MARJORIE MALPASS

NERVE STRATEGIC FOUNDER & CEO

From lemonade stand to treading the boards to C-suite strategist — Meet Marjorie Malpass.

At age nine, Marjorie Malpass opened her first business—a lemonade stand during Frosh Week at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This was an excellent entrepreneurial choice, yielding high profits mostly reinvested into the local community through candy purchases. 

A creative entrepreneur for life, Marjorie moved on to acting, starting her professional career as a tween with a tiny part in the CBC film A Private Capital. 

Her love of improv and comedy started at Canterbury High School of the Performing Arts in Ottawa while she was a BOFA: Canadian Improv Games National Champions member. She is an alumnus of Rapid Fire Theatre in Edmonton, The Vancouver TheatreSports League and was on faculty at Second City. She has performed stand-up and improv around North America, including spots with Winnipeg’s Crumbs and Outside Joke, Ottawa’s Crush, Montreal Improv, Detroit’s Go Comedy, Miami’s Just the Funny, Tell Your Friends and Scum and Villainy in NYC.

Marjorie received her BFA in theatre performance from Concordia University in Montreal. She graduated from the Canadian National Voice Intensive with a focus on Shakespeare at the University of British Columbia.

As a writer, Marjorie has provided comedy content for the Canadian Comedy Award-nominated The Irrelevant Show on CBC, HGTV’s She’s Crafty​, The Huffington Post and both the Canadian and American versions of the satirical newspaper The Onion. 

Career highlights include touring internationally with Axis Theatre’s “The Number 14,”​ including stops in Italy, Finland, Denmark and on Broadway, playing three stalkers in one year for a play, a TV show and a film, and being the voice of the first-ever female Mini Wheat. 

Through over three decades of performance, training, touring and travelling, Marjorie has learned that regardless of where you are in the world or your current circumstances, everyone has a unique skill set to offer and a voice that deserves to be heard.