Talent INC Canada

Founded in 2010 we are located in the east end of Toronto, conveniently close to many casting houses.

We are proud that our company is 100% Canadian, working only with Canadian casting directors, agents, and producers.

We feel that in order for an actor to sign with a legitimate agency, they must continually train.

We have a strong Talent INC Canada family with well over 9000 success stories since we opened.

Doug has placed thousands of actors into the Film & TV industry through Talent INC Canada's programs and it's award winning Annual Showcase.

Talent INC Canada has been in operation for 14 years, and some students have been clients since day one. Our students work in television, films, commercials and voice overs.

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DOUG W. SLOAN

As CEO and Head of Admissions & Marketing, Doug grew up in a small town with big dreams. Early in his teens, he modeled for Calvin Klein and quickly gained a keen eye for the business side of the industry. Doug earned his degree in Business Management and opened a successful tanning salon chain.

Doug later sold the salon and embarked on a passionate journey in the entertainment industry which he continues to follow to this day.

He has managed the development of some of today’s top talent and has successfully placed thousands of working performers of all ages with agencies and managers in the U.S, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

His performers can be seen in projects like CBC's One More Time, Kate on Netflix, Erin’s Guide To Kissing Girls, and national commercial campaigns for TD Bank, CF Markville, Home Depot, Presidents Choice, Canadian Tire, and Uber Eats to name a few. Doug has executive produced the film, This Time.

“Engaging with young performers has enriched my life in so many ways. I cannot imagine doing anything better than changing a young person’s life forever.” - Doug Sloan

OUR ACTING COACHES.

Improv Division

Paul Barnes

A Dora Award nominee in 2017 for Superdude & Mr. Rude, Paul is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Second City Conservatory Program in Toronto. An actor, comedian and puppeteer, he has spent four years as a cast member of the Second City's Educational and Family Companies. He is also a principal cast member of the TVO/Jim Henson kids' show Hi Opie!, and recenlty recorded a role for the Nelvana animation series, D.N. Ace. Paul also performs with various improv and sketch troupes around Toronto such as Improv Against Humanity, Dog Science, We Happy Few and Men with Mustaches. Paul is thrilled to spend his adult life playing with toys and making pretend. He has been teaching Improv for the last few years with Talent INC Canada.

Adult Division

Carmen Kruk

Carmen is an actor, coach and writer who has taught performance and verbatim theatre for over five years. Her work has received funding from the Ontario Arts Council, and her play What She Said has toured across the GTA. Carmen holds an MFA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and has also studied at the University of Toronto, Canada’s National Voice Intensive (now the Moving Voice Institute), the Vineyard Arts Project, as well as improv at Second City Toronto.

Adult Division

Meredith Forlenza

Meredith is a graduate of Northwestern University and a member of New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre. She has appeared on Broadway in 1984, Noises Off, The Winslow Boy, and A Behanding in Spokane, and Off-Broadway in Dan Cody's Yacht (MTC), Completeness (Playwrights Horizons), All-American (Lincoln Center), and Empathitrax (EST), among others. She has worked all across the United States, from the world premiere of Itamar Moses's new play The Whistleblower at The Denver Center, Can You Forgive Her? (IRNE nom Best Actress) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, to The Delling Shore at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival. Meredith's TV and film credits include: The Tick, Blindspot, Billy & Billie, Mercy, The Union, Hannah Has a Ho-Phase, and Not Fade Away. She has appeared in two national commercials: for U by Kotex and as the Naughty Librarian for Pearle Vision. She is passionate about scene work and loves helping students take a deep dive into their scenes.

Voice Over Division

Tyler Hyrchuk

Tyler is a Commercial + Character Voice Actor based in Toronto. Additionally, he performs regularly in the Toronto Improv Scene. His voice has been showcased in numerous commercials, more than 45 audiobooks, and over 250 characters in 100+ productions. Most recently, he is the voice of Evu the Emu in TVO Kids' “Mia and Codie”. He is a co-founder of Lengthy Tangent LLC, an audio production house, and a producer, sound engineer, writer and voice actor in their award winning flagship audio fiction series, ‘Peculiar Radio’.

Voice Over Division

Melanie Davis

Melanie is an actor, coach and writer. Her passion and specialty is voice acting. If you listen closely, you can hear Melanie's voice on Netflix and TVOKids. Melanie has taught voice acting at the college level and owns her own company coaching, training and producing voice demos for actors of all ages. She also works with several Canadian companies casting and directing voice over projects virtually. Melanie enjoys character creation and development and loves helping people share their voice in a fun and professional manner.

