The Stratford Arts and Culture Collective is thrilled
to welcome RON JAMES to the Avon Theatre stage.
RON JAMES has consistently sold out theatres from
coast to coast for twenty years, garnering accolades from critics and audiences
alike. ‘A comedic tour de force’/ Globe & Mail…’has them rolling
in the aisles’/ Toronto Sun…’cleverly hysterically funny’/ Toronto
Star…‘the funniest man in Canada’/Victoria Times Colonist …’utterly
brilliant’/Ottawa Sun. With a comedian’s eye for satire and a poet’s ear
for language, Ron cuts a wide swath through contemporary culture making him a
stand out among stand-ups. His one-hour comedy specials on CBC TV have long
been a New Year’s Eve tradition, the last three garnering a record breaking 1.5
million viewers, with a ninth set to air December 31st.
Prior to his enormous success as a comedian, Ron spent
ten years with the prestigious Second City, eventually appearing in feature
films, sitcoms and national commercials, earning a Genie Award/Best Supporting
Actor nomination for the film ‘Something About Love’. After three years
spent acting in Los Angeles as a regular cast member on ‘My Talk Show’ (IMAGINE
TV) and guest starring in numerous television series, (not to mention being the
national spokesman on CNN for Texas Tourism), he returned to Toronto and penned
a one man show, ‘Up & Down In Shaky Town’. Filmed for the premiere
season of CTV’s Comedy Network, it was heralded as ‘one of the ten best
events of the television season’.
Ron quickly earned a stellar reputation as a comedian
who consistently delivered, appearing at every major televised comedy festival
from Halifax to Winnipeg to Montreal’s prestigious ‘Just For Laughs’. He
won a Gemini Award for writing on ‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes’, was
awarded Comedian of the Year at the Canadian Comedy Awards, created and starred
in two television series, ‘Blackfly’ on GLOBAL TV (‘an original and
uniquely Canadian series’…Globe and Mail ) and ‘The Ron James Show’,
that ran for five years on CBC and landed him a Screen Award nomination for
Best Actor In A Comedy Series. He’s received the Dave Broadfoot Award for
Comedic Genius, a Doctorate in the Humanities from his alma mater, Acadia
University and is currently writing his first book, ‘All Over the Map’,
published by Random House to be released in the Fall of 2019.