IAN FARTHING
Director, Macbeth
Ian has previously appeared at the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in productions of Comedie of Errors, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream 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 has just completed a long, successful run in The Sound of Music 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 recently directed The Merchant of Venice.
Ian sits as an Artistic Advisor on the Board of Pacific Theatre in Vancouver and also gained numerous years of arts management experience as Administrator and Board member of the Arts Centre Group, an arts organization based in the UK.