Michelle Giroux

Michelle Giroux

Michelle Giroux is a Canadian stage actress whose credits include numerous productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival over nine seasons.

Her featured roles include the 1998 production of The Miser, which also played at the New York City Center,^[1] Lady Teazle in a 2001 production of The School for Scandal, which went on to play at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater,^[2] a 2003 production of Noel Coward's Present Laughter,^[3] a 2005 production of The Brothers Karamazov,^[4] as well as Julia in a 2007 production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance.^[5]

Called "one of the best young talents at Stratford," Giroux had been accepted to the Stratford company immediately upon graduation from the National Theatre School of Canada.^[6]

In his book, Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty, Martin Hunter writes:

Michelle Giroux has shown a particular aptitude for willful, witty, and elegant young women in her portrayals of Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Olivia in Twelfth Night. "The chance to work with other young actors and at the same time incredibly skilled and experienced players is fantastic," she says. "You absorb so much and at the same time you're out there and doing on that incredible stage. It's work and it's a dream and it's a whole life.^[7]

Her non-Stratford stage credits include starring in Claudia Dey's Trout Stanley at the Factory Theatre.^[6][8] Giroux also starred in the Toronto Fringe Festival production of Kate Hewlett's Humans Anonymous.^[9]

Her most recent credits include the 2009 production of Karoline Leach's Tryst at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in Montreal,^[10] and a 2011 adaptation of The Misanthrope at the Tarragon Theatre.^[11]

Personal life

A resident of Toronto, she married former Stratford colleague Graham Abbey in August 2008.^[12]

References

1. ^ Wallach, Allan (1998-11-15). "Stratford Sends Two Classics to New York". CurtainUp. http://www.curtainup.com/stratfny.html. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
2. ^ Bowen, Joseph (2001-01-21). "The School for Scandal". Centerstage. http://www.centerstagechicago.com/theatre/articles/schoolforscandal.html. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
3. ^ Ouzounian, Richard (2003-07-10). "Present Laughter". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117921253.html?categoryid=33&cs=1&query=%22Michelle+Giroux%22. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
4. ^ Ouzounian, Richard (2005-06-19). "The Brothers Karamazov". Variety. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117927422.html?categoryid=33&cs=1&query=%22Michelle+Giroux%22. Retrieved 2009-03-29. 
5. ^ "Hutt backs out of Stratford season for health reasons". CBC News. 2007-03-26. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/03/26/hutt-stratford.html. Retrieved 2009-03-27. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "Fishing around". NOW magazine. 2004-12-30. http://www.nowtoronto.com/stage/story.cfm?content=145172&archive=24,18,2004. Retrieved 2009-03-28. 
7. ^ Hunter, Martin (2001). Ramsay Derry. ed. Romancing the Bard: Stratford at Fifty. Dundurn Press. pp. 290. ISBN 1550023632. http://books.google.ca/books?id=1laOprsoXVIC&pg=PA290&dq=Michelle+Giroux&client=firefox-a#PPA290,M1. 
8. ^ Berketo, Steven (2005). "This Fish Gets Tangled Up Stream". Torontostage.com. http://www.torontostage.com/reviews/troutStanley.html. Retrieved 2009-03-28. 
9. ^ Kaplan, Jon. "What's on NEXT". Now. http://www.nowtoronto.com/stage/story.cfm?content=166709&archive=28,19,2009. Retrieved 2009-03-27. 
10. ^ Boyce, Neil (Mar 19 - Mar 25 2009). "Defying convention". Montreal Mirror. http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/031909/theatre.html. Retrieved 9 January 2011. 
11. ^ Cushman, Robert (8 January 2011). "The case against anger management". National Post. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/case+against+anger+management/4078766/story.html. Retrieved 9 January 2011. 
12. ^ Ouzounian, Richard (2008-09-27). "Border star steady with sword as well as gun". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/506247. Retrieved 2009-03-27. 

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