Michael Rudder (actra, caea, uda/s)

Michael Rudder had a whitebread soul band in high school, got his Equity card in the musical Hair at Toronto s Royal Alexander Theatre, then joined the T.O. underground theatre scene in the early seventies, where he began to train as a European/Shamanistic clown, a process which would lead him to join the circus and to move to Ottawa, where he began to appear in both the French and English companies of the National Arts Centre in Arturo Ui, Woyzeck, and Le Songe then toured both North America and Europe with these shows.

Drawn to Montreal to star in David Fennario’s On The Job, he would appear in nine more productions for Centaur including Spokesong, Translations, The Main, Nothing To Lose and The Leonard Cohen Show. He played Jesus (!) in Godspell at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Johnny in Frankie & Johnny at the MAI Centre and the tortured writer Paul in Stephen King’s Misery at Place des Arts.

Active in film and television since the eighties, (you may have seen him in any manner of film and tv product, or just listened to his voice), he has gradually become an expert in sound recording, working as a studio director in the post-synchronization of film dialogue, and as a director of dubbed film and cartoon product for the world English market.

Blessed to be bilingual, he is currently expanding his performing credits in his adopted language in such quality  television as Tabou and in Jean Beaudin’s epic La Nouvelle France. Recently, he acted opposite the French comic icon Pierre Richard on the beach in Cuba in Robinson Crusoe, a film for French television. His favorite actress is Isabelle Adjani.

He lives to practice meditation.