Ep38 - No More Excuses, Let’s Start with Nir Guzinski

Always a dreamer, Nir began his career in the spotlight as a young boy making impersonations and skits in front of his family during the holidays and reunions, with aspirations of being on the big screen and on stage in front of large audiences.

With appearances on NBC's hit hospital drama "Transplant", Nickelodeon's "Snow Day", "Misanthrope" starring Shailene Woodley & Ben Mendelsohn, Bravo’s “19-2” and the CBC’s “This Life”, along with numerous independent productions, Nir has come a long way since his memorable holiday performances in his living room as a child.

​Over the past 14 years, Nir has been a part of numerous plays with Brave New Productions, from one of his most challenging roles (Aaron McKinney) in the Laramie Project: 10 years later, to Yazmina Reza’s ART, to the META nominated Ensemble cast of 33 Variations by Moises Kaufman. He has also helped direct and produce several of BNP’s productions (Mistakes Were Made, Sylvia, and the upcoming Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike), as well as an 8 episode webseries called "This is Gus", which he self-produced, wrote, edited and acted in.

Nir also founded “Nearly Funny”, an online Sketch comedy show that can be viewed on most Social Media platforms, with a mission to make people laugh and provide Montreal actors with a creative space/community to perform and tell some fun stories. With over 500 sketches and 200K followers, across all platforms, there is "nearly" enough funny to go around!

With a strong belief in hard work and training, he continues to develop and hone his craft by attending workshops, learning new techniques and continuously performing, whenever and wherever he can.