Adult Division

Jinny Wong

Jinny Wong is a Canadian Actor, Acting Coach, and a mom of two boys. Jinny started her professional acting career in theatre and travelled from Florida to the Mediterranean, performing on stage for the Disney Cruise Line. After taking a few years off to start her family, Jinny’s focus shifted to TV & Film. Since then Jinny has had the pleasure of working on many TV/Film projects including appearances on Stolen By Their Father, Ruby and The Well, Unlocking Christmas, Candy Cane Candidate, The Parker Anderson’s & Cutie Pugs. When Jinny is not on set, she’s busy raising feminists, deep-diving into personal development, and motivating fellow actors to follow their dreams.

Adult Division

John Shubat

Beginning his career at 17, modelling with Elite Model Management, John has been in front of the camera for over a decade. A graduate of The University of Toronto’s Theatre and Performance Studies, as well as NYU-TISCH online program, John has earned a wide range of stage and screen credits ranging from classical to contemporary. With a belief that an actor must always remain a student of the craft—as well as life—John is now training towards his MFA in acting.

Kids Division

Rocio Martinez Delfa

Rocio started acting at age 9 participating in musical theatre and soon falling in love with acting. Starting from a “Lost Child” role in “Peter Pan” school musical , making her way up to the lead role of Cinderella in “Cinderella’s Rodgers and Hammerstein” school musical. Currently, she is attending Cardinal Carter Academy For the Arts High school in a drama major. Additionally, she has been vocally training for 10 years and is fluent in both English and Spanish. She has been training with Talent Inc for the past few years and always strives to bring her fun, loving personality and experience to inspire young talents.

Kids Division

Leigha Hawksworth

Leigha started with a love for acting at an early age. At age 12, she was in her first commercial; after lessons with Talent Inc. Canada, she was on set 3 days after showcase weekend filming a TV episode. Leigha is currently enrolled in the Drama program at Cawthra Park Secondary School. Leigha is still taking classes at Talent Inc. Leigha is also a patient ambassador for SickKids; you may find her work on the SickKids Foundation page, and you may find her in a commercial with Canada's Ryan Reynolds. She dreams of continuing as an actor or child life specialist after high school. Leigha loves working with young children and brings her love for acting to her classes. She is always fun, loving and encouraging to the students.

Improv Division

Korri Birch

Award winning sketch comic, Korri Birch is a graduate of Second City Conservatory Program and Bad Dog Theatre’s Studio Series. He’s an actor, comedian, improviser, writer, puppeteer, and teacher. He’s performed internationally at Amsterdam’s BOOM CHICAGO COMEDY FESTIVAL, the Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Toronto Fringe Festival, and the World’s Biggest Improv Tournament. He’s taught with IMPROV4LIGE, Funnies for Families, Artucate Canada, and Randolph College. Find him performing improv, sketch, and stand-up around Toronto stages!

Adult Division

Jennifer Gibson

Jennifer is an accomplished actor, director and activist. She began her career in Los Angeles and has since worked in New York, Vancouver and Toronto. She is a well known actor, having appeared in numerous Canadian and American TV series such as Suits, Kim’s Convenience, Hemlock Grove, The Bold and the Beautiful, Guiding Light and too many Hallmark Christmas movies to name, among others. As a coach, Jennifer is in the unique position of knowing both sides of the camera and what directors are looking for in the room, and on set. She has trained extensively under Larry Moss, and shares his passion for script analysis and the exploration of one’s own life to create characters.

Social Media Manager

Prashant Karam

Prashant is a passionate and creative marketing strategist with over 7 years of experience using strategies to build, analyze and create organizations and facilitate them to meet their goals and create new standards in their companies. An expert in social media and brand management with a proven track record of helping companies set and hit higher targets every year. Currently, he runs his own marketing company and coaches sports to young athletes in the community. When offline, Prashant dives head first into his passions such as acting, dancing, writing music and playing hockey, soccer, basketball and boxing.

Production Coordinator

Parham Rownaghi

Parham was born in Iran and moved to England at the age of 3 before relocating to Toronto at 10. He speaks both Farsi and English. He started acting at the Claude Watson School of the Arts, where he auditioned with Larissa Mair multiple times at the age of 16 for Degrassi. She called him back for several more auditions and eventually began his acting career at the age of 18. He got signed by the Characters agency and his first show was on Family Channel’s “Raising Expectations, followed by Nickelodeon’s “The Other Kingdom” and eventually secured his break on Netflix’s “Degrassi: The Next Class” as a series regular appearing in 12 episodes over two seasons. He also guest starred on “Murdoch Mysteries” and “Mary Kills People”. He went to LA and studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute under a full scholarship, studying method acting and produced a short film called “Blind Optimism”. He is currently with KB Artists Management and has booked his first commercial for a KFC/Ruffles collab campaign. He currently has his feature film debut titled “His Father’s Son” circuiting film festivals such as the Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival. He has also worked on a persian documentary re-enactment of Bahaii students persecuted in Iran, produced by Habib Zargarpour who is an Academy Award special effects nominee.

Talent INC Canada

DOUG W. SLOAN

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