User:Ric Sarabia

Ric Sarabia is a Canexican-American actor based in Los Angeles, California. Born in San Francisco to a Canadian mother and a Mexican father, he grew up in Ottawa, Canada and attended Woodroffe High School where he was inspired by Mark Gilchrist the school's drama teacher. He successfully auditioned for York University's BFA Theatre Program in Toronto where his classmates included Stuart Hughes (Soulpepper), Scott Thompson (Kids In The Hall), Gordon Robertson (master puppeteer), Dan Lett, and (briefly) Henry Czerny. He won the Kate Reid Award as Outstanding Actor at York in 1982.

Ric apprenticed at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival during the 1983 season for John Hirsch appearing in Macbeth, As You Like It, and Richard II alongside Nicolas Pennell, Roberta Maxwell, and Brian Bedford. He performed lead roles at Canada's Shaw Festival from 1984 to 1986 for Christopher Newton, most notably as the Lion in Androcles And The Lion with Tom McCamus and as the Wooly Mammoth in The Skin Of Our Teeth with Nora McLellan and as a Thought Policeman in 1984.