Welcome to Marlo Franson Biography

Hello and welcome to a brief Biography of Marlo Franson, actor, stand up comic and hard worker. Originally born in Regina, Saskatchewan, I attended several Public school and High Schools throughtout my childhood life such as Dr. George Ferguson, Balfour Collegiate and Campbell Collegiate. After graduating from Campbell Collegiate in 1989, I moved up to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where I spent a wonderful 5 years of playing sports, partying and graduating with a Degree in Psychology. In the summer, I spent time on the coasts with the Canadian Navy, as a reservist and found my way to Vancouver, BC in 1994 where I currently reside. Times were tough in the 90's, acting was hard to get an agent, Psychology Degrees led to Min. Wage jobs that were pointless as one would think once you have a Degree you could get paid more but Government employment or most Psychology entery work pay was bogus. So after a year of Vancouver I moved up to Whistler BC, where I enjoyed a year of skiing and working twice as hard to keep my finances in check. When the summer came and the sun went down at 6pm due to the mountains, I moved back to Vancouver, BC where I spent another year searching for employment. I took on Framing housing and after a off and on season and working in restuarants, it was time to go back to school. In 1999, I attended the University of British Columbia to learn more and get acquainted with this new thing called the internet. Creating a few information sites and learning how to play online I settled on making a retail site for online shoppers. It took two good years after attending UBC for 2 years to get the online business working, so I ended up doing Security for Safeway, arresting the most best of Vancouver, who chose not to pay for the cheese or meat in their possession. Luckily for my size, I was larger than most of the riff raff and saw many of them hauled off to jail only to find out some of them were wanted in the top 10. This became too much for me and I moved onto selling on ebay till the online retail took off, then through the years, we experienced many ups and downs with the business that I felt it was time to get back into the entertainment business.

It was a series of steps, that lead me back to acting and comedy, a good friend of mine passed away who was to help out my business and I felt my business was destined to be the same and to this date it is, a passable money maker. So after being told of a open mic night on Tuesdays nights I felt I was ready to check it out, as I was gonna start the previous Sept but due to a business downturn, mainly losing my merchant processor(again). I was not in the mood till the following year and that began my comeback into the industry. I craved for a once a week on stage time to tell my jokes and even looked and performed at open mic nights throughout the city. It began clear that I would have to start my own comedy night to get even more experience and after struggling for a year with venues I found the Press Box ready and willing to have an anything goes comedy show and to this date, I am still hosting that show weekly. Now in my 4th year of being a stand up comedy, I have begun acting as well in short films. I don't wanna tell you how hard it is to be a stand up comic or an actor, or how there is a heirachry, or how the Pros pick their favs to bypass you, or what hell you have to go through to get respect but I can tell you I am not quitting anytime soon. The show I run makes me happy and proud to help others any myself getting better entertaining people. I have helped hundreds of Amatuer comics get practice, and dozens of Pros get paid with my shows. I am currently working on writing new jokes every week which makes me very unique in this field and unlike most other comics. I currently do event news every week to keep me on my toes, and can only be thankful and grateful that stand up comedy in Vancouver is more alive than ever.

I began acting at an early age in Highschool starring at The Mayor in Music Man, that was the kicker to keep me taking acting glasses all the way through University. I sung in the choir and played many types of receational sports throughout highschool & University. If Vancouver was not tough I would have been acting in the 90's but after exhaustive effort no agent was taking new talent like me so I gave up. I figured it was only a matter of time once I started doing stand up comedy that I would get back into acting and thanks to a friend we did a film shoot in an agents office whereupon she stated she could use someone like me to do parts. The first year is the toughest so I have been doing the free VFS films and other school projects as an actor to gain experience. It is only a matter of time before a role comes across my plate that will pay me and I can the begin wonderful career in acting like those you see on TV and paying off my taxes. Currently I am Thwackers.tv but we have only filmed 3 show so far for the Web Series and I look forward to 2011 when we start filming even more. I expect more roles in 2010 and you may see me on day on your TV, where I should be. I currently do stand up comedy every week and can be seen on stage for a fun time at one of Maddog Studios comedy shows.


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