# Pride and Prejudice
April 29 to May 17, 2025
Spriet Stage
Additional Information
Opening Night Friday, May 2
By Kate Hamill
Adapted from the Novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Rebecca Northan
Advisories **Age Recommendation:** 10+
**Running Time:** 140 minutes, which includes a 20-minute intermission.
[**Read Audience Advisory**](#advisory)
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## **Hang on to your bonnets! A fresh take on the classic Austen romance of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.**
They’re the Bennets that you love, and they’re in it to win it (as far as love and marriage are concerned). This time, nothing is off limits – if it means securing a husband and a home for all your sisters.
Jane is still the beauty, Mary is ghastly-as-ever, Lydia is ready to stir things up, and Lizzy is having none of it. Marriage, shmarriage!
In this laugh-out-loud adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic work, Kate Hamill deftly infuses the beloved Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys with even more saucy irreverence for society’s expectations; the pearls are clutched, the waistlines are empire, the balls are ballistic, and the genders are bending. Through it all, the timeless love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy captures the hearts of dear readers, and brand-new Austen fans alike.
With a cult following of her own, the award-winning and incorrigible **Rebecca Northan** (*Blind Date*, *Every Brilliant Thing*) will direct the production on the Grand Theatre’s Spriet Stage.
## **ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE**
### AFTERWORDS
On select Wednesday evenings, immediately after the performance, join host **Breanne Ritchie** in theatre's lounge for a brief guided discussion with guest artists, creative team members, and Grand staff members.
- [Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025](https://tickets.grandtheatre.com/11067/11069) - with special guests **Carmen Grant**, **Kate Hennig** & **Sarah Wilson**
- [Wednesday, May 7, 2025](https://tickets.grandtheatre.com/11067/11077) - with special guests **Eric Craig** & **Beck Lloyd**
- [Wednesday, May 14, 2025 ](https://tickets.grandtheatre.com/11067/11085)
### Tea Talks
Join us for creative conversations pre-show with host **Rachel Peake** and special guests connected to the show. Tea Talks begin at 12:00pm before the Wednesday 1:00pm matinée.
- [Wednesday, May 14, 2025 ](https://tickets.grandtheatre.com/11067/11084)- with special guest **Dr. Joan Clayton**
### Performance with ASL Interpretation
During performances with ASL (American Sign Language), the Grand provides designated seats available for the Deaf Community with the best viewing of the stage and the ASL Performer.
- [Saturday, May 10 , 2025 at 2:00pm](https://tickets.grandtheatre.com/11067/11080)
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### Audience Advisory
*This play contains adult themes and sexual innuendo. Production effects include atmospheric haze, flashing lights, and bells/ whistles.*
### The Cast
Eric Craig
Actor 4 - Mr Darcy
For the Grand Theatre: The Hobbit Theatre Credits (Selected): Paradise Square (original Broadway cast); Evita, The Prom (Drayton); Matilda (1st National tour/Toronto company); Sunday in the Park with George (Eclipse); The Secret Garden (Theatre Calgary); Fun Home, Pride and Prejudice (Arts Club); Hamlet (SLSF); Edges, Retold (Musical Stage); Intimate Apparel (WJT); Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty and the Beast (Stage West); Boeing Boeing (Magnus); The Sound of Music (TIP). Film and TV (selected): The Handmaid’s Tale, Workin’ Moms, Good Witch, Reign, 12 Monkeys, Murdoch Mysteries
Raechel Fisher
Actor 1 - Jane / Miss de Bourgh
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Citronella (Gravenhurst Opera House); Twelfth Night, Souls of the Shield Part 1-4 (Timberbeast Productions); Oh, What A Lovely War (Hart House Theatre); Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well (Canadian Stage). Film and TV Credits: The Apprentice, A Knights War Other: Graduate BFA Acting Conservatory at York University. [www.raechelcolettefisher.com/](http://www.raechelcolettefisher.com/)
Carmen Grant
Actor 5 - Mr Collins / Mr Wickham / Miss Bingley
For The Grand Theatre: The Syringa Tree, Fly Me To The Moon, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Theatre Credits (Selected): Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Much Ado About Nothing, The Matchmaker, King John, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Mother Courage and Her Children (Stratford); Zadie's Shoes (Alberta Theatre Prjects); Richard III, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan):Treasure Island (Persephone Theatre); Doc (Soulpepper); Cottagers and Indians (Tarragon Theatre); Prairie Nurse (Lighthouse Theatre). Other: Graduate of Mount Royal College (Calgary), National Theatre School of Canada (Montreal), and the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre (Stratford).
