Melissa Rood
Stratford: Assistant stage manager of Macbeth (2025). Favourites include Robert Lepage’s Coriolanus (Stratford, Dartmouth College, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde), Much Ado About Nothing, Every Little Nookie, Shakespeare in Love, The Last Wife, Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Into the Woods, Henry V, Christopher Plummer’s A Word or Two and Beau Dixon’s cabaret, Freedom. PSM for the Langham Directors’ Workshop Presentation and director of the Festival’s theatre arts production camp. Elsewhere: Opera, dance, new works and events, including Walter Borden’s The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time (NAC); The Wedding Party, Stars: Together, Julius Caesar (Crow’s). Education: Sheridan College (Technical Production); University of Waterloo (Social Work). Stage management instructor at the University of Windsor, University of Toronto, Sheridan College, National Theatre School.
