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Produced by Ex Machina, C么t茅 Danse, and Dvoretsky Productions. In co-production with Marin Sorescu - National Theatre and Shakespeare Foundation, Craiova, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Ville d'Alma Spectacles, Danse Danse, Montr茅al, Straz Center, Tampa, Le Diamant, Qu茅bec, Maison des arts de Cr茅teil. Developed in collaboration with the National Creation Fund at Canada's National Arts Centre. This production was developed with the support of TO Live.

Guillaume C么t茅, CQ - Choreographer / Hamlet | Guillaume C么t茅, a native of Qu茅bec, is a renowned Principal Dancer with The National Ballet of Canada. He has performed major classical roles and worked with the world's most esteemed choreographers. As a guest artist, he has danced with prestigious companies worldwide, including The Royal Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, English National Ballet, the Mikhailosky Theater of St-Petersburg, Teatro Col贸n de Buenos Aires, Berlin鈥檚 Staatsoper, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Stuttgart Ballet, Hamburg Ballett, Verona Opera and the South African Ballet Theater. In 2012, he co-founded Anymotion Productions to produce high-quality independent dance works. C么t茅 also serves as a Choreographic Associate with The National Ballet of Canada, with eight of his works in the company's repertoire. His ballets have received critical acclaim, including Enkeli, which won the Audience Choice Award for Best Choreography in 2012. He collaborated with director Robert Lepage to create Frame by Frame in 2018. In 2021, he founded his own company, C么t茅 Danse, and premiered innovative works such as X (Dix), Cyrpto and Touch. C么t茅 has received numerous awards and was named Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Qu茅bec in 2021.

Greta Hodgkinson, O.Ont. - Gertrude | One of Canada's most celebrated dance artists, Greta Hodgkinson trained at Canada鈥檚 National Ballet School and then joined The National Ballet of Canada, where she danced as a Principal Dancer for over 24 years. She has performed every leading role in the classical repertoire and had numerous roles created for her by world-renowned choreographers. She has been a close collaborator and muse of choreographer Guillaume C么t茅, both with The National Ballet of Canada and Cote Danse, for over 13 years. As an international guest artist, Hodgkinson has performed in over 72 cities and 16 countries, with many of the top major ballet companies and in galas worldwide. Among her various honors, Hodgkinson was appointed to the Order of Ontario. She has also received two Citations from the State of Rhode Island for her contribution to arts and culture in the United States. Hodgkinson is the Artist in Residence with The National Ballet of Canada. In 2021, she founded Dance Mentoring by Greta, a first-of-its-kind mentorship program designed to provide artistic direction for dancers in their career.

Robert Glumbek - Claudius | Upon graduation from Bytom State Ballet School in Poland, Robert Glumbek joined The Great Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Warsaw as a soloist. After immigrating to Canada he worked as a dancer for a number of Canadian companies and later joined Mannheim Ballett, Germany as a dancer and ballet master. He has worked as an independent artist and choreographer since returning to Canada and is currently the Artistic Associate for ProArteDanza and faculty member of Toronto Metropolitan University. Robert has choreographed numerous acclaimed works for companies around the world. He was a finalist in the Hanover and Stuttgart Choreographic Competitions, recipient of the Now Magazine Best Dancer, K.M. Hunter Artist Award and Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award. Glumbek is a four-time Dora Mavor Moore nominee, and co-recipient winner with Robert Campanella. Most recently, Glumbek was nominated and twice presented the Jan Kiepura best choreographer award for his work with the Szczecin Ballet, Poland.

Carleen Zouboules - Ophelia | Originally from Red Deer, Alberta, Carleen Zouboules earned her BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2020. Since then, she has become a standout performer in Toronto, dancing for esteemed companies like ProArteDanza, C么t茅 Dans茅, Red Sky Performance, and Zata Omm Productions. Zouboules鈥� resume includes two performances at Fall For Dance North, featuring works by Jera Wolfe and Anne Plamondon. Her repertoire extends to pieces by Lesley Telford, Roberto Campanella, Robert Glumbek, Chantelle Good, Tori Mehaffey, William Yong, and Guillaume C么t茅. On camera, she has performed for the MTV Video Music Awards, the feature film Sweat, and creative film Eden Planted. Zouboules choreographed for Night Shift, presented by Citadel + Compagnie in collaboration with FFDN in 2022, and recently collaborated and choreographed for the TMU students. Her passion for the stage extends beyond dance to acting; she is excited to contribute to this version of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark that beautifully combines both art forms.

