Sid Bobb is a Canadian actor and television presenter. He is the co-artistic director at Aanmitaagzi in North Bay, Ontario and an instructor at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre. From 2007 to 2016, he, along with Patty Sullivan, hosted the programming block Kids' CBC. Bobb is of Coast Salish ancestry and has family roots in the .
Bobb is originally from the Vancouver Island area located in British Columbia. Bobb is the child of Raymond Bobb and Indigenous author Lee Maracle. Other notable members of his family are his sister, actress Columpa Bobb, his aunt, politician Joan Phillips, and his great-grandfather, Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief and actor Dan George.
Bobb is a graduate of the University of TorontoâÂÂs sociology and drama programs (2001) and attended the Second City school of training, the Banff Centre for the Arts' Aboriginal Dance Project and the Centre for Indigenous Theatre.
Sid is now based in North Bay, Ontario, and a proud father of two.
Bobb has been a professional actor since 1993. Sid Bobb has performed in CanadaâÂÂs largest theatres across the country; storytelling, in plays, and dancing. For three seasons, he was co-host of the internationally broadcast Canadian Geographic Kids, and from 2007 to 2016 he co-hosted Kidsâ CBC with Patty Sullivan.
In 2007, Bobb along side his wife Penny Couchie, founded Aanmitaagzi in Penny's home community of Nipissing First Nation. Since then Bobb has been Co-Artistic Director of Aanmitaagzi. In this role Bobb has been apart of multiple theatrical productions with Aanmitaagzi and other studios including Spiderwoman theater and Centre for Indigenous Theatre.