Hilary Nichol

Hilary Nichol is currently employed by the Stratford Festival as Company Manager (since 2021).

Hilary has 15+ years’ experience working in professional theatre in Canada. Select Stage Management credits include, Stratford: The Merry Wives of Windsor (assistant stage manager), The School for Scandal (apprentice stage manager), Assistant stage manager of the Directors’ Workshop Presentation, 2018 & 2019; Festival Theatre production assistant, 2016. 

Elsewhere: Stage manager: Mules (Theatrefront), Plaid Tidings, A Christmas Carol (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Tales of an Urban Indian (Talk Is Free Theatre). Assistant stage manager: Prairie Nurse (Thousand Island Playhouse). CAEA apprentice credits: Sir John A: Acts of Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion (NAC), Angels Square, The Public Servant, The Boy in the Moon (Great Canadian Theatre Company), The Comedy of Errors (a Company of Fools), Bingo! (Factory). 

Training: Algonquin College Theatre Arts 2009, Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School Integrated Arts Program 2006. Awards: Guthrie Awards: Derek F. Mitchell Artistic Director’s Award (2022), Jean A. Chalmers Apprentice Achievement Award (2016); Prix Rideau Award Winner Emerging Artist 2010; Prix Rideau Award Nominee, Stage Management, 2010, A Flea in Her Ear (SevenThirty Productions).