My name is Michelle Rambharose, and I’m a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. I’m originally from Scarborough, Canada, and am of Guyanese descent (Indo-Caribbean & Arawak). I work as an actor in video game, film, TV, theatre, as a director in theatre, and as a facilitator in community arts spaces.
As an artist, I’ve explored many different roles as a creator and performer. Having performed in theatre as a teenager, and studying theatre performance at Concordia University, in Montréal, Canada, and across Europe through exchange programming — my ongoing love for contemporary live performance was sparked early on by artists ranging from Miet Warlop, Romeo Castellucci, Marina Abramovic.
I worked and lived in Montréal for years, creating and performing in theatre and eventually in film and voice as well. Between working as an actor, I also co-wrote, produced, and directed original theatre pieces — mostly exploring themes of the performance of gender and sexuality and political upheaval. I also regularly taught theatre performance to teens with Geordie Theatre School.
My work as a director investigates distinctly physical performances, highly collaborative processes, and often explores feminist and queer theory. For the creation and facilitation of performance, I draw on various physical theatre practices (mask, clown, viewpoints, and laban techniques), traditions of ensemble, and my training in various styles of dance (hip-hop, vogue, heels, afro-beat).
I’ve worked across Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver in film, tv, commercials, voice and full performance capture for video games — including for one of the lead roles of New Tales from the Borderlands (Gearbox).
Since 2022, I’ve been back home in Toronto where I’ve trained with Galen Hooks as a dancer, created as a dancer as an artist-in-residence with Arrivals Legacy Project’s Seed Pool Residency in 2023, been the on-going voice of Morton Salt, been a creative writing mentor for Many Waters - a community arts project for LGBTQ+ Guyanese youth, directed a staged reading of Shaharah Gaznabbi’s new play Protectors of the Lost Scribe at Tarragon Theatre, and most recently starred in Nikki Shaffeeullah’s debut short film Purgatory which is currently on a cross-Canada tour of community screenings.
The past year I’ve been learning filmmaking theory and analogue techniques at the Liaison of Independent Filmmaking of Toronto and studying to become a Registered Massage Therapist — deepening my passion for the human body and bridging it with my interest in healing modalities.
Beyond my artistic work, I love analogue photography, playing guitar and singing, astrology, and have recently discovered how much I love surfing (even if I am not amazing at it yet!!) .
Past work includes:
Full performance capture for the lead role of Anu in New Tales from the Borderlands (Gearbox & 2K) released in 2022, voicing Junlei Tennyson (and others) in The Outerworlds (Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division) which won the 2020 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Video Game, Kate Winthrop in Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace (Asmodee Digital), and returning to voice Dr. Blossom, Isabella Essary, and others in The Outerworlds DLC Murder on Eridanos.
TV & film appearances in Death She Wrote (Lifetime/CTV), Lethal Love (Marvista Entertainment/Netflix US), The Parker-Andersons/Amelia Parker (Marble Media/Amazon Prime) (See IMBD).
Acting for the Centaur Theatre/Stratford Theatre production of Paradise Lost (2020), movement direction for Chattermarks at Lachapelle Scène Contemporaines (Cabal Theatre, 2020); playing a trilingual Hermia in The Dream Project 3.0 with NYC’s Yonder Window Theatre Company (2019).
Training includes:
Training as a dancer with various teachers across the world — most notably VMA-nominated choreographer & dancer, Galen Hooks, in both 2020 and 2022, and old way vogue with Icon Overall Mother Koppi Mizrahi in Tokyo, Japan in 2023. Studying many physical theatre techniques — varying from Suzuki Method & Viewpoints from Barney O’Hanlan, to Authentic Movement from Tedi Tafel, to staged combat and fencing from Anita Nittoly. In 2019, intensively training in the athletic endurance-based stage performance techniques of Belgium’s Troubleyn/Jan Fabre & New York’s SITI Company in Rijeka, Croatia (under the full funding of Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec & Canada Council for the Arts).
BFA Specialization in Theatre Performance from Concordia University, and an alumni of Black Theatre Workshop’s Artistic Mentorship Program.
