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Rodney Roy is an exciting talent in the world of Canadian theatre. He has recently founded The Organic Theatre Collective and will be staging his first original play, His Imposing Visage: a new play on life, at Toronto's premier LGBT theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, in April of 2011.

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 * 1) Biography

BIOGRAPHY

His childhood was spent acting. His family, recognizing his passion and penchant for performance, promptly enrolled him in acting classes with the local professional theatres, SUDBURY THEATRE CENTRE and LE THÉÂTRE DU NOUVEL-ONTARIO. At the age of eleven, Rodney made his television debut in a short made for TV film entitled An Invasion of Privacy, a co-production between STC and MCTV. In 1997, he made his musical theatre debut as the loyal and nervous slave, Hysterium, in THEATRE CAMBRIAN’s production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Director Bill Sanders, impressed with Rodney’s performance in Forum, cast him in the role of Bobbie Franklin in his production of Run For Your Wife with the SUDBURY THEATRE CENTRE SUMMER PLAYHOUSE. It was during Run For Your Wife that Rodney met Amber Hicks, actor, playwright and Artistic Director of MURDER BY APPOINTMENT, Northern Ontario’s premier touring murder mystery theatre company. Ten seasons, countless kilometers, and hundreds of costume changes later, Rodney has played such colorful and diverse characters as the slimy lawyer, Hugh Borme, in Murder Al Dente; the shamelessly flirtatious mortician, Inigo Jones, in A Deadly Plot; the jealous Maid of Honor, Jessie Soguay, in A Vow of Murder; stuttering Elvis impersonator Bernie Love, as well as the cankerous Colonel in Viva Las Elvis!; the saloon piano player and town mayor, Tinkle Graves, in Dry Belch and the properly quirky Mrs. Cookoo in Clued Out!

On the main stage, Rodney has proven to be just as diverse actor by taking on such parts as Kirk the college jock in Single and Sexy; The Narrator in Frosh (both with Laurentian University); the cruel Sievers in The Physicists; the conflicted Rev. Hale in The Crucible (both with THORNELOE UNIVERSITY PLAYERS), as well as the calculating Alice: an FLQ terrorist posing as the nursemaid to the French Princess in GATEWAY THEATRE GUILD’s Henry V. Adapted and directed by Rod Carley, this lavish Quonta award-winning production was set in 1967 Montreal during the Stanley Cup playoffs and was performed in North Bay, Timmins and in Barrie, at THE STOCKEY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.

In 2007, Rodney graduated with Honors from the Canadore College Theatre Arts program and starred as Ronald in REP 21’s productions of The Altruists directed by Sharri Hollett, and opposite Jeff Miller and Hume Baugh in The Libertine directed by Rod Carley. In 2008, Rodney worked as Assistant to the Stage Manager on THE CABARET COMPANY’s production of Happy: A Very Gay Little Musical, written and directed by Sky Gilbert with music by Micah Barnes, in preparation for his next role, as Stage Manager for Popcorn directed by Sharri Hollett with REP 21. In 2009, Rodney was was invited to perform in THE CABARET COMPANY initiative Kitchen Party Nervous Breakdown Reality TV Show under the artistic leadership of Sky Gilbert. That summer, Rodney also teamed up with fellow Canadore alumnus Tim Murphy (as Stage Manager, Lighting Designer and Publicity Art Director) for the TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL premier of Murphy’s critically acclaimed one man show Blind To Happinesss…

Rodney’s first collection of poems entitled Life Outside the Womb, is being published by The OTC Free Press in fall 2012 and will feature Like Mist Over Water, first place winner of the 2006 COLLEGE ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE AND LITERACY Creative Writing contest (Poetry and Song Lyrics).

His next project is his most ambitious to date. A marriage of mediums, His Imposing Visage combines live theatre with still photography, film, visual art, and the music of the incomparable singer and songwriter Micah Barnes.

His Imposing Visage | a new play on life.

SPRING 2011 | Follow Rodney's tweets @rodneyroydotcom

Check out the trailer at http://www.rodneyroy.com/his-imposing-visage/

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