Hey!

I’m an award-winning actor, writer, and director based in Toronto.

Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, my work both onstage and behind the scenes has taken me to theatres far and wide including: Canadian Stage; Grand Theatre; Aquarius; Neptune; Necessary Angel; Theatre Passe Muraille; Manitoba Theatre for Young People; Tarragon Theatre; St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival; YES Theatre; Bad Hats; Theatre Direct; Eastern Front Theatre; Shakespeare by the Sea; Shakespeare BASH’d; Shakespeare in Action; Unwrap Theatre; Outside the March; Villains Theatre; and Driftwood Theatre, as well as projects in Ireland, Czechia, and South Africa. My work in theatre has received four Dora award nominations and one win.

What’s next: Presentations of The Assembly across two provinces—more details soon!

What I’m taking in right now: Music: I’m in an oldies phase—REM, John Mayer, Paramore // Books: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe; The Utopian Generation by Pepetela

Performance
Creation

More of my face, you say?

Here are some performing highlights.

  • Deivan Steele as Troilus in Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare BASH'd in Toronto.

    Troilus and Cressida // Shakespeare BASH'd

    “At [Troilus and Cressida’s] centre are its title lovebirds, played by the real-life couple of Deivan Steele and Breanne Tice (with winning chemistry).” - Toronto Star

    “Steele masterfully portrays Troilus’s complex mixture of anger, sadness and despair.” - Stage Door

    Directed by James Wallis // Photo by Kyle Purcell

  • Hamlet // Shakespeare by the Sea

    Q&A with The Coast on playing Hamlet and what Shakespeare can say to us in the present moment: https://www.thecoast.ca/arts-music/qanda-halifax-actor-deivan-steele-is-taking-hamlet-back-to-basics-29135199

    Directed by Drew Douris-O’Hara // Photo by James MacLean

  • Deivan Steele in Twelfth Night at Canadian Stage's Dream in High Park

    Twelfth Night // Canadian Stage

    “Whoever coined the truism that you should never make theatre with animals or children—no matter what, they’ll upstage the other actors—likely never attended Dream in High Park.” - The Globe and Mail

    Directed by Gregory Prest // Photo by Dahlia Katz

  • She Stoops to Conquer // St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival

    “This is high-energy, laugh-a-minute fare.” - The Recorder and Times

    Directed by Julia Nish-Lapidus // Photo by Deanna Clarke

  • King Lear // Shakespeare BASH'd

    “Deivan Steele’s Edmund is lascivious and perfectly horrible in that way that makes theatre villains so darn watchable.” - Intermission

    “Deivan Steele nails his centre-stage monologues as the cynical Edmund.” - Glenn Sumi

    Directed by James Wallis // Photo by Kyle Purcell

  • Narnia // Manitoba Theatre for Young People

    “An imaginative production…the actors are often required to live in two worlds, providing the instrumentation for their own soundtrack as the story develops around and through them.”

    Directed by Fiona Sauder // Photo by Leif Norman

  • Romeo & Juliet // YES Theatre

    The inaugural production of Sudbury’s landmark Refettorio.

    Directed by James Wallis and Julia Nish-Lapidus // Photo by Juan Echavarria

  • Knight of the Bat 3 // Villains Theatre

    "The cast are all throwing every ounce of their energy, their hearts, and their funny bones into creating these characters and the Elizabethan London Town/DC hybrid universe." - TWISI Blog

    Written and Directed by Dan Bray // Photo by Stoo Metz

  • Strata Inc // Eastern Front Theatre

    "[Monafu]’s taking a cue from the Silent Disco concept, equipping her cast with microphones, and supplying headphones to audience members so they can follow the story of an idealistic hacker named Victoria who gets a job with a big technology company."

    Written and Directed by Megan Piercey Monafu // Photo by James MacLean

  • Weirdos

    This two-time Canadian Screen Award-winning film was written by Daniel MacIvor and directed by Bruce MacDonald.

Ah, you’re more cerebral.

Here are some writing highlights.

  • The Assembly

    ***NOMINATED FOR FIVE DORA AWARDS*** including: Outstanding Production, New Play, Ensemble, Direction, and Set Design

    Co-created with Breanne Tice, this interactive theatre-meets-board-game experience about deepening our democracy and building empathy for future generations has had several productions across Canada. More info here.

    Photo by Daniel Wittnebel

  • Canadian theatre actors Tyrone Savage, Daniel Briere, Andrea Massoud, Quincy Armorer, Beck Lloyd, and Deivan Steele in Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Hour

    Sherlock Holmes and the Vanishing Hour // St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival

    This new comedy-mystery sees the famous English detective team up with Canadian war nurse Joan Watson to solve a case with international repercussions.

    “The show features plenty of jokes, gags, and fourth-wall breaks that had the opening night crowd laughing for most of the runtime.” - The Recorder & Times

    Commissioned by St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival

    Photo by Deanna Clark

  • Ice/berg // Tarragon Theatre & Toronto Metropolitan University

    Ice/berg // Tarragon Theatre & Toronto Metropolitan University

    Someone on this stage is not human.

    The Port Elizabeth Theatre Festival in smalltown Ontario is only two days away from opening its new adaptation of Frankenstein when the show's lead actor quits. An unexpected addition to the group might just unravel a web of secrets that threatens everyone in the company.

    Commissioned by Tarragon Theatre & Toronto Metropolitan University

    Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh

  • Froxeaglousey // Driftwood Theatre

    A choose-your-own-adventure digital “walk through the woods” in search of the mysterious creature Froxeaglousey, based on Aesop’s Fables, for audiences aged 3-5.

    Photo by Stella Racca

  • When Two Stars Collide

    In this documentary play, a mixed race writer initially making a show featuring other mixed race Canadians uncovers a disturbing family legacy of his own. Developed in residence at Neptune Theatre’s INKubator, with the support of PARC, EFT, and Theatre Passe Muraille.

    Photo: staged reading at Eastern Front Theatre

  • Children of the Black Water // in development with Driftwood Theatre

    A new play about four generations of a cursed family as they migrate across the globe in search of a land to call home. This project is in residence at Driftwood Theatre.

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