Anusree Roy

Anusree Roy is a Governor General's Award-nominated and four-time Dora Award-winning writer, actor, and director.

Anusree's plays include: Through the Eyes of God, Sisters, Trident Moon, Little Pretty and The Exceptional, Sultans of the treet, Brothel #9, Roshni, Letters to my Grandma, and Pyaasa. She is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award, the RBC Emerging Artist Award, the Carol Bolt Award and the Siminovitch Protege Prize. She was the 2018 finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women writing for English-speaking theatre. Currently, she is the commissioned playwright at Tarragon Theatre, writing her new play, 147, 8th Street.

Anusree's playwright residencies include: Nightwood Theatre, Young People's Theatre, Factory Theatre, The Blyth Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, the Canadian Stage Company and Tarragon Theatre. Anusree spent two seasons as an actor at the Stratford Festival of Canada. She holds a B.A. from York University and an M.A. from the University of Toronto.

Anusree is also an adjunct professor of playwriting at the University of Toronto and a professor of creative writing, teaching advanced drama to MFA students, at the University of British Columbia.