Kate Hennig
Actor 7 - Mrs Bennet
For the Grand Theatre: Girls in the Gang, Jacques Brel…, Liars, Mad Ballades, Secret Garden, My Way. Theatre Credits (Selected): Gypsy, Gaslight, The Importance of Being Earnest (Shaw Festival); A Dolls House Part 2, The Audience (RMTC/Mirvish); Breath of Kings, Romeo and Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof (Stratford Festival). Film and TV Credits: Delia’s Gone (Lumanity); Saving Hope (eOne); Anne of Green Gables (Breakthrough); Bomb Girls (Global). Other: Playwright: The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, Mother’s Daughter (premiered at Stratford Festival, more than 30 productions nationally and internationally); Cyrano de Bergerac (adaptation premiered at Shaw Festival) [www.katehennig.com](http://www.katehennig.com)
Beck Lloyd
Actor 2 - Lizzy
For the Grand Theatre: Controlled Damage. Theatre Credits (Selected): Hamlet (CanStage); Grand Magic, A Wrinkle In Time, The Miser, Richard iii, r+j (Stratford Festival); The gruesome terror & most brave triumph of Bluebeard's Bride, The Madwoman of Chaillot (The Lunar Stratagem); Portraits, Patterns, Possibilities (Culcha Works); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Lower Ossington Theatre). Other: Graduate of the MFA Program at York University, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, Factory Mechanicals @beckklloyd
Lior Maharjan
Actor 3 - Lydia / Lady Catherine
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Alphonse (Pleasance Edinburgh Fringe/Theaturtle/Carousel Vancouver); All I Want for Christmas (Centaur); Ricki (Scapegoat Carnivale); Landscape Grindr (La Chapelle); L’amoure looks something like you, Roi Lear (Théâtre Denise Pelletier); be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together (GCTC); Trans Gemmes 2.0 (Buddies in Bad Times); La Somnambule (Cabal). Film and TV Credits (Selected): Really Happy Someday (Spindle Films); Ominous (Fibe TV1); Celestine (Slykid); Pandora’s Box (Rotin); Bleach (Leitmotiv); Bleach (Eyedance); Check ta chatte (Fittonia). Other: Find out about Lior’s multidisciplinary work at [www.liormaharjan.com](http://www.liormaharjan.com).
Andrew Moodie
Actor 8 - Mr Bennet / Charlotte Lucas
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Lessons in Forgetting (Pleadies Theatre); Daisy (Great Canadian Theatre Company); Othello (Shakespear in the Rough); Macbeth (Stratford). FILM & TV Credits (Selected): Legacy of Cloudy Falls, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, Race: The Jesse Owens Story, Total Recall, Miss Sloan, A Simple Favour, The Boys, Reacher, A Handmaid's Tale. OTHER: Playwrighting Credits: Riot (1996 Chalmers Award for Best New Play Winner), The Real McCoy (Factory Theatre, GCTC), Toronto the Good (Factory Theatre; Dora Award Nomination).
Sarah Wilson
Actor 6 - Mary / Mr Bingley
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Performer: Of Human Bondage, La Bête, Animal Farm, Spoon River, Oleanna, Jitters, Speed-the- Plow (Soulpepper); Cruel and Tender, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message (Canadian Stage); two seasons at Stratford. Writer: De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail (lyrics/Soulpepper); Rose (lyrics/book/Soulpepper). Film and TV (Selected): A Match in Manhattan; Mistletoe & Molly; Anne with an E; Suits; Ransom; Reign. Other: Various concerts for Soulpepper Theatre's Concert Series and Harmony House PEI. Audiobook Narrator: Hope by Terry Fox (ed. Barbara Adhiya). Graduate of George Brown, Stratford's Birmingham Conservatory and the Soulpepper Academy.
### Creative Team
Rebecca Northan
Director
For the Grand Theatre: An Undiscovered Shakespeare, This London Life, Every Brilliant Thing, Blind Date Theatre credits (selected): Goblin:Macbeth (Stratford Festival/Bard on the Beach/The Shakespeare Company); The Miser (assistant director, Stratford Festival); All I Want for Christmas (Centaur Theatre); Zorro:Family Code (Alberta Theatre Projects); JACK! A Beanstalk Panto (Capitol Theatre). Film & TV: This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Being Erica (CBC); Alice-I Think (CTV, Comedy Network); The Foundation (Showcase) Other: Rebecca teaches improvisation through her company Spontaneous Theatre website: spontaneoustheatre.ca
Krista Leis
Choreographer
Debut: Pride and Prejudice. Selected Theatre Credits: In Studio: The Words and Music of Britta Johnson (Choreographer, Theatre Sheridan), Snow White: The Panto (Choreographer, The Capitol Theatre), La Cage Aux Folles (Associate Choreographer, The Stratford Festival), Man of La Mancha (Assistant Choreographer, The Stratford Festival), West Side Story (Assistant Choreographer, The Stratford Festival), In The Heights (Associate Director and Choreographer, Theatre Sheridan), Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway), 10 seasons as a performer with The Stratford Festival. Film and TV Credits: Roxana (Bravo), The Music Man (Disney), Romeo and Juliet (Stratfest at Home) Other: Krista is also the proud owner of The Movement Centre Pilates and Rehabilitation Studio in Stratford ON.
