“I was pretty painful to watch, so I got out of that,” Coleman admitted. Ultimately, stand-up comedy just wasn’t his thing. “There was Lafflines in New Westminster, just so many different experiences, it was all pretty old-school.” “Back in the day, I used to get up on Saturday morning, go to the newspaper and look for gigs, and that’s how we did our business, pre-internet, right,” he said. After high school, he explored stand-up as a job. Those are my Surrey roots.”įrom Green Timbers Elementary, Johnston Heights junior high and on to Queen Elizabeth Secondary, Coleman slowly grew more interested in comedy and acting. “I still drive by the Surrey house I grew up in, in Fleetwood, and I see the Christmas tree we planted in the yard has grown quite large. I keep the Surrey roots pretty tight,” he added with a laugh. “Not only did I grow up in Surrey,” he started, “I’m 47 and I still talk to my Kindergarten teacher regularly and also to my high school drama coach. Reached on the phone, Coleman is quick to chronicle his Surrey roots.
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His TV debut was playing the character Howard Gordon on the Chris Carter series Millennium, in 1996.
Today, he’s among four co-founders of Story Institute (storyinstitute.ca), a Vancouver-based acting school, along with two former students of his, Dan Heinz and Josh Quocksister, and longtime pal Fred Ewanuick, of Corner Gas fame.Ĭoleman’s credits include a long list of TV, film, stage, video game, radio and cartoon projects, including the role of dwarf Happy on ABC’s Once Upon a Time, and work on X-Men: Evolution, Hello Kitty, DBZ, Inuyasha, Hamtaro, Supernatural, Smallville, Stargate and other shows. We just chewed the fat and he was like, ‘Ask me whatever you want,’ so we did.”Ĭoleman doesn’t have any photos of him with Williams, in the era before cellphone-selfies, but the moment clicked, and helped propel him into full-time work in acting. For me, it was a game-changer, because he was huge at the time, and for him to be sitting around backstage with a bunch of aspiring comedians and actors, it was great. “We were like a community for him or something, and he’s such an incredible cool human being for it. “He had a reputation of just showing up at comedy places around that time, when he was filming in Vancouver,” recalled Coleman. Backstage that night, the Jumanji star chatted with some of the budding comics in the room. In the mid-1990s, the Fleetwood-raised actor was working the local stand-up comedy circuit when Robin Williams strolled into the club where he was gigging.
Michael Coleman credits a chance encounter with a comedy great for the path he took to acting. We think differently, and that is probably why our students see such different results.
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Graduates of our diploma program from this Vancouver acting school receive lifetime mentorship and guidance for free and they also receive fundamental tools like a professional demo reel and voiceover demo to help them find representation with one of the top Talent Agents in Vancouver. We also dedicate a portion of this program to the exciting world of voicing cartoons and video games, like the Far Cry series, or Lego Star Wars, or My Little Pony, to name a few. Our graduates learn the craft at the level required to perform on top series like Riverdale, The Flash, Batwoman, and the other world-class television series shot in BC. Our Vancouver acting classes focus on the foundational skills needed to work in the Vancouver film industry. Story Institute is a Vancouver acting school who offers acting classes with a unique focus on combining the core foundations of acting, with the key business habits required for consistent success.
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