Pearce Visser is a /actor/improviser/writer, originally hailing from Sherwood Park, Alberta, where he first began his acting training with the Rapid Fire Theatre Company. After moving to the warm wetness of Vancouver, Pearce joined the Vancouver Theatresports League and has been a mainstay Mainstage member for 17 years, performing in the Arts Club Revue’s productions of 24, The Improvised Works of Bill Shakespeare, So You Think You Can Improvise, Breaking News, The Imprentance, CSI BC, Lord of the Things, The Impranos, An Improv Line, Improvivor, The X-mas Files, Full Metal Improv, See BC, Noxena, Free Willy Shakespeare, and Greased.
As well, he has entertained in hundreds of weekly improv shows, and for hundreds of corporate clients from the Provincial Government and the Vancouver Canucks to The BC Association of Hog Farmers as an emcee and improvisor. He has also toured five times with the company, winning a Jessie for Free Willy Shakespeare.
Most recently, you may have caught Pearce in the hit series Stargate Atlantis and the Terry Gilliam film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.