Cast of The Long Weekend

Featuring...

Stephen Sparks

Stephen lives in Toronto. A much sought after performer, he has appeared on most major Canadian stages from coast to coast. Most recently as Sam in Mama Mia and Captain Vonn Trapp in Sound of Music. This will be his tenth production of a Norm Foster play. Stephen has been nominated for a Dora award (Toronto’s Tony) . He is also a playwright and his two plays, co-written with his wife Shelley Hoffman, have had multiple productions and one was nominated for a Tom Hendry comedy award.

Television credits include: Murdoch mysteries, The Boys, Designated Survivor, Reign, Warehouse 13, Lost Girl, Mayday etc.

Heather Hodgson Kosoy

Ms. Hodgson has performed across Canada on a variety of stages including the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, the Globe Theatre in Regina and as a Company member of both Drayton Entertainment and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Her film and television work finds her featured in a variety of both American and Canadian productions. She was a recurring cast member in CityTV’s award winning television series Meet The Family and she recently executive produced and starred in the award-winning short film Pink. Ms. Hodgson is currently a resident of the Bahamas.

D. Sean Nottage

Sean is an actor, voice artist, wealth management consultant and real estate professional. With American and Bahamian heritage, he descends from a Bahamian family with roots in Eleuthera. Sean has been a theatre actor for many years, primarily as part of the Ringplay Theatre Company in Nassau and the Shakespeare in Paradise company. He is also engaged with Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts in its center for actor training. Sean won a DANSA award for his role as Juror #8 in Ringplay Productions’ presentation of ’12 Angry Men’ for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play. Sean has also played Bill Coles in ‘Other People’s Money,’ Torvald Hemler in ‘A Doll’s House,’ Karl/Steve in ‘Clybourne Park,’ Manolo in ‘The Odd Couple’ (female version) and David in ‘The Foreigner.’ Sean also starred in Two Hoops Production’s production of The Long Weekend here at the Atlantis Theatre last year as Max Trueman. His extensive work in Shakespeare productions has seen Sean as Benedick in ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Roderigo in ‘Othello,’ MacDuff in ‘Macbeth,’ Orsino in ‘Twelfth Night’ and the Captain in ‘The Tempest.’ In film, Sean has had supporting roles in independent films, including ‘Wind Jammers’ and ‘Cargo’ and has leading roles in two TV series released in 2023. For a time, Sean was Photo Double and Stand-In for Pierce Brosnan. As a voice artist, Sean has provided the voice for numerous radio and TV commercials and promos around the world as well as narrations and radio imaging. He is the male imaging voice of Y98FM in Nassau. Sean is also a lawyer and consultant in the wealth management industry as well as a real estate agent; but he is not really a newspaper reporter.

Allison Lawrence

Actress

Alison most recently appeared as “Whoreen” in Amazon Prime’s The Lake, (Season 2 coming soon!) and was seen in Ghosts (CBS) and Murdoch Mysteries (CBC). Favourite theatre roles include The Laramie Project, two separate productions of Norm Foster’s The Ladies Foursome, Top Gun! The Musical (in Toronto and the New York Musical Theatre Festival) and her own plays The Catering Queen, and bittergirl, which she co-wrote and co-starred in with Annabel Fitzsimmons and Mary Francis Moore. The threesome also wrote the book Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped (published by Penguin Canada, Plume U.S. and in Brazil) and Bittergirl – the musical which has been produced across Canada including two seasons at the Charlottetown Festival.

Chris McHarge

Director

Chris has been directing for 35 years and has served as Artistic Director at Lighthouse Festival Theatre in Port Dover, Canada, Artistic and Executive Director of Theatre on the Grand in Fergus, Canada, as well as former Artistic Associate at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, Canada. Chris maintains an active schedule as a freelance director and producer, and has worked throughout Canada, in Europe, in the United States, and in the Caribbean. In his career he has directed well over 100 productions including more than 45 world premieres, and has been nominated for a number of awards including the Eleanor and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre (2001 & 2004), the Township of Centre Wellington Artist of the Year Award, the Canada Council John Hirsch Award and the Pauline McGibbon Award for directing. More significantly, Chris is known as the director of choice for Norm Foster, Canada’s most produced playwright. Chris is most proud of his adult kids Caitlyn, Erin, and Quinn, who are off carving their own paths of success in this world.

Norm Foster

Playwright

Norm Foster has been called Canada’s preeminent comic playwright. Numbered among his 70 plays are The Foursome, Jonas and Barry in the Home, On A First Name Basis, The Love List, Outlaw, Lunenburg, Hilda’s Yard, Doris and Ivy in the Home, Halfway There and Come Down From Up River. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for his play, The Melville Boys and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

His plays are also produced extensively throughout Europe. This May, his play Mending Fences will begin a two-year run in Paris, France. His most recent plays include Whit’s End and Those Movies, both of which will premiere at the Foster Festival in St. Catharine’s this summer. The Foster Festival, is going into its eighth year.

Foster also has a new play titled Lakefront, which will premiere at the Lighthouse Theatre in Port Dover, Ontario this summer.

Norm lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Daniele Guillaume

Stage Manager

Stephen is delighted to return for another Two Hoops production. A busy actor based in Toronto, he has worked in theatres across Canada. Recently he played Captain Von Trapp in Sound of Music and Sam in Mama Mia. His T.V. credits include roles on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Boys, Murdoch Mysteries and many more.