Marcel St. Pierre is a Toronto-based writer, comedian and producer. A New Brunswick-born Acadian, he has created award-winning creative for Adult Swim, YTV, CBC, The Comedy Network, Food Network, HGTV, History Channel, Teletoon, Treehouse TV and more.
He is the author of three books of short humourous fiction, has produced two sketch comedy albums, appeared in commercials, film and television and served as writer-producer on CBC’s Canadian Screen Award-winning The Morgan Waters Show.
A founding member and former Artistic Director of Toronto’s The Bad Dog Theatre Company, Marcel has performed improv, sketch and stand-up comedy across North America with The Second City National Touring Company, the award winning Monkey Toast, The Coincidence Men and many more.
” … a terrific sense of timing, a touch of vaudeville and a hint of Kevin McDonald’s style …”
Andrew Clark, Eye Weekly
” … a great storyteller; funny, inventive, delightful …”
Paul Bellini, writer, comedian, author
“… the best comedy hosts include Simon Rakoff, Steve Patterson and Kenny Robinson … Marcel St. Pierre is a pretty decent MC, too … self-effacing and smart…”
Glenn Sumi, Best of Toronto
“… a gifted comedic producer and creative thinker … an organized, reliable and strategic team player … a joy to work with…”
Hilding Gnanapragasam, Director, Broadcast Creative, Rogers Media
“… an extremely versatile writer who thinks very quickly on his feet … he possesses a fantastic imagination …”
Cathy Bond, CBC-Radio personality and author
“… wicked sense of mischief and discovery; his contributions to the improv community in Toronto are immeasurable …”
Alice Moran, Bad Dog Theatre News Spotlight
“… a seminal figure and leader of Toronto’s improv community. Students love him. Audience love him. His fellow performers love him. Marcel is thoughtful, creative, motivated, empathetic and delightfully mischievous … delivers work of exceptional quality – in the classroom, onstage and at the helm of projects.”
Julie Dumais Osborne, Managing Artistic Director, The Second City