Marti Maraden
Stratford: 2008 Artistic Director and director of The Winter’s Tale, The Trojan Women and All’s Well That Ends Well. Stratford productions include Les Belles-Soeurs, the première of Elliott Hayes’s highly successful Homeward Bound, The Merchant of Venice and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Elsewhere: Ms Maraden was the Artistic Director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre from 1997 to 2005, and was a driving force behind the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, the first ever national festival dedicated to Canadian work. She directed at various theatres in Canada and the U.S., such as the Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, the Citadel Theatre, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Shaw Festival, the Canadian Stage Company, the Tarragon Theatre, the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Theatre New Brunswick, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis.
