User:Criticaleye73/Kit Lang

Kit Lang started acting in high school in a production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and when he played the role of Macbeth that was bloody and messy Kit’s drama teacher told him he should pursue acting as a career.

Kit then studied performing arts for 2 years at Vanier College, where he performed plays and was cast in a couple short films.

After completing the theatre courses Kit moved to Toronto where he continued his studies for the next 5 years in acting, voice, movement, Alexander technique, with various studios, most notably with R. H. Thomson and Tom Todoroff.

During this time Kit had his stage debut in the 'oldest and proudest Toronto theatrical company’; Donald Jones. Toronto Star. In a Alumnae Theatre production of Girls Do Brunch at the ‘New Ideas Festival’. Later at Alumnae Theatre, Kit was Cast in a stage version of Moonlight and Valentino. Kit played Valentino a character based on Rudolph Valentino the 1920’s silent film star.

In 2006 Kit worked in a CBC Radio Drama “From the Beyond” alongside Canada’s premiere talent including Eric Peterson and Saul Rubinek. Kit was then cast in CBC’s Gemini award winning television show The Morgan Waters Show. It was around this time Kit officially became a professional working actor and joined the union guilds for performing artists ACTRA and later the Canadian Actors Equity Association.

The following years Kit was cast in numerous independent short and independent feature films that have toured in over 15 film festivals worldwide. Most notably Kit was cast as Dutch the drug dealer in the award winning feature film Gangster Exchange at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, New York Film Festival etc… and as Nathan, a contract killer in the short film Trigger which premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Most recently Kit was in an episode of City TV’s Gemini award winning television show called Murdoch Mysteries. And hit the stage with Tarantella an Italian love story,by Marisa Buffone, A lonely Impulse of Delight by John Patrick Shanley and Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco by Gary Owen. “I was thoroughly won over by Chris Lang…” -Tom Mackan, Newzy Bitz