Ron Cameron-Lewis

Ron Cameron-Lewis, BA, AGSM

Media Consultant

Sheridan College (opens new window)
1430 Trafalgar Road
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
L6H 2L1
Phone / Email Information
Email: ron@cameronlewis.ca

About

Teacher, adjudicator, writer and communications consultant, Ron is well-known throughout Canada and the USA. He taught acting for stage and media for 47 years at Sheridan College.

Concurrently, he began private coaching to help presenters develop their vocal and personal skills for public speaking. Working as vocal coach with CTV photojournalists, CBC-TV and radio, he branched into distance education, telecommunication, on-camera coaching, use of teleprompters, and preparing oneself for interviews in TV studio settings.

Ron uses improvisation to coach leaders facing high-stakes media interviews. He is grateful to the palliative care world since his mother’s terminal illness 30 years ago, and his sister’s unexpected death 10 years ago.

Other Appointments

  • International Associate Faculty and Consultant, International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative, The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, San Diego, California, USA, 2010-2014
  • Professor Emeritus, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, 2010
  • Secretary, Theatre Starts Inc., Aurora, Canada: a theatre organization which develops new Canadian scripts and mounts staged readings three times a year, 2010-2018
  • Co-founder Adjudicators’ Guild, Theatre Ontario, Toronto, Canada: mentoring 40 new adjudicators trained during recent years in Canada and at the national level in USA, 2010-2018

Key Accomplishments

  • Co-founder of the Music Theatre Department at Sheridan Institute in 1971, which is now the largest and most successful theatre school in Canada, with four programs under its umbrella. Mr. Cameron-Lewis also helped establish the highly-successful joint program between
  • Sheridan and the University of Toronto at Mississauga in 1982.
    Communications Consultant and Voice Coach: CBC radio and TV, CTV, and many private clients in business, medicine, and media.
  • Freelance theatre director (100+ productions) and theatre adjudicator (2,000+ shows) in Canada, the USA at State, Regional and National levels, and internationally.
  • Member-at-Large, national board of American Association of Community Theatre, 2013-2022; Elected Fellow of AACT in 2017.

Education / Honors

  • Star in Sheridan Institute’s Wall of Fame, 2011
  • National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2009
  • Maggie Basset Award, Theatre Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 2004
  • President’s Award of Excellent, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Oakville, Canada, 1993
  • AGSM, Guildhall School of Music and Drama/University of London, London, UK, 1968-1971
  • Summer theatre program, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta 1967
  • BA, Western University, London, Canada, 1963-1966

Key Publications

  • Cameron, R. Acting Skills for Life, 4th ed. Toronto, ON: Dundurn Press, 2011
  • Cameron, R. Behind the Scenes, Vol. 1 & 2. Toronto, ON: Simon & Pierre Publishers, 1990