Ashley Comeau

Comeau was born in Brampton in 1984. She attended Mayfield Secondary School[2] in the Dramatic Arts Programme. At Mayfield she started competing in the Canadian Improv Games.

Her father is a firefighter for the City of Brampton[3] and her mother was a make-up artist. She has one brother and one sister.

Comeau's interest in acting began at the age of 9 when she started doing impersonations of Dana Carvey's character Garth from Wayne's World. She studied at Humber College (in their Comedy Programme), and with the Second City Conservatory. She started touring for Second City Theatricals on cruise ships, then came home to Toronto to join the Second City Mainstage cast in 2011 with Carly Heffernan, Nigel Downer, Alastair Forbes, Jason DeRosse and Inessa Frantowski.

She continues to act and tour with her sketch and improv partner Connor Thompson and her two best friends Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes as The Lusty Mannequins.[4]

She has produced and written for television for the past several years on shows like It's My Party for TVOKids, Paranormal 911, Haunted Hospitals, Chef in Your Ear for Food Network Canada. She has also worked on producing many live events (The 2016 & 2017 Banff World Media Festival Awards Gala and Program Competition, the 2015 Youth Media Alliance Awards, and many live stage shows.

She has contributed to Today's Parent, The Walrus Laughs, CBC's Punchline, She Does The City and written for YTV's The Zone.

Ashley has recently been awards a Canadian Comedy Award for 'Best Live Ensemble' for her work in 'She The People' at Second City Toronto. 'She The People' is the first sketch comedy revue in Second City's 50 year history to have an all female identifying cast. They will be taking this show to the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal in summer 2019.

Ashley has been nominated for 'Best Ensemble" at the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and several Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Revues/Best Ensemble 2013/2014. She was named Best Female Improviser in Toronto by Now Magazine's 'Best Of 2015 Awards."

She performs with her real life partner Connor Thompson in a comedy troupe called The Lusty Mannequins with fellow Second City alumni Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes. Connor and Ashley met in a Second City Conservatory class in 2008 and have performing together ever since.[5] They recently got married in a secret wedding in an asylum in England in 2018.

The Lusty Mannequins have taught and performed in Ireland, Spain, England, Germany, Cape Town, Greece, Denmark, and on the high seas. They recently won Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival's 'Best of the Fest' in 2018 and are touring their show to Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2019.

Film and Television

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