Talent INC Canada Expands Toronto Faculty

^[1]Marcel Stewart, a respected arts educator, has joined the Talent INC Canada ^[2]team to help prepare young actors for audition and networking opportunities. Marcel specializes in training youth for professional careers in the entertainment industry and comes to Talent INC with an extensive following. An up and coming actor, playwright, and arts-educator, Marcel performed in the Dora Award ^[3] nominated production of Macbeth for the Classical Theatre Project, and the George F. Walker play Theatre of the Film Noir for Atlas Stage Canada,which toured throughout Poland and Austria in the fall of 2008.

As an educator / mentor for youth and as a children’s theatre playwright, Marcel has worked all across Canada. Marcel has a long standing working relationship with Talent INC Canada owners, John Stevens and Doug Sloan and has conducted workshops in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Saskatoon. ^[4]

Further credits include:

• Toronto The Good at the Factory Theatre
• A History of Breathing at the Persephone Theatre
• Project ACT for the Mixed Company Theatre
• Who Knew Grannie at the Factory Theatre
• Romeo & Juliet for Shakespeare in Action

Marcel is also one of the founding members of Shakespeare in the Ruff. Last year, Shakespeare in the Ruff celebrated their inaugural season to much praise and adulation. He recently was the Lead Facilitator for Canadian Stage’s Arts in Leadership Program. Marcel is a graduate of Brock University (Bachelor of Arts with Honours).

Marcel will be teaching improvisation, monologue performance, and scene study. He will also be an integral part of the National Conference, and the various Summer Camps ^[5] offered through the Toronto based studio.