Our Alumni

Adam Cawley

Adam Cawley is an honours graduate from Humber’s Comedy Writing and Performance program. As a member of Second City Mainstage, he spent three years touring the country with the National Touring Company. He is a six-time Canadian Comedy Award and Dora Mavor Moore Award nominated actor, writer and improviser, and has performed at Just for Laughs, The Del Close Marathon, the Chicago, Vancouver and Toronto improv festivals, and even at The Annoyance Theatre in Skinprov. He has taught improv at Second City, Bad Dog Theatre and Impatient Theatre. Currently, you can see Adam perform with Second City MAYBE, and the improv juggernaut MANTOWN.

“Humber helped introduce me to a variety of performance opportunities in the comedy world as well as to it’s history. I learned the importance of networking and have already worked professionally with many of my teachers.”

Levi MacDougall

Levi MacDougall has been called “one of Canada’s finest young comics” by Time Out New York. He got his start at the Loose Moose Theatre Company in Calgary before moving to Toronto in 2000 to enroll in Humber’s Comedy Writing and Performance program. Months after graduating, Levi won the prestigious 2001 Tims Sims Encouragement Fund Award. In 2004, he recorded his own hour-long CTV Comedy Now! stand-up special, which went on to win two Canadian Comedy Awards and a Gemini Award nomination. His sketch troupe The Distractions, recorded an original pilot for The Comedy Network the following year. He’s also been a regular cast member on Hotbox, popcultured with Elvira Kurt, and The Jon Dore Television Show, too, and is also one of the founding members of the weekly Laugh Sabbath comedy series. He’s opened for legendary comedian Mort Sahl at Pop Montreal, and appeared on Andy Kindler’s Alternative Show at Just For Laughs, The Boston Comedy Festival, and Comedy Death-Ray at the Upright Citizens Brigade. He currently lives in L.A. where he writes for Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin.

“I’d always known that comedy was what I wanted to do, but I lacked focus and had little knowledge about exactly how or where to start. Humber not only gave me the structure I needed, but connected me with like-minded individuals that I still work with (and laugh at).”

Richard Scrimger

Richard Scrimger was born with very little hair and very little feet and hands. They all grew together and he still has them, together with all his organs except tonsils. Since 1996 he has published three books for adults, nine novels for children and young adults, three picture books, and dozens of articles for magazines and newspapers. His first adult novel, Crosstown, was short-listed for the City Of Toronto Book Award; his second, Mystical Rose, was a Globe And Mail book of the year. His first picture book, Bun Bun’s Birthday, was one of Quill and Quire’s Five Best Books for Children. His children’s novel, The Nose From Jupiter, won a Mr Christie Award. YA novels, From Charlie’s Point Of View and Into The Ravine, were CLA “honour” books. His work has been translated into a dozen languages. Richard has been part of the teaching faculty at the Humber School For Writers since 2000, and has given workshops and speeches across North America and in Europe. He used to have four small children. He still has them, but they're not so small any more. Now their movement recalls the great buffalo herds, and the fridge door is never shut. Some people write for a living. Richard writes for his life. Visit him at www.scrimger.ca

“I wrote for years and years without publishing a book – indeed, without even finishing one. Then in 1995 I attended the Humber School For Writers. Since then I’ve published 15 books and numerous articles and short stories. I am confident that Humber has had NO IMPACT on my career. None at all. It’s all coincidence. I teach at Humber now, and several of my students have had similarly coincidental literary success.”

The Man with Two Moustaches

Mein Kampfy Couch

Mad Men

Dog Whisperers

The Joy of Painting