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Gord's Quick Acting Bio
Currently, I'm of course doing the Fast & Dirty
thing. (Duh.) Through that we've performed all over Toronto, doing places
as diverse as Second City (Mainstage, Tim Sims Playhouse and The Old
Firehall), the Rivoli, the Bad Dog Theatre (current home of Theatresports), the lobby of the Bluma Appel Theatre, the Bloor
Cinema, the Poor Alex, the Oasis, The Laugh Resort, a chi-chi country
club, the Isabel Bader Theatre, the Limelight Dinner Theatre, Oakville Centre for the Arts, Spirits
Bar and Grill, and a whole whack of other places I'm just not remembering
right now. We won the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award in 1997. In
1998 we performed on CBC-TV's SketchCom, got nominated for a Writing
Gemini in 1999 for that (with Skippy's Rangers), and did other TV appearances
with Cream of Comedy, The Camilla Scott Show (CTV), Daytime (Rogers),
The Erin Davis Show (Rogers), and The Toronto Show (Toronto1). We've also done radio with CBC's Definitely
Not The Opera and more recently Madly Off In All Directions, as well
as CIUT's Ch Zero, Howl and Cap'n Dave's Comedy Hour.
I'm also doing semi-regular improv comedy with a loose grouping of fine
and funny folk called "The Wrecking Crew," founded by Jane
Luk and occasionally including the funny likes of Dave Healey, Sam Agro,
Jan Caruana, and F&D's Robbo del Hokko! And more! We perform every
other Friday night at Timothy's Coffee Shop in the Carrot Common on
the Danforth in the lovely east end of Toronto (see Gigs for next batch of dates).
I did Theatresports after graduating university, and through that met
and performed with lots of fantastic people over the years. Understudied
with The Chumps during the Big City Improv days in the early 1990's,
did 3-person improv as "Tropic of Improv" with the dynamic
duo of Carolyn Meehan and Drew Leavy, improv with "What's Next"
at the Annex Improv at Bathurst and Bloor.
I've done a couple of plays, the 1995 Sudbury Fringe Festival with What's
Next cast members, the odd indie movie thing here and there, and a whole
bunch of solo turns over the years, doing character monologues, songs
and comedic readings. Had one line in a sketch with the great Kathryn Greenwood for the TV series 'Listen Missy', and appeared in a SOC (silent on camera)
role for CBC-TV's 'The Broad Side' back in 1998 (here's
a pic of the period costume I had to get into -- pretty spiffy).
More info is available on request.