Anusree Roy

Anusree is a Governor General’s Award-nominated and four-time Dora Award-winning writer, actor, and director. Her plays have been extensively produced for the stage and published in print. She is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award, the RBC Emerging Artist Award, the Carol Bolt Award and the Siminovitch Protégé Prize. She was the 2018 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women writing for English-speaking theatre). Currently, she is the commissioned playwright at Tarragon Theatre, writing her new play, 147, 8th Street. Anusree works as a Co-Executive Producer and writer for television, as well as an author of feature films and librettos. She is also an adjunct professor of playwriting at the University of Toronto and a professor of creative writing, teaching advanced drama to MFA students, at the University of British Columbia.