port Showboat Festival Theatre Showboat Festival Theatre Showboat Festival Theatre Dancap Acting Up Stage Company Shaw Festival/ Molly Smith Acting Up Stage Company Smile Theatre Company The Georgian Theatre Festival The Georgian Theatre Festival Waterloo Stage Theatre Smile Theatre Company Bluewater Summer Playhouse Grand Theatre, Kingston Smile Theatre Company Theatre In Port Resurgence Theatre Company Showboat Festival Theatre Showboat Festival Theatre Words In Action Showboat Festival Theatre Words In Action Words In Action Georgian Theatre Festival Georgian Theatre Festival
WORKSHOPS
PATIENCE LORRAINE PANDA PANDA PEACELINE THE EGG CHORALOCITY MATTER OF TIME MOHAWK PRINCESS	Director Director Director Director Director Director Director	Blyth Festival/ Alison McElwain (Writer) LKTYP/ Adapted By Leanna Brodie Smile Theatre Company/ By Melinda Little Nightwood Theatre/ By Dawn Obdija By Scott White Lighthouse Festival Theatre/ By Robert More Lighthouse Festival Theatre
WRITING
THE RANGING GRANNIES QUEEN OF THE MIST MAKE EM LAUGH POOR LYDIA IS LOST A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE CHIMES	Writer Writer Writer Writer Writer Writer	Smile Theatre Company Smile Theatre Company Smile Theatre Company Showboat Festival School Tour The Globe/ STC/ Workshop West/ Carousel Theatre/ Showboat Festival Theatre/ Smile Theatre (Musical Version with Puppets) Theatre In Port
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
TYRONE GUTHRIE AWARD PAULINE McGIBBON... ...AWARD NOMINATION DORA AWARD NOMINATIONS	Stratford Festival Award For Directing Best Director Of A Musical	2003, 2009 A Man of No Importance/ Acting Up Stage Company
TRAINING
GEORGE BROWN... ...THEATRE SCHOOL THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE SCHOOL OF THEATRE (New York) UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR DIRECTING SCENE STUDY ACTING INTENSIVE	Theatre Arts Diploma Acting & Scene Study- Diana Reis, Peter Wylde, Sherry Flett, David Ferry, David Storch, Graham Harley, Malcolm Black, Perry Schneiderman Voice- Susan Stackhouse Movement- Leslie French Speech - Dorothy Ward Acting with Sanford Meisner, Philip Gushee, Richard Pinter, Edward More Dance- Dorothy Cole Bachelor of Fine Arts - One Year of Three Year Program Stratford Festival Directing Summit - Bill Gaskill, Christopher Newton Soulpepper Theatre Company Director's Lab- Joseph Zeigler Director's Lab- The Lincoln Center Theater, NY - Shi-Zheng Chen Shaw Festival Masterclass- Christopher Newton Carousel Theatre Company Chekhov Intensive- Laszlo Martin
ADDITIONAL CREDENTIALS
Associate Artist Canadian Stage 2007 Season Producing Artists Director - The Georgian Theatre Festival 2003-2005 Co-Founder & Artistic Director- Theatre In Port, St Catharines, ON 1998-2000 Associate Director Showboat Festival Theatre, Port Colborne, ON 1996-1998 Artistic Director Theatremanation, Toronto, ON 2002 Founder and Chief Instructor of Words in Action Youth Theatre Program Musical Theatre For Young People Through Performing Arts School, Bermuda Shakespeare Outreach Program For The Burnaby Arts Centre Scene Study Workshops for Theatre Orangeville Opera Outreach - Canadian Opera Company (Directing/Teaching) Member of the Lincoln Centre Director's Lab Currently a Lyricist in the Lehmen Engle BMI Workshop in New York

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