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Michael Healey
Michael Healey trained as an
actor at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School in the mid-eighties. He
began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play,
a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Fringe of Toronto
Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and
internationally, and in 1998 it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award as best
new play. The Drawer Boy, his first full-length play, premiered
in Toronto in 1999 and won the Dora Award for best new play, a Chalmers
Canadian Playwriting Award, and the Governor General’s Literary Award.
It has been produced across North America and internationally, and has
been translated into German, French and Japanese. His other plays include
The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B (which
won the Dora in 2002 for best new play) and Rune Arlidge (which
was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 2004). Michael continues
to work as an actor, and is a writer-in-residence at Toronto’s Tarragon
Theatre, where his latest play, Generous, premeried in the 2006–2007
season.
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