Michael Healey

Michael Healey trained as an actor at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School lil 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 subsequendy toured the playacross Canada and internationally, and in 1998 it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award as best new play. He and collaborator Kate Lynch wrote The Road to Hell, a pair of one-act comedies, which was produced at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto in the fall of 1999. The Drawer Boy is his first full-Iength play, and it has won the Dora Award for best new play (1999), a Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award (2000), and the Governor General’s Literary Award (1999). The play has toured nationally in both official languages, and a production at Chicago’s SteppenwolfTheatre opened in April. Plans for Japanese and Australian productions of the show are nearly complete.

Michael is currendy a writer-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre, which will produce his latest play, Plan B.