Lukas Malkowski - Laertes | Lukas Malkowski (he/they) is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), iconographic|clastic performance maker and Aquarius based between Germany and Canada. He started dancing at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, later obtaining his BFA in Dance Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. Embodying physics, voice, and Sign; he has choreographed full length works, ambient sets, music videos, and films with Naishi Wang, Sam Slater (Joker OST), LBT, and 7th Plain (Luke Slater) at CTM Festival, FestivalTransAm茅rique, and the Schrittmacher Festival, recently winning audience choice award at the biennial dance: made in Canada festival. Flowmentum: his teaching practice is driven by embodiments of physics through sight and touch. In 2021 Malkowski received the Recherchestipendium Darstellende Kunst. He is also one of the 2022/23 Tanzpraxis Emerging Artist scholarship recipients. He is currently working towards his ecstatic solo premiere Moan (2024) and the Sign Language duet Sign Momentum (2025).

Bernard Meney - Polonius | Bernard Meney, born in Montreal, trained at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Montr茅al. He danced in Europe with Ballet du Capitole, Ballet Royal de Wallonie, and Maurice B茅jart's Ballet du XX 猫me si猫cle. In the 1980s, he returned to Quebec and performed in various plays and musicals, including works by Marivaux, Goldoni, Brecht, Moli猫re, and Shakespeare. He collaborated with Denis Marleau's Th茅芒tre Ubu and Wajdi Mouawad's trilogy at the Avignon Festival. Meney was the assistant director at the Com茅die Fran莽aise de Paris and directed shows for the 脡cole Nationale de Cirque and drama training institutions. He studied scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and became the director of the Arts de la Sc猫ne program at the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris in 2000. In Montreal, he created Nijinski, a staged and danced adaptation of Journal de Nijinski. His recent work includes AERICANDREAM with Th茅芒tre La Tangente at the Th茅芒tre Fran莽ais in Toronto and the NAC in Ottawa.

Natasha Poon Woo - Horatio | Natasha Poon Woo is a freelance dancer, rehearsal director, and dance teacher. She began training and performing at Claude Watson School for the Arts and with Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre in her hometown of Toronto, Ontario. She is a summa cum laude graduate of SUNY Purchase鈥檚 Conservatory of Dance, where she performed works by Pam Tanowitz, Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone and Kevin Wynn. Natasha has since danced for Compagnie de la Citadelle, The Dietrich Group, Roderick George, Carol Anderson, The Platform, Hit & Run Dance Productions, and Conny Janssen Danst, among others, and is an ongoing collaborator and Dora Award-winning performer with Rock Bottom Movement.
A proud artist of C么t茅 Danse since 2021, Natasha has also had the privilege of performing in the company鈥檚 productions of Touch, Crypto, and X (Dix), with notable presentations at Le Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur and New York City Center鈥檚 2023 Fall for Dance Festival.

Connor Mitton - Rosencrantz | Connor Mitton is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University鈥檚 Performance Dance Program and a 2018 and 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominee. Originally from Ottawa, Mitton has toured and performed with several renowned dance companies performing works by: Citadel + Compagnie, James Kudelka, Guillame Cote, Robert Lepage, Jerra Wolf, Red Sky Performance, Thomas Fonua, William Yong, Hanna Kiel, Kate Hilliard, Heidi Strauss, Robert Glumbek, Roberto Campanella, Release Dance Project, ACE Dance Theatre, Zata Omm Dance Projects, Avinoam Silverman and Allan Kaeja. In his first year performing professionally Mitton was recognized by Now Magazine as one of 2017鈥檚 breakthrough Toronto stage artists. 

Robert Lepage - Director & Designer | The multidisciplinary artist, Robert Lepage is all at once an actor, a director, a playwright, and a stage director. Hailed by international critics, his original, contemporary, and unique works (inspired by recent history) transcend borders and challenge the standards of scenic writing, particularly through the use of new technologies. From a very early age, Robert Lepage took a keen interest in geography, but his growing passion for theater dictates his choice of career, inspiring him to enroll at the Conservatoire d鈥檃rt dramatique de Qu茅bec in1975. After an internship with Alain Knapp in Paris in 1978, he returned to his hometown, where he developed the great artistic versatility for which he is known. The year 1994 marked an important step in his career: he founded Ex Machina, a multidisciplinary creation company of which he is the artistic director. Also under his leadership, the multidisciplinary production center, La Caserne, was created in June 1997, in Quebec City. This last creative space saw the birth of almost all of Ex Machina鈥檚 productions until 2019. Robert Lepage鈥檚 vision and dedication to create led him to promote and implement the construction of Le Diamant theatre in the heart of Quebec City. Inaugurated in August 2019, this new and unique cultural venue is intended to be an anchor point for the public, emerging artists, and creators from all horizons. His most significant works include the plays The Seven Streams of the River Ota and The Dragons鈥� Trilogy; his solos The Far Side of the Moon and 887; the operas The Damnation of Faust and Wagner鈥檚 Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle; his multimedia works The Image Mill and The Library at Night; Peter Gabriel鈥檚 shows, The Secret World Tour and The Growing Up Tour; and with Cirque du Soleil, K脌 and TOTEM .

