IAN FARTHING, Artistic Director
Director, Othello
Ian has previously appeared at the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in productions of Comedie of Errors, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet , A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night and has been Artistic Director since 2006.
Although born in Vancouver, Ian trained in the UK and worked there for ten years before returning to Canada in 1999. Some of his favourite theatre credits include: London productions of South Pacific and Cinderella; working at Shakespeare's Globe with the Lion's Part; Vancouver productions of Cabaret, The Mousetrap and Shear Madness (Arts Club Theatre), Lettice and Lovage, The Foreigner and The Glass Menagerie (Pacific Theatre), Stones in His Pockets (Graffiti Theatre) and Company (Waterfront Theatre). He recently completed a long, successful run in The Sound of Music for Mirvish Productions in Toronto. He is also a member of the nationally acclaimed men's choir Chor Leoni
Directing credits include Vancouver productions of Twelve Angry Men, Gathering Water Drawing Wood, Tenderloin and Follies. For the Festival he has directed The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth.