Peter Krantz, Jon Osbaldeston, Jane Gardner

Jane Gardner

Jane Gardner is the General Manager of Carousel Players in St. Catharines. With over twenty-five years of experience in communications, marketing, fundraising and arts management, Gardner's career highlights include managing two successful regional theatres - Blyth Festival and Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa, serving as Executive Director of Theatre Ontario, promoting an international jazz festival in Ottawa and fostering joint marketing projects with Association of Summer Theatres 'Round Ontario. She is a member of the Niagara Centre for the Arts Task Force.

Peter Krantz

Peter Krantz returns to the Shaw Festival in 2010 for his twenty-third season to appear as Elwood P Dowd in Harvey.  Last year he appeared as The Reverend Anthony Anderson in Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple and as Jimmie in Noel Coward’s Star Chamber. Last season he appeared as General “Boxer” Bridgenorth in Bernard Shaw’s Getting Married and Oscar Hubbard in Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes. In 2007 he performed in Saint Joan, including the post-season tour to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and in The Philanderer.

Other Shaw highlights include: The Crucible, the title role in The Invisible Man, The Constant Wife, Bus Stop, Rutherford and Son, Three Sisters, The Coronation Voyage, the doomed Detective McLeod in Detective Story, The Millionairess, Fanny’s First Play, Time and the Conways, Rebecca, All My Sons, Ten Minute Alibi, Man and Superman, Geneva, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Night Must Fall.

As an apprentice in the 1981 season he appeared in Saint Joan and Camille and then went on to star, with another young apprentice, Dan Lett, in the acclaimed Dreaming and Duelling at Young Peoples Theatre in Toronto. Since that time he has played in over 35 productions at The Shaw. Some of his other favourites not mentioned above were, The Vortex, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, The Devil’s Disciple, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Cavalcade, Cyrano de Bergerac, This Happy Breed, Henry IV, Drums in the Night, Misalliance and Heartbreak House.

His other stage credits include: Rock and Roll at The Citadel, Dial ‘M’ for Murder at Theatre Aquarius; Strawberries in January at The Grand Theatre; Gross Indecency – The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at the Berkeley Street Theatre; Arcadia at Canadian Stage Company; Keely & Du at the National Arts Centre and Manitoba Theatre Centre; Warm Wind in China at Neptune Theatre; The Forest at Centre Stage; True West and Criminals in Love at Theatre Calgary; Merchant of Venice at Toronto Free; Rubber Dolly at Tarragon Theatre; Great Expectations at Young Peoples Theatre and Henry V at Hart House.

Peter has also made numerous film and television appearances including Mail to the Chief, Exotica, Speaking Parts, The Ref, Sugartime, Tek War, Undue Influence, F\X The Series, ENG, Earth – The Final Conflict, Side Effects, Street Legal, Katts and Dog, Spirit Bay, For the Record, Scales of Justice, Beyond Reality, Adderley, The Great Detective, The Campbells and Night Heat.
Peter is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School.

Jon Osbaldeston

Jon is originally from the UK, where he trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College (BA Hons Theatre Arts), and later on an international scholarship at Texas Tech University, where he studied on the MFA Playwriting Program. His most recent credits include playing Scrooge in a new adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Neptune Theatre, Halifax, and Directing Kelly Daniels and Ric Reid in Sexy Laundry for Lyndesfarne Theatre. In the UK, he was in the West End productions of Les Miserables; Fiddler on the Roof; Leonardo: The Musical and Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Other productions include: Uncle Vanya; Promises Promises; The Rivals and many tours and repertory productions in the UK. He was also one of five founding directors of The WestEnders, and spent seven years touring internationally with the company, and featuring on their best selling CD: WestEnders The Album. He was a familiar voice to many radio listeners as host and actor in Pocket Shakespeare; The Great Detectives; Chillers and Thrillers and Bedtime Stories for Oneword Radio in the UK. With his writing partner Felicity Duncan, he co-created/co-wrote and played half the characters in, two seasons of the children’s show The Adventures of PG Woodlouse for the BBC Radio 7 network. For the CBC Radio he appeared in season three of Afghanada. His play Hard as Nails won The London Writers Competition, was broadcast by Oneword Radio and produced for the stage by Moving Arts in Los Angeles, where it was the ‘Critics Choice’ in LA Weekly. He works closely as a teacher with Barbara Worthy, developing courses and team-teaching for Niagara College and University of Toronto.