DAVID-BENJAMIN TOMLINSON

Writer. Performer. Director. Creative Alchemist.

David-Benjamin is a writer, performer, and director, known for his unique and thought-provoking creations.  Stage works include Memoirs From Cracktown, Wingéd, Cordelia, Sunstroke: Icarus Speaks, Murdering Godot, Keyed, the award nominated Things Under the Bed and the Dora-nominated The Gorgonetrevich Corps de Ballet Nationale in ‘Bethany’s Gate’ (with Diana Kolpak).  Directorial credits include The Antidote, Goodnight Ladies, and The Gorgonetrevich Corps de Ballet Nationale in ‘Bethany’s Gate’ (with Diana Kolpak). 

David-Benjamin has appeared in Hope Thompson’s She Walks the Line and Tyrolia, Toronto Masque Theatre’s The Tears of a Clown, & three seasons of Sky Gilbert’s Shakespeare Experiment, and Sky’s plays Rope Enough, Happy, and Dancing Queen.  He is one half of the manic Canadian Comedy Award nominated sketch duo GLYPH, who has played to standing room only crowds from Vancouver’s Sketchfest to Toronto’s We’re Funny That Way to Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival.  He also writes and performs in the hit web series Cordelia.  Always popular on the Toronto cabaret circuit, David has performed at pandemonium machine, The Keith Cole Experience, Cheap Queers, Homo Night in Canada, The S.P.A.C.E., The Toronto Festival of Clowns, and Lunacy Cabaret. Media performance credits include the feature film Grey Gardens, the short film Trailing Arbutus, and the television series Howie Do It, Beautiful People, Train 48, Queer As Folk, and The Newsroom.

David is additionally a writer of feature films and television. He wrote for and performed in Matt Watts’ hit radio drama Canadia.

Check out David-Benjamin online: http://davidbenjamintomlinson.tumblr.com