Ashley Comeau
Ashley Comeau (born July 31, 1984), is a Canadian actress, writer and television producer. She is best known as an alumna of the Second City Toronto, and for her role as Ms. Badger on . Early life. Comeau was born in Brampton in 1984. She attended Mayfield Secondary School in the Dramatic Arts Program. At Mayfield, she started competing in the Canadian Improv Games. Career. Comeau's interest in acting began at the age of 9 when she started doing impersonations of Dana Carvey's character Garth from Wayne's World. She studied at Humber College (in their Comedy  Program), and with the Second City Conservatory. She started touring for Second City Theatricals on cruise ships, then came home to Toronto to join the Second City Mainstage cast in 2011 with Carly Heffernan, Nigel Downer, Alastair Forbes, Jason DeRosse and Inessa Frantowski. She continues to act and tour with her sketch and improv partner Connor Thompson. Along with her two best friends, Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes as The Lusty Mannequins. She has produced and written for television for the past several years on shows like „Tallboyz“, "It's My Party" for TVOKids, "Paranormal 911", "Haunted Hospitals", "Chef in  Your Ear" for Food Network Canada. She has also worked on producing many live events The 2016 & 2017 Banff World Media Festival Awards Gala and Program Competition, the 2015 Youth Media Alliance Awards, and many live stage shows. She has contributed to Today's Parent, The Walrus Laughs, CBC's "Punchline", She Does The City and written for YTV (Canadian TV channel’s) "The Zone". Comeau has recently been awards a Canadian Comedy Award for 'Best Live Ensemble' for her work in 'She The People' at Second City Toronto. 'She The People' is the first sketch comedy revue in Second  City's 50-year history to have an all female identifying cast. They took this show to the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal in summer 2019. Comeau has been nominated for "Best Ensemble" at the 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and several Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Revues/Best Ensemble 2013/2014. She was named Best Female Improviser in Toronto by Now Magazine's 'Best Of 2015 Awards." In 2020, she participated in "", a webcast collaboration between Second City alumni and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra which represented a comedic history of the use of classical and liturgical music in the  church. Personal life. She performs with her real life partner Connor Thompson in a comedy troupe, "The Lusty Mannequins" with fellow Second City alumni Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes. Connor and Comeau met in a Second City Conservatory class in 2008 and have performing together ever since. They got married in a secret wedding in an asylum in England in 2018. The Lusty Mannequins have taught and performed in Ireland, Spain, England, Germany, Cape Town, Greece, Denmark, and on the high seas. They recently won Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival's 'Best of the Fest' in 2018 and toured their show  Uncommonwealth in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2019. Comeau is a proud and out bisexual woman and uses the pronouns she/her. Filmography. Film and Television