Drew McCreadie, born 1967, is a Vancouver

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, British Columbia

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-based actor, playwright and improvisor. He was the winner of Best Male Improvisor in Canada at the 2007 Canadian Comedy Awards

Canadian Comedy Awards

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. His play The Cat Who Ate Her Husband was first performed in Vancouver by Ruby Slipper Theatre Company, and won two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for best new script and best play.

He has also directed and appeared in several films and television programs. He is a member of Urban Improv improvisation troupe and Canadian Content sketch troupe, whose members have/do include comic book writer Ian Boothby

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, Comedy Inc.

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star Roman Danylo

Roman Danylo

Roman Danylo is a Canadian comedian, improviser and actor based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He currently stars in the CTV television network show Comedy Inc.-Career:...

 and Air Farce actress Penelope Corrin

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Before moving to Vancouver, McCreadie ran for provincial government in Ontario in the 1987 general election

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 as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the electoral district of Downsview

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. He also ran a controversial campaign to head the student union in his second year of studies at Toronto's York University

York University

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 and won a term as President of the York Student Federation (YSF) in 1987-88. McCreadie served as President of his highschool, Cawthra Park Secondary School

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, in 1985-86.