Donald Woo is a Toronto-based playwright of Chinese and French-Canadian heritage who was born in Montreal and grew up in Laval, Quebec. He attended the Playwriting Program of the National Theatre School of Canada from 1998 to 2000 and dropped out to live and work in the UK and France before settling in Toronto. He developed work with fu-GEN Theatre for several years and was a member of playwriting units for Cahoots Theatre and Tarragon Theatre. He served as Associate Artistic Director for Cahoots Theatre for one season and was a playwriting coach for three seasons with the Théâtre français de Toronto. Most recently, he has worked with Théâtre Action as a playwright and as a dramaturge. He is currently rewriting his body of work in both French and English and is planning for the eventual launch of a theatre company.