David Ferry
David Ferry is a director,
dramaturge, actor and teacher. He is the current Consulting Artistic
Director of Resurgence
Theatre Company
and the York Shakespeare Festival. David was Artistic Director of Bluewater
Summer Playhouse in Kincardine, Ontario from 1998–2002.
David won the 2006 Dora Mavor
Moore award for Best Direction for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
(also Best Production Dora) and was invited to the 2006 Festival Intercity
in Florence, Italy where he directed Brendan Gall’s Alias Godot
in Italian.
As a dramaturge, David has
worked with a number of writers including Florence Gibson, Brendan Gall,
Fides Krucker, Kelly McIntosh, Paul Ledoux, David Smyth, John Roby,
James Reaney, Robert Priest, Drew Hayden Taylor and Tom Walmsley.
David has worked as an actor
at the Stratford Festival and in most theatres across the country as
well as on and off Broadway in New York. He works as frequently in film,
television, and radio as he does on stage, and has been nominated for
or won acting awards such as the Dora Mavor Moore, Genie, Gemini, and
Nellie.
David has taught acting at
theatre schools across Canada, and has recorded an internationally recognized
CD collection of Canadian dialects for the actor (“Canadian, Eh?”).
David has served on the executives
of CAEA, ACTRA and is currently a Governor of Actra Fraternal Benefit
Society.
David was a graduate of the
National Theatre School of Canada (1973) and has his Master of Fine
Arts in Theatre Directing (MFA) from the University of Victoria (2003),
where he focused on the work of James Reaney.
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