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Alan Marriott (voice actor)

Alan Marriott (born July 19, 1971) is a Canadian voice actor, voice teacher and dialect coach.

Career

Marriott moved to North Vancouver, British Columbia to attend the Studio 58 acting school. He left Studio 58 to join the first season of Salmon Arm Summer Stock Youth Theatre (SASSY) and did two seasons with the company. Marriott spent four years working with the improvisational theatre group Vancouver Theatresports and also played the character of Aldous Bacon in VSL's original production of Suspect (an improvised murder mystery). He later moved to London, England to complete his formal acting training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Upon finishing LAMDA Marriott began working in improv once again, starting London Theatresports and creating and playing in numerous different improv formats including Hamlet Improvised, Impro Lear, Impro Lab (London's first 2-act improvised play), The Impro Musical, Lust Boulavarde (an improvised soap opera), and Impropera (a 2-act improvised opera).

Marriott has worked with or taught almost every improvisational theatre group in London, including Grand Theft Impro, Made Up Like Tarts, Scratch, Showstopper, The Comedy Store Players, Dogs on Holiday, Impro Musical, Impropera, Brickbats Volunteers, South of the River (with Steve Frost and Jeremy Hardy), and his own current impro troupe, The Crunchy Frog Collective. He currently helps form and trains an impro troupe in Vancouver BC titled 3rd and Main, and occasionally hosts their weekly shows at School Creative every Saturday at 8:00 pm.

Marriott has also done extensive voice acting work for radio, television, animation and documentaries, having been inspired by watching Looney Tunes cartoons during his childhood. His vocal work includes Mr. Fothergill, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Dixon, David Dixon, Dodger, Travis, Spud (regular series only), Mr. Bentley (regular series only) and Scoop in the US dub on Bob the Builder, the title character on Anthony Ant and Glar on Planet 51. He also voiced Victor Volt in The Secret Show, and the Indian in A Town Called Panic. In 2016, Marriott voiced the characters Buried Lede and Mr. Stripes in the season six ' episode "The Saddle Row Review". Marriott also had onscreen appearances on several British television series including Wake Up in the Wild Room, The Bootleg Broadway Show, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Ghost Train, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole and the television movie Now What.

Marriott wrote the book Genius Now!. He also wrote one episode of Wolves, Witches and Giants and Animal Stories (in which he narrated the American-dubbed version for The Disney Channel), several comedy sketches for CBC, and a short film called Teeth. He worked as a voice director for the BKN Classic Series trilogy where he directed the voices for all six of their films, including Alice in Wonderland: What's the Matter with Hatter?, The Jungle Book: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi to the Rescue, Robin Hood: Quest for the King, The Three Musketeers: Saving the Crown, The Prince and the Pauper: Double Trouble and A Christmas Carol.

After 20 years living and working in London, Marriott relocated to Vancouver in 2008, but returned to the United Kingdom in the summer of 2017, currently residing in London. He created ImprovMusical, a one-hour improvised musical based on a single audience suggestion. It premiered in July 2010 and played at Vancouver Theatresports.

Selected filmography

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