Ronald Pederson (born January 8, 1978)[1] is a Canadian, Métis actor, comedian and theatre director who has worked extensively throughout Canada and in the United States.
Over the next eight years he performed weekly on the soap, worked with notable guest stars Mark McKinney, Mike Myers and Joe Flaherty, and completed the Die-Nasty Annual 53-Hour Soap-A-Thon.
In 2002, Pederson won a Sterling Award for his portrayal of Ray Dooley in Martin McDonagh's play The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Pederson gained attention from Hollywood in March 2002, while performing at The Second City with Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard in Joe Flaherty's improvised show The Soap Also Rises.
He turned down an invitation to join Toronto's Second City main stage cast to work on Fox Television's sketch comedy series MADtv that September.
"[4] Their first production was Stewart Lemoine's The Exquisite Hour (2012) at the Factory Theatre starring Ted Dykstra, with Pederson in his directorial debut.
[8] In 2016, Pederson appeared for an extended run with renowned improvisation company English Lovers in Vienna, starred in the acclaimed improvised musical One Night Only at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, and produced and starred in a remount of Extinction Song at the Highland Arts Theatre in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
[14] He also co-created The Wonder Pageant with Kayla Lorette for Coal Mine Theatre which earned a 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination and win for Best Ensemble[15][16] In 2019 Pederson appeared in Four Chords and Gun by John Ross Bowie in Toronto and Chicago, Illinois.
[21] Pederson's film and television credits include providing the voice of the Golly Gee Kid in the YTV cartoon Sidekick, and guest starring on She's the Mayor, InSecurity, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Murdoch Mysteries, and New Eden.