ABOUT ME
Photo: Salvatore Antonio
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Hi, my name is Cameron, I am a Brampton born and raised actor. I started doing theatre when I got accepted into an arts program in high school and continued my professional training at Sheridan College and the University of Toronto Mississauga.
For the past 4 years I have been an actor at The Shaw Festival appearing in productions of Getting Married, SEX by Mae West, Henry V, Hound of The Baskervilles, Dracula & The Madness of George III. Some of my other recent credits include the world premier of Happy Birthday Baby J, ShadowTheatre; Alice The Magnet, Theatre Animal; Troilus and Cressida, Secret Shakespeare Series; Blacktop Sky, Lower Ossington Theatre; TOUGH!, Canadian Rep Theatre; Common Ground, Toronto Fringe; Animal Nature, Clay and Paper Theatre; Clybourne Park, The Seagull, Orestes, Theatre Erindale. As a director, I have assisted Nina Lee Aquino on the cecil hotel an audio drama produced by Theatre Erindale and was an assistant director to ahdri zhina mandiela on Factory Theatre’s virtual production of Through The Eyes. When I am not performing I am likely reading, working on some of my own writing, teaching or streaming a new show. Keep in touch with me on social media by following me on Instagram &Twitter @Camm_grant |
Current Projects
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This summer I am making my Stratford Festival debut as Montague and Steven in Serving Elizabeth.
BY MARCIA JOHNSON DIRECTED BY KIMBERLEY RAMPERSAD In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern on a TV drama series about the British royal family – while also pursuing a writing project of her own. These parallel narratives seem only coincidentally connected – until a surprising twist reveals a deeper relationship between the two. Audiences are certain to enjoy this ingenious contemporary drama that keeps us guessing as it explores issues of colonialism, nationalism and the question of who gets to have a voice. More info and tickets to the filmed production here |
Meet chloe
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CAROUSEL PLAYERS is premiering my first play Meet Chloe to be offered digitally to schools from November 15th 2021- May 13th 2022!
t’s another day of virtual history class. Chloe is working with her group on a research project about John Graves Simcoe, but she discovers another historical figure that is far more relevant to learn about, someone who even shares her first name: Chloe Cooley, a young Black woman enslaved in Fort Erie and Queenston, Upper Canada in the late 1700s’. Can Chloe convince her teacher and her project partners to switch to Chloe Cooley’s story weeks before the project is due? Meet Chloe explores the challenges Black students face in the education system and the lack of Black curriculum content in the study of Canadian History. Meet Chloe is being offered to classrooms grade 7-10 |
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Meet Chloe was generously supported by The OAC through Recommender Grants for Theatre Creators by Young People's Theatre, Theatre Direct, Carousel Theatre and Roseneath Theatre for the recommendation!
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recent Projects
Blackstage pass
Recently I sat down with Makambe K. Simamba and Kwaku Okyere to chat about theatre, and my experience as a young black actor through theatre school and the beginning of my career. It was a JOY. Thank you Cahoots Theatre for bringing us all together!
