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Pair of Humber Polytechnic alumna come up big at the JUNOs
Tue, April 01, 2025
The JUNO Award winners have been announced and a pair of Humber Polytechnic alumna along with a pair of faculty members are showing their brilliance with wins.
Many Humber Polytechnic connections among this year’s JUNO Award nominees
Fri, March 28, 2025
The nominees for the JUNO Awards have been announced and there are a number of Humber Polytechnic connections among them.
Success Story: Erik Smith
Thu, November 21, 2019
Erik Smith is a 2016 graduate of our Comedy program, but his career path since then demonstrates both his diverse interests and his diverse skillset.
We caught up with him to find our what he's been working on.
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NOW
I recently completed the 48 Hour Film Project. It was exciting, partly because it’s a fast-paced creative project that forces you through all of the creative processes of film-making in a very short time-frame, and partly because I used it as a way to test myself as both a director and producer.
THEN
Since Humber, I’ve worked on a number of projects. I produced and acted in a couple episodes of a small web series called Business Inc. that Robbie Woods and I wrote together, I worked as a Knight at Medieval Times, and I’ve been involved with a number of different film projects. The latter were largely in a production support capacity and have been great for learning to eventually create my own work. Business Inc. is one of the projects I’m proudest of, and I eventually want to remake it with the production skills I’ve learned since then.
HUMBER
My time at Humber was really great for getting comfortable with my own voice, both on and off the stage. Learning about story structure and joke construction and then getting to practice both through performance was a pretty cool combination to get comfortable with all aspects of the creative process. Humber also gave me an opportunity as a work-study student to learn about more technical and production skills like stage lighting and managing performers; those skills have served me very well in my production endeavors since then.
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Find out more about Erik on social media at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, all under the handle @eriksmithcomedy. (Photo credit: Sammy Lo.)
Bria Hiebert Wins 2019 Tim Sims Encouragement Award
Wed, September 11, 2019
Bria Hiebert may have graduated from Humber only this spring, but she’s already making a name for herself as a stand-up comic, writer and actor.
Comedy: Writing and Performance Student Success: Ashley Comeau, Part 2
Thu, August 22, 2019
Ashley Comeau shares her recent experiences writing and performing comedy in Toronto.
Comedy: Writing and Performance Student Success: Erika Ehler
Mon, July 15, 2019
Award winner and student Erika took this year’s North West heat of the Chortle Comedy Awards by storm.
Ashley Comeau
Mon, June 10, 2019
How does a Toronto actor and improviser end up co-founding an improv festival in Cape Town, South Africa? Ashley Comeau shares her story.
Comedy: Writing and Performance Student Success: Noah Farberman
Tue, May 07, 2019
Noah Farberman graduated in 2018, but his collaborations with the Humber Comedy Writing and Performance community continue.
Glenys Marshall Wins Tim Sims Encouragement Award
Wed, December 12, 2018
While theatre may have been Glenys Marshall’s first love, comedy is her true love. The match is a successful one for the Humber Comedy graduate.
Spencer Litzinger
Thu, July 26, 2018
Spencer is a host on YTV’S The Zone and performs in various improv shows around Toronto.
Jordanne Brown Honoured with 2017 Tim Sims Encouragement Award
Thu, September 07, 2017
The 2017 graduate and past recipient of the Eugene Levy Award for Comedy Writing was named the winner of the 2017 Tim Sims Encouragement Award.
Chris Robinson
Sat, August 06, 2016
Chris Robinson was runner-up at the 2016 Homegrown competition at Just for Laughs.
Anthony Q. Farrell
Wed, July 06, 2016
Anthony is the creator/executive producer/head writer of BBC's Secret Life of Boys.
Kurtis Conner
Mon, February 22, 2016
Kurtis Conner graduated in 2015 and has already made a name for himself on Vine.
Comedy Grads Voted Funniest Stand-Up Comedians in Canada
Mon, September 14, 2015
Rebecca Addelman
Wed, February 11, 2015
Rebecca Addelman graduated from Humber’s Comedy Writing & Performance program in 2005.
Tyler Morrison
Mon, January 05, 2015
Tyler Morrison is an award winning Canadian comedian and writer quickly emerging as one of the most talked about young headliners in the country.
Josh Saltzman
Thu, October 30, 2014
In 2003, Josh Saltzman entered Humber’s comedy program planning to do improv, but he emerged a comedy writer.
Adam Cawley
Thu, October 30, 2014
Humber helped introduce me to a variety of performance opportunities in the comedy world as well as to it’s history.
Levi MacDougall
Thu, October 30, 2014
Levi MacDougall has been called “one of Canada’s finest young comics” by Time Out New York.
Steph Tolev
Mon, August 25, 2014
Steph Tolev is a stand up and sketch comic born and raised in Toronto.
K Trevor Wilson
Mon, August 25, 2014
K. Trevor Wilson, the self proclaimed "Man Mountain of Comedy" has been performing for over 15 years.
Jason Rouse
Mon, August 25, 2014
Jason Rouse is a renegade touring stand-up comedian taking the mainstream comedy world and turning it upside down.
Michelle Shaunessy
Mon, August 25, 2014
Michelle Shaunessy is a native of Peterborough Ontario.
Nick Beaton
Mon, August 25, 2014
From a blue collar background, Nick Beaton cuts through the garbage of an overly bureaucratic society that takes itself way too seriously.
Nathan Fielder
Mon, August 25, 2014
Fielder has managed to both escape disaster and illustrate something fundamental to his comedy.
Jake Labow
Mon, August 25, 2014
Labow’s an über-successful Humber Comedy alumni who came to speak to us at one of our “Prime Time” seminars this week Sept 26/2012.
Nikki Payne
Mon, August 25, 2014
Nikki Payne was born in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia in 1976. She starred in FRO - The Movie and Wolf Canyon.
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