Albert Schultz

Albert Hamilton Schultz (; born July 30, 1963) is a former Canadian actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company. He resigned his position with Soulpepper after sexual allegations against Schultz became public in January 2018. Education Albert Hamilton Schultz was born in Port Hope, Ontario, on July 30, 1963. He is the son of Virginia and Peter Schultz, the publisher of the Port Hope Evening Guide. He has an older brother (Henry) and sister (Amanda). His father died of leukemia when he was six, and his mother moved the family to Napanee, Ontario. He grew up in Okotoks, Alberta. Schultz studied drama at Toronto's York University from 1981-1982, and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Artfrom 1984-1985. He received an honorary doctorate at Queen's University in 2008 and from Bishop's University in 2009, which has since been rescinded. Theatre His theatre career as an actor includes several roles at the Stratford Festival, including Romeo in Robin Phillips' production of Romeo and Juliet, and at Soulpepper, including the title roles in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Chekhov's Platonov, and Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests. He also played the stage manager in Our Town, Henry in The Real Thing, Alceste in The Misanthrope, Vershinin in Three Sisters, Astrov in Uncle Vanya, El Gallo in the musical The Fantasticks, Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, Macheath in The Threepenny Opera and Martin in Edward Albee's The Goat.. Television Schultz's television career includes the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) 1988 film The Squamish Five, the legal drama Street Legal, the medical drama Side Effects, the comedy The Red Green Show (where he played roofer/country singer Arnie Dogan), the musical film Youkali Hotel, and the role of Conrad Black in CTV's Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story. He was executive producer of the CBC series Kim's Convenience.