Cariou Joins Dora Award-winning Actor David Storch and Director Ted Dykstra

Toronto– Internationally acclaimed Canadian acting legend Len Cariou will star as Richard Nixon in the Canadian premiere of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning drama Frost/Nixon, a co-production between The Canadian Stage Company and the Playhouse Theatre Company in Vancouver. The esteemed Mr. Cariou joins Dora Award-winning actor David Storch (Canadian Stage’s Angels in America, The Lonesome West) who will play David Frost. Ted Dykstra directs (Canadian Stage’s Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show). Artistic Producer Martin Bragg (Canadian Stage), Artistic Director Glynis Leyshon (Playhouse Theatre) and Mr. Dykstra will announce additional casting over the next few weeks. Frost/Nixon runs October 13 to November 8, 2008 at The Canadian Stage Company’s Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto after running September 13 through October 4, 2008 at the Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver.

Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan, a critically acclaimed runaway hit on Broadway and London’s West End, is a gripping stage dramatization of the historic events leading up to and including the notorious televised interviews during which British talk show host David Frost elicited an apology from former President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal.

Winnipeg-born actor Len Cariou is best known for creating the roles of Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music (for which he received a Tony Award nomination) and the title role in Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street opposite Angela Lansbury (for which he received a Tony and a Drama Desk Award). Other Broadway appearances include Applause with Lauren Bacall (for which he received a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award), Nightwatch, Cold Storage, Teddy and Alice, Dance A Little Closer, The Speed of Darkness, The Dinner Party with John Ritter and Henry Winkler, Proof with Anne Heche and Neil Patrick Harris, and a recent revival of Funny Girl with Whoopie Goldberg, Ricki Lake, Andrea Martin and Peter Gallagher. In addition to his Broadway credits, the versatile performer has played numerous roles across the United States and in Canada. He is the former Artistic Director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre and former Associate Director of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. During his years at the Guthrie and at the Stratford Festival, Mr. Cariou built his classical repertoire to include the roles of King Lear, Macbeth, Prospero, Coriolanus, Brutus, Petruchio, Iago, Oberon and Henry V, among others. Feature film credits include One Man (for which he won a Genie Award), The Four Seasons, Flags of Our Fathers, 1408, Executive Decision, Lady in White, Thirteen Days, About Schmidt, Secret Window, The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club and the Harold Prince-directed screen adaptation of A Little Night Music with Elizabeth Taylor. His many television appearances include CSI, Numb3rs, The Practice, The West Wing, Law & Order, Star Trek: Voyager, The Practice, Ed, The Outer Limits, and multiple episodes of Murder, She Wrote.