Ron Pederson

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Ronald "Ron "Pederson," a Canadian actor, improviser, and theatre director who has worked extensively throughout Canada and the United States, is a student at the University of On the 8th of January 1980, Ronald "Pederson" was born.

He has appeared in most of Canada's major theatres, including The Stratford Festival, The Citadel Theatre, The University of Alberta Theatre Projects, The Artist Club, The Young Centre, The Canadian Stage Company, Theatre Passe Muraille, Soulpepper, and The SummerWorks Festival.

Pederson has also worked in television and is best known for his award-winning work (Best Television Achievement) and three seasons on Fox Television's MADtv.

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Career

Pederson, a native of Edmonton, Alberta, began working professionally at a young age. He appeared at the Citadel Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre, playwright Stewart Lemoine's Teatro La Quindicina, and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. Pederson appeared on the cast of the live improvised soap opera Die-Nasty in 1995, at the invitation of Dana Andersen. He appeared on the soap for weekly, worked with well-known guest stars Mark McKinney, Mike Myers, and Joe Flaherty, and successfully concluded the Die-Nasty Annual 53-Hour Soap-A-Thon. In 2002, Pederson received a Sterling Award for his role as Ray Dooley in Martin McDonagh's play The Beauty Queen of Leenanane. He is an eight-time Sterling Award nominee.

Pederson first gained notice from Hollywood in March 2002 when he appeared in The Second City with Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, and Fred Willard in Joe Flaherty's improvised show The Soap Also Rises. In September, he declined to appear on Fox Television's sketch comedy program MADtv. He appeared on their show for three seasons, and he was voted Best Television Performance at the Canadian Comedy Awards for his role on the show's tenth season. Following his departure from MADtv, Pederson wrote and performed sketches on CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for one season before returning to theatre in Canada.

He moved to Toronto in 2007 and appeared in Seymour in The Canadian Stage Company's Little Shop of Horrors. Since being employed at Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Summerworks Festival, and The Toronto Fringe Festival, Pederson has performed at The Royal Shakespeare Festival. In the world-premiere of the award-winning play Extinction Song in Edmonton and Vancouver, Quasimodo (Merritt Award nomination) and Halifax, Quasimodo. Carmen Ghia in The Producers received him a Jessie Richardson Award nomination in Vancouver. Lancelot Gobbo, a young actor who appeared in The Merchant of Venice, joined Lancelot Gobbo in the Stratford Festival in 2013.

Pederson founded the National Theatre of the World in October 2008 as a founding member and co-artistic director, alongside Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus. They began exhibiting two weekly shows in Toronto: Impromptu Splendor, an improvised one-act performance, and The Carnegie Hall Show, an improvised variety performance. The Soaps, an improvised soap opera serial, was followed by the pair, as well as a Fiasco Playhouse experimental improv theatre. The National Theatre of the World received the RBC Arts Professional Award in 2009. Pederson, Baram, and Snieckus performed their shows at the Summerworks Theatre Festival, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts' Global Cabaret Festival, and Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto; and at the Barrow Street Theatre off Broadway; and Europe: in Chicago, Los Angeles, Charleston, Edmonton, and Europe. Pederson received the National Theatre of the World in October 2011 for his contribution to the National Theatre of the World.

Pederson left the National Theatre of the World in 2012 and co-founded the Theatre Department with Daniela Vlaskalic. "To produce simple, elegant performances of the world's best language-based plays," the Theatre Department's aim is "to produce simple, elegant performances of the world's best language-based plays [...] with an emphasis on reinforcing the theatre's unique, live dynamic." Stewart Lemoine's The Exquisite Hour (2012) at the Factory Theatre, starring Ted Dykstra and Pederson in his first directorial debut, was the company's first production. At Theatre Passe Muraille, 2014, for which he was nominated for a Dora Award in 2014. "Pederson, himself, is a marvel." He addresses Lemoine's time-infused lines with exacting innation and emphasis. His strange characters during the Ecuadorean adventure show his complete transformation. www.stagedog.com

Pederson joined the Soulpepper acting company in 2015 and produced and directed Wonderstruck Live! Both the Storefront Theatre and The Bad Dog Theatre Company have staged an Improvised Performance.

In 2016, Pederson appeared in a remount of Extinction Song at the Melbourne Theatre in Vancouver, Nova Scotia, and performed in the celebrated improvisation company English Lovers.

For One Night Only; the Greatest Musical Never Written. Pederson was nominated for a Dora Award in 2016. Pederson was the first nominee in the category to have completely changed his results.

Pederson, an assistant director, appeared at the Stratford Festival in 2018. And received the Sterling Award for Best Actor for No Exit. He co-created The Wonder Pageant with Kayla Lorette for Coal Mine Theatre, which received a 2018 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination and honor for Best Ensemble.

Pederson appeared in Four Chords and Gun by John Ross Bowie in Toronto and Chicago, Illinois, in 2019.

Pederson's film and television appearances include being the voice of the Golly Gee Kid in the YTV cartoon Sidekick, guest-starring She's the Mayor, Insecurity, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Murdoch Mysteries, New Eden, and playing Frank in the family film Vampire Dog. He has appeared on The Next Step and in a guest appearance on Private Eyes, as well as a recurring role on The Next Step.

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