The Alumni creative business talent - providing creative business talent for corporate events. Improvisational training and seminars, the alumni players improv troupe, custom sketch writing and performing, talent casting and performing, the art of business, custom muder mysteries, in concert. It's about experience! Nancy Marino Benn has been in the event business for over twenty years. In that time she has managed and produced high profile events for many of CanadaÆs business leaders. She was the producer for the Second City in Toronto as well as the architect & executive producer of the Second City's Business Communications division. Currently Nancy is a professor of Meeting & Events at Humber College.
Andrew Currie
Writer/Producer/Actor/Director
Andrew rode the first wave of the home video revolution, borrowing Betamax cameras from the Toronto Public Board of Education and handing in comedy films instead of written assignments to his high school teachers. By 1989 he had graduated with a Famous Players Maple Leaf Award from the York University School of Film & Video. He continued his studies in Los Angeles, taking courses at the American Film Institute.
Andrew also took classes at The Second City in Santa Monica, and in 1992 was invited back home to join The Toronto Second City's National Touring Company. In 1993 he was promoted to the resident cast, where he wrote & performed in five original revues and received four Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.
Andrew continues his association with Second City today. He has twice represented the company on tours of Asia, and also toured for Canadian Peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is currently an instructor at The Second City Training Centre.
Soon after leaving the resident cast of The Second City Andrew gained notoriety as one half of The Devil's Advocates, first a staple of Citytv's Speaker's Corner, then hosts of Improv Heaven & Hell on The Comedy Network.
Andrew's interest in technology is at least as old as the personal website he has maintained since 1995. In 2001 Andrew took up a residency at The Canadian Film Centre, studying interactive entertainment and building a prototype for a video game featuring a live "playmaster". In 2004 Andrew wrote a series of technology columns for NOW magazine.
In 2002 Andrew began hosting Second Cine, a series of live monthly showcases for short filmmakers, which had a successful run in The Second City's Tim Sims Playhouse until December of 2003. Small Screen Heroes, a half-hour TV version of the show, is set to air on the Movieola network next year.