Kyle Rideout is a

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actor, writer, and director. He co-owns a production company called Motion 58 with business partner Josh Epstein. He co-wrote and directed the short films Hop the Twig and Wait for Rain as well as the feature films '' Eadweard'' and '' Adventures in Public School''. Rideout's film have garnered a nomination for the

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's DGC Discovery Award in 2017 for ''Adventures in Public School''.

Career

As an actor, Rideout won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award as Best Newcomer in 2005, for his performance in a production of Josh MacDonald's play ''Halo''. The following year, he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, Small Theatre Division, for his performance as Gordon in David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin's ''The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Production of A Christmas Carol''. In 2007, he starred as

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in Bard on the Beach's production of ''

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''. In 2010, he appeared in ''Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge'';

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, the subject of that play, would also become the subject of ''Eadweard'' the film."Eadweard is missing a supporting cast; The father of motion pictures not exactly a conventional man". ''

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'', November 6, 2015. He also appeared in Minecraft Mini Series as Durango. Rideout has also had guest roles in ''

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'' and ''

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'', and voice roles in '' Packages from Planet X'', '' Littlest Pet Shop'', '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', and the English language edition of '' The Story of Saiunkoku''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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