He co-owns a production company called Motion 58 with business partner Josh Epstein.
Rideout's film have garnered a nomination for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2017 for Adventures in Public School.
[1] As an actor, Rideout won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award as Best Newcomer in 2005,[2] for his performance in a production of Josh MacDonald's play Halo.
[3] 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.
Rideout has also had guest roles in Da Vinci's Inquest and Supernatural, 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.