Ensemble Bios

Peter Krantz

In his twenty-fifth season at the Shaw Festival, Mr Peter Krantz appears in Misalliance and His Girl Friday. Last season Peter appeared as Peter Hurley in Lennox Robinson’s Drama at Inish — A Comedy and as Sir Arthur in Bernard Shaw’s On the Rocks.

As an apprentice during 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. Past favourites include The Vortex, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, The Devil’s Disciple, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Cavalcade, Heartbreak House, Cyrano de Bergerac, This Happy Breed, Man and Superman, Geneva, Shakespeare in The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Danny in Night Must Fall, Henry IV, Drums in the Night, Misalliance and Ten Minute Alibi.

More recently he has appeared as Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, Reverend Anderson in The Devil’s Disciple, Saint Joan (tour to Chicago Shakespeare), The Philanderer, Getting Married, The Little Foxes, The Crucible, the title role in The Invisible Man, The Constant Wife, Bus Stop, Rutherford and Son (tour to Ottawa), Three Sisters, The Coronation Voyage, the doomed Detective McLeod in Detective Story, The Millionairess, Fanny’s First Play, Alan in Time and the Conways, Rebecca and All My Sons.

His other stage credits include Harvey at the University of Northern Colorado; Sherlock Holmes at The Grand Theatre; Rock ‘n’ Roll at Citadel Theatre; 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 and MTC; 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 Theatre; 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 XIII, 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 lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake with his wife Shelley, and between them have five children, as well as Haley the Golden Doodle, and Roz, the wonder cat.

Peter is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School.