Jeremie Saunders is a Canadian actor and podcaster, who has been a two-time winner of the Gemini/Canadian Screen Award for Best Host in a Pre-School, Children's or Youth Program or Series, winning at the 26th Gemini Awards in 2011 and at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2013, as host of the children's television series Artzooka!."CBC's Rick Mercer Report snags 3 Canadian Screen Awards" . CBC News, February 28, 2013.
He has also been a host of the podcasts Sickboy,Hillary Gillis, "Meet Sickboy: The Halifax Podcast Normalizing Death Through Dark Laughs" . Vice, July 26, 2017. and Turn Me On, with his ex-wife Bryde MacLean."How this polyamorous couple makes their marriage work" . Now or Never, February 1, 2019. In 2017, he was the subject of a documentary film by Andrew MacCormack about his work on Sickboy.Tim Arsenault, "Sickboy, a film by Andrew MacCormack about Jeremie Saunders and his podcasts premiered last night" . SaltWire Network, October 16, 2017.
In 2020, he was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal for his work educating listeners about chronic disease through Sickboy."Gov. Gen Julie Payette honours Canadians for bravery, volunteer service". Canadian Press, July 1, 2020.
Originally from St. John's, Newfoundland, he is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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