Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg

Ep. 55 - Gord Rand

Gord is an actor, playwright and filmmaker. He has performed from San Francisco to Rwanda, including 9 seasons at the Shaw Festival. Among his favourite productions are “Oedipus Rex” (Stratford Festival), “Hamlet” (Necessary Angel), “The Runner” (the award-winning one man show). As the naked Ukrainian plutonium dealer, in Michael Healey’s “The Innocent Eye Test”, Gord won the Dora Award. Recent screen appearances include Stephen Kings’ “Chapelwaite”, a leading role in the indie film, “Last County” and his series regular role in NBC’s “Transplant”. Gord’s filmmaking credits include “Goodness in Rwanda” and an adaptation of his stage play, “Pond Life”. As a founding member of ARCA – Artists for Real Climate Action – he has written and directed several short films for their campaign about climate crisis. Gord considers himself lucky to live in downtown Toronto, to grow his own hot peppers and to have his lovely wife, two beautiful sons and a very large dog.

Ep. 54 - Michael Rubenfeld

Michael Rubenfeld is a Canadian-Polish theatre artist, actor, playwright, director, and producer whose work bridges North America and Europe, engaging deeply with history, identity, and performance. Born in Winnipeg and a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Rubenfeld has built a wide-ranging career on stages across Canada, the United States, and Europe. Acting credits include the Canadian and US premieres of “Our Class”, “Disgraced”, Angels in America” and “The Comedy of Errors”. He is co-founder of Selfconscious Productions, through which he co-created “The Book of Judith” and “We Keep Coming Back”, I collaboration with Sarah Garton Stanley. Michael was Artistic producer of the Summerworks Performance Festival, from 2008-2016, where he produced and presented more than 300 new works and supported generations of emerging and established artists. Rubenfeld’s practice is defined by a commitment to asking difficult questions about memory, responsibility, inheritance, and belonging, using theatre as a space where personal history and collective reckoning collide. Michael currently lives in Warsaw.

Ep 53 - Allegra Fulton

Allegra is a trilingual, award-winning actor. Stage credits include “Julius Caesar” (Canadian Stage), “Tout Comme Elle” (Luminato Festival), “The List” (her solo show with Nightwood Theatre), “Geometry in Venice: (Crows Theatre), “The Comedy of Errors” and “The Odyssey” (Stratford Festival) and “The Crackwalker_ (Persephone Theatre). Among many films, Allegra has performed in “Strange But True”, “The Shape of Water”, “John Q”, “The Law of Enclosures” and “”32 Short Films About Glenn Gould”.  Television viewers will have seen Allegra in “Cardinal”, “Schitt’s Creek”, “Fargo”, “Degrassi: the Next Generation”, The Associates” and “Robocop”. Movies of the Week features have included “Riding the Bus with My Sister”, Two Against Time”, “Dirty Pictures”, Black and Blue”, “Ms. Scrooge” and “Critical Choices.

Ep. 52 - Norm Foster

Norm Foster is a highly produced Canadian playwright known for accessible, funny and heartwarming comedies like “The Melville Boys”, “The Foursome” and “On A First Name Basis”. His plays often feature everyday people and relationships. Foster has written eighty-eight plays to date and has been Canada’s most prolific and most produced playwright for decades. In 2016, Foster was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Ep. 51 - Michael Therriault

Michael’s jam-packed resume is itself a testament to the many stages in a professional actor’s life. So, having Michael join me in conversation is precisely what I’d aimed my podcast to include. Selecting from among the many, many credits will provide a snapshot – our conversation will offer much more. Film and television credits include “Chucky” (regular guest star), “Fellow Travelers” (recurring role), “Guillermo del Toro presents THE VIEWING”, “Designated Survivor”, “Alaias Grace”, “Hemlock Grove” (series regular), “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, “The Tommy Douglas Story” (title character) and “The Newsroom”. West End and Broadway credits include “The Lord of the Rings”, “The Tin Pan Alley Rag” and Fiddler on the Roof”. Stage credits include many seasons at both the Shaw and Stratford Festivals, “The Importance of Being Earnest” (Neptune Theatre), “Jitters” (Manitoba Theatre Centre), “The Producers” (Mirvish Productions), “Billy Bishop Goes to War” (Orangeville Theatre), “She Loves Me” (Drayton Festival), “Peter Pan”, “Pericles”, “The Seagull” and “Oscar Remembered (Stratford Festival), “Rope”, “Brigadoon”, “Wait Until Dark” and “Anything Goes” (Shaw Festival). I worked with Michael in the Studio 180 Theatre/Musical Stage Company production of “Parade”.