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The VoiceActor Salvatore Antonio is no whirling dervish
By Richard Burnett (from Hour with permission)
“I paid off my student loans by doing all kinds of TV commercials,” says Canadian actor and playwright Salvatore Antonio, whose mug you’ve seen all over television, in shows like Paradise Falls, ReGenesis and Queer as Folk. “There was nothing I wouldn’t do! So my agent sent me off to audition for a Deepak Chopra video with weird new-age visuals and I was told to appear at the audition in my underwear or in Speedos."
Antonio – who has performed at the Segal Theatre and Monument-National in Montreal, was playwright-in-residence at Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2004, and was a finalist for a 2007 Governor-General’s Award for Literary Drama (for his play In Gabriel’s Kitchen) – arrived and peeled off his clothes.
