Craig Walker
Director, Trouble on Dibble Street
This is the fourth season that Craig has been associated with
the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival. Previous work includes
directing As You Like It last summer and Romeo and
Juliet the year before, and appearing as Prince Escalus in the
latter play, as Benedick in Much Adoe About Nothing and as
Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. As an actor, he has
appeared at many other theatres, including, early in his career,
the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival (at both of which he
later worked as an Assistant Director), and subsequently, the
National Arts Centre, the Sudbury Theatre Centre, the Thousand
Islands Playhouse in nearby Gananoque, and on various Toronto
stages, including the Poor Alex, the Royal Alex, the Tarragon,
Harbourfront Centre, and in several productions at Hart House
Theatre, including Robert LePage's 1992 production of
Macbeth. For ten years, from 1997 to 2007, he was Artistic
Director of Theatre Kingston, where the more than thirty
productions he directed included four plays by John Lazarus,
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and his own adaptations of
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Henrik Ibsen's The
Master Builder. The company also produced his
Chantecler: a musical, for which he wrote the book, music
and lyrics. Alongside his theatrical career, Craig enjoys an
academic career as a Professor of Drama at Queen's University in
Kingston, where he teaches and recently directed his own adaptation
of Bertolt Brecht's Drums in the Night. His scholarly
editions of Hamlet, The Tempest and King
Lear have all been published by Broadview Press and he is the
author of The Buried Astrolabe, a book about Canadian
drama. Earlier this year he was appointed to a three-year term as a
Corresponding Scholar at the Shaw Festival.