Michael Healey (Writing)

Represented by Pam Winter

Resume

THEATRE:
The Drawer Boy

Commission for the Blyth Festival, produced at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainstage, February 1999, remounted, September 1999
Mirvish Productions, Royal Alexandra Theatre, April 2001

Dora Award For Best New Play, 1999.
Governor General’s Award for Drama, 1999.
Chalmers Award for Drama, 2000

Kicked
Free 4 All Festival, 1993, Toronto Fringe, 1996, Tarragon Theatre, 1997, ArtRage Festival, Perth Australia, 1997, Uno Festival, Victoria, B.C., 1998, Blyth Festival, 1998, Grand Theatre, 1998, Great Canadian Theatre Company, 1999, One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary, 2000

Chalmers Nomination, Dora Award for Best New Play, 1998

The Road To Hell, in collaboration with Kate Lynch
Two One Act comedies comprised of Yodellers and Kreskinned, produced at Tarragon Theatre, September, 1999

Member, Tarragon Playwright’s Unit, 1998, 2000

LITERARY:
The Road To Hell, published by Playwrights Canada March, 2000
The Drawer Boy, published by Playwrights Canada May, 1999
An Actor’s Diary published by Twisted Syntax, 1995
Dear Mr. Newton, Sincerely Michael Healey, Twisted Syntax, 1992

MEDIA:
Shock Jock; one hour radio drama for CBC, 1998
Kicked, Adapted from the stage for Spoken Art Series, Bravo Television
Dear Mr. Newton ..., Adapted for CBC Radio (Morningside)

JOURNALISM:
Toronto Life Magazine, Theatre Listings Columnist, 1999 – present
Canadian Theatre Review, January 1999, Process, or How To Spend the Grant Money
Globe and Mail, Broadcast Week, two pieces
National Post, one piece on arts funding

The Toronto Star, three pieces of theatrical reportage/satire

- an insider’s view of the Toronto Fringe Festival, 1994

- a Toronto actor spend the summer in cow country; my four months at the Blyth Festival, 1994
- excerpts from An Actor’s Diary, a phony book excerpt, 1995

Huron Country Weekly, The View From Here, column during a four month contract as an actor at the Blyth Festival