John Stead
Stratford: Fight director, 200+ productions, including The Tempest, The Music Man, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Comedy of Errors, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brontë: The World Without, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Paradise Lost. Head of Stage Combat. Elsewhere: 600+ productions, including 20 seasons with Shaw Festival. Film Director: Cyborg Soldier, Troubled Waters, Good Morning Tomorrow, The Waking, The Hot Flash, End Game, Charon’s Obal. TV Director: Designated Survivor, Dark Matter, Bitten, The Bobby Buck Show, XIII, Lost Girl, Earth: Final Conflict, Tracker, Mutant X, The Dresden Files, The Adventures of Sinbad. 500+ film/TV credits as stunt coordinator/action director. Awards: Award of Excellence (Canadian International Film Festival); Genre Award for Best Suspense (BNFF); Derek F. Mitchell Artistic Director’s Award, Tyrone Guthrie Award (Stratford); Judges’ Choice Award (15 Minutes of Fame International Film Festival); Best Short Award nominee (Directors’ Guild of Canada).Online: johnstead.com.
