Dwight Bacquie

Dwight Bacquie is an actor and Voice and Speech teacher who’s been teaching for over thirty years. Jamaican by birth, he has lived in both Canada and the US and has also worked in the
acting profession in both places. Dwight’s formal training in Acting took place at Concordia University, Montreal, and at the Yale School of Drama. While living in Canada, he also served as
Artistic Director of Black Theater Workshop, Inc., as a screenplay assessor for Ontario Film Development Corporation and was the recipient of numerous Canada Council Arts grants.

Dwight’s acting experience is extensive. A former member of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival acting company, he has performed a wide range of roles in Canada and the US. His stage performances include Donny in American Buffalo at Portland Stage ( Maine) , Antonio in The Tempest at A Noise Within (LA), Hassan in The Phantom of the Opera ( the play) at Theatre Outremont ( Montreal), Isaac in A Change of View at the Harold Clurman Theater (Toronto), Warren in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at Leah Posluns Theater ( Toronto), Stanley in Playboy of the West Indies at Centaur Theater ( Montreal), Marcus in Titus Andronicus at Theater WUM ( Toronto), Fabian in Twelfth Night at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (Stratford, Ontario), Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California) , creating the role of Simon in Sherry Coman’s SAY ZEBRA at Theater Passe Muraille (Toronto) and Othello in Othello at A Noise Within (LA).

Dwight has also created over thirty roles on television and film on shows such as The Return of Elliot Ness, Buffy- The Vampire Slayer, Top Cops, The Practice, Jag, Charmed, The Division, Underground to Freedom, Street Legal, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Passions, The Sound and the Silence and the Emmy-nominated Family Pictures.

Most recently, Dwight appeared in the short F*!*! White Boy
and Sky, a two-hander that was honored with a top award at LA’s MethodFest Short Film festival.

In 1991, Dwight did Speech Teacher-training with Deborah Hecht at NYU- Tisch and The Juilliard School. Other post-graduate training in Voice and Speech includes workshops with
Richard Neoczym ( Grotowski-influenced Voice performance), Patsy Rodenburg, in Breathing (VASTA Conference, 2002), Phonetic Pillows ( with Louis Colaianni) and KT Speech ( (“Which American Accent?”).

Dwight has also taught Voice and Speech at First Act Drama School (Montreal), Voice at Fresh Elements School ( Toronto), Voice at California State Summer School for the Arts/CSSSA, Accents and Dialects at Stella Adler Academy ( Los Angeles), Voice and Dialects for Actors’ Comedy Studio, “ American Speech “ at Edgemar Center for the Arts and was Head of Voice and Speech at New School of Drama (Toronto). He has also worked as a production coach and private Voice and Speech coach. His private students have included Samantha Mathis, Noah Silver, Megan Boone and Patrick Dempsey.

Recent professional coaching credits include working on the world premiere of Donnetta Lavinia Gray’s Last Night And The Night Before at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Merchant of Venice at Theater For A New Audience and Richard 111 for The Public Theater at the Delacorte.

Recently, Dwight has begun to venture into Voice Acting and, in 2015, performed multiple roles in the audiobook of American Book Award-winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, an
account of the assassination attempts on the life of Reggae superstar, Bob Marley. His most recent Voiceover job was as Rehearsal Voiceover Artist for AWAKENING, a new show opening at Wynn Las Vegas for which he recorded the role that would later be performed by Anthony Hopkins.