Stratford Festival’s artistic director reflects on his career, education in Windsor and the lasting impact of southwestern Ontario’s theatre scene
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Antoni Cimolino was a young boy from Sudbury when he travelled to Southwestern Ontario and discovered a love for theatre at the Stratford Festival.
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The play was Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare, and Cimolino distinctly remembers the connection he felt both to the performance and to his fellow audience members.
“We were all immersed in the play, but we were all very aware of each other seeing the play,” he recounted. “I never had that experience before in quite that way, I felt this connection back in time, but also in that moment with those people.”
When Cimolino returned home, he told his parents he didn’t want to go to law school. He wanted to be an actor. Moreso, he wanted to work at Stratford and make a life recreating that bridge between an audience and the art.
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Cimolino went on to study acting at the University of Windsor, which for many years was touted as one of the best theatre schools in the country.