Steve Blanchet - Creative Director | Creative Director at Ex Machina, Steve Blanchet has been working in the arts and cultural sector for over twenty-five years. As of 1996 he successively served as the Artistic Director and Creative Director at the Cossette Agency. A number of his media campaigns received both national and international recognition. Blanchet began his collaboration with Ex Machina in 2005 during the creation of the large-scale outdoor video projection The Image Mill (2008). He was the co-creator of the exhibit and the designer of its images until its final edition in 2013. He continued with Robert Lepage鈥檚 one-man-show 887 and The Library at Night, an immersive exhibition exploring virtual reality. As Creative Director and Co-designer, these past years Blanchet has worked on an array of productions such as Shakespeare鈥檚 Coriolanus at the Stratford Festival, Frame by Frame with the National Ballet of Canada, Mozart鈥檚 opera The Magic Flute at the Quebec Opera Festival, Courville, The Riopelle Project, the show SLAM!, as well as the museum exhibition Lutte. His career path is punctuated with several collaborations on short films, movies, and publications.

Vanessa Cadrin - Associate Set and Props Designer | Vanessa has worked on more than a hundred productions in different aspects of artistic design; assistance with direction, costume design, set design, props, puppetry, and makeup. All in different theaters and for different companies in Quebec City: Trident, Bord茅e, P茅riscope, Les 脡cornifleuses, Les fonds de Tiroir, Le Transport en commun, and many others. She received the critics' prize in Quebec in 2019 for her scenography of Dragonfly of Chicoutimi. She designed sets for Patric Saucier鈥檚 works presented at the Festival de la Francophonie in Limoges. Cadrin also signed the scenography of Muse from the circus company Flip Fabrique. She provided sets, props, and management for the Beaumont Saint-Michel theater from 2008 to 2017. She was the artistic director of Ballet Jazz, a short film by Maxime Robin based on a short story by Simon Boulerice. For two years, she has been designing costumes for the Quebec Carnival parade. She teaches Stage Technique Management at the Centre d鈥櫭﹖udes de Montmagny since 2009 and at the Conservatoire d鈥檃rt dramatique de Qu茅bec since 2021.

F茅lix Dagenais - Assistant Director & Stage Manager | Assistant director and narrative designer, F茅lix holds a Bachelor's degree in Drama from UQAM. In 2002, he joined the Ex Machina team and worked alongside Robert Lepage on more than a dozen theatrical productions, including The Dragons' Trilogy, The Andersen Project, The Blue Dragon, Lipsynch, and The Riopelle Project. F茅lix also contributed to the creation of the operas Der Ring des Nibelungen and The Tempest presented at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as to the architectural video projection The Image Mill. F茅lix also collaborated with director Brigitte Haentjens on productions such as Hamlet Machine, Vivre, and Rome, and with Martin Genest on the creation of the show Le Hangar des oubli茅s produced by Cirque du Soleil. As a co-founder of ATOMIC3, F茅lix worked at this creative studio from 2012 to 2019 as a narrative designer and co-artistic director. He contributed to the creation of several interactive and participatory works, including Iceberg, Maestro, Island of warmth, and Light Orchestra, which were presented in Montreal and on tour abroad.

John Gzowski - Composer | Composer, sound designer, musician and instrument maker John Gzowski worked on over 250 theater, dance and film productions for which he has composed, created sound designs, performed live foley and live music and as acted as musical director. He has played banjo for opera in Banff, studied Carnatic classical music in India and played oud and guitar in jazz and folk festivals across Canada and Europe. His theater work has won him 6 Dora鈥檚, from 18 nominations for companies like Ex Machina, Stratford, Shaw Festival, Luminato, National Arts Centre, the Mirvishes, MTC, the Arts Club, Canstage, Soulpepper, Dancemakers, Red Sky, Tarragon, Factory Theatre and YPT. Gzowski has played on numerous CD鈥檚, with releases with Patricia O'Callaghan, Tasa, and Autorickshaw as well as a Juno nomination with Maza Meze. He has run Canada鈥檚 first microtonal group, touring Canada playing the works of Harry Partch, composed and performed with several new music groups and worked as co-artistic director of the Music Gallery.

