Michael Therriault

Michael Therriault is a Canadian actor. He attended Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto, Sheridan College in Oakville, and was a member of the inaugural season of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training in Stratford, Ontario.

Life and career

After spending seven seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Mr Therriault left the classical repertoire theatre for musical theatre, starring as Leopold Bloom in the short-lived Toronto production of The Producers. For the performance Mr Therriault won a Dora Award for Principal Actor in a Musical.^[1]

In 2006, Mr Therriault portrayed Tommy Douglas in the CBC Television special Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story. He was subsequently nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series. The show received a total of nine nominations, including Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series and Best Dramatic Mini-Series.

While on Broadway in a revival of Fiddler on the Roof, Mr Therriault got news that he had secured the role of Gollum in the Toronto premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Musical. He received his second Dora^[2] for the performance.

When it closed, he returned to Saskatchewan to film the made-for-television adaptation of Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy (it aired in two parts on March 2 and 9, 2008, and is now available on DVD).

In May 2007, the The Lord of the Rings moved to London, with Mr Therriault reprising the role he originated. The production closed on July 19, 2008, after 492 performances.^[3]

On Monday, October 20, 2008, Mr Therriault took part in a tribute to the late Richard Monette, former artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.^[4]

Mr Therriault performed in The Sound of Silence, a tribute to Paul Simon at the Bathurst Street Theatre in Toronto on April 20, 2009.^[5]

On April 27, 2009, it was announced that Mr Therriault will appear as Irving Berlin, alongside Michael Boatman as Scott Joplin, in The Tin Pan Alley Rag, which centers around the imagined meeting of the two great musicians. The Tin Pan Alley Rag is presented by Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, June 12 to September 6, 2009.^[6]

Stratford Shakespeare Festival credits

• Peter Pan (2010)—Peter Pan
• Quiet in the Land (2003)—Yock Bauman
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre (2003)—Boult
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2003)—Jehan
• The Two Noble Kinsmen (2002)—Doctor/Schoolmaster/Speaker
• King Henry VI, Reign of Terror (2002)—King Henry VI
• King Henry VI, Revolt in England (2002)—King Henry VI
• King Henry VI, Revenge in France (2002)—King Henry VI
• The Seagull (2001)—Konstantin'
• Henry V (2001)—Montjoy
• Twelfth Night (2001)—Sir Andrew Aguecheek
• As You Like It (2000)—Silvius
• Fiddler on the Roof (2000)—Motel
• The Alchemist (1999)—Drugger
• The Tempest (1999)—Ariel
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)—Francis Flute
• The Miser (1998)—Cleante
• Much Ado About Nothing (1998)—George Seacole
• Julius Caesar (1998)—Lucius
• Filumena (1997)—Umbreto
• The Taming of the Shrew (1997)—Pietro
• Camelot (1997)—Mordred

Other credits

• Parade, The Canadian Stage Company, (2011)- Leo Frank
• Tin Pan Alley Rag, Roundabout Theatre Company (2009)—Irving Berlin
• Jitters, Manitoba Theatre Centre (2009)—George Ellsworth
• The Englishman's Boy, CBC Television (2008)—Harry Vincent
• The Lord of the Rings, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (2007)—Gollum
• The Lord of the Rings, Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto (2006)—Gollum
• Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story, CBC Television (2006)—Tommy Douglas
• The Producers, Canon Theatre, Toronto (2003)—Leo Bloom

See also

• Stratford Shakespeare Festival

References

1. ↑ TAPA - Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts - Doras
2. ↑ TAPA - Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts - Doras
3. ↑ Summer curtain for Lord of the Rings musical in London
4. ↑ http://onstratfordstage.blogspot.com/2008/10/friends-make-tributes-to-monette.html
5. ↑ http://www.torontoartsonline.org/content/view/full/24071/
6. ↑ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128669.html

• Via Destinations article, August 2006
• Now Magazine article, March 2006
• Star!Bio
• Playbill article, September 2003
• Offstage, Onstage: Inside the Stratford Festival, a documentary made over the course of the 2001 Season

External links

• Michael Therriault at the Internet Movie Database
• Michael Therriault at the Internet Broadway Database