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Chris Ralph
Chris is the co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Acting Company and has taught acting and voice at York University, Algonquin College, University of Ottawa, as well at many private studios. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and has an MFA in Acting from York University.
Recent acting credits include roles in The Virgin Trial (GCTC / 2019 Prix Rideau Award for Best Ottawa Actor); Up to Low (NAC); Half Life (Theatre Northwest); A Christmas Carol (NAC); Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (Plosive Productions); The Amorous Servant (Odyssey Theatre); Glengarry Glen Ross (Avalon Productions – Capital Critics Award for Best Production); Billy Bishop Goes to War (Plosive Productions – Capital Critics Best Actor nomination); The Game of Love and Death (Odyssey).
In addition to his theatre work, Chris is also a much sought after Voice and Presentation coach with over 10-years of corporate and academic practice. He is worked with people from a wide array of business sectors, including lawyers, Ph.D. students, cabinet ministers, government managers and directors, leaders of non-profits, NGOs and associations. Chris loves learning about people’s jobs and the day-to-day challenges they experience communicating with stakeholders, clients, boards, and teams,
John Muggleton
John has been an actor, director and playwright for over 30 years. Recent acting credits include David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (Best Production 2015 Capital Critics Awards), Speed-The-Plow (Outstanding Male Actor nomination Prix Rideau Awards, Best Actor nomination Capital Critics Circle Awards), and The Extremely Short New Play Festival 2017. For television, John was a writer on Mann to Mann, directed by Derek Diorio (Hard Rock Medicine, House of Luc) featuring Patrick McKenna. A member of ACTRA, The Canadian Actors Equity Association and the Playwrights Guild of Canada, John is a co-founder of the Ottawa Acting Company and a recipient of the Audrey Ashley Award for longstanding dedication to the Ottawa theatre community.
John's first full length play, Burn, was nominated as Best New Play of 2017 by the Ottawa Capital Critics Circle and has since been produced at theatres across Canada. An Act of Grace, John's new play, was performed at the Eastern Ontario Drama League Festival in November of 2018 and was awarded Best Production, Best Ensemble, The People's Choice Award and an adjudicators award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. Grace has since been produced at the Gladstone and the Avalon Studio, and is slated to be produced in 2021 in Toronto.
John is the Manager of Youth and Adult Programming at the Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group.