Ensemble Bios

Graeme Somerville

In his tenth season at the Shaw Festival, Mr Graeme Somerville appears in A Man and Some Women and Come Back, Little Sheba. Last season, he appeared as Reverend Lexy Mill in Bernard Shaw’s Candida and as Henry in Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling.

Graeme’s additional credits for The Shaw include Serious Money, John Bull’s Other Island, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, The Entertainer, An Inspector Calls, Belle Moral: A Natural History (2008 and tour/2005), Tristan, Too True To Be Good, Design for Living, You Never Can Tell, Man and Superman, Harlequinade, Ah Wilderness!, Misalliance and The Plough and the Stars.

His theatre credits include Betrayal (BeMe Theatre, Munich); Hush (Tarragon Theatre); The Beauty Queen of Leenane, (Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects); The Turn of the Screw (Belfry Theatre); Saint Joan (Theatre Calgary); Death of a Salesman (Theatre Aquarius); The Beard of Avon (CanStage); The Unanswered Question, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well and Hamlet (National Arts Centre); The Forest (Great Canadian Theatre Company); Emma Zunz (Rhubarb! Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Equity Showcase); Chronic and Geometry in Venice (Factory Theatre); The Game of Love and Chance (Pleiades); Measure for Measure and The Possibilities (Montreal Young Company); The Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tsaddik and Lenz (Go Chicken Go); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Victoria Shakespeare Festival); Tales from the Kingdom (Theatre and Company).

In 1999, Graeme won a Dora for his title role in Lenz for Go Chicken Go and, in 2006, was nominated for a Betty Mitchell Award for his role of Warwick in Saint Joan. He was the Associate Director for Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest at Resurgence Theatre with Director Chris Abraham and Assistant Director for Art at the Belfry Theatre with director R.H. Thompson.

Film radio and television credits include Afghanada (CBC Radio), The Associates (CTV), The Courage to Love, Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story, Diva, Stardom and Gordon’s Head.

Graeme has a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, double specialization in directing and scenography, from the University of Victoria and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada Acting Program. He has also studied at Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris.