Marc Gomes is an actor, writer, and teacher. He joined the Center for Theatre and Dance at Ithaca College in Fall 2018 where he teaches acting and directs CTD main stage productions. His directing credits at IC are: House of Desires, The Language Archive, X, and Stupid F&%$ing Bird.
Marc's career as an actor began on stage in Canada in notable productions of As You Like It, A Slow Dance On the Killing Ground, Edmond, A Taste of Honey, The Gayden Chronicles, Sweet like Suga and the North American premiere of Ryszard Kapuscinski’s The Emperor.
His professional acting credits include leading roles on several television series, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Polygram/ Universal; Sue Thomas: FBeye; ABC’s Commander in Chief; Lightning Force, produced by Bob Rheme and Mace Neufeld and Chasing Rainbows for the CBC. He has been seen in multiple film and TV roles, Criminal Minds, Medium, Dexter, and Goliath.
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Marc is the co-director of Third Space Performance Lab with scholar/performer, Shanti Pillai. Their current work, To the Academy, a multi-media performance will be staged at The Center Series, new works at the 62 Center in Williamstown, MA. Third Space has performed at GATI Institute in Delhi, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC's Roski Talks, Brown University and Cal State Long Beach.
Gomes has served as an original teaching-artist, and director with The Unusual Suspects Theater Company since 1996. The Unusual Suspects brings theater-making skills to incarcerated and underserved young people in Los Angeles as a means to foster self-confidence, and cultural and racial tolerance.
Marc is a recipient of the Distinguished Guyanese-American Award, presented by Guyana’s Consul General to the United States.
He is an avid cyclist and bicycling advocate.