Asher Rose

BIO

Asher Rose

Asher Rose is a actor, writer, and multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in Tkaronto - “Where the trees are standing in the water” - the traditional and ongoing territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Seneca, Petun, Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River, part of the Dish with One Spoon wampum-belt covenant.Asher began acting at a young age, and was immersed in arts-based training. They attended the prestigious Claude Watson Arts Program at Earl Haig Secondary School where they majored in drama, and then - never content to be pigeon-holed - moved to Halifax to study history and art history at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Asher spent part of their early professional life in Scotland, where they were the founding acting teacher of the Create! Youth Theatre Program, which is still training young artists in the Scottish highlands, over fifteen years later.
Upon returning to Canada, Asher trained at University of Toronto’s Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, and has been a fixture of the Toronto theatre scene ever since.Asher's theatre credits include Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare BASH'd), Henry G20 (Luminato), The Omnibus Bill (TACTICS), The Bonds of Interest (Odyssey), Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night (Foxtail - UK), Heart of a Dog (Next Stage), The Garden of Alla (Minmar Gaslight), and 1184 (Phoenix Arts Theatre). Film/TV includes Save the Date, You Deserve It!, What's Wrong With You, and Violence.Their writing has been published in Salty and in the Pandemic Poetry chapbook by Buddies in Bad Times.In addition to being well-known as an actor, Asher is a prolific visual artist and writer.

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