Canadian Improv Showcase

Peter Nelson

Peter is a graduate of the University of Toronto where he studied engineering. He eventually found building characters preferable to building bridges and thus his improv/acting career. Voted by his engineering classmates as the guy least likely to have an affair (Women say "ahhh", men say "idiot"), he is married with three daughters which convinces him that God has a sense of humour.

As an engineer he is an abject failure making "Tim (the Tool-man) Taylor" look like a Home Depot deity. He is reasonably handy with a computer however and spends great deal of time sending emails back and forth to Matt because neither of them really have a life.

He moves easily between drama and comedy with his most recent stage appearance as Lennox in the David Gardner directed Macbeth at Hart House theatre. He also appeared as Pierre Gravel in "Yesterday the Children were Dancing" at the Village Playhouse. Most recently, he has concentrated on film and commercial work. Several of his films have done well at film festivals including "Only the Devils speaks Cree" where he plays a priest in an aboriginal school at the turn of the century (definitely not comedy).

This spring you can see him as the lead George in "Moon Over Buffalo" where he plays the entire second act drunk. Stansilavsky, eat your heart out.