Pride and Prejudice

They’re the Bennets that you love, and they’re in it to win it (as far as love and marriage are concerned). This time, nothing is off limits – if it means securing a husband and a home for all your sisters.

Jane is still the beauty, Mary is ghastly-as-ever, Lydia is ready to stir things up, and Lizzy is having none of it. Marriage, shmarriage!

In this laugh-out-loud adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic work, Kate Hamill deftly infuses the beloved Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys with even more saucy irreverence for society’s expectations; the pearls are clutched, the waistlines are empire, the balls are ballistic, and the genders are bending. Through it all, the timeless love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy captures the hearts of dear readers, and brand-new Austen fans alike.

With a cult following of her own, the award-winning and incorrigible Rebecca Northan (Blind Date, Every Brilliant Thing) will direct the production on the Grand Theatre’s Spriet Stage.

ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE

AFTERWORDS

On select Wednesday evenings, immediately after the performance, join host Breanne Ritchie in theatre's lounge for a brief guided discussion with guest artists, creative team members, and Grand staff members.

TEA TALKS

Join us for creative conversations pre-show with host Rachel Peake and special guests connected to the show. Tea Talks begin at 12:00pm before the Wednesday 1:00pm matinée.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Audience Advisory

This production includes reference to incest and pedophilia.

The Cast

Raechel Fisher

Actor 1 - Jane / Miss De Brough

For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Citronella (Gravenhurst Opera House); Twelfth Night, Souls of the Shield Part 1-4 (Timberbeast Productions); Oh, What A Lovely War (Hart House Theatre); Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well (Canadian Stage).
Film and TV Credits: The Apprentice, A Knights War
Other: Graduate BFA Acting Conservatory at York University. www.raechelcolettefisher.com/

Beck Lloyd

Actor 2 - Lizzy

For the Grand Theatre: Controlled Damage.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Hamlet (CanStage); Grand Magic, A Wrinkle In Time, The Miser, Richard iii, r+j (Stratford Festival); The gruesome terror & most brave triumph of Bluebeard's Bride, The Madwoman of Chaillot (The Lunar Stratagem); Portraits, Patterns, Possibilities (Culcha Works); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Lower Ossington Theatre).
Other: Graduate of the MFA Program at York University, Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre, Factory Mechanicals @beckklloyd

Lior Maharjan

Actor 3 - Lydia / Lady Catherine

For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Alphonse (Pleasance Edinburgh Fringe/Theaturtle/Carousel Vancouver); All I Want for Christmas (Centaur); Ricki (Scapegoat Carnivale); Landscape Grindr (La Chapelle); L’amoure looks something like you, Roi Lear (Théâtre Denise Pelletier); be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together (GCTC); Trans Gemmes 2.0 (Buddies in Bad Times); La Somnambule (Cabal).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Really Happy Someday (Spindle Films); Ominous (Fibe TV1); Celestine (Slykid); Pandora’s Box (Rotin); Bleach (Leitmotiv); Bleach (Eyedance); Check ta chatte (Fittonia).
Other: Find out about Lior’s multidisciplinary work at www.liormaharjan.com.

Eric Craig

Actor 4 - Mr Darcy

For the Grand Theatre: The Hobbit
Theatre Credits (Selected): Paradise Square (original Broadway cast); Evita, The Prom (Drayton); Matilda (1st National tour/Toronto company); Sunday in the Park with George (Eclipse); The Secret Garden (Theatre Calgary); Fun Home, Pride and Prejudice (Arts Club); Hamlet (SLSF); Edges, Retold (Musical Stage); Intimate Apparel (WJT); Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty and the Beast (Stage West); Boeing Boeing (Magnus); The Sound of Music (TIP).
Film and TV (selected): The Handmaid’s Tale, Workin’ Moms, Good Witch, Reign, 12 Monkeys, Murdoch Mysteries

Carmen Grant

Actor 5 - Mr Collins / Mr Wickham / Miss Bingley

Sarah Wilson

Actor 6 - Mary / Mr Bingley

Kate Hennig

Actor 7 - Mrs Bennet

For the Grand Theatre: Girls in the Gang, Jacques Brel…, Liars, Mad Ballades, Secret Garden, My Way.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Gypsy, Gaslight, The Importance of Being Earnest (Shaw Festival); A Dolls House Part 2, The Audience (RMTC/Mirvish); Breath of Kings, Romeo and Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof (Stratford Festival).
Film and TV Credits: Delia’s Gone (Lumanity); Saving Hope (eOne); Anne of Green Gables (Breakthrough); Bomb Girls (Global).
Other: Playwright: The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, Mother’s Daughter (premiered at Stratford Festival, more than 30 productions nationally and internationally); Cyrano de Bergerac (adaptation premiered at Shaw Festival) www.katehennig.com

Andrew Moodie

Actor 8 - Mr Bennet / Charlotte Lucas

Creative Team

Rebecca Northan

Director

For the Grand Theatre: An Undiscovered Shakespeare, This London Life, Every Brilliant Thing, Blind Date
Theatre credits (selected): Goblin:Macbeth (Stratford Festival/Bard on the Beach/The Shakespeare Company); The Miser (assistant director, Stratford Festival); All I Want for Christmas (Centaur Theatre); Zorro:Family Code (Alberta Theatre Projects); JACK! A Beanstalk Panto (Capitol Theatre).
Film & TV: This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Being Erica (CBC); Alice-I Think (CTV, Comedy Network); The Foundation (Showcase)
Other: Rebecca teaches improvisation through her company Spontaneous Theatre website: spontaneoustheatre.ca

Krista Leis

Choreographer

Brandon Kleiman

Set Designer

For Grand Theatre: Debut.
Other: Brandon is a set and costume designer based in Hamilton with work appearing on stages across Canada. He’s had the pleasure to design at The Stratford Festival, Drayton Entertainment, Mirvish Productions, Theatre Aquarius, Canadian Stage Co., The Globe Theatre, Young Peoples Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Buddies In Bad Times, Thousand Islands Playhouse and countless other independent companies across our country. Brandon is a multiple Dora award nominee and two time winner. For more information and to see his portfolio please visit www.brandonkleimandesign.com

Maddie Bautista

Sound Designer

For the Grand Theatre: Kim’s Convenience.
Theatre Credits (Selected): King James (Theatre Aquarius/ATP); CRAZE (Tarragon); Get That Hope (Stratford); seven methods of killing kylie jenner (Crow’s/Obsidian); Woking Phoenix (TPM/Silk Bath Collective).
Other: Two-time Dora Mavor Moore Award recipient for Love You Wrong Time. www.maddiebautista.com

Kelly Luft

Stage Manager

For the Grand Theatre (Selected): The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Rubaboo, Elf, Grow, Home For the Holidays, Grand Re:Opening Festival, Mary Poppins, Prom Queen, Chariots of Fire, A Christmas Carol (2017, 2018), Art, The Wizard of Oz (’16, ’09, ‘02).
Theatre Credits (Selected): Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet-911, A Festival Queerstory, The Front Page, The Komagata Maru Incident (Stratford Festival); The Sound of Music, Hairspray (Drayton Entertainment); Le Bal (Theatre Plus); Not Wanted on the Voyage (Canadian Stage Company); 2 years in London England’s West End.
Opera Credits (Selected): 12 seasons with Opera Lyra Ottawa, 10 seasons with Hawaii Opera Theatre, 7 seasons with Orchestra London and Opera Pacific Victoria, 16 seasons with Opera Hamilton / Opera Ontario, Wagner’s Ring Cycle - Götterdämmerung for the Canadian Opera Company, and Idomeneo for Opera Atelier.

Suzanne McArthur

Assistant Stage Manager

For the Grand Theatre: 15th season.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Hamlet-911, Hosanna, The Tempest (Stratford Festival); The Birds and the Bees, Aladdin: The Panto, Snow White: The Panto, Weekend Comedy, Perfect Wedding (Drayton Entertainment); The Fixer-Upper, It’s Your Funeral, Lunenburg, Buying the Farm, Birds of a Feather, Storm Warning, Wrong for Each Other, Knickers! A Brief Comedy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); The Normal Heart (Studio 180/Buddies in Bad TimesTheatre); Forests (Tarragon Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Silver Mist Productions).
Other: Love to Michael and Charlie.

Tsz Ting Lam

Apprentice Stage Manager