Hailed as “thrillingly powerful” by the New York Times and "a major talent" by The Toronto Star, 2024 Dora Award winner Marcus Nance masterfully straddles the worlds of opera, musical theatre, film, and cabaret. He won My Entertainment World's 2023 Critics' Pick Award for Performer of the Year where they described him as "one of Canada's greatest musical theatre talents". Recent engagements include Andrey, Old Bolkonsky and the Opera Singer in Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 with Crow's Theatre and Musical Stage Company; Jupiter in Cymbeline, Doctor Giles and the Crocodile in Wendy and Peter Pan, the Creature in Frankenstein Revived and the Abbot of Westminster in Richard II at the Stratford Festival; Dick Deadeye in Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore with the Vancouver Opera, Benjamin Stone in Sondheim’s Follies at Koerner Hall, and standby for Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime with Theatre Calgary and The Calgary Philharmonic.
Having already made his film debut as the singing accountant in Mel Brooks feature film The Producers, Marcus Nance recently returned to the world of TV and film with appearances on Queen Tut, Good Sam, Murdoch Mysteries, Departure and Mayday.
New York audiences saw Marcus Nance on Broadway as Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar and in Baz Luhrman’s Tony Award winning production of La Boheme; as Alidoro in Cenerentola with New York City Opera Education, in Encores! productions of Kismet and Of Thee I Sing, and in concert at The Metropolitan Room and at The Public Theatre.
Marcus Nance garnered international attention as Malcolm in the world premiere of Atom Egoyan’s opera Elsewhereless with Tapestry New Opera Works which earned him a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Most Outstanding Male Performer. For Queen of Puddings Music Theatre he created the role of Moses in the world premiere of the epic opera Beatrice Chancy. Other operatic highlights include the Bass in Tapestry Opera's Dark Star Requiem (Juno award nominee for Classical Album of the Year), Sparafucile in Rigoletto with the Tacoma Opera, Compere in Four Saints in Three Acts with Chicago Opera Theatre, Basilio in The Barber of Seville for Monterey Opera Association, and Ali in L'Italiana in Algeri for Hawaii Opera Theatre.
He has spent twelve seasons at the Stratford Festival where his assignments have included a digital performance of his solo show Voice of a Preacher's Son, Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar, Queequeg in Moby Dick, and Rev. J.D. Montgomery in Gershwin’s My One and Only and two seasons at the Shaw Festival where his portrayal of Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd was hailed by the Toronto Star as a "standout performance... with his stunning singing voice and commanding physical presence". Other musical theatre highlights include Clairborne in the world premiere of Evangeline at the Charlottetown Festival, the beast in Beauty and the Beast for The Grand Theatre and Western Canadian Theatre, King Triton in The Little Mermaid and the Mikado in The Mikado for Drayton Entertainment and Porgy in Porgy and Bess highlights in concert with The Toronto Symphony.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Music and Voice from California State University, Fresno and has done graduate work in voice at the University of Texas and the University of Illinois. Marcus Nance is on the faculty of Sheridan College’s Musical Theatre Department, and frequently adjudicates music festivals and has given vocal masterclasses throughout Canada and the US. Marcus Nance has been selected to serve on the International Congress of Voice Teachers (ICVT) Program Committee for the 2025 convention in Toronto, Ontario.
-The Toronto Star
The Stratford Festival
Doc Giles, Crocodile, Skylights
The Stratford Festival
Pacific Opera, Victoria
The Businessman
Pacific Opera, Victoria
MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto
Grand Opening Ceremonies (musical guest)
MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto
Cymbeline
Jupiter
Stratford Festival
2024 Season
Natasha Pierre... Great Comet of 1812
Bolkonsky/Andrey/Opera Singer/Clarinet
Crows Theatre/Musical Stage Company
2023/2024
Frankenstein Revived
The Creature
Stratford Festival
2023 Season
Richard II
Abbot of Westminster
Stratford Festival
2023 Season
DEPARTURE
KEITH
GLOBAL
JULY 2022
RAGTIME: IN CONCERT
COALHOUSE WALKER JR (standby)
THEATRE CALGARY
CALGARY PHILHARMONIC
ARTS COMMONS
JUNE 2022
HMS PINAFORE
DICK DEADEYE
VANCOUVER OPERA
APRIL - MAY 2022
GOOD SAM
DOCTOR MARKOV
CBS
APRIL 2022
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