Mervon Mehta

Canadian actor Mervon Mehta received his theatrical training under the late Sanford Meisner in New York and spent the next several years performing in New York as a member of the Neighborhood Group Theatre, in regional theatre and on television. In 1987 he returned to Canada where he appeared in Hamlet (Laertes) at the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, in Julius Caesar (Marulus/Messala), the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, The Taming of the Shrew (Lucentio) at Skylight Theatre in Toronto, The Secret Garden (Craven) at Young People’s Theatre in Toronto and Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik) in Sudbury.

He spent two seasons at the Stratford Festival appearing in Richard Monet’s Romeo and Juliet (Paris), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine), The Tempest, Pirandello's The Rules of the Game and Michael Langham's critically acclaimed production of Timon of Athens starring Brian Bedford. Other favourite roles include Rodolpho in A View from the Bridge, Stanley in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Bernie in Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love and Cuirette in Michel Tremblay's Hosanna. On television he has been seen in The Untouchables, Choices (with George C. Scott), on several daytime soap operas. He moved to Chicago in 1993 and appeared in The Seagull (Treplev) at Touchstone Theatre, in Once in a Lifetime (Jerry) at the Court Theatre, and in The Cure at Troy (Neoptolemus) directed by the late Bernie Sahlins at Steppenwolf Theatre. Mehta also appeared regularly at Chicago’s Apple Tree Theatre including leading roles as Armenian Holocaust survivor Aram Tomassian in Beast on the Moon and as Jewish Holocaust denier Bernard Cooper in Denial.

As narrator for classical music concerts he has appeared under the batons of conductors Lawrence Foster, Christoph Eschenbach and his father, Zubin Mehta performing such works as Beethoven’s Egmont (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, National Arts Center Orchestra and the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, England); Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony (Houston Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Munich Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Hungarian National Orchestra in Budapest; Walton’s Henry V (Lisbon); Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Chicago Symphony); Schoenberg’s Survivor from Warsaw (Monte Carlo Symphony); and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lisbon). Mehta, his wife Carey and son Zed, reside in Toronto where he is Executive Director of Performing Arts at the Royal Conservatory of Music.