Michael Murphy (Director & Producer)
For S&C: Director of George F. Walker’s Rumours of Our Death, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Glengarry Glen Ross, Amadeus (Kingston & Toronto mountings), The Laramie Project, The Crucible, This Is Our Youth, Searching for Eden, The Twinkie Squad. Producer of 24 Hour Play Festival, Amadeus, Proof, The Crucible, Searching for Eden, The Twinkie Squad.
Other theatre: Selected directing - A Book on Tape by Brendan Gall (Luminato 2008/Young Centre); Dust by Jason Maghanoy (CrossCurrents Festival/Factory Theatre); Assistant Director to Daryl Cloran Three Sisters; Into the Woods,
Etc.: Michael is the founding Artistic Director of Staged and Confused and has overseen the company over the past six years. He is a graduate of Queen's University where he was the recipient of the Fred Euringer Award for excellence in theatre production for the Kingston community, and the William Angus Award in Drama; Michael attended the Soulpepper Director’s Lab with Joseph Ziegler, and presently works for Soulpepper as their marketing coordinator.
Lindsay C. Walker (Set & Costume Design)
For S&C: Debut.
Other theatre: Macbeth (Classical Theatre Projects); Canon in D Minor (Core Theatre with Summerworks); The Drawer Boy, Animal Magnetism (The Georgian Theatre Festival); In a World Created by a Drunken God, Stones in His Pockets (Magnus Theatre); Vote By Ballot, Mouthing Off (Shaw Festival). Lindsay also spent two seasons as Design Assistant at the Shaw Festival and was the Assistant Designer for both Into the Woods and South Pacific at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Etc.: Originally from British Columbia, Lindsay is a Toronto based Set and Costume designer. Lindsay was an inaugural member of the The Canadian Stage BASH artist development program. She has also received two Tyrone Guthrie Awards from The Stratford Shakespeare Festival as well as a Dora nomination for Best Production for Macbeth in the Theatre for Young Audiences category.
Nicola Benidickson (Associate Producer & Assistant Director)
For S&C: Rumors of Our Death, Glengarry Glen Ross.
Other theatre: ASM at Tarragon Theatre for How It Works, Democracy. Additional productions include Into the Woods, A Dream Play, L’Elisir d’Amore.
Upcoming: ASM for Tapestry New Opera Works