June 7th, 2007

Edmonton premiere of Jeff Burke's dramatic comedy feature film FITZ (also Official Selection at the Indie Can Film Festival 2007).

Radio interview - Sonic 102.9

May 17th to May 26th, 2007

Role of Lou, in Arthur Miller's drama After The Fall.
Play directed by Stefan Dzeparoski.

Studio Theatre, Edmonton

April 1st to May 31st, 2007

Start of shoot of the sci-fi fantasy short film
Manndroidd … and the History of Now,
by Ryan Brown, with Manuel in the title role.
Thanks to the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and ...

The National Film Board of Canada

February 16th to March 4th, 2007

Co-lead role of Creon, King of Thebes, in an English adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s tragedy Antigone, directed by Shomee Chakrabartty.

First steps towards a professional acting career
(May 2004 - November 2006)

FIRST TRAINING IN FILM ACTING: At the Film & Video Arts Society of Alberta. Also through lead roles in indie, super-low budget feature Fitz + shorts Font (Indie Fest of Merit, 2009) & Reverie (Shaw TV), which caught the attention of Edmonton talent agent Darryl Mork.

FIRST TRAINING IN STAGE ACTING: With Michele Brown (Univ-ersity of Alberta), Brian Dooley & Bradley Moss (Dramaworks, Citadel). Also through co-lead roles in public exercises for drama courses (U of A), in the lead role of Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (Bernard Salva, U of A), and in the supporting role of The Diplomat
in Le voyage du couronnement (Josée Thibeault, L'Unithéâtre).

DAYJOB BIZ: Linguistics lecturer at the University of Alberta.
August 2006: successful completion of a PhD in linguistics.