Jamie Lamb CV
416.770.5611 mjamielamb@gmail.com
Employment History:
Current - Creative Director, Wynford Toronto
2009 – 2011 Assoc. Creative Director, Engine Communications
• Writer, art director, audio/video director, designer creating large-scale communications campaigns for major pharmaceutical, grocery, & technology corporations.
2007 – 2009 Creative Copy Writer, Sharpe Blackmore Euro RSCG
• Created various internal and external communications for a variety of clients and brands. Clients include: Volvo Canada, Kraft Canada, Hershey Canada, Home Hardware, Reckit Benckiser, Glaxo Smith Kline, Shering Plough, CDW. Brands include Oh Henry!, Reese, Premium Plus, Triscuit, Kraft Dinner Crackers, Coppertone, Claritin. (TV, interactive, print, OOH, etc.)
• Acting talent director for all in-house internal communications: video/web.
• Aided in communications strategy creation for a variety of brands. Helped win new client Enstream (co-venture by Bell, Telus, Rogers.)
2005 – 2007 Creative Copy Writer, ACLC
• Created various internal and external communications for a variety of clients and brands. Clients include: Hershey Canada, Mercedes-Benz Canada, The Salvation Army, Ontario Power Authority, Swiss Chalet. (TV, interactive, print, OOH, etc.)
• Acting talent director for all in-house internal communications: video/web.
• Aided in communications strategy creation for a variety of brands. Helped win new client Ontario Power Authority.
2007 – Present Program Creator & Instructor: Armstrong Acting Studios
• Created curriculum and led workshops for comedic TV/film acting. Using original and non-original scripts, continually work with an array of the city’s best TV/film actors, helping them book professional TV/film work.
2001 – 2007 Freelance Internal Communications Writer/Performer
• Worked with a variety of companies including The Second City Toronto, The Second City Chicago, Taccom (Montreal), Tigerman Productions, Sharpe Blackmore Euro RSCG, Creative Performance, The Baddog Theatre.
2001 – 2007 ACTRA/EQUITY/SOCAN actor/composer/engineer
• Professional actor: contract work for a variety of theatres throughout Ontario and the Maritimes. Worked in TV commercials and TV. (reel available.)
• Professional sound engineer/composer/performer: contract work for a variety of companies including: The Second City Toronto, Theatresports Toronto, Taccom, etc.
Related:
Freelance Comedic Copywriter: Cossette Communications (clients: Bell Canada, BMO) 2007. Theatre manager, The Poor Alex Theatre 2003. Writer, director, producer, musical director: Queen’s Players Toronto (theatre fund-raising for Stephen Lewis Foundation) 2007-Present. Producer: Muck’d Music at Second City Toronto 2003. Instructor: The Second City Toronto 2010
Training/education:
• Institute of Canadian Advertisers (ICA) Creative Portfolio Development
• Queen’s University: Honours B.A. (Drama/English)
