Michelle Rambharose

Michelle Rambharose is a Guyanese-Canadian actor, director, and dancer based in Toronto, Canada.

Originally from Scarborough, Canada, and of Indo-Guyanese & Arawak descent, she works as an actor in video game, TV/film, voice, and theatre, as a director in theatre, and as a facilitator in community arts spaces.

Her work as a director investigates distinctly physical performances, highly collaborative processes, and often explores queer theory, performance of gender and sexuality, and political upheaval. For the creation and facilitation of performance, she often draws on various physical theatre practices (mask, clown, viewpoints, and laban techniques), traditions of ensemble, and her training in various styles of dance (hip-hop, vogue, heels, afro-beat).

As an actor, she has worked across Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver in theatre, 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).

Her recent work includes training with Galen Hooks as a dancer, creating as a dancer as an artist-in-residence with Arrivals Legacy Project’s 2023 Seed Pool Residency, been the on-going voice of Morton Salt, been a creative writing mentor for Many Waters - a community arts project for LGBTQ+ Guyanese youth, learning experimental analogue filmmaking techniques at the Liaison of Independent Filmmaking of Toronto, directed a staged reading of Shaharah Gaznabbi’s play Protectors of the Lost Scribe at Tarragon Theatre, and most recently starred in Nikki Shaffeeullah’s debut short film Purgatory which recently toured across Canada for a series of community screenings.

She is also studying to become a Registered Massage Therapist — deepening a passion for the human body and bridging it with her interest in healing modalities.

Beyond her artistic work, she loves analogue photography, playing guitar and singing, astrology, and surfing.

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 old way vogue with Icon Overall Mother Koppi Mizrahi in Tokyo, Japan in 2023 and VMA-nominated choreographer & dancer, Galen Hooks, in both 2020 and 2022. 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.