Biography
Michael Healey trained as an actor at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School in 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 subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, and in 1998 it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award as best new play.
THE
DRAWER BOY, his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999 and won the Dora Award for
best new play, a Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award, and the Governor
General’s Literary Award. It has been produced across North
America and internationally, and has been translated into German,
French and Japanese.
His other plays include THE ROAD TO HELL (co-authored with Kate Lynch), PLAN B
(which won the Dora in 2002 for best new play) and RUNE ARLIDGE (which was
nominated for the Governor General’s award in 2004). THE INNOCENT EYE
TEST, commissioned by Mirvish Productions, premiered in 2006. Generous (Tarragon Theatre) won the Dora
Mavor Moore Award for best new play in 2007. The Nuttalls opened at Blyth Festival in 2009 and his latest work Courageous premiered at Tarragon in 2009
and Citadel in 2010, and won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best new play in
2010.
Michael starred as the mentally unstable “Ryder” in the acclaimed series THIS IS WONDERLAND for the CBC and LATE FRAGMENTS for the Canadian Film Centre. He was recently featured in George F. Walker’s new television series LIVING IN YOUR CAR for TMN and Mike McPhaden’s short FAMILY FIRST (Bravo Fact).
He recently performed in COURAGEOUS (Citadel Theatre), STUFF HAPPENS (Studio 180),
THEM AND US (Theatre Passe Muraille) and FROST/NIXON (Vancouver Playhouse and Canadian Stage Comnpany).