Brendan McMurtry-Howlett - Shaw Festival Theatre

Brendan McMurtry-Howlett
Director

SHAW 2026: Director for Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense; 4th season. FOR THE SHAW: Puppetry director and co-designer for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; director (2025), A Christmas Carol (2023); assistant director, Victory, The Glass Menagerie; Neil Munro Intern Director (2019), Play House (Directors Project). (Selected Credits) 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 from 2022-2024.

Also onstage in 2026
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Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Dignity is optional. Laughter is guaranteed.

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Ohio State Murders

Memory speaks. And justice demands.

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Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

More magic than you can shake a wand at!

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