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Apr 7, 2016

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HIDDEN COVE PRODUCTIONS BRINGS DAVID HARE'S PROVOCATIVE SKYLIGHT TO TORONTO AUDIENCES

HIDDEN COVE PRODUCTIONS BRINGS DAVID HARE'S PROVOCATIVE SKYLIGHT TO TORONTO AUDIENCES

THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PLAY WILL DEBUT ON JUNE 15TH, 2016 AT THE BERKELEY STREET THEATRE

Toronto’s Hidden Cove Productions, a newly-minted theatrical production company, today announced Skylight as its debut production. Based on the critically acclaimed Tony Award-winning play by David Hare, the Toronto production will star veteran actor of stage and screen Lindsay G. Merrithew and theatre doyenneSara Topham in the lead roles, with legendary director and acting coach Larry Moss at the helm. Tim Dowler-Coltman rounds out the cast, and to top it off, the award-winning and celebrated theatrical designer Debra Hanson will set the stage for this much-lauded play. Toronto audiences will have a chance to experience Skylight when it opens at the historic Berkeley Street Theatre on June 15 where it will run until July 9 (Previews start on June 10). Tickets are available for purchase now through SkylightTO.com and at the Berkeley Street Theatre box office (26 Berkley Street).  Shows will run Tuesday toSaturday evenings with 1 PM matinees on Saturday and Sunday.
 
Future and past collide in unpredictable ways in David Hare’s complex, provocative and thrilling Skylight. Hare’s sparse, intelligent script brilliantly picks apart the strands of its main characters Kyra (Topham) and Tom’s (Merrithew) emotional tapestry, frays that erupt in passionate fury, betrayal and melancholic despair.
 
An unexpected knock at the door on a deep winter night in Northwest London brings the past rushing back into Kyra’s apartment. At the door is Tom, a restless, self-made restaurateur and hotel tycoon, and Kyra’s former lover. After three years apart, Tom has come to reclaim his former mistress following the death of his wife. Though the current of their desire still runs strong, time has carved them into very different people. Is the gap between them unbridgeable, or can they resurrect their magnetic relationship?
 
 “Skylight is a play we have loved and admired since its debut over 20 years ago, and more recently during it’s spectacular run in the West End and on Broadway. We are delighted to have the opportunity to present this remarkable production to Toronto audiences,” said Lindsay G. Merrithew, Hidden Cove Production’s Founding Producer and lead actor. “The level of talent from the team we have assembled is outstanding,” added Tony Baylis, Founding Producer, Hidden Cove Productions. “Given the calibre of experience and vision that our director Larry Moss and designer Debra Hanson bring, we are confident our production will honour David Hare’s magnificent play and the brilliant productions that have come before it.”
 
Originally produced at London’s esteemed National Theatre, Skylight counts the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Play of the Year and shining critical reviews from the likes of the New York Times among its many accolades.
 
About Lindsay G. Merrithew (Tom/Founding Producer)
Lindsay G. Merrithew is a graduate of Dalhousie University and The Juilliard Theater Center in NYC. Lindsay’s career has spanned stage, film and television in both Canada and the U.S. 
Selected theatrical credits include the title role in Macbeth, Brutus in Julius Caesar—which was filmed and broadcast on BRAVO—Danton in Danton’s Death, and Chance Wayne inThe Sweet Bird of Youth. He recently appeared in the Lifetime Network’s The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, a 2015 American made-for-TV drama film on Marilyn Monroe, starring Kelli Garner, Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Eva Amurri Martino. Merrithew appears in the fifth season of the USA Network‘s hit TV show Suits (TV series) playing David Polk, the manipulative, wealthy, shark CEO of Adidas. He tries to take advantage of a smaller shoe company during a vulnerable time, and must answer to Harvey Specter played by series regular Gabriel Macht. Lindsay has appeared in several productions at the Shaw Festival, a Canadian theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and is a past member of Ontario’s Innovators Alliance for Canadian entrepreneurs.

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About Sara Topham (Kyra)
Sara Topham recently played Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling Off-Broadway for Red Bull Theatre, Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC and in Macau, China, and Olivia in Twelfth Night at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Other roles internationally include: Gwendolyn in Brian Bedford’s Broadway production of The Importance Of Being Earnest, Mrs. Van Buren in the UK premiere of Intimate Apparel in London, and Dorothy in the World Premiere of Love Me Do in London. Selected roles at The Stratford Festival include: Shakespeare's Juliet, Rosalind, Cordelia, Olivia, Jessica, Diana, Anne Boleyn, and Princess Katherine, Ruth in Blithe Spirit, Célimène in The Misanthrope, Wendy in Peter Pan, Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons, Laurencia in Fuente Ovejuna, Mabel in An Ideal Husband, Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Grace in London Assurance, Brooke in Noises Off, Cassandra in Agamemnon, Dot in The Swanne (Part II).
 