Michael Gianfrancesco 鈥� Costume Designer | Michael Gianfransco 鈥檚 set and costume designs for theater, musical theater, opera and dance have been seen across Canada, in Europe and the US. He has worked in repertory with the Stratford Festival for 19 seasons and the Shaw Festival for 10 seasons. Past productions include Emma Bovary at the National Ballet of Canada, sets for La Dame aux Cam茅lias at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, sets for Richard II and Chicago at the Stratford Festival, Jasper at the off-broadway Signature Theatre in New York City, the set for Embrasse at Th茅芒tre du Nouveau Monde, the costumes for Ricciardo e Zoraide at the Rossini Festival in Italy, costumes for Frame By Frame created by Robert Lepage and Guillaume C么t茅 with Ex Machina and the National Ballet of Canada, and sets for Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright and Daniel McIvor at Canadian Opera Company. michaelgianfrancesco.com

Simon Rossiter - Lighting Designer | Simon Rossiter is a Toronto-based lighting designer who occasionally designs scenery. Specializing in lighting for dance, he鈥檚 had the privilege of collaborating on more than three hundred unique designs with a wide range of companies (including Citadel+Compagnie; Dancemakers; the National Ballet of Canada; C么t茅 Danse; and Toronto Dance Theatre) and choreographers (including Peggy Baker; Robert Binet; Guillaume C么t茅; Robert Desrosiers; Christopher House; James Kudelka; Tedd Robinson; Heidi Strauss; and Jera Wolfe), and is the Director of Design for Fall for Dance North. Simon鈥檚 designs have been honoured with ten Dora Mavor Moore nominations, receiving the award three times, and he was twice nominated for the Ontario Arts Council鈥檚 Pauline McGibbon Award. Rossiter also serves as the Business Agent for the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.

Anisa Tejpar - Creative Assistant / Rehearsal Director | Anisa Tejpar, a Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning dancer from Toronto, is a graduate of Canada's National Ballet School. She has performed and danced with renowned companies such as Toronto Dance Theatre, ProArteDanza, Human Body Expression, Against the Grain Theatre and Zata Omm. Tejpar is also the Co-Artistic Director of Hit & Run Dance Productions Inc., creating captivating works for brands like NIKE, PUMA, M.A.C Cosmetics, and The Rolling Stones. Tejpar teaches Consent + Boundaries for Dancers at Toronto Metropolitan University and is an Associate Producer, Creative Assistant and Rehearsal Director for Guillaume C么t茅 and C么t茅 Danse. Additionally, she is an Intimacy Coordinator and Director, collaborating with The National Ballet of Canada and Ballet BC, as well as various film and theater projects. Tejpar serves on the Board of Directors for Canada's National Ballet School, is one third of the contemporary dance collective The Platform and hosts Inside the Arts on Sauga 960 AM in Toronto.

C么t茅 Danse burst onto the Canadian dance scene in 2021, thanks to the collaboration between Choreographer Guillaume C么t茅 and Producers Etienne Lavigne and Anisa Tejpar. Since then, they have been actively presenting a range of original works and immersive dance experiences.

Under the artistic direction of Guillaume C么t茅, C么t茅 Danse establishes a unique vision, combining classical dance knowledge with captivating geometries and intense human connections. Their style is characterized by contemporary lines, sleek contours, and refined athleticism, creating a distinct and dynamic aesthetic.

Through collaborations with a diverse group of designers, artists, and partners such as Robert Lepage, Mirari Studios, and Son Lux, C么t茅 Danse has successfully produced four full-length productions. The company attracted significant attention since its very beginning, with 140 performances in 23 cities in its first four years of existence.

Led by artistic director Robert Lepage, Ex Machina creates, produces and disseminates multidisciplinary artistic works, most often theatrical. 

The company brings together creators from several fields of activity and offers a broad range of artistic productions: original plays written and performed solo or collectively, plays based on existing texts, productions in which various disciplines (dance, music, museology) mingle with theater, operas and multimedia productions featuring a predominantly technological dimension. Ex Machina develops the majority of its shows in Quebec City, then presents them abundantly in Quebec, Canada and elsewhere in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania.

Beyond their diversity, the company鈥檚 projects have some features in common. Anecdotes lead to the exploration of ideas such as the revelation of identity through exposure to the other. Cultural intersections, the nature of the creative act, interrupted communication and states of dependence are recurring themes. Several dramatic situations oppose the quotidian to the extraordinary, the naturalism to the metaphor, and somehow diffident characters to historical figures. The multilingualism, the massive use of images, the reversal of perspective, the variations in scale, the use of narrative codes borrowed from cinema and the use of technological tools aim to spark meaning and emotion, reflecting a desire to poeticize theatrical expression.

Dvoretsky Productions was established by impresario Svetlana Dvoretsky with the aim of creating and producing artistically powerful projects for Canadian and international audiences. Show One Productions, her other company, is celebrating its 20th anniversary and is recognized as a leader in presenting, promoting, and producing the performing arts in Canada and around the world. The company's projects are frequently associated with highprofile and world-renowned artists, theaters, dance companies, orchestras, and soloists. Dvoretsky Productions' vision is focused on producing works that blend high artistic standards and innovation and have a broad appeal to different audiences internationally. Ms. Dvoretsky has collaborated with both Guillaume C么t茅 and Robert Lepage in the past, presenting their works, but Hamlet, Prince of Denmark marks the first co-production collaboration between the companies.