Jonathan Boylan - Teaching-artist, Acting program

A well-known Canadian actor, acting coach, teacher and mentor, John Boylan was the founder of Centre for the Arts, a community arts centre which served the community from 2003 to 2010.

John is a graduate actor from The National Theatre School of Canada and some film and television credits include Beauty and the Beast, Alphas, Don Cherry Story, The Tin Flute and Due South.
He taught at the School of Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson Theatre School) from 2002 to 2018. John ran the Directing the Actor class at New York University, Graduate Film School, the National Screen Institute, Winnipeg, The Directors Guild of Canada, Toronto and at Centre for the Arts. In addition to his ongoing classes at his studio, he was a guest tutor at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London for many years. John delivered a Master Class to members of the acting company at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

He created the acting for film and television course at The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin; taught at the Guthrie Theatre, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, The Actors Centre, London, and in Zimbabwe twice for FIA (International Actor’s Federation). In Toronto he taught at George Brown Theatre School, York University graduate and undergraduate theatre departments and Humber College. Across Canada at Workshops in the Performing Arts, Vancouver; Moving Images Group, Halifax, and Queens University. John designed and delivered workshops in the Vancouver, St. John’s and Halifax CBC studios for ACTRAWORKS. A mentor under the Canadian Senior Artist’s Resource Network (CSARN) program and John taught the first ever on-camera class at The Yale School of Drama.

He runs on-going acting classes at his Centre for the Arts studio in Toronto.