Michael Healey (Writing)

Represented by Pam Winter

 

Height: 6’               Weight:175lbs               Hair: Black              Eyes: Brown               ACTRA/CAEA
 
Selected Theatre:
Courageous
Martin/Pete
Tarragon/Citadel; Dir: Richard Rose
Stuff Happens
George W. Bush
Studio 180 Theatre; Dir: Joel Greenberg
Them & Us          
Company             
Theatre Passe Muraille; Dir: Ruth Madoc Jones
Frost/Nixon
Bob Zelnick
Vancouver Playhouse/Canstage; Dir: Ted Dykstra
Stuff Happens
 
Studio 180 Theatre; Dir: Joel Greenberg
The Optimists
Doug
Tarragon Theatre; Dir: Eda Holmes
Olympia
Count Albert
Soulpepper; Dir: Albert Schultz
Plan B
Michael Fraser
Alberta Theatre Projects
Hotel Loopy
Murray Pint
Theatre Colombus; Dir: Leah Cherniak
In the Wings
Robert Pullwarden
Theatre Passe Muraille; Layne Coleman
Doubt
Henry
Theatre Colombus; Dir: Leah Cherniak
The Road to Hell
Lorne/Dennis
Tarragon Theatre; Dir: Andy McKim
* Better Living
Uncle Jack
Factory Theatre; Dir:George F. Walker
End of Civilization
Henry
Factory Theatre; Dir:George F. Walker
* Kicked
One Man Show
Hugh Bris Theatre; Dir: Brian Quirt
Yodellers
Lorne Tor
Toronto Fringe; Dir: Tanja Jacobs
Unsettling Accounts
Yves
Crow’s Theatre; Dir: Jim Millan
Reading Hebron
Nathan Abromowitz
Factory Theatre; Dir: Brian Quirt
Gulag
Various
TPM/Platform 9; Dir: Sarah Stanley
League of Nathans
Nathan Abromowitz
PTE; Dir: Richard Greenblatt
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Rev. Tooker
Grand Theatre; Dir: Miles Potter
Ballad for a Rum Runner's Daughter
Willis
Blyth Festival; Dir: Janet Amos
Jake's Place
Jake
Blyth Festival; Dir: Miles Potter
Three in the Back Two in the Head
Paul Jackson
Tarragon/NAC; Dir: Richard Rose
Stop Slowing Down
Ensemble
Rule Five; Dir: Ian Prinsloo
In the Wings of Eden
SM
TSG; Dir: Herbert Olshok
* League of Nations
Nathan Isaacs
Orange Dog; Dir: Ian Prinsloo
Andromache
Pyrrhus
Orange Dog; Dir: Ian Prinsloo
*Dora Mavor Moore Nominations, Best Performance
 
Film and Television:
Family First
Lead
Believerville Productions
Living In Your Car
Pawnshop Broker
TMN; Dir: David Steinberg
Late Fragments
Kevin
CFC/NFB; Dir: Daryl Cloran
This is Wonderland
Ryder
CBC; Prod; Bernard Zuckerman
Supertown Challenge
Doug
S & S Productions
Spoken Art: Kicked
Lead
Bravo/Sleeping Giant Prod.
Traders
Father Somers
Global/Alliance Atlantis
 
Writing Credits:
Are You Okay
Peggy Baker Dance Projects/Necessary Angel, 2010
Courageous                                       
Tarragon/Citadel, 2010
 
The Nuttalls                                        
Blyth Festival, 2009
 
Generous    
Tarragon Theatre, 2008    
 
The Innocent Eye Test
Mirvish Productions, 2006
 
Olympia
Soulpepper Theatre, 2005
 
Rune Arlidge
Tarragon Theatre, 2004
 
Plan B
Tarragon Theatre, 2002
The Road to Hell
Tarragon Theatre, 1999
 
The Drawer Boy
Theatre Passe Muraille, 1999 (premiere)
Yodellers
Toronto Fringe, 1998
 
An Actor's Diary
Twisted Syntax Publications
 
Dear Mr. Newton
Twisted Syntax Publications
 
Sincerely, Michael Healey
 
 
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
 
 
Awards:
Courageous: Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play (2010)
Generous: Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play (2007)
The Drawer Boy: Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play (1999); Governor General’s Award for Drama (1999); Chalmers Award (2000)
Kicked: Dora Mavor Moore Award, Best New Play (1998); Chalmers Award Nomination (1998)