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Zach Parsons is an actor and musician residing in Toronto and is an alumnus of the Theatre program at the University of Waterloo.
After many lead roles at UW, including Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (UW Drama), he began work with Tottering Biped Theatre, workshopping and performing such shows as The Second Life and Journey to the East, as well as helping to establish an annual outdoor Shakespeare festival at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, ON, which, after a two year pandemic hiatus, returned in 2022 with a shift in venue to Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, ON. He has since branched out and turned to the screen, landing roles in both feature length and short films, as well as commercial projects. Film-wise, credits include My Dreams of You (Hallmark), Shifted (Fable Forest Pictures), the upcoming TV series Cows Come Home (Bell Fibe TV1). You can also see him (and hear him as the voice of The Mandalorian) in the final video of the Hacksmith Industries YouTube series "Hacklorian: The Bounty", which to date has garnered over 1.8 million views. Music-wise, he has been recording and writing since 2014. Most of his work has been cover songs posted to videos on his YouTube channel which, accumulated, have reached over 280,000 views. His work includes original compositions as well, most notably for a Broil King commercial that aired regularly on TSN. He has also done sound design and composing for theatre productions, scoring over 40 minutes of original music for The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, live music performed on stage in As She Likes It, and a mix of live and recorded music for Journey to the East (Tottering Biped Theatre), as well as scores for Patty Picker, Good Old Days, and the Dora-nominated performance of Bone Cage (One Four One Collective), which are all available on music streaming sites. His recent work also includes an original song and soundscape for the AR experience Urban ARTeries with Theatre Gargantua, which will be able to be viewed in downtown Toronto. Zach is also a member of the sketch group Big Cake, which launched in June 2019, whose first two seasons are available on YouTube. |
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