Anusree Roy


Anusree Roy is an Indo-Canadian award-winning playwright, actress and librettist. Roy emigrated to Canada with her family at age 17. Roy writes plays because she truly believes that they have the power to change the world

Education

She holds a B.A in theatre from York University and an M.A from the University of Toronto.

Theatre work

She premiered her first piece, breathlessness, in 2006. Her play Pyaasa debuted at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2007, and won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards in the independent theatre division in 2008, including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance. Her subsequent plays have included Letters to My Grandma, Roshni and Brothel #9. Brothel #9 won the Carol Bolt Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2011, and was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2012 Governor General's Awards. She has also won the RBC Emerging Artist Award, the K. M. Hunter Award and the Siminovitch Protege Prize. She has premiered two operas, Noor over Afghan and The Golden Boy.
She has been playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, Nightwood Theatre, Factory Theatre and the Blyth Festival, and is co-artistic director with David DeGrow and Thomas Morgan Jones of Theatre Jones Roy.
She also played Nurse Patel on the TV show Remedy in 2014 and 2015. She was a story editor for Remedy in its first season.

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