Brendan McMurtry-Howlett - Shaw Festival Theatre

Brendan McMurtry-Howlett
Puppetry

SHAW 2025: Puppetry director and co-designer for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe;3rd season. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: Director, A Christmas Carol (2023); assistant director, Victory, The Glass Menagerie; Neil Munro Intern Director (2019), Play House (Directors Project). ELSEWHERE: director, TRAYF, Harold Green Jewish Theatre, The Navigatio Redux, Independent; After The Fire, Punctuate! Theatre; Macbeth: Walking Shadows, Cymbeline’s Reign, Two Gents, Shakespeare in the Ruff; appeared in In Seven Days, The Grand Theatre and HGJT, Mistatim, Red Sky Performance; Leaving Home, Tarragon Theatre; The Flick, Outside the March; “…and stockings for the ladies”, RustWerk ReFinery; productions with NAC, The Theatre Centre, Citadel, Centaur Theatre, Theatre Calgary and ARC. Brendan was the founding artistic director of Shakespeare in the Ruff and proudly served as the chair of the board for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

Also onstage in 2025
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Four children. One wardrobe. Endless adventures!

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Dear Liar

Sometimes you have to read between the lines.

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Wait Until Dark

It’s not the dark you have to be afraid of; it’s what is hiding within it.

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