Magda Ochoa

Magda Ochoa is a stage artist based in Vancouver, B.C. In 1988 she completed her first acting diploma at IAE in Mexico City. Shortly after, she started working in some children productions and signed her first contract as a corporal expression instructor at the department of extended learning at UNAM (Mexico City). At that time, she was an audit student in the Literature Faculty at UNAM in two courses offered by the prestigious drama professors Hector Mendoza and Luisa Josefina Hernandez. In 1991 she obtained a National broadcasting certification in Mexico City and worked as a broadcaster and producer of a Brazilian radio show. In 1996 she earned a scholarship from MEQ and moved to Quebec City, to complete a major in Theatre (1996-2000). Magda not only has experience as an actress and director, but also as a drama teacher. She taught drama at IPN in Mexico City, as well as acting techniques, acting verse, and direction at Universidad de Las Américas (Puebla). In 2006 she was a team instructor of a Forum Theatre workshop at Réseau-Femmes and worked two consecutive years as Moniteur de langues (Odyssey) at École Anne-Hébert. Her main inspirational sources as a metteuse-en-scène are Stanislavski, Grotowski, Peter Brook, Antonin Artaud, Augusto Boal, and Robert Lepage. In 2019 Magda started collaborating as an artistic director of Le Petit Théâtre de l'AF de Vancouver putting on stage Un Fil à la patte, by Georges Feydeau with a group of 16 actors all ages, all background. As an actress in Vancouver, she has featured some short movies such as Bordered (Anaisa Visser) Our Home (Andy Alvarez), Divididas (Grace Goen), La Caja (Lauren Hart) Cuello (Sebastian Ortiz Wilkins); a MOW Cocaine Godmother (Guillermo Navarro); some appearance on TV principal roles (Get Shorty, Helstrom, A Million Little Things) and a few commercials (Hallmark, Jared, Blue-Cross, and Amazon). Magda works daily as a teaching assistant at Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie Britannique.