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.
Bob Bainborough
Creative Director/Writer
Bob Bainborough is a creative director and writer with 15 years experience in corporate communications. Clients are impressed with his imagination, his ability to cut to the heart of a matter, his eye for detail, as well as his humorous and low-key approach. He has created staged events, video, live presentations, comedic skits and speeches for companies in every sector of the economy: financial, telecommunications, electronics, pharmaceuticals, packaged goods, automotive, grocery retail, beverage, travel and manufacturing.
Bob is also an established Canadian actor and writer whose recent credits include an ongoing role on both the Red Green Show on CBC and History Bites on History Television. Other recent appearances included roles in the theatrical releases, Men with Brooms and Duct Tape Forever and a pilot for MTV; WENR Radio.
Bob is a Dora Mavor Moore Award winner for his contributions to The Second City Revue: Not Based on Anything by Stephen King and has been nominated 7 times for Gemini awards: Three in a performance category and four in a writing category.
A partial list of his corporate clients includes Scotia Bank, Yorkton Securities, Investors Group,TD Canada Trust, Manulife, Novartis, Bayer, Ford Canada, Avon, Labatt, Sony Canada, Toshiba Canada, Sears, Loblaws, Inglis and Torstar.