Brandon Kleiman
Set Designer
For Grand Theatre: Debut. Other: Brandon is a set and costume designer based in Hamilton with work appearing on stages across Canada. He’s had the pleasure to design at The Stratford Festival, Drayton Entertainment, Mirvish Productions, Theatre Aquarius, Canadian Stage Co., The Globe Theatre, Young Peoples Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Buddies In Bad Times, Thousand Islands Playhouse and countless other independent companies across our country. Brandon is a multiple Dora award nominee and two time winner. For more information and to see his portfolio please visit [www.brandonkleimandesign.com](http://www.brandonkleimandesign.com)
Joanna Yu
Costume Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Intimate Apparel, Kingfisher Days. Theatre Credits (Selected): Set Design: Kim’s Convenience ( Soulpepper/ACT); Salesman in China (Stratford Festival/NAC), Prison Dancer (Citadel/NAC), Three Sisters (Soulpepper/Obsidian), ‘da Kink in My Hair (Soulpepper). Costume Design: Snow in Midsummer (Shaw Festival/NAC), The Queen In Me (COC/Nightwood/Amplified Opera/Theatre Gargantua, Nightwood); Forgiveness (Arts Club/Theatre Calgary); How to Fail as a Popstar (Canadian Stage). Other: Board Member - Associated Designers of Canada, ADC659; Recipient of: Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award, Pauline McGibbon Award, Dora Award. [www.joannayudesign.com](http://www.joannayudesign.com).
Sophie Tang
Lighting Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre Credits (Selected): Jersey Boys, Legend of Georgia Mcbride (Arts Club); Little Prince ( Pacific Opera); Salesman in China, Rez Sisters (Straford Festival); Twelfth Night, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Harlem Duet( Bard on the Beach); Three Musketeers (Citadel Theatre/Arts Club); Choir Boy (Canada Stage/Arts Club); Pearl Fisher, Mid Summer Night’s Dream (Vancouver Opera); Apple Cart (Shaw Festival). Other: Thee time Jessie Award nominee and two-time winner; BFA from SFU and MFA from UBC. portfolio website: sophieyufeitang.com
Maddie Bautista
Sound Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Kim’s Convenience. Theatre Credits (Selected): King James (Theatre Aquarius/ATP); CRAZE (Tarragon); Get That Hope (Stratford); seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Crow’s/Obsidian); Woking Phoenix (TPM/Silk Bath Collective). Other: Two-time Dora Mavor Moore Award recipient for Love You Wrong Time. [www.maddiebautista.com](http://www.maddiebautista.com)
Kelly Luft
Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre (Selected): The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Rubaboo, Elf, Grow, Home For the Holidays, Grand Re:Opening Festival, Mary Poppins, Prom Queen, Chariots of Fire, A Christmas Carol (2017, 2018), Art, The Wizard of Oz (’16, ’09, ‘02). Theatre Credits (Selected): Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet-911, A Festival Queerstory, The Front Page, The Komagata Maru Incident (Stratford Festival); The Sound of Music, Hairspray (Drayton Entertainment); Le Bal (Theatre Plus); Not Wanted on the Voyage (Canadian Stage Company); 2 years in London England’s West End. Opera Credits (Selected): 12 seasons with Opera Lyra Ottawa, 10 seasons with Hawaii Opera Theatre, 7 seasons with Orchestra London and Opera Pacific Victoria, 16 seasons with Opera Hamilton / Opera Ontario, Wagner’s Ring Cycle - Götterdämmerung for the Canadian Opera Company, and Idomeneo for Opera Atelier.
Suzanne McArthur
Assistant Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: 16th season. Theatre Credits (selected): 6 seasons with the Stratford Festival, 5 seasons with Drayton Entertainment, “A Huron Country Christmas Carol” (Blyth Festival); Hamlet-911, Hosanna, The Tempest (Stratford Festival); The Birds and the Bees, Aladdin: The Panto, Snow White: The Panto, Weekend Comedy, Perfect Wedding (Drayton Entertainment); The Fixer-Upper, It’s Your Funeral, Lunenburg, Buying the Farm, Birds of a Feather, Storm Warning, Wrong for Each Other, Knickers! A Brief Comedy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); The Normal Heart (Studio 180/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Forests (Tarragon Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Silver Mist Productions). OTHER: Love to Michael and Charlie!
Tsz Ting Lam
Apprentice Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Debut. Theatre/Opera Credits (Selected): Betty’s Song, Munschables, Island Steps (Charlottetown Festival); Bluebeard’s Castle (Against the Grain Theatre); Tartuffe (Opera Nuova). Other: 2023 Metcalf Intern Producer (Nightwood Theatre).
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