Mike Nadajewski has been a professional actor for over 20 years, appearing in major Canadian (and a few American) theatres along the way. He has spent the majority of his career playing leading and featured roles in North America's largest classical theatre festivals. He has appeared for eight seasons at both the Shaw Festival and Stratford Festival.
Recent credits include Valere in La Bête, Narrator/Mysterious Man in Into the Woods (Talk Is Free Theatre). At the Shaw Festival, he appeared in On the Razzle, Damn Yankees, Charley’s Aunt, Sherlock Holmes and the Raven’s Curse, The Russian Play, Brigadoon, Happy End. At the Stratford Festival his credits include Timon of Athens, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter Sellars’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play, Romeo and Juliet, Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and As You Like It. Other credits include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Mirvish); Sweeney Todd (UK), Herringbone, The Yalta Game, Candide, Sunday in the Park with George, One Night Stand (Talk Is Free Theatre); Outside Mullingar, Cabaret (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Drowsy Chaperone, Cotton Patch Gospel, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton Entertainment); as well as several productions with Canadian Stage Company, National Arts Centre, Charlottetown Festival, Western Canada Theatre, and Theatre Aquarius.
FILM/TV credits include The Understudy, Northern Tracks - Rufus Wainwright and Joni Mitchell (StratFest@HOME), Private Eyes (Global/Entertainment One), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC/ Shaftesbury Films), Kim’s Convenience (CBC/Thunderbird Films), Gracie & Pedro: Pet’s to the Rescue (GTE Productions INC), Let’s Go Bananas! (9 Story/CBC Kids).
Mike lives with his wife, Glynis Ranney, and their son in Stratford, Ontario.
