Bruce Beaton* Prospero - The Tempest

For Canopy Theatre Company: Debut

Selected Credits: Green (Rhubarb!), three collectives with Paul Thompson, The Georgian Expedition (Sardapi Theatre, Tblisi, Georgia), The Rediscovery of Sex (Theatre Passe Muraille) and The Death of the Hired Man (Blyth Festival). He's also been in Icara (Ananke Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus and Megatropolis, (Die in Debt Theatre), The Yoko Ono Project (Theatre Passe Muraille) and worked with Necessary Angel and Mercury Theatre.

Film and T.V: Most recent: Felicity and The History of Violence.

Writing: Bruce wrote and directed '37 at last years Summereworks Festival and he is currently working on a play called Stalin Theory based on his experiences in Georgia.

Upcoming: The Real McCoy, written and directed by Andrew Moodie at The Factory Theatre in Jan. 06.

Bruce is a direct descendent of Alexander Selkirk. Selkirk spent four years and four months by himself on an island in the Pacific and his story was later used by Daniel Defoe in the writing of Robinson Crusoe

*Bruce Beaton appears with the permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association