Ashley Comeau

Ashley Comeau (born July 31, 1984), is a Canadian actress, writer and television producer. She is best known as an alumna of the Second City Toronto, and for her role as Ms. Badger on Degrassi.[1]

Ashley Comeau
Born (1984-07-31) July 31, 1984
Brampton
NationalityCanadian
EducationMayfield Secondary School
Alma materHumber College
OccupationActress, Writer, Improviser, Comedian, Television Producer
OrganizationSecond City
AgentAlicia Faucher at Fountainhead Talent
Partner(s)Connor Thompson
AwardsCanadian Comedy Award Winner 2019, 'Best Female Improviser 2015' from Now Magazine's Best Of 2015
Websitehttp://www.ashleycomeau.com/

Early life

Comeau was born in Brampton in 1984. She attended Mayfield Secondary School[2] in the Dramatic Arts Program. At Mayfield, she started competing in the Canadian Improv Games.

Career

Comeau's interest in acting began at the age of 9 when she started doing impersonations of Dana Carvey's character Garth from Wayne's World. She studied at Humber College (in their Comedy Program), and with the Second City Conservatory. She started touring for Second City Theatricals on cruise ships, then came home to Toronto to join the Second City Mainstage cast in 2011 with Carly Heffernan, Nigel Downer, Alastair Forbes, Jason DeRosse and Inessa Frantowski.

She continues to act and tour with her sketch and improv partner Connor Thompson. Along with her two best friends, Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes as The Lusty Mannequins.[3]

She has produced and written for television for the past several years on shows like „Tallboyz“, It's My Party for TVOKids, Paranormal 911, Haunted Hospitals, Chef in Your Ear for Food Network Canada. She has also worked on producing many live events The 2016 & 2017 Banff World Media Festival Awards Gala and Program Competition, the 2015 Youth Media Alliance Awards, and many live stage shows.

She has contributed to Today's Parent, The Walrus Laughs, CBC's Punchline, She Does The City and written for YTV (Canadian TV channel’s) The Zone.

Comeau has recently been awards a Canadian Comedy Award for 'Best Live Ensemble' for her work in 'She The People' at Second City Toronto. 'She The People' is the first sketch comedy revue in Second City's 50-year history to have an all female identifying cast. They took this show to the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal in summer 2019.

Comeau has been nominated for "Best Ensemble" at the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and several Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Revues/Best Ensemble 2013/2014. She was named Best Female Improviser in Toronto by Now Magazine's 'Best Of 2015 Awards."

In 2020, she participated in Mass Hysterical: A Comedic Cantata, a webcast collaboration between Second City alumni and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra which represented a comedic history of the use of classical and liturgical music in the church.

Personal life

She performs with her real life partner Connor Thompson in a comedy troupe, "The Lusty Mannequins" with fellow Second City alumni Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes. Connor and Comeau met in a Second City Conservatory class in 2008 and have performing together ever since.[4] They got married in a secret wedding in an asylum in England in 2018.

The Lusty Mannequins have taught and performed in Ireland, Spain, England, Germany, Cape Town, Greece, Denmark, and on the high seas. They recently won Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival's 'Best of the Fest' in 2018 and toured their show Uncommonwealth in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2019.

Comeau is a proud and out bisexual woman and uses the pronouns she/her.

Filmography

Film and Television

Year Title Role Notes
1996 Bogus Child at Airport Uncredited
2010 The Real M*A*S*H Mary
2010 Freak Encounters Hazmat Lady
2010 Frank n' Stan Sarah
2012 Curious and Unusual Deaths Maid
2012 Cold Blood Debra Sue Carter
2013 Documentary of the Dead Infected
2013 But I'm Chris Jericho Acting Class Student
2014 Heartfelt Real Girl
2014 Oh Deer! Cheryl
2014 The Palace Ludmilla
2015 Falling Without You Nurse
2016- 2017 Degrassi: Next Class Ms. Badger
2016 Hannah and Anna: Danger Girls Yoga Seal
2016 Stay Out Of The Desert Clara
2016-2019 Odd Squad Jamie Jam
2018 The Parent Council Mel McPherson *Comeau received an Acting Award from the Southern Shorts Awards Festival. The Parent Council was selected as a semi-finalist from the Los Angeles CineFest
2019 Christmas Jars Clara Zacher
2020 Odd Squad Mobile Unit Jamie Jam
2019-2021 TallBoyz Sarah/Emo Karen/Beer Server/Nurse/Jasmine/Serious Woman
2020 The Boys Margaret
2021 Transplant Lisa Williams

References
  1. "Ashley Comeau - The Second City".
  2. Brampton natives bring on the funny at Sketchfest - Brampton Guardian www.bramptonguardian.com/.../4401300-brampton-natives-bring-on-the-funny-at-sket... Mar 6, 2014 - Brampton native Ashley Comeau is a co-producer and performer in this year's ... and went to Brampton's Mayfield Secondary School before that.
  3. "Theatre Review: The Lusty Mannequins, Complete Works Vol 1 [John Candy Box Theatre, April 10th, 2010] - The Panic Manual - The Panic Manual". www.panicmanual.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
  4. "The One: Second City's Ashley Comeau and Connor Thompson". 6 February 2012.

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