Todd Houseman - Teaching-artist, Acting program

Todd Houseman is a Nehiyâw (Cree) mixed-blood actor, improviser, and writer from Edmonton, Alberta (Amiskwaciy). He is a graduate of the acting program and current instructor at the National Theatre School of canada. Prior to his schooling, Todd was a senior performer and instructor with Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre from 2009-2017. He is the co-creator (with Ben Gorodetsky) of Folk Lordz, which began as a touring improvised play and evolved into a 2-season political sketch comedy web series. Todd is also co-creator of the play Whiteface (with Lady Vanessa Cardona) which was turned into a short film in 2019. Recently, Todd’s play The Children of the Bear was accepted for Toronto’s Outside the March TD Forward March program and is currently in production as a large scale immersive play. In his free time, Todd enjoys building masks, making knives, or being in ceremony in the mountains of western treaty 6.