{"id":46,"date":"2015-02-27T23:44:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/?p=46"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:33:16","slug":"michael-therriault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/michael-therriault\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Therriault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/michael-therriault\/michael-300\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-300.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"michael-300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-300.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-300.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-300.png?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-300.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-300.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Since graduating from ESA in 1992, theatre credits include eight seasons at The Stratford Festival; \u00a0Leo Bloom in THE PRODUCERS (Mirvish); Gollum in LORD OF THE RINGS (Toronto and London&#8217;s West End); Motel in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Broadway) and Irving Berlin in THE TIN PAN ALLEY RAG (Roundabout Theatre Co NY). On television, Michael played Tommy Douglas in the CBC mini-series PRAIRIE GIANT: THE TOMMY DOUGLAS STORY; Lord Castleroy in REIGN (on the CW network) and will soon be seen as Klaus Blinsky in the Netflix series HEMLOCK GROVE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since graduating from ESA in 1992, theatre credits include eight seasons at The Stratford Festival; \u00a0Leo Bloom in THE PRODUCERS (Mirvish); Gollum in LORD OF THE RINGS (Toronto and London&#8217;s West End); Motel in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Broadway) and Irving Berlin in THE TIN PAN ALLEY RAG (Roundabout Theatre Co NY). On television, Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[11,25,35,57],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-music-theatre","tag-11","tag-actor","tag-music-theatre","tag-singer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/michael-300-1.png?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8vWl8-K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":530,"url":"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/sedina-fiati\/","url_meta":{"origin":46,"position":0},"title":"Sedina Fiati","author":"maestra","date":"March 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I am a multidisciplinary performer, producer, activist and creator for stage and screen. 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