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About Tim Dowler-Coltman (Edward)
 
Tim Dowler-Coltman was born in Edmonton, AB and has just recently graduated from The National Theatre School (2016).
During his time at NTS Tim has had the great fortune of working with some of the most reputable artists in the country both in class and on productions such as Total Liquidation (a devised piece lead by Jordan Tannahill), Orlando(Eda Holmes), Richard III (David Latham) & Hamlet (Alisa Palmer) of which he played the leading role. In addition to his stage work, he has also worked in numerous short film productions such as The Depths 3D (Skyward Motion Pictures), Ashram 69 (Triple 7 Films), Dead End Drive (Loose Change Films/AMAand Stitches (Joe Media Group).

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About Larry Moss (Director)
Moss began his career at New York’s famed cabaret Upstairs at the Downstairs and went on to appear on Broadway in numerous productions including Joe Layton's Drat! The Cat!,Neil Simon's God’s Favorite, directed by Michael Bennett, Burt Shevelove's So Long 174th Street, Gerald Freedman's The Robber Bridegroom, and Gene Saks' I Love My Wife.
After teaching in New York at Juilliard and Circle in the Square, he moved to Los Angeles and founded The Larry Moss® Studio. It was here that he directed and developed Pamela Gien’s The Syringa Tree, which had its world premiere at ACT in Seattle.  The Syringa Treeopened in New York in September 2000 and won the Obie Award for Best Play of 2001, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a Drama League Honor and a nomination for the John Gassner Playwriting Award. The Syringa Tree has played to sold out houses and critical acclaim around the world, including London (The National Theater), Toronto (Can Stage), where it won the Dora Award for Best Actress and Best Play of 2005. Moss directed the TV version that was filmed by Trio Arts Network and most recently, Pamela and Larry, and their producer Matt Salinger, tookThe Syringa Tree on a profound journey of the heart, home, to South Africa to the Baxter Theate

Moss coached Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets (Academy Award); Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby (Academy Awards); Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile (Academy Award Nomination), Hank Azaria in Tuesdays With Morrie (Emmy Award), Jim Carrey in The Majestic, Tobey Maguire in Seabiscuit and Leonardo DiCaprio inThe Aviator (Golden Globe Award and Academy Award Nomination); The Departed(Golden Globe Nomination); Blood Diamond (Golden Globe and Academy Award Nomination) and Shutter Island, Inception and J Edgar (SAG and Golden Globe Award Nominations) and Sutton Foster in Anything Goes (Tony Award).

Moss’s teaching career includes US, Canada, Europe and Australia.  He was one of the master teachers on Triple Sensation, on CBC in Canada.  His book on acting, The Intent To Live, was released by Bantam Dell in 2004.  Larry is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

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About Debra Hanson (Designer)
A multi-talented and award-winning designer, Debra moves fluidly and expertly between production design, sets and costume design for film, television, and theatre – most notably for the prestigious Stratford Festival Theatre.
 
Debra is adept at designing for all genres and periods, including the world of the “near future” for four seasons of Orphan Black (designing for multiple characters in the series, by the same actor, Tatiana Maslany). In television, she has also designed for three seasons of CBC’s Schitt’s Creek, starring comedy legends Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara; CTV sitcom Spun Out; the World War II period drama Bomb
Girls (Global); and The Firm for NBC and E1 Entertainment, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design. Debra designed the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Cosi fan Tutti for director Atom Egoyan, for which she received a Dora Mayor Award nomination. She also designed and consulted for the film version of the one-man play, Barrymore, starring Christopher Plummer and based on the life of John Barrymore.
 
In 2009, Debra received a Gemini Award for Best Costume Design for CBC’s production ofOthello, and was previously honoured with a 2004 Genie nomination for Best Costume Design for The Gospel of John, starring Christopher Plummer and Henry Ian Cusiak.
 
Debra served as the Stratford Festival’s head of design from 1989 to 1994, and won a Dora Mavor Award for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on the play, Translations.

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