Noah Drew (he/him) is a communication & performance teacher and a theatre maker based in Montreal. As a coach in the business world, Noah has worked extensively with leaders across North America and in Europe across a broad range of fields. His clients have included leaders of all levels, from executives of global companies to front line managers of modest organizations. Noah specializes in helping his clients improve their ability to distill complex information and concepts into clear, powerful language, structure their ideas effectively, and communicate with confident, authentic presence. He has helped individuals prepare in countless presentations, talks, pitches, meetings, Q+A’s, and important conversations, including numerous board-level presentations, high-stakes pitches, company-wide events, and media appearances.
Noah’s theatre work has been seen and/or heard on five continents. Noah has received six Jessie Richardson awards (19 nominations total), a nomination for the Siminovitch Prize, and a Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching award. Noah has worked extensively in interdisciplinary collaboration, including projects involving theatre, music, dance, film, interactive games, clown, storytelling, poetry, performance art, installation, podcasts/podplays, and radio. He’s a Co-Artistic Director of the theatre company Jump Current Performance. A full-time tenured faculty member in Concordia University's Theatre Department, Noah’s research focuses on how performers and public speakers can increase their stress resilience at a nervous system level, and how immersive sensory environments can catalyze heightened states of presence.
MFA in Acting, Temple University, USA; BFA in Theatre and BA in Literature/Music Composition, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Languages: English Specializations: Acting, Presence, Private Coaching, Public Speaking, Shakespeare, Speech & Dialects, Voiceover
