Eric Abel

Eric Abel is an award winning Ontario-based actor, singer, and dancer whose career has spanned many of Canada’s leading musical theatre companies in Toronto, Charlottetown, Montreal and Stratford. A proud ensemble member of the Stratford Festival company, he has performed for the past 10 seasons in productions including Something Rotten!, Annie, La Cage aux Folles, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Chicago, Billy Elliot the Musical, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, Romeo and Juliet, and A Chorus Line. 

Eric has always been a staunch advocate for live arts workers and serves the Ontario region on as an elected member of Canadian Actor's Equity Association's national Council. He has served as Equity liaison on countless productions, was a four-time elected member of the Stratford Festival Artist Committee and proudly served as a negotiating team member for the most recent Stratford Addendum to the CTA. Eric is a proud alumnus of McMaster University, earning an Honours B.A. in Multimedia and Communications, where he was also co-founder and President of the varsity MAC Dance Team.

You can currently see Eric performing in the 2026 season of the Stratford Festival where he plays Robin in Something Rotten! and appears in Guys and Dolls.