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Eric Woolfe is an actor, playwright, puppeteer, magician, and the artistic director of Eldritch Theatre, [1] a Toronto-based theatre company specializing in horror plays using puppetry, live actors, and parlor magic.
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Eric Woolfe is an actor, playwright, puppeteer, magician, and the artistic director of Eldritch Theatre, [1] a Toronto-based theatre company specializing in horror plays using puppetry, live actors, and parlor magic.
Some of his credits include roles in: [2]
Eric Woolfe has been nominated for over a dozen Dora Mavor Moore Awards, as both an actor and playwright. He is a three-time nominee for the KM Hunter Memorial Award, which the Ontario Arts Council uses to celebrate mid-career artists.[ citation needed ]
Other credits include Step Right Up!, and Twas, for Theatre Orangeville, Pomeranski Rex for The Toronto Fringe, and the film scripts Momento Mori, Hungry Dead Things, and Blackwood Hotel.
His film and TV credits include Defiance, Murdoch Mysteries , Haven, Doc, Due South, Traders, Fatman , Beyblade , and, most notably, in George Romero's modern zombie film, Survival of the Dead .[ citation needed ]
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