Ray Powers is a comedian, musician, layabout and bon-vivant from Brantford, Ontario, the town that taste forgot. After studying English & Philosophy at the universities of Toronto and Guelph, everything he learned immediately spilled out of his deaf ear. So he began writing sketches and news items for the NakedNewsTV cable show, while also working on development for documentary film projects about LGBTQ+ refugees and immigrant survivors of domestic violence. (The Naughts were strange times.)

Continuing in the spirit of launching himself headfirst into fields he knows nothing about, Ray started performing standup comedy in the later part of the 2000s thanks to the generous spirit of Toronto comedy doyenne and open-mic host Jo-Anna Downey (RIP), and learned firsthand the pain of watching a joke wither and die in front of an audience.

Daunted but not encouraged, Ray took a ten-year detour that saw the release of several albums of music, the writing and publishing of a pseudonymous novel (Who Iced The Snowman? -Cozy Cat Press 2016), and the (re)production and raising of three children.

Ray returned to live standup in 2018 thanks to Brent Barkley's LoneCat Comedy open mics in Richmond Hill, just in time for a pandemic to put a stop to his nonsense. He crab-walked over to online shows through Gerry Hodges’ "No Line To Cross", which led him to Rampantly where he would sneak in through the back door instead of getting on the list like a goddamn regular person. With the plague subsiding, he has performed the Social Capital Theatre and Comedy Bar in Toronto, where he continues to thrill audiences every time he leaves the stage.

Currently of no fixed address, Ray has an expiring passport and little left to lose. An unarmed Canadian, he is not considered a threat (triple or otherwise) at this writing.