Michael Healey
{{short description|Canadian playwright and actor}}
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Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman (The League of Nathans, Reading Hebron and Three in the Back, Two in the Head) and George F. Walker (The End of Civilization, Better Living).
Playwright
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 (Toronto's theatre awards) as best new play.
The Drawer Boy, his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999 and won the Dora 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, Japanese and Hindi.
His other plays include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B, Rune Arlidge, The Innocent Eye Test, The Nuttals, and Are You Okay. From 2008 to 2012 he created a trilogy of plays about Canadian values and politics, entitled Generous, Courageous and Proud. In all, his plays have won the Dora for best new play five times.
He has also adapted works by Shaw, Checkhov, Molnar, and, most recently, Dürrenmatt. He continues to find work as an actor occasionally.
Actor
Michael Healey has several TV acting credits, including a regular role as lawyer James Ryder on the CBC comedy-drama This Is Wonderland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385482/ |title=This is Wonderland|date = January 12, 2004}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4012251/|title=Michael Healey}}
Works
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- 1996: Kicked{{Cite news|url=http://www.northernstars.ca/healy_michael/|title=Michael Healy - Northernstars.ca|date=2012-02-20|work=Northernstars.ca|access-date=2018-10-07|language=en-US}}
- 1999: The Road to Hell: Two One-Act Comedies with Kate Lynch, Playwrights Canada Press
- 1999: The Drawer Boy, Playwrights Canada Press. Winner of the 1999 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
- 2002: Plan B., Playwrights Canada Press{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/michael-healey/article4141490/|title=Michael Healey|last=Caldwell |first=R. |access-date=October 7, 2018}}
- 2004: Rune Arlidge, Playwrights Canada Press.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/life-after-the-drawer-boy/article994736/|title=Life after The Drawer Boy|access-date=2018-10-07}} Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
- 2006: The Innocent Eye Test, Playwrights Canada Press{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/playwright-passes-his-eye-test/article703426/|title=Playwright Passes his Eye Test |access-date=October 7, 2018}}
- 2007: Generous, Scirocco Drama{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/like-stephen-harper-michael-healey-is-on-a-mission/article4544973/|title=Like Stephen Harper, Michael Healey is on a mission|access-date=2018-10-07}}
- 2010: Courageous, Playwrights Canada Press.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2010/01/07/courageous_healeys_latest_play_takes_a_big_step_forward.html|title=Courageous: Healey's latest play takes a big step forward |publisher=The Toronto Star |last=Ouzounian |first=R. |work=thestar.com |access-date=October 7, 2018|language=en}} Shortlisted for the 2010 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
- 2011: The Nuttalls, Playwrights Canada Press{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/no-pearson-insights-in-this-clever-comedy/article1345190/|title=No 'Pearson' insights in this clever comedy|last=Nestruck|first=J.K.|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2018-10-07}}
- 2011: Are you okay?{{Cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2011/03/07/are_you_okay_intriguing_problematic.html |title=Are You Okay intriguing, problematic |publisher=The Toronto Star|work=thestar.com |access-date=October 7, 2018|language=en}}
- 2012: Proud, Playwrights Canada Press{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/theatre-reviews/michael-healeys-proud-is-funny-and-foul-mouthed-yet-surprisingly-sweet/article4572893/ |title=Michael Healey's Proud is funny and foul-mouthed, yet surprisingly sweet|access-date=October 7, 2018}}
- 2017: 1979, Playwrights Canada Press.{{Cite news|url=https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/joe-clark-struts-and-frets-his-hour/|title=Joe Clark struts and frets his hour |last=Wells|first=P.|date=April 17, 2017 |work=Macleans.ca|access-date=2018-10-07|language=en-US}} Shortlisted for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
- 2019: an adaptation of The Front Page, The Stratford Festival{{Cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2018/09/07/stratford-festival-adds-journalism-comedy-drama-the-front-page-to-its-2019-playbill.html |title=Stratford Festival adds journalism comedy-drama The Front Page to its 2019 playbill |publisher=The Toronto Star|work=thestar.com|access-date=October 7, 2018|language=en }}
- 2023: The Master Plan, Crow's Theatre | Nominated for 6 Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2024
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