Ryerson Theatre School
Lee Wilson
Director, The Crucible
Founding Artistic Director and Resident Director of Resurgence Theatre Company in Newmarket, Ont. Last summer, Lee was the assistant director on The Tempest directed by Des McAnuff and starring Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is also one of eleven directors in the Inaugural Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Directors at Stratford. Lee was the Apprentice Artistic Director/Artistic Associate at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario during the 2008/2009 season. In 2008, Lee was invited to The Old Vic in London, England to take part in a directing workshop with the Peter Hall Company. He was an Intern Director at the Shaw Festival during its 2005/2006 season and the Resident Director in the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 2004/2005. In 2003/2004, he was awarded the Urjo Kareda Residency Grant to study directing/artistic direction with director Richard Rose at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. Lee started off his professional career as a member of the Inaugural Soulpepper Training Company studying directing, acting, and design with Robin Phillips.
Selected Directing Credits Include: Hedda Gabler and Picnic for the University of Windsor – School of Dramatic Art, Comedy of Errors for the University of Waterloo Drama Department, The Sicilian by Moliere and adapted by Nicolas Billon for the Toronto Fringe Festival, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night for Resurgence Theatre Company, A Midsummer Nights' Dream for Theatre By The Bay in Barrie, Arms and the Man, The Magic Fire, Rosmersholm (assistant director) and The Valiant (director) at the Shaw Festival. Measure for Measure and As You Like It (assistant director) at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Upcoming: Development of a TV Mini-Series based off of the New York Times Best-selling novel Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn chronicling the life of Brian Boru.
Lee holds a BFA in acting from Ryerson Theatre School.
Alan Dilworth
Director, The Crucible
Alan Dilworth is an award winning theatre director. He has worked in theatres across Canada and in the United States. He is a co-founder of Belltower Theatre and an associate artist with acclaimed indie companies: Groundwater Productions, Convergence Theatre and Project:Humanity.
Alan is currently a resident artist with Project:Humanity at The Theatre Centre in Toronto and a member of The Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Alan has an MFA in directing from York University, a B.Ed., and B.A. in International Relations from the University of British Columbia. He was the 2005 Urjo Kareda Emerging Artist in Residence at Tarragon Theatre, where he apprenticed with directors: Richard Rose, Ross Manson, and Eda Holmes. As a playwright he was a member of the Tarragon Theatre Playwrights Unit.
Selected directing credits include: After Akhmatova (Tarragon), If We Were Birds (TarragonGroundwater, SummerWorks- Jury Prize for Outstanding Production, 4 Dora nominations including Outstanding Direction), Iphigenia at Aulis (SummerWorks), The Great Mountain (Red Sky Performance), The Middle Place (Theatre Passe Muraille, Canadian Stage Company, Belfry, GCTC, Project:HumanityToronto Theatre Critic's Ward- Best Production of a Play, SummerWorks Festival - Crow's Theatre Directing Award, Dora nomination Oustanding New Play), The Gladstone Variations (Convergence TheatreFringe, 5 Dora nominations including Outstanding Direction), Measure For Measure, The Bundle, Phedre, and Cymbeline (Theatre@York), The Unforgetting (Belltower TheatreSummerWorks- Jury Prize for Outstanding Production), Da (Acting Irish International Theatre Festival, three jury prizes including Outstanding Production), and ma jolie (Belltower TheatreSummerWorks).
Assistant directing credits include The Little Years (Stratford), A Christmas Carol (Soulpepper) Cellular (Luminato), The Pillowman (BirdlandCanstage), Salt Water Moon (Resurgence), The Four Horseman Project (VolcanoFactory), Care, Humble Boy, Leo (Tarragon) and Goodness (VolcanoTarragon).
Alan was named Toronto's best emerging male director of 2008 by NOW Magazine.
Alan is currently producing BondFest, a Toronto festival of Edward Bond's works in Spring of 2012.
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