Egg Zeppelin is the brainchild of two music-loving performers with 30 collective years of experience working in Canada’s comedy, television and stage worlds.
Marcel St. Pierre is a Toronto-based organism of New Brunswick Acadian origin. An alumnus of The Second City National Touring Company and the Canadian Comedy Award-winning improvised talk show Monkey Toast; he is a founding member and former Artistic Director of The Bad Dog Theatre Company.
A 2-time BDA Award-winner for writing and producing, Marcel has worked as a writer/producer for YTV, Corus Entertainment, The Comedy Network, Nelvana and many others. In 2003 he produced Shortweird Radio’, a critically acclaimed independent sketch comedy CD that featured a cast of 12 notable Toronto writer/performers, including Nile Seguin, Jessica Holmes, Kerry Griffin, and many others.
He was an Associate Producer, writer, and recurring character on CBC Television’s Gemini Award-winning The Morgan Waters Show (Best Youth Program, 2007) and a writer for The Juno Awards, The Gemini Awards and a pilot for CBC Radio entitled The Backroom. More on Marce at http://www.shortweird.com
Kris Siddiqi is a Toronto-based actor, improviser, sketch performer, writer, director and producer. His recent children’s show Maravilla: The Heroic Monomyth received high praise. Kris is an alumnus of The Bad Dog Theatre Company, and of The Second City Toronto, where he wrote and performed in 4 shows.
Currently the on-air voice of CMT, Kris has appeared in commercials and played a role on the Gemini winning Showcase series Cock’d Gunns, on CTV’s Dan for Mayor, and on the new Belleville Brothers series Almost Heroes. He has also written for and hosted YTV as The Unlucky Caveman and as a host for the Saturday morning show CRUNCH!
An avid lover of all things musical, Kris was the co-creator of Dreadwood, the serialized improvised tale of the gold rush in 1890’s Canada, and the improvised sci-fi comedy spoof Battleawesome Awesomestar. Both shows were nominated for Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Comedic Play. More on Kris at https://www.instagram.com/thesiddiqs