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Seana McKenna in 2016
Background [ edit ]
Seana McKenna was born in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada ,[1] [2] The Importance of Being Earnest Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton .[3]
Stratford Shakespeare Festival [ edit ]
McKenna has played over 40 stage roles over the course of 36 years at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival , and major ones from very early on, specializing since the 2000s in strong-willed women but also mesmerizing as an actress looking very different from one role to another.[4] [5] Friedrich Schiller 's Mary Stuart Antoni Cimolino and Madame Arcati in Noël Coward 's Blithe Spirit Brian Bedford . She is directing Twelfth Night for the 2024 season.[6]
Roles in other companies [ edit ]
She has also played leading roles in many other major houses across Canada, including the title role in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Centaur Theatre ), Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (Grand Theatre , London), The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner (Belfry Theatre , Neptune Theatre , National Arts Centre , Manitoba Theatre Centre /MTC), Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire Theatre New Brunswick ), Eliza Dollitle in Pygmalion Candida by George Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival ), Medea by Euripides and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (MTC), Blanche Dubois again at MTC, Wit by Margaret Edson at the Canadian Stage Company ,[7] Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and Royal Alexandra Theatre , Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley at the Canadian Stage Company , Phèdre by Jean Racine (American Conservatory Theater ), and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Belfry Theatre , Tarragon Theatre , and National Arts Centre ).[8] [9] [10] [11]
Films and TV [ edit ]
Mckenna has also acted in a few films and television, including the 1997 film The Hanging Garden Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well at filmed Stratford productions: Twelfth Night (1986, King John (2015), and Hamlet (2016)
Personal life [ edit ]
She married director Miles Potter , and they have one son, Callan, born in 1998.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival credits [ edit ]
All's Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare — Diana
Tartuffe
Macbeth William Shakespeare — second Weird Sister
As You Like It William Shakespeare — Understudy for Roberta Maxwell 's Rosalind, As cast
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare — Juliet
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare — Jessica
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare — Viola
King Lear William Shakespeare — Cordelia
She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith — Kate Hardcastle
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams — Assistant director
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare — Portia
Macbeth William Shakespeare — Lady Macbeth
The Country Wife William Wycherley — Lady Fidget
The Night of the Iguana Tennessee Williams — Hannah Jelkes
The School for Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Lady Sneerwell
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare — Titania
Tartuffe Molière — Dorine
Medea Euripides — Medea
Private Lives Noël Coward — Amanda Prynne
"Henry V " (2001) by William Shakespeare — Chorus
Good Mother Damien Atkins — Anne Driver
Richard III William Shakespeare — Queen Elizabeth
Henry VI: Revenge in France William Shakespeare — Margaret
Henry VI: Revolt in England William Shakespeare — Margaret
The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare — Katherina
Present Laughter Noël Coward — Monica
Henry VIII (play) William Shakespeare — Queen Katherine
Noises Off Michael Frayn — Dotty Otley
Fallen Angels Noël Coward — Julia
Orpheus Descending Tennessee Williams — Lady Torrance
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare — Olivia
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams — Amanda Wingfield
London Assurance Dion Boucicault — Lady Gay Spanker
Shakespeare's Will Vern Thiessen — Anne Hathaway
The Trojan Women Euripides — Andromache
Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega — Isabella, Queen of Spain
Phèdre Jean Racine — Phèdre
The Winter's Tale William Shakespeare — Paulina
Dangerous Liaisons Christopher Hampton — Marquise de Merteuil
Richard III William Shakespeare - Richard III
Shakespeare's Will Vern Thiessen — Anne Hathaway
Electra Sophocles — Clytemnestra
The Matchmaker Thornton Wilder — Dolly Levi
Mary Stuart Friedrich Schiller — Queen Elizabeth I
Blithe Spirit Noël Coward — Madame Arcati
Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht — Mother Courage
King John William Shakespeare — Constance
Hamlet William Shakespeare — Gertrude
The Physicists Friedrich Dürrenmatt — Fräulein Mathilde von Zahnd
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare — The nurse
The Madwoman of Chaillot Jean Giraudoux —Aurélie
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare — Julius Caesar
Richard III William Shakespeare - Queen Margaret
Les Belles-Soeurs Michel Tremblay — Rose Ouimet
DVDs, CDs, Audiobooks, Video clips [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ http://www.ent-nts.ca/journal/j23p06_alumni.htm NTS alumni outreach
^ Women beware women. Program notes: Montreal, Quebec, National Theatre School of Canada, 1979
^ Stratford Shakespeare Festival Visitors' Guides from 1982 to 2012. Stratford, Ontario, Canada
^ "Stratford Festival" .
^ "Twelfth Night | Stratford Festival Official Site" . Stratford Festival . Retrieved 2024-03-26 .
^ Regarded as one of the best acting performances of 2001: Glenn Sumi , Wit star Seana McKenna makes a good play great . NOW Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for her performance.
^ http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=McKenna%2C%20Seana Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
^ http://www.act-sf.org/0910/phedre/ American Conservatory Theater production of Phèdre
^ http://www.tarragontheatre.com/season/1011/magicalthinking/ Tarragon Theatre production of The Year of Magical Thinking
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pQhCi85Oew Video excerpt of Tarragon Theatre production of The Year of Magical Thinking
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