Age: 54
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Alan Marriott (born July 19, 1971) is a Canadian voice actor, voice teacher, and dialect coach. Marriott moved to North Vancouver, British Columbia, to attend the Studio 58 acting school. He left Studio 58 to join the first season of Salmon Arm Summer Stock Youth Theatre (SASSY) and did two seasons with the company. Marriott spent four years working with the improvisational theatre group Vancouver Theatresports[1] and also played the character of Aldous Bacon in VSL's original production of Suspect (an improvised murder mystery). He later moved to London, England, to complete his formal acting training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).[2] Upon finishing LAMDA Marriott began working in improv once again, starting London Theatresports and creating and playing in numerous different improv formats, including Hamlet Improvised, Impro Lear, Impro Lab (London's first 2-act improvised play), The Impro Musical, Lust Boulavarde (an improvised soap opera), and Impropera (a 2-act improvised opera).[3][4] Marriott has worked with or taught almost every improvisational theatre group in London, including Grand Theft Impro,[5] Made Up Like Tarts, Scratch, Showstopper, The Comedy Store Players, Dogs on Holiday, Impro Musical, Impropera, Brickbats Volunteers, South of the River (with Steve Frost and Jeremy Hardy), and his own current impro troupe, The Crunchy Frog Collective.[6] He currently helps form and trains an impro troupe in Vancouver BC, titled 3rd and Main, and occasionally hosts their weekly shows at School Creative every Saturday at 8:00 pm.[3][4] Marriott has also done extensive voice acting work for radio, television, animation, and documentaries, having been inspired by watching Looney Tunes cartoons during his childhood. His vocal work includes Mr. Fothergill, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Dixon, David Dixon, Dodger, Travis, Spud (regular series only), Mr. Bentley (regular series only), and Scoop in the US dub on Bob the Builder, the title character on Anthony Ant and Glar on Planet 51. He also voiced Victor Volt in The Secret Show,[3][4] and the Indian in A Town Called Panic.[7] In 2016, Marriott voiced the characters Buried Lede and Mr. Stripes in the season six My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode "The Saddle Row Review". Marriott also had onscreen appearances on several British television series, including Wake Up in the Wild Room, The Bootleg Broadway Show, The All New Alexei Sayle Show, Ghost Train, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, and the television movie Now What.[3][4] Marriott wrote the book Genius Now!.[2] He also wrote one episode of Wolves, Witches and Giants and Animal Stories (in which he narrated the American-dubbed version for The Disney Channel), several comedy sketches for CBC, and a short film called Teeth. He worked as a voice director for the BKN Classic Series trilogy, where he directed the voices for all six of their films, including Alice in Wonderland: What's the Matter with Hatter?, The Jungle Book: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi to the Rescue, Robin Hood: Quest for the King, The Three Musketeers: Saving the Crown, The Prince and the Pauper: Double Trouble and A Christmas Carol.[3][4] After 20 years living and working in London, Marriott relocated to Vancouver in 2008,[6] but returned to the UK in the summer of 2017, currently residing in London.[4] He created ImprovMusical,[8] a one-hour improvised musical based on a single audience suggestion. It premiered in July 2010 and played at Vancouver Theatresports.[9][10]
On Planet 51, green extraterrestrials live peacefully in a society reminiscent of the United States during the 1950s. One day, a mysterious spacecraft lands in the town of Glipforg. NASA astronaut Charles T. "Chuck" Baker emerges from it and is shocked to find the planet inhabited. Chuck escapes to the town’s planetarium, where he meets teenage alien Lem, who works there part-time. Realizing Chuck is not a threat, Lem agrees to help return him to his spacecraft before command module Odyssey in Planet 51's orbit departs for Earth and leaves him stranded. Planet 51's army, led by the paranoid General Grawl, arrives to inspect the spacecraft. Grawl, after Chuck's MP3 player is accidentally started, deduces that the astronaut is an alien invader bent on turning planet’s population into zombies, and a manhunt ensues throughout Glipforg. Lem enlists the help of his best friend Skiff, a science fiction aficionado with conspiracy theories about the so-called "Base 9", to hide Chuck away from the army. During his efforts to conceal Chuck, Lem inadvertently upsets his neighbor and crush Neera, who believes the alien is friendly, and is also fired from his job when his boss discovers Chuck. In Lem’s room, Chuck reunites with a dog-like NASA probe called Rover, which freed itself from the army’s base after tracking Chuck with a GPS and headed for the city and which befriends a small, domesticated Xenomorph. After the army searches Lem’s home for traces of the alien, Lem and Skiff move Chuck to a comic book store Skiff works at, where Glipforg’s news station manages to capture Chuck acting out references to Earth’s pop culture, which is misinterpreted as alien threats. After escaping the store from the invading army, Grawl has Chuck’s spacecraft moved to a secret location. Chuck is later captured by Grawl’s forces during a festive movie premiere in town, and is slated to have his brain removed by alien scientist Professor Kipple. When Lem defends Chuck, Kipple deems him a zombie minion. Chuck, resigned to his fate, pretends to release Lem from his "mind control" and is taken away with Rover to Base 9, which Grawl inadvertently reveals. Lem gets his job back, but is determined to rescue Chuck. Joined by Skiff, Neera, her younger brother Eckle, and Rover (who escaped the army again), Lem tracks down Base 9's location in the desert to a gas station where Skiff inadvertently opens a gate to the underground base. They free Chuck from Professor Kipple and find his spacecraft, but they are cornered by Grawl and his forces. Bent on eliminating Chuck, Grawl reveals has the base rigged to explode. Lem tricks the General into activating the countdown. Enraged, Grawl attempts to shoot Lem, but misses and the stray bullet ignites an explosive, causing Grawl to be trapped under debris. Chuck rescues Grawl before launching his spacecraft into Planet 51’s orbit, escaping Base 9’s destruction. After admiring Planet 51’s view from space, Lem successfully asks Neera out on a date, while Grawl expresses his gratitude to Chuck for saving him. Chuck returns his friends home and allows Rover to stay behind with Skiff, who has connected with the probe, and bids Lem and the rest of Glipforg farewell before launching back into space, but the last seconds of the film reveal that the little Xenomorph befriended by Rover is on board.
