Jonathan Wilson is a Canadian actor, voice artist, comedian, and
playwright, best known for his 1996 play My Own Private Oshawa. The
play, a semi-autobiographical comedy about growing up gay in Oshawa,
Ontario, was also optioned by Sandra Faire's SFA Productions for
production as a film, which won an award at the Columbus International
Film & Video Festival in 2002 before premiering as a television movie
on CTV in 2005.Wilson was a member of The Second City's Toronto cast
in the early 1990s. He later collaborated with fellow Second City
alumni Kathy Greenwood and Ed Sahely on the stage show Not to Be
Repeated, in which the three performed a two-act improvisational
narrative comedy play in each performance. The show was also later
developed into a short-run television series, This Sitcom Is...Not to
Be Repeated, for The Comedy Network in 2001. In 1998 he appeared on
the LGBT-themed sketch comedy special In Thru the Out Door for CBC
Television and Showtime.Wilson's other acting credits include voice
roles in Mia and Me, Little Bear, Harry and His Bucket Full of
Dinosaurs, Totally Spies!, Skatoony, Camp Lakebottom, Yin Yang Yo!,
Get Ed, BeyWheelz, Iggy Arbuckle, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends,
recurring roles in Traders, Freaky Stories, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye and
This Is Wonderland, film roles in House, Saint Ralph, New York Minute,
PCU, Rubber Carpet and Brain Candy, commercials such as Rice Krispies,
and stage productions of The Laramie Project, The Lion King, and The
Normal Heart. He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding
Performance in a Featured Role - Play or Musical for his performance
as Timon in The Lion King.
playwright, best known for his 1996 play My Own Private Oshawa. The
play, a semi-autobiographical comedy about growing up gay in Oshawa,
Ontario, was also optioned by Sandra Faire's SFA Productions for
production as a film, which won an award at the Columbus International
Film & Video Festival in 2002 before premiering as a television movie
on CTV in 2005.Wilson was a member of The Second City's Toronto cast
in the early 1990s. He later collaborated with fellow Second City
alumni Kathy Greenwood and Ed Sahely on the stage show Not to Be
Repeated, in which the three performed a two-act improvisational
narrative comedy play in each performance. The show was also later
developed into a short-run television series, This Sitcom Is...Not to
Be Repeated, for The Comedy Network in 2001. In 1998 he appeared on
the LGBT-themed sketch comedy special In Thru the Out Door for CBC
Television and Showtime.Wilson's other acting credits include voice
roles in Mia and Me, Little Bear, Harry and His Bucket Full of
Dinosaurs, Totally Spies!, Skatoony, Camp Lakebottom, Yin Yang Yo!,
Get Ed, BeyWheelz, Iggy Arbuckle, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends,
recurring roles in Traders, Freaky Stories, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye and
This Is Wonderland, film roles in House, Saint Ralph, New York Minute,
PCU, Rubber Carpet and Brain Candy, commercials such as Rice Krispies,
and stage productions of The Laramie Project, The Lion King, and The
Normal Heart. He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding
Performance in a Featured Role - Play or Musical for his performance
as Timon in The Lion King.
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