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Savage, Booth

Booth Savage
Booth Savage

Ontario-based actor/playwright, born in Fredericton, New Brunswick May 21, 1948. Booth Savage graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from York University in 1992.

He has performed in over 100 plays in every province and territory in Canada, with the exception of Yukon, including the lead in One Night Stand (Festival Lennoxville, 1978) and The Olympic Show at Theatre Passe Muraille (1976). He has also acted extensively in film and television. In 1987, he won a Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in Allan King's The Last Season. Savage believes that as an actor he is constantly reinventing himself, and he’s partial to weird roles – the weirder the better. “I like dangerous roles, doing undiscovered stuff – experimental stuff – and working with innovative people.” (quoted from active-life.ca Nov/Dec 2016).

He has authored: Pilot Season (premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille, 1990), Hunter Moon (Passe Muraille, 1991), Savage Heat (Factory Theatre, 1992), and Dads (Factory, 1994).

Savage has instructed in theatre programs at Canadore College (2007-2015), York University, and Humber College.

He is married to actor, Janet-Laine Green for forty years. In 2014, they performed together in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by their son, Tyrone Booth.

Profile by Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof.

Last updated 2021-10-06