Antoni Cimolino is a

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actor and director. He is the artistic director of the

Stratford Festival The Stratford Festival is a theatre festival which runs from April to October in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Founded by local journalist Tom Patterson in 1952, the festival was formerly known as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival ...

Stratford, Ontario Stratford is a city on the Avon River within Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a 2016 population of 31,465 in a land area of . Stratford is the seat of Perth County, which was settled by English, Irish, Scottish and German ...

. After graduating from

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with a BFA, Cimolino began his career as an actor at Stratford in 1988. He later switched to theatre management and stage direction when

Richard Monette Richard Jean Monette CM, DHum, LLD (June 19, 1944 – September 9, 2008), was a Canadian actor and director, best known for his 14-season tenure as the longest-serving artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007. Ear ...

was appointed artistic director in 1994, becoming executive director in 1998 and general director in 2007. During the Monette years, Cimolino established funds to provide financial stability for the Festival, and helped secure funding to open the Festival's Studio Theatre in 2002. An accomplished director, Cimolino has staged successful Shakespearean productions in Stratford and Detroit. Cimolino was selected to become the artistic director at Stratford Festival in 2013, taking over the position from outgoing artistic director, Des McAnuff.

Personal life

He is married to actress Brigit Wilson and has two children, Gabriel and Sophia. In December 2015, Cimolino was appointed as a

Member of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the ...

for contributions to Canadian theatre and arts leadership.

References

External links

Stratford Festival websiteCimolino's Stratford Festival biography
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