Colin Simmons

Colin Simmons is an actor, writer, and director—turned web designer and developer—based in Toronto.

As a director: Country Roads (upcoming), Jingle Belles (Smile Theatre); The Preposterous Predicament of Polly Peel (assistant director for the Toronto Fringe Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Boys, Girls, and Other Mythological Creatures (Theatre Orangeville); Romeo & Juliet, Alice in Wonderland (Theatre Orangeville Young Company).

As an actor: Shakespeare in Love, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Stratford Festival); The Rocky Horror Show (Magnus Theatre); Gift of the Magi, Pride & Joy (Smile Theatre); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Outside the March).

Animation: Hero Elementary (PBS/Portfolio Entertainment/Susan Hart); Koati (Upstairs FX-TV/Rodrigo Perez Castro); Hailey and the Hero Hearts (Epic Story Media/Dee Shipley); Kingdom Builders (Little Blackstone/Debra Toffan).

TV: Anne with an “E” (CBC/Netflix).

Awards: Stratford’s “Dora Mavor Moore” Guthrie Award, Musical Stage Company’s Banks Prize for Emerging Musical Theatre Artists.

Colin is a proud member of Equity and ACTRA. He is a graduate of the Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance program at Sheridan College. www.colinsimmons.ca