A Company of Fools is Ottawa’s longest running independent professional Shakespeare company: our mandate is to produce innovative, entertaining and accessible shows based on the works of William Shakespeare.

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Geoff McBride- Eros,  Alexas/Messanger,  Clown,  Lepidus

Geoff McBride began his acting career in Nova Scotia. He spent three years at Stratford, appearing in Twelfth Night and Knight of the Burning Pestle among others. After a stint in Toronto he returned to Halifax where he co-founded the Alive Theatre Company with Joanne Miller and Christopher Shore. Alive created and produced nine plays including The Stratford Stories and Liar. He also worked with Mulgrave Road, Eastern Front, Neptune, Live Bait, and Two Planks and a Passion. Now based in Ottawa, he appeared in Conservatives in Love, Vision Theatre’s The Pillowman and Night Owl’s Someone for Everyone. Recently Geoff’s monologue You Win was a winner of Solo Collective Theatre’s Emerging Playwright Competition.