Ensemble Bios

Jeff Meadows

In his eleventh season as a member of The Shaw’s Ensemble, Mr Jeff Meadows appears in Misalliance and His Girl Friday. Previously he appeared as Gabriel Law in Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling and revisited the role of Tony Foot in Ferenc Molnár’s The President.

Jeff’s other credits for The Shaw include The President (2011/2008), Belle Moral: A Natural History (2008/2005), Summer and Smoke, The Kiltartan Comedies, The Invisible Man, The Crucible, Journey’s End, Man and Superman, Arkady in Nothing Sacred, Three Sisters, The Royal Family, Detective Story, His Majesty, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Fanny’s First Play and The Doctor’s Dilemma. The Toronto Star applauded his performance as Arthur Kindred in Detective Story as played with a “calm inner strength and quiet goodness… without ever being clichéd or cloying…ready to step into the ranks of young leading men” (Toronto Star, 2002).

Recently Jeff appeared in Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects’ first show, Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, at St Catharines’ Sullivan Mahoney Theatre and then at the Manitoba Theatre Centre’s Master Playwright Festival. Other theatre credits include She Stoops to Conquer at The Grand Theatre in London, ON and the Vancouver Playhouse under the direction of Christopher Newton; It’s All True for Touchstone Theatre; Delvecki’s Closet for the Vancouver Fringe Festival; The Wake for the Electric Company; Whimper, Taming of the Shrew, Passion – Elysian Fields, Lysistrata, Locus 20 and Cabaret for Studio 58. Jeff is a graduate of Studio 58.

In his spare time, Jeff enjoys reading, playing cards with fellow Company members, dancing, listening to Chet Baker and other jazz greats, and hosting dinner parties. Outdoors, he enjoys hiking, playing horseshoes, hacky sacking and playing a round of golf.

An avid traveler, Jeff often spends the winter months adventuring anywhere from the beaches of Barbados to the land Down Under. Jeff is married to fellow Shaw Festival Ensemble member Diana Donnelly.