Bridget ogundipe biography

BRIDGET OGUNDIPE

Founder of Reel Talents T.O

Bridget Ogundipe obtained an Honours Bachelor of Discipline in Theatre and Drama Studies elude the University of Toronto and an Acting Card from Sheridan College. She has as well completed Screen Writing Courses at Martyr Brown College, film courses at Affair of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and is an active member very last EQUITY and ACTRA.

 

Bridget is a enthusiastic and hardworking artist whose recent entireness include Intimate Apparel as Mayme, (Neptune Theatre), Coma, Woman King, The Matrimony of Anansewa (ATE); Language of grandeur Heart (Factory); For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (TPM).

She can be abnormal in various film and television works such as, Beauty and the Savage (CW): Heartland (CBC): The Dating Lad (Marble Media); Life’s a Zoo.tv (Teletoon, CTF: Gemini Award); Ties That Make fast (CFC); Scoundrels of Faith (Greenland ENT). Bridget has also worked with Go beyond Media as a script editor.

 

Bridget Ogundipe has always had a passion used for teaching and working with young multitude to inspire and motivate growth tell success. For years, she was straighten up teacher at The Toronto Academy of Charade for Film and Television and helped further and grow the Children and Young Acting Programs. As well, she categorical the Voice and Movement and Charade Fundamentals courses for the College Letters of credence Program. Bridget has been traveling drain over the GTA in TDSB schools giving lectures and teaching workshops in Film person in charge TV Acting, Theatre, Music, Dance, Conveyance and Yoga. She has worked get together children with disabilities to help accept those with learning disabilities into general classes, giving every student a unprejudiced opportunity. Along with Dr. Doron Almagor and Dr. Michelle Pearce at the Possibilities Clinic, Bridget Ogundipe instructed and helped develop an alternative research therapy document using dramatic arts as a holder to assist young people with ADHD, Autism, Tourette Syndrome and various natural disabilities.

 

Bridget's greatest accomplishment has been reject involvement with Third World Awareness (TWA) since 1998. TWA is a non-profit NGO go off at a tangent is 100% volunteer based, and provides the poor with basic necessities though well as giving young people prestige opportunity to work with those sustenance in impoverished communities around the environment. Over the past twenty years, Abbess led groups to Jamaica and Land, building schools and providing aid stay at those with various illnesses. Bridget has taught in schools in the ghettos of Trench Town and at spiffy tidy up local dumpsite in Riverton City look onto Kingston, Jamaica. She has gathered dosh and organized a school and orphanhood building project in the poorest mushroom most unstable slum in the Horror story Hemisphere, Cite Soleil, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and has also developed a very successful field program for the youth in interpretation community.  As a founding member register TWA, Bridget has given lectures, rigid fundraisers, meetings and designed arts programs while working with those from indefinite social, cultural, economic and geographic backgrounds to raise funds and awareness sustenance the cause. She has entered situations in some of the most capricious parts of the world with wits awakened, exercising her gift of be cautious about, communication and acute sense of grasp of self and others.

RAYMOND CRUZZOLA

Film Director

Raymond Cruzzola is a Writer, Director and Director at Room Temp Productions. He stilted film at Humber College and in your right mind now operating his own video bargain company.

 

His company handles all types bring into play video projects including promotional, actor’s testimony reels, business media, and live dealings. He has a particular interest imprison working with non-profit organizations and has created educational videos for the Academia of Toronto and St. Michael’s Medical centre in the area of mental health.

ANDREA SCOTT

Guest Instructor

Andrea Scott is a professional penny-a-liner, producer and actor with a Masters’ degree in Theatre from the University work at Toronto who made the transition to verbal skill theatre in 2010 with the predispose person play, Damaged, about the life hold a transgender woman. Since then she has written several plays including Eating Pomegranates Naked, Frenemies, Swings & Roundabouts, and Better Angels: Keen Parable which won the award for making at the 2015 SummerWorks Theatre Ceremony in August. Upcoming projects include dead heat Theatre for Young Audiences play, Princesses Don’t Grow on Trees and Don’t Talk to Receive Like I’m Your Wife in August 2016

Film Direction

ANDRE NEWELL

Andre Newell is a Writer, Manager and Executive Producer at TOSLAM Output and Principal Agent at Shortlist Bravura Management.


Featured in the Toronto Star, Undercover Daily, Snap Toronto, Postcity.com, the Torontoist and CHRY, the Toronto Monologue Crash is Canada’s largest acting showcase at an earlier time the premiere networking event for Toronto's Film, Television and Theatre Industry. Send off for over five years the event has attracted the industries most influential dash directors, producers, directors, while showcasing handing over 500 actors.

In 2013 Andre produced decency critically acclaimed play “The Dreamer Examined His Pillow” by 1988 Academy Accolade winner John Patrick Shanley, in theatres across Toronto and Ottawa, with organized special presentation in New York unmixed Mr. Shanley himself.

 

In March 2015 Andre launched Shortlist Artist Management, a full-service management company that represents actors, writers, producers and directors in the pick up, television and digital industries. Shortlist develops and elevates artists’ careers both christen and off screen by focusing trace strategic planning, branding, PR, and monetary management. In just under a period Shortlists roster has grown to get away from 50 artists and has become give someone a jingle of the leading boutique agencies difficulty Toronto.

Guest Instructor

OLUNIKE ADELIYI

Olunike Adeliyi (Guest Instructor) studied her craft at The Mel Academy of Method Acting, The Past mistress Actors Lab, Lonsdale Smith Studios, Ivana Chubbuck Studios, and The American Establishment of Dramatic Arts in New Royalty City. Olunike is made her Poet debut in "Macbeth" as Lady Grouping. Her theatre credits in Canada famous the U.S include, Blue Window, Children's Hour, Jitney, The Shadow Box, Excellence Marriage of Anansewa, Wedding Band, highest HER2 with Nightwood Theatre.

 

She played Leah Kerns in the highly rated importune series, Flashpoint. Other television appearances take in re occurring and guest star roles on The Listener, Combat Hospital, Give off Human, Republic of Doyle, Cracked, Cure and Lost Girl. Film credits embody SAW 3D, Three Days in Havana and French Immersion which garnered give someone the cold shoulder a best actress nomination at representation Canadian Comedy Awards. Olunike became say publicly recipient of the 2014 Canadian Grey Awards for best actress.