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Directing Credits
Acting Credits
Production CreditsFrom the program for The Seagull: JIM HOLMES (director) has directed more than 20 plays for Kanata Theatre including Staff Room, You'll Get Used To It! -The War Show, Rock and Roll, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well & Living in Paris, The Madwoman of Chaillot, A Doll's House and As You Like It. He was named Best Actor in a Supporting Role at both the Eastern Ontario Drama League and Theatre Ontario Festivals in 2004 for his portrayal of Nunzio in Over the River and Through the Woods. He last appeared on stage as Father Jack in Dancing at Lughnasa. From the program for Staff Room: JIM HOLMES (director) has directed more than 20 plays for Kanata Theatre including most recently You’ll Get Used To It! -The War Show, Rock and Roll, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well & Living in Paris, The Madwoman of Chaillot and The Miss Firecracker Contest. His acting roles for Kanata Theatre include Father Jack in last season’s Dancing at Lughnasa, Martin Vanderhoff in You Can’t Take It With You, Higgins in Pygmalion, Tobias in A Delicate Balance, Elwood in Harvey and Nunzio in Over the River and Through the Woods for which he was named Best Actor in a Supporting Role at both the Eastern Ontario Drama League and Theatre Ontario Festivals in 2004. From the program for You Can't Take It With You: JIM HOLMES (Martin Vanderhof) last appeared as Friar Francis in Much Ado About Nothing. Other Kanata Theatre roles include Higgins in Pygmalion, Saunders in Lend Me a Tenor, Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, Dr Bonfant in Waltz of the Toreadors and Tobias in A Delicate Balance. He has directed many productions for Kanata Theatre including last season's A Midsummer Night's Dream and an earlier production of You Can't Take It With You. From the program for You’ll Get Used To It!-The War Show: Jim is thrilled to be working for a third time with Larraine Gorman on a musical production. The others were Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well & Living in Paris and last year's Rock and Roll. He has directed 20 productions for Kanata Theatre including Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Others include The Madwoman of Chaillot, A Doll's House, Crimes of the Heart, Noises Off, and Charley's Aunt. For the Studio Opera Guild he directed Mozart's opera The Impressario. His acting roles for Kanata Theatre include Higgins in Pygmalion, Jaques in As You Like It, Elwood in Harvey and Numzio in last year's production of Over the River and Through the Woods for which he was named Best Supporting Actor at both the Easter Ontario Drama League and the Theatre Ontario festivals. He trained at the Banff School of Fine Arts. From the program for The Underpants: JIM HOLMES (Director) last directed The Seagull, winner of the 2007-2008 Ottawa Capital Critics’ Award for best Community Theatre Production. His more than 20 other directing credits for Kanata Theatre include You’ll Get Used To It!-The War Show, Rock and Roll, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well & Living in Paris, The Madwoman of Chaillot, A Doll’s House, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. He has directed Mozart’s opera, The Impresario. Next season he will direct Kanata Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. He was named Best Actor in a Supporting Role at both the Eastern Ontario Drama League and Theatre Ontario Festivals in 2004 for his portrayal of Nunzio in Over the River and Through the Woods. Other roles include Higgins in Pygmalion, Elwood in Harvey, Jaques in As You Like It, and Father Jack in Dancing at Lughnasa. From the program for The Taming of the Shrew: JIM HOLMES (Director) directed last season’s The Underpants. He also directed The Seagull (Capital Critics Circle award Best Community Production), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well & Living in Paris, The Madwoman of Chaillot, A Doll’s House, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It. Acting roles include Nunzio in Over the River and Through the Woods (Best Supporting Actor at Eastern Ontario Drama League and Theatre Ontario Festivals), Higgins in Pygmalion, Elwood in Harvey and Father Jack in Dancing at Lughnasa. This page generated on 2013